The moment I opened this book (and yes I know I say this a lot) I knew that I would love this book from the first page. My dear readers, did you, like me, never want this book to end? I wanted it to be longer. I savoured it, took my time...but at the same time, I was reading pages whenever I had ...
It’s 1942 in Warsaw, and a Polish woman is found brutally murdered and mutilated; an eyewitness places a German general at the scene of the crime. A similar crime occurs in Paris in 1944. But which of the three generals who were present in both cities at the right times is the guilty party? W...
A powerful and disturbing novel of the Nazi era and its legacy by the winner of Germany’s Ernst Willner Prize. During the final days of the Reich, sound engineer Herman Karnau is brought to Hitler’s bunker to record the Fuhrer’s last utterances. There he finds young Helga Goebbels and her sibling...
Erneste works in a grand hotel in Switzerland. He is the 'perfect waiter', a model of order in every way. But inwardly this polite, withdrawn man has been caught in the grip of an overwhelming passion that began in the summer of 1935 with Jakob, a fellow waiter. For Jakob the affair is just a fli...