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Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

Anatomy of a Killer

Anatomy of a Killer
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

They say he’s a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there’s no trace of the...

Bellies

Bellies
  • Author(s): Nicola Dinan
  • 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

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
  • Author(s): Roger Moorhouse
  • 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.

Berliners

Berliners
  • Author(s): John Simmons, Andrzej Krauze (illustrator)
  • 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...

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
  • Author(s): Chloe Aridjis
  • 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

Brandenburg

Brandenburg
  • Author(s): Henry Porter
  • 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...

Brother Grimm

Brother Grimm
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • 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...

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