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- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Berlin is in the midst of its worst winter in decades.Against the backdrop of freezing temperatures, blizzards and snowstorms, the city refuses to grind to a halt. Lurking within the shadows is a Stasi victim, out for revenge against...
- Location(s): California, Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
From LA to Berlin, from present day to the 1940s, journey from glamorous Santa Monica to the deepest darkest corners of Nazi Germany. David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire...
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Oxford, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love...
The Secret Society of Salzburg
- Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
A key work in the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement, Johann Goethe’s autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents....
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
- Location(s): Dresden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1989
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With...
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, present-day
Approaching 80, frail and alone, a remarkable man makes the journey from his sheltered home in England to Berlin to meet his granddaughter. He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies…...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,...
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