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- Location(s): Paris, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Michael Dolan is a stoic perfectionist and former special operations pilot working a staff job at the Pentagon. After accepting an improbable CIA request to help prevent impending terrorist attacks in Europe, Dolan finds that of the demons he...
- Location(s): Berlin, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 and 1990s
Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...
- Location(s): England, Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and modern
When Julia Rosenthal returns to the suburban estate of her childhood, the unspoken tensions that permeated her seemingly conventional family life come flooding back. Trying to make sense of the secrets and half truths, she is forced to question...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...
- Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1938-41
April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...
- Location(s): St Malo, Brittany, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War...
- Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 1941
June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl,...
- 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 Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982
Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...
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