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Two Brothers

Two Brothers
  • Author(s): Ben Elton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s to 1945, 1950s onwards

It is 1920 and two baby boys are born, and are brought up as brothers in Berlin. Paulus and Otto are the twin sons of devoted and happy Jewish parents Frieda and Wolfgang Stengel. But one of the children...

A Parachute in the Lime Tree

A Parachute in the Lime Tree
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1938-41

April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...

Winter in Berlin

Winter in Berlin
  • Author(s): Ian R Mitchell
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...

111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss

111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
  • Author(s): Lucia Jay von Seldeneck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...

A Question of Time

A Question of Time
  • Author(s): James Stejskal
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1979

Berlin, 1979. When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos...

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1990s

Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...

Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Anatomy of a Killer

Anatomy of a Killer
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

They say he’s a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there’s no trace of the...

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