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Pleasured

Pleasured
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

Set in Berlin months before the fall of the Wall, it follows the lives of a disparate collection of characters, centring on Friedrich Kaiser, a Generation X slacker living in the hedonistic atmosphere of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Hitchhiking...

Potsdam Station

Potsdam Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

April 1945. Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction, and its enemies are already plotting against each other. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous...

Power of the Sword

Power of the Sword
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): Africa, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Following from The Burning Shore..Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a magnificent feat of storytelling that sweeps the reader from the deserts, mountains and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi Germany, and from...

Seal Woman

Seal Woman
  • Author(s): Solveig Eggerz
  • Location(s): Berlin, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Description: In the rubble of post-World War II Berlin, artist Charlotte flees her past and everything she’s lost by responding to an ad calling for ‘strong women who can cook and do farm work’ in Iceland. But painful memories...

Silesian Station

Silesian Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

In July 1939 Russell returns to Berlin as the newly-appointed Central European correspondent of an American newspaper. With his communist past, German son and English-American parentage he’s the perfect catch for any of Europe’s warring espionage services — and...

Solitaire

Solitaire
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): World War Two

June 1940: Berlin is being bombed. Clara Vine is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates England. The Propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, decides that Clara should adopt a new role as his spy, and so Clara must go...

Stasiland

Stasiland
  • Author(s): Anna Funder
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell: shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East...

Stettin Station

Stettin Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds...

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

The Berlin Crossing

The Berlin Crossing
  • Author(s): Kevin Brophy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1993

This is a story told partly from the former GDR Michael Ritter, after the Wall has come down. Before his mother dies she urges him to seek out an Evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who know the truth about his...

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