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We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This is a literary narrative reflecting on when life...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1930s
This semi-autobiographical and unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink...
- Location(s): Budapest, Dachau, New York City (NYC), Paris, Sopron
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1943, 1956-57, early 1990s
A sweeping tale about lovers separated by circumstance, the lives they each lead, and the various points at which their journeys intersect. Set mostly in Hungary (Sopron and Budapest) with chapters in both Germany (Dachau) and the USA (New...
- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
- Location(s): Leipzig
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting,...
- Location(s): Brandenburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mike doesn’t get why people think he’s boring. Sure, he doesn’t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he’s never invited to parties. But one...
Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All Gone
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Horror
The book begins with the funeral of Anke, the final occupant of the von Kamphoff Manor in the ficitonal village of Hemmersmoor. We observe events through different characters and the reader is taken on a dark and twisted journey,...
- Location(s): Black Forest
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1939
Englishman John Russell is a member of the foreign press corps in Berlin and a first-hand witness to the brutal machinations of Hitler and the Nazi party in the build-up to war during the early months of 1939. When...
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