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The River Runs Red

The River Runs Red
  • Author(s): Ally Rose
  • 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...

The Scientist of Berlin

The Scientist of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • 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...

The Secret Commonwealth

The Secret Commonwealth
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • 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

The Secret Society of Salzburg
  • Author(s): Renee Ryan
  • 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...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 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...

The Stolen Ones

The Stolen Ones
  • Author(s): Vanessa Curtis
  • 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....

The Student Conductor

The Student Conductor
  • Author(s): Robert Ford
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Uwe Tellkamp
  • 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

The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days
  • Author(s): Juliet Conlin
  • 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…...

The Undercurrents

The Undercurrents
  • Author(s): Kirsty Bell
  • 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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