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The Hidden Storyteller

The Hidden Storyteller
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germany. The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes . . . Hamburg, 1946 The war is over,...

A Woman of War

A Woman of War
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

‘A powerful, haunting debut’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer ‘A fascinating story which had...

All Russians Love Birch Trees

All Russians Love Birch Trees
  • Author(s): Olga Grjasnowa, Eva Bacon (Translator)
  • Location(s): Frankfurt
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape   Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in...

The Kitchen

The Kitchen
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women … as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the...

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
  • Author(s): Jefferson Chase (Translator), Oliver Hilmes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1936

For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and...

Secret Potsdam

Secret Potsdam
  • Author(s): Manuel Roy
  • Location(s): Potsdam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Let Secret Potsdam guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Potsdam guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants...

Hitler’s Stolen Children

Hitler’s Stolen Children
  • Author(s): Ingrid von Oelhafen
  • Location(s): Germany, Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s-2000s

Hitler’s Stolen Children is a powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruelest and most obscene experiments—the Lebensborn program to create a new Aryan master race. In 1942, when she was nine months...

When the Summer Was Ours

When the Summer Was Ours
  • Author(s): Roxanne Veletzos
  • Location(s): Budapest, Dachau, New York City (NYC), Paris, Sopron
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943, 1956-57, early 1990s

A sweeping tale about lovers separated by circumstance, the lives they each lead, and the various points at which their journeys intersect. Set mostly in Hungary (Sopron and Budapest) with chapters in both Germany (Dachau) and the USA (New...

Letter From a Stranger

Letter From a Stranger
  • Author(s): Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Location(s): Turkey, Connecticut, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004; 1938-1945

Captivating and evocative, Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful...

About People

About People
  • Author(s): Juli Zeh, Alta L Price (translator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Written by Germany’s #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private consequences of the pandemic. Fleeing stay-at-home orders in the big city,...

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