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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...

4 a.m.

4 a.m.
  • Author(s): Nina De La Mer
  • Location(s): Fallingbostel, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in the early 1990s on a British army base, 4 a.m. tells the story of Cal and Manny, soldiers posted to Germany as army chefs. Bored and institutionalised, the pair soon succumb to the neon temptations of Hamburg’s red-light district,...

A Light Still Burns

A Light Still Burns
  • Author(s): Selim Özdoğan, Ayça Türkoğlu (Translator), Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bremen, Germany, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 3 in the Anatolian Trilogy There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat, she...

A Most Wanted Man

A Most Wanted Man
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is...

A Question of Time

A Question of Time
  • Author(s): James Stejskal
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1979

Berlin, 1979. When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos...

A Small Circus

A Small Circus
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1929

It is 1929, and the Weimar Republic is being steadily weakened by conflicts between the factions pro democracy, and the anti-democratic forces, both left and right wing, which will eventually lead to victory for the of the National Socialists...

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1990s

Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...

A Wolf in Hindelheim

A Wolf in Hindelheim
  • Author(s): Jenny Mayhew
  • Location(s): South West Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1926

South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But the news of the missing baby has...

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...

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