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The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin

The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan
  • 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...

The Hiding Game

The Hiding Game
  • Author(s): Naomi Wood
  • 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,...

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
  • Author(s): Beatrice Colin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under...

The Man Who Saw Everything

The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): London, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 & 2016

In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers
  • Author(s): Paul Grossman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 1930s

In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then, a young woman of mysterious origin, with her legs...

The Undertaking

The Undertaking
  • Author(s): Audrey Magee
  • Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, mid 20th century

Desperate to escape the Eastern Front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her should...

The Unfortunate Englishman

The Unfortunate Englishman
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means...

Walking in Berlin

Walking in Berlin
  • Author(s): Franz Hessel
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of...

Wallflower

Wallflower
  • Author(s): Holly-Jane Rahlens
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989

Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...

Winter Work

Winter Work
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990

BERLIN, 1990. On a chilly early morning walk, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbour, fellow Stasi officer Lothar, lying dead with a bullet wound to the temple. Despite the appearance of suicide, Emil suspects murder, for as...

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