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The New Mrs Clifton

The New Mrs Clifton
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Clapham, Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post World War Two

As the Second World War draws to a close, Gus Clifton, having been working with the interrogation teams in Germany and out of touch with his family, surprises his sisters at their home. But an even greater shock is...

The Package

The Package
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emma’s the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ‘the hairdresser’ – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren’t convinced. Nor...

The Soul Breaker

The Soul Breaker
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Soul Breaker doesn’t kill his victims. What he does is much worse. He leaves them paralysed and completely catatonic. His only trace: a note left in their hands. There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop....

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)
  • Author(s): Peter Millar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

1989: The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall) It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end and seeing the collapse not just of Communism but of the Soviet Union itself....

Two Brothers

Two Brothers
  • Author(s): Ben Elton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s to 1945, 1950s onwards

It is 1920 and two baby boys are born, and are brought up as brothers in Berlin. Paulus and Otto are the twin sons of devoted and happy Jewish parents Frieda and Wolfgang Stengel. But one of the children...

A Parachute in the Lime Tree

A Parachute in the Lime Tree
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1938-41

April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...

Winter in Berlin

Winter in Berlin
  • Author(s): Ian R Mitchell
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...

111 Kölner Orte, die man gesehen haben muss

111 Kölner Orte, die man gesehen haben muss
  • Author(s): Bernd Imgrund
  • Location(s): Cologne (Köln)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2008

Dieser Kölnführer ist weit entfernt von allen Köln gleich Dom gleich FC-Klischee-Führern. Witzig, frisch und mit viel Esprit lässt sich dieses Buch wiederholt in die Hand nehmen, um sich ganz neue Köln-Anregungen zu holen oder die Stadt zum ersten...

111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss

111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
  • Author(s): Lucia Jay von Seldeneck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...

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