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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

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
  • Author(s): Roger Moorhouse
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The human face of Berlin and the inhabitants, well researched and a seering tribute to stoicism, courage and resourcefulness.

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
  • Author(s): Chloe Aridjis
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is contemporary Berlin through the eyes of Tatiana, a young South American living in modern Berlin. The theme of connection/isolation and the transience of life is explored in beautiful prose

Children of Wrath

Children of Wrath
  • Author(s): Paul Grossman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1929

In “Children of Wrath” Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of...

City of Women

City of Women
  • Author(s): David Gillham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943

It is 1943 – the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all...

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

BERLIN. JANUARY 1941. Evil cannot bring about good . . . After Germany’s invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s hold on power is absolute. One freezing night,...

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives
  • Author(s): Erich Kastner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Children, Crime
  • Era(s): Weimar

Emil Tischbein is the serious young hero of Erich Kästner’s children’s classic. His adventures on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin are the perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection. (The Independent)

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