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Sisters of Berlin

Sisters of Berlin
  • Author(s): Juliet Conlin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

BERLIN 2019. A young writer is brutally attacked in her home and left for dead. For her sister Nina Bergmann, it’s the beginning of a nightmare that will threaten to destroy her marriage, her job and ultimately her life....

The artificial Silk Girl

The artificial Silk Girl
  • Author(s): Irmgard Keun
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Commandant’s Daughter

The Commandant’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1933 - 1947

1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father’s side watching the torchlit procession to celebrate Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the lights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically...

The Cover Wife

The Cover Wife
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...

The Dance of Death

The Dance of Death
  • Author(s): Oliver Bottini
  • Location(s): Black Forest
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One wet and misty weekend in October, the Niemann family find a stranger in their garden. He is armed and tries to force his way into the house, but disappears as soon as the police are alerted. That night...

The German Wife

The German Wife
  • Author(s): Debbie Rix
  • Location(s): Munich, Dachau, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre WWII - Current Day

Inspired by a true story Germany, 1939: Annaliese is a doctor’s wife, living in an elegant grey stone house with ivy creeping over the balcony. But when her husband is ordered to work at the Dachau labour camp, her ordinary...

The Good Cop

The Good Cop
  • Author(s): Peter Steiner
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Between WWI and WWII

In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the...

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)
  • Author(s): Norma Curtis
  • Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII / Present Day

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

The House by the Lake

The House by the Lake
  • Author(s): Thomas Harding
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘A passionate memoir.’ Neil MacGregor ‘A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which...

The Innocent

The Innocent
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Cold War

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present: comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed...

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