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Daughter of the Reich

Daughter of the Reich
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Please see details of this book under “People Like Us” – the two are the same book

While We Were Dreaming

While We Were Dreaming
  • Author(s): Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting,...

People Like Us

People Like Us
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Leipzig, 1930s Germany Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it....

Love in Five Acts

Love in Five Acts
  • Author(s): Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Five women attempt the impossible – to love, to be strong, and to stay true to themselves. Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses...

Bricks and Mortar

Bricks and Mortar
  • Author(s): Clemens Meyer
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1989 - present

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in...

All the Lights

All the Lights
  • Author(s): Clemens Meyer
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk...

Snowleg

Snowleg
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Germany, Hamburg, Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and various

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her...

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