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- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One wild, exhilarating night in Berlin: a brilliant new novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of our time Sister Europe tells the story of one wild night in Berlin, as a ragtag group meet at the Hotel...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
You can’t keep a good thief down. Charlie Howard – mystery writer and professional burglar-for-hire – is back in the saddle, robbing the people of Berlin blind. But his larcenous binge is about to be interrupted by a call...
- Location(s): Germany, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s and looking back
In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become,...
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