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- Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The human face of Berlin and the inhabitants, well researched and a seering tribute to stoicism, courage and resourcefulness.
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 20th century
Berliners is a poem that originated from a conversation in Berlin. After several visits to Berlin, and a recent work assignment there with the German Film Academy, John Simmons became fascinated by the role of the city in 20th...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
This is contemporary Berlin through the eyes of Tatiana, a young South American living in modern Berlin. The theme of connection/isolation and the transience of life is explored in beautiful prose
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in...
- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime
A girl’s body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. ‘I have been underground, and now it is time for me to return home…’ Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1929
In “Children of Wrath” Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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,...
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