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    'Marcel Krueger takes his turn as prince of the quotidian.' - Kit Fryatt, upstart.ieThe Easter Rising, near-fatal plane crashes, Celtic fire traditions, German sausages and battle weary spiders, this collection of thoughts and stories by expat writer and blogger Marcel Krueger has all that and more. Non-fiction and fiction combined to a short book that's part memoir, part travelogue and mostly a ... Read more

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  • Berlin

    A Literary Guide for Travellers

    Series series Literary Guides for Travellers
    "Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination." Rory Maclean, 'Berlin - Imagine a City'.Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe's most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers.From 19th century authors recording the city's dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to ... Read more

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  • Iceland

    A Literary Guide for Travellers

    Series series Literary Guides for Travellers
    A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction.Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland's literary heritage is one of Europe's richest – and most ancient.Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded ... Read more

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  • Iceland

    A Literary Guide for Travellers

    Series series Literary Guides for Travellers
    A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction.Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland's literary heritage is one of Europe's richest – and most ancient.Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded ... Read more

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  • Babushka's Journey

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    This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cacilie, Cilly for short, into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his ... Read more

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    Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

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  • A Detail Of History: The harrowing true story of a boy who survived the Nazi holocaust

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  • The House by the Lake

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    "A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house" from the #1 international bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf (Tom Holland, author of Dominion).Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • CommonwealIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small ... ... Read more

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