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- 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,...
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...