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Tomorrow, Berlin

Tomorrow, Berlin
  • Author(s): Oscar Coop-Phane
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark and addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing and sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young...

Travelers

Travelers
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as “a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent” (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear...

Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People

Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
  • Author(s): Julia Boyd
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1919-1945

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of...

Tschick (German Edition)

Tschick (German Edition)
  • Author(s): Wolfgang Herrndorf
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Zwei Jungs. Ein geknackter Lada. Eine Reise voller Umwege durch ein unbekanntes Deutschland. Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick...

Turning

Turning
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

Twelve Nights

Twelve Nights
  • Author(s): Urs Faes, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Black Forest
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Discover this beautiful winter gem of a novella that makes the perfect stocking filler this Christmas. ‘I may have been gone a long time, but I’m no stranger…’ Manfred walks alone through a snowy valley, surrounded by his memories,...

Victim 2117

Victim 2117
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart-pounding new installment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the dead body only as...

Visitation

Visitation
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Brandenburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams – a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within...

Waking the Dead (Book 2 of The Dead Series)

Waking the Dead (Book 2 of The Dead Series)
  • Author(s): Kerry Blaisdell
  • Location(s): Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hyacinth always assumed dying would simplify her life. But when her new boss, Archangel Michael, sends her on her first official mission — to retrieve a powerful rock from a collector in Germany — things go downhill fast. For...

Wallflower

Wallflower
  • Author(s): Holly-Jane Rahlens
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989

Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...

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