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City of Women

City of Women
  • Author(s): David Gillham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943

It is 1943 – the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all...

Dance by the Canal

Dance by the Canal
  • Author(s): Kerstin Hensel
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

(East and West: Looking Both Ways) A tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany Gabriela grows up in the East German town of Leibnitz. Her father is a famous surgeon, her mother a respected society hostess. The girl,...

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

BERLIN. JANUARY 1941. Evil cannot bring about good . . . After Germany’s invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s hold on power is absolute. One freezing night,...

Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and her German Garden
  • Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Location(s): Nassenheide (Rzedziny)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

May 7th — There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the...

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives
  • Author(s): Erich Kastner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Children, Crime
  • Era(s): Weimar

Emil Tischbein is the serious young hero of Erich Kästner’s children’s classic. His adventures on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin are the perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection. (The Independent)

Eva’s Cousin

Eva’s Cousin
  • Author(s): Sybille Knauss
  • Location(s): Berchtesgaden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1944

In the summer of 1944 Gertraud Weisker 20 years old when her cousin Eva Braun invited her to come and keep her company at Berchtesgaden. This is the story of her fascination with the easy, glamourous lifestyle of her...

Every Single Minute

Every Single Minute
  • Author(s): Hugo Hamilton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Úna has little over a week left to live and wants to see Berlin for the first and last time. Her friend Liam accompanies her. As the city streets open up to them, so too do their pasts. Úna...

Finishing Year

Finishing Year
  • Author(s): Bentley Finley
  • Location(s): Europe, Mannheim
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Can a man change his stars? Can he ever really rise above? These are the questions that plague our mortal souls. Bryce Finley, a 48-year-old Canadian single father with an unfinished university degree, two nearly grown children, and no...

Flesh-Coloured Dominoes

Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
  • Author(s): Zigmunds Skujinš
  • Location(s): Baltic Coast, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): 18th Century to WW2 and modern

When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen’s officer husband’s body is severed in two, she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local captain Ulste. She conceives a child only...

Flight of Dreams

Flight of Dreams
  • Author(s): Ariel Lawhon
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1937

With everyone onboard harboring dark secrets and at least one person determined to make sure the airship doesn’t make the return trip, Flight of Dreams gives an utterly suspenseful, heart-wrenching explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of...

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