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Fatherland

Fatherland
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...

Go Went Gone

Go Went Gone
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issueRichard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing...

Goodbye to Berlin

Goodbye to Berlin
  • Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of...

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks Bearing Gifts
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / WW2

No 13 in the Bernie Gunther series…. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther’s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have...

In the Full Light of the Sun

In the Full Light of the Sun
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920/30s

In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s’ Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert;...

In the Garden of Beasts

In the Garden of Beasts
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The extraordinary true story of intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous twelve months that witnessed Hitler’s rise to ultimate power in Germany.

Lehrter Station

Lehrter Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1945

November 1945. John Russell is walking home through the grey streets of postwar London when his old accomplice, Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin, falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin informs Russell that his masters in Moscow have decided it’s time...

Madgermanes

Madgermanes
  • Author(s): Birgit Weyhe, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mozambique, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel
  • Era(s): 1960s - 1990s

‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for...

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Madonna in a Fur Coat
  • Author(s): Alan Brennert, Sabahattin Ali
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city’s crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman,...

Nightmare in Berlin

Nightmare in Berlin
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped ― he, and the...

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