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Tasting Sunlight

Tasting Sunlight
  • Author(s): Ewald Arenz
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large...

Dear Child

Dear Child
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The No 1 International Bestseller – 250.000 copies sold in Germany – 5th bestselling paperback in Germany in 2019 A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their...

The German Wife

The German Wife
  • Author(s): Debbie Rix
  • Location(s): Munich, Dachau, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre WWII - Current Day

Inspired by a true story Germany, 1939: Annaliese is a doctor’s wife, living in an elegant grey stone house with ivy creeping over the balcony. But when her husband is ordered to work at the Dachau labour camp, her ordinary...

The Good Cop

The Good Cop
  • Author(s): Peter Steiner
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Between WWI and WWII

In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the...

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...

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Munich
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...

Paula

Paula
  • Author(s): Sandra Hoffmann, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandra Hoffmann‘s Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann...

Spoils of Victory

Spoils of Victory
  • Author(s): John A Connell
  • Location(s): Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Post World War II

From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home...

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...

The Causeway

The Causeway
  • Author(s): Peter Lihou
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Freddy Stein escapes the net cast by the police forces of Guernsey and Munich, he becomes embroiled in a plan to preserve the lucrative drugs’ dealings of a sinister crime lord. But miles away from his familiar city...

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