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If The Dead Rise Not

If The Dead Rise Not
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1950s

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations –...

Last Flight to Stalingrad

Last Flight to Stalingrad
  • Author(s): Graham Hurley
  • Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Berlin, 1942. For Werner Nehmann, a journalist at the Ministry of Propaganda, the dizzying victory of the last four years has felt like a party without end. But the Reich’s attention has turned East, and as winter sets in,...

Learning German (badly)

Learning German (badly)
  • Author(s): Tim Luscombe
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

“Not many know and love Europe, and our complex relationship with it, like Luscombe. And no one can communicate that with such fantastically self-deprecating wit.” Federay Holmes, Associate Artist at the Globe Theatre London. With the possiblity looming that...

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...

Metropolis

Metropolis
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners – after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that...

Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook

Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook
  • Author(s): Celia Rees
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945 - post WW2

World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes....

Nightingale and Co

Nightingale and Co
  • Author(s): Charlotte Printz, Marina Sofia (Translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Nightingale & Co is the first in a cosy historical crime series featuring the sisters of the Nightingale & Co detective agency in 1960s Berlin. Since the death of her beloved father, Carla has been running the Nightingale &...

Other People’s Clothes

Other People’s Clothes
  • Author(s): Calla Henkel
  • Location(s): Schöneberg, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

2009. Berlin. Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida. Hailey is rich, obsessed...

People Like Us

People Like Us
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Leipzig, 1930s Germany Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it....

River Clyde

River Clyde
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...

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