Berlin

By Pierre Frei

The Lieutenant's Lover

By Harry Bingham

Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been...

Storefront Day Care Centers

By Be Boston

Disguise

By Hugo Hamilton

A young mother, her two-year-old son killed in the bombing of Berlin in 1945, is consoled when her father replaces the dead child with a foundling from a refugee train who grows up believing himsel...

Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

By Erica Fischer

Out of the vacuum created by history's scant attention to Nazi persecution of homosexuals comes a unique and maddeningly tragic story of love between two women of startling contrast. Aimee & Jaguar...

West

By Julia Franck

Pleasured

By Philip Hensher

Plan D

By Simon Urban

October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in e...

The Moment

By Douglas Kennedy

Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker fo...

Emil and the Detectives

By Erich Kastner

On his first real train journey, travelling down to his grandmother in Berlin, Emil Tischbein is robbed of all his money. Emil gathers together a group of boys of his own age and sets out on the tr...