The German Bookshop - German language and literature books and German Courses

A motivating course with transparent learning objectives, and task-based approach.

Netzwerk neu quickly teaches students the language needed to communicate successfully in German.

A flexible, interactive German course for advanced learners, Weitblick presents topics from different perspectives, giving a range of insights into daily life and culture.

A modern, fast communicative beginners course in 3 levels A1 - B1.

An attractive, magazine-style course and exercise book with multimedia teaching and learning opportunities.

A beginners course for students who want to reach level B1 quickly and is particularly aimed at students who need to learn German for their studies or work.

An engaging German course based on personal stories and motivating content.

Our Booksellers' Recommendations

Bookseller: Ruth

A collection of novels perfect for summer reading. Whether you are away on holiday or relaxing at home you can experience foreign places, explore history and immerse yourself in family sagas with these fiction titles.

Bookseller: Ruth

Are you starting a language course in the UK?

Bookseller: Ruth

High-quality, up-to-date magazines for learners of German at different levels.

Great books for 10-14 year olds!

Spirou searches for missing Count Rummelsdorf in East Berlin...

By Flix

£17.75

Der beliebte Kinderbuchklassiker.

By Erich Kästner

£14.95

Die Heffleys erben überraschend Geld und beschliesßen kurzerhand, ihr Haus zu renovieren. Aber wie sich herausstellt, ist das Leben auf einer Baustelle alles andere als einfach...

By Jeff Kinney

£16.75

Türen auf für das Geisterinternat.

By Barbara Rose

£12.95

Ein magischer Elfenstein katapultiert Wynn aus der sagenhaften Anderwelt in die Welt der Menschen...

By Michael Peinkofer

£15.50

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

£20.50

Jugendthriller ab 14 Jahre.

By Margit Ruile

£11.95

Mehr aus Lottas Lotta-Leben.

By Alice Pantermüller

£12.95

By Frauke Scheunemann

£11.75

Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Roman zum hochbrisanten Thema Jugendgewalt von Kirsten Boie.

By Kirsten Boie

£9.40

Jürgen Banscherus erzählt von drei Jugendlichen, die gegen ihren Alltagsfrust anträumen...

By Jürgen Banscherus

£6.70

Londons Strasse der Buchhändler - Labyrinthe aus Regalen, Läden voller Geschichten auf vergilbtem Papier. Mercy Amberdale führt hier das Antiquariat ihres Stiefvaters und praktiziert die Magie der Bücher.

By Kai Meyer

£22.95

Macht euch bereit für ... Ruperts Tagebuch! Denn es ist an der Zeit, seine Sicht der Dinge zu hören...

By Jeff Kinney

£16.50

Post für Pauline Lichtenberg! Eine Feldpost aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg - mit fast 100 Jahren Verspätung zugestellt!

By Maja Nielsen

£10.95

Die ersten zwei Abenteuer eines ungewöhnlichen Teams!

By Antje Szillat

£11.75

Yeah! Klassenfahrt! Wir sind für eine Woche auf dieser spukigen Burg irgendwo mitten im Wald.

By Jakob M Leonhardt, Jakob M Leonhardt

£10.95

Endlich Ferien! Schon seit Wochen freut sich Flora auf das Zeltlager des Reiterhofs. Zusammen mit ihrer Freundin Miri wird sie mit Ponys über Wiesen reiten und tolle Ausflüge erleben. Was könnte es Schöneres geben?

By Ina Brandt

£12.95

Der mit Preisen uberhäufte Bestseller von Mirkam Pressler.

By Mirjam Pressler

£8.95

Der 6. Band der Elena-Reihe.

By Nele Neuhaus

£13.95

Sàenz erzählt die Geschichte zweier Jungen, die Loyalität, Freundschaft, Vertrauen, Liebe - und andere kleine und grosße Geheimnisse des Universums entdecken.

By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

£19.75

Um Geld für Amandas Kochkurs zu verdienen, kümmern sich die 'Katastrophenweiber' um Tiere und Pflanzen von verreisten Mitmenschen. Doch manche Auftràge sind ziemlich merkwürdig...

By Christamaria Fiedler

£6.95

Das dunkle Märchen geht weiter. Jacob Reckless' düstere Abenteuer gehen weiter...

By Cornelia Funke, Cornelia Funke

£22.95

A book that tells of the timeless suffering of the refugees, but makes the reader smile through its delicate humour.

By Jean-Claude Grumberg

£14.95

Ein Umzug von Hamburg in einen kleinen Ort am Meer? Lea und Klara sind alles andere als begeistert. Doch mit Hilfe ihrer neuen Freunde, fühlen sie sich schnell heimisch.

By Margot Berger

£5.90

Theo, hat seine Eltern lieb. Trotzdem ist es manchmal schwierig mit ihnen, wenn sie sich streiten oder der Vater getrunken hat. Dann will er einfach nicht mehr zu Hause sein...

By Peter Härtling

£6.95

New German fiction

Zum Dahinschmelzen schön - die Saga um den legendären Aufstieg des Feinkostladens Dallmayr!

By Lisa Graf

£13.50

" Ein eindringliches und erfüllendes Leseerlebnis. Revolutionär. " The Atlantic

By Emily St John Mandel

£24.95

Der neueste Roman der Autorin von " Der Liebe im Ernstfall".

By Daniela Krien

£19.95

Eine junge Frau und die Herausforderung ihres Lebens.

By Eva Völler

£16.50

Eines der besten Bücher des Jahres.

By Clare Chambers

£30.75

Ein humorvoller wie rührender Roman über eine Vater-Tochter-Beziehung, mit der sich viele werden identifizieren können.

By Dielk Güngör

£20.75

Geschmackvoll stirbt's sich besser!

By Jörg Maurer

£13.95

Maria Saletti ermittelt in Hessen.

By Esther Copia

£13.95

Starke Frauen in harten Zeiten.

By Helene Sommerfeld

£13.95

Jubiläumsausgabe mit neuem Bonuskapitel.

By Hape Kerkeling

£21.75

ELI Language Games

£19.50

A fun, educational game which combines the telling of five traditional fairy tales with learning basic vocabulary and grammar.

£19.50

A fun game for students to learn to ask and tell the time.

£19.50

A fun card game of deduction and investigation, for students to revise vocabulary and language structures related to physical descriptions by asking questions to guess the secret character.

£19.50

An enjoyable matching game to help students learn a range of adjectives and opposites in German. Lower intermdiate A2-B1.

£19.50

Learn 100 words of vocabulary in German through word-picture association.

£19.50

A useful game for practising verb conjugations and sentence structures using 100 everyday verbs! Lower intermediate A2-B1.

£19.50

Can you discover the identity of famous German people from the information on the cards?

£19.50

The Story Maker - Choose a character, a place, an item, and an action and get story-telling! Lower intermediate A2-B1.

£19.50

A challengung question and answer game covering cultural and interdisciplinary topics.

£19.50

Adapted classics for adult learners

The touching story of an orphan's relationship with her grandfather.

By Johanna Spyri

£9.75

The classic tale of three rather strange gentlemen on an Alpine holiday, by one of Germany's most popular writers.

By Erich Kästner

£11.95

The story of a family living in post war Germany where it is obvious that one person is missing...

By Uwe Timm

£8.70

Armed bank robbers take over a lightship.

By Siegfried Lenz

£11.95

Five stories taken from the author's collection, "Lange Schatten".

By Marie Luise Kaschnitz

£11.95

Seven cheerful, over-the-top tales of Münchhausen.

By Gottfried A Bürger

£9.70

In hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, Anne Frank records her thoughts and feelings in her diary. Adapted for learners of German.

By Anne Frank

£10.75

When Kasperl and his friend set out to retrieve stolen property from Räuber Hotzenplatz, he captures them. Can they escape?

By Otfried Preussler

£10.75

When Timm Thaler laughs, everyone laughs with him. When he sells his laugh it changes him - can he get it back?

By James Krüss, Iris Felter

£10.75

The famous tale of waggish Till Eugenspiegel and his many pranks!

By Anon

£4.90

Three of Grimms' fairytales in one volume "Rumpelstilzchen, Frau Holle," and "Vom Fischer und seine Frau".

By Franz Specht

£9.35

A father sends his so-called good-for-nothing son out into the world to make his own living...

By Joseph von Eichendorff

£11.95

When Wenzel Strapinski - a poor but well-dressed tailor arrives in Goldbach looking for work, everyone believes him to be a Polish count - what should he do?

By Gottfried Keller

£11.95

Heinrich von Kleist's comedy of the judge who has to judge himself.

By Heinrich von Kleist, Gudrun Gotzmann

£11.95

Werther writes to his friend telling him of his love and his fears for a future with Lotte.

By Urs Luger

£9.10

Malte, a young writer, comes to Paris where he records in his diary his impressions of the city.

By Rainer Maria Rilke

£11.95

The tragic story of a simple soldier exploited by his superiors, humiliated by his peers and betrayed by his girlfriend...

By Georg Büchner

£11.95

Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman.

By J W von Goethe

£11.95

Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle.

By Franz Kafka

£11.95

One Christmas Eve in 19th century Nuremberg, Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives with presents for everyone including a nutcracker...

By E T A Hoffmann

£12.95

Peter Schlemihl is penniless but what can he do?

By Adelbert von Chamisso

£12.95

The story of the famous Swiss hero William Tell, narrated from his son Walter's point of view.

By Friedrich von Schiller, Sabine Werner

£12.95

Two men play a game of chess, but winning isn't everything...

By Stefan Zweig, Andreas de Jong

£12.95

Years after the end of an affair, Effi's secret returns to haunt her...

By Theodor Fontane

£12.95

What goes on in the seemingly uninhabited house?

By E T A Hoffmann

£12.95

Angel Classics

The story of an ex-prisoner told after his death and the search for the meaning of an inscription on a portrait.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£11.95

A delightful account of a journey around Scotland with the artist Bernhard von Lepel.

By Theodor Fontane, Brian Battershaw

£17.95

A collection of four stories by Adalbert Stifter.

By Adalbert Stifter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

£6.95

A story of mutual sexual attraction at a fashionable spa moves to a grim climax among the high-society fringe of Berlin

By Theodor Fontane, Stanley Radcliffe

£9.95

Four of Theodor Storm's novellas: Carsten The Trustee, The Swallows of St George, The Last Farmstead and By the Fireside.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£11.95

A brilliantly funny read. Heine comments on the homeland he sees again after years of exile.

By Heinrich Heine, T J Reed

£11.95

The story of a noble family's conflict and downfall during the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£9.95

Three novellas: Hans and Heinz Kirch, Immensee and Joruney to Hallig.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson, Anja Nauck

£8.50

Goethe's version of the Iphigenia-Orestes legend.

By J W von Goethe, Roy Pascal

£9.95

Three of Storm's works in one volume: Paul the Puppeteer, The Village on the Moor and Renate.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£9.95

This selection of his poems and prose pieces is the most comprehensive edition available to the English-language reader.

By Georg Trakl, Alexander Stillmark

£17.95

The fullest selection of Heym's verse to appear in English.

By Georg Heym, Antony Hasler

£12.95

13 short stories including comic tales, dense novellas and the dramatic tale of The Duellist's Second.

By Arthur Schnitzler, J M Q Davies

£10.95

A selection of stories that capture the restless spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

By Hugo von Hofmannsthal, J M Q Davies

£9.95

Classic fairy tales for children learning German

The story of the Gingerbread Man.

By J. Gascoigne, Martina Knoth

£6.25

The tale of Cinderella.

£8.95

The tale of the Wolf and the Seven Little Kids.

By Angelika Lundquist-Mog

£5.20

The tale of the North Wind and the Sun - who can make the farmer take off his coat?

£8.95

The Tale of the Enormous Turnip

By R Hobart, Martina Knoth

£6.25

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, with audio, video and fun creative activities!

£8.95

The tale of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.

£8.95

Special Offers

Geheime Experimente. Wie viel ist ein Menschenleben wert?

By J Henderson

£18.50 £9.25

Als Vialla Romaro zum ersten Mal sieht, spürt sie sofort, dass sie füreinander bestimmt sind. Aber Vialla soll einen anderen heiraten! Aus Verzweiflung fliehen die Liebenden in den Wilden Wald...

By Lilli Thal

£13.95 £6.98

Das ist eindeutig ein Notfall: Frau Stoth liegt im Krankenhaus und ihr Chihuahuahündchen King ist ganz allein in der Wohnung.

By Kjersti Wold

£13.75 £6.88

Jane Austen reiste gern. Was sie sah, gefiel ihr ausgezeichnet, und als gute Patriotin konnte sie sich nicht vorstellen, dasß es anderswo schöner sein könnte.

By Elsemarie Maletzke

£13.95 £9.77

Das darf doch nicht wahr sein! Sollys fiese Stiefmutter, die alte Gruseltante, hat ihm verboten den berühmten Circus Lunicus zu besuchen! Dabei war der Zirkus der einzige Lichtblick in Sollys traurigem Dasein...

By Marilyn Singer

£11.95 £5.98

£7.85

So hatte er sie noch nie gesehen. Er glaubte, sie langsam zu kennen, aber so, wie er sie nun durch den fast leeren Flur marschieren sah, So hatte er sie noch nie gesehen.

By Jan de Zanger

£6.75 £3.38

By Marianne Majerus, Heidi Howcroft

£56.00 £42.00

By Gotthold E Lessing

£7.00 £4.90

By Susanne Clay

£9.90 £4.95

By Various authors

£31.75 £15.88

By Matthias Wissnet

£10.95 £5.48

By Hans U Treichel

£7.85 £3.93

A literary foray into the lives of Londoners from all social classes, striving to be British, in a collection of well-known and unknown stories.

By Ingo Herzke

£20.95 £14.67

A collection of Böll's essays including his Nobel Prize Acceptance.

By Heinrich Böll

£44.99 £31.49

By Franz Walter

£15.75 £11.03

By Patricia Lakin

£14.95

By Birte Müller

£9.80

£23.95 £17.96

By G von Wilpert

£11.50 £5.75

By Hans Joachim Kreutzer

£9.95 £4.98

Berlin has changed much over the last few years. Wagner walks all around Belring and comments on new developments.

By David Wagner

£13.50 £9.45

By Roland Borgards, Harald Neumeyer, Nicolas Pethes

£82.00 £41.00

By Stephen Kelman

£11.75 £8.23

By Charlotte Brontë

£13.75 £9.63

By Monika Maron, Monika Maron

£10.95 £7.67

By Ales Steger

£13.95 £6.98

£25.75 £12.88

By Fred Bridgham

£4.95 £2.48

By Pascal Mercier

£13.50 £9.45

By Johanna Spyri

£9.70 £4.85

By Mirjam Pressler

£6.55 £3.28

A compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria...

By Gabriel García Márquez

£14.95 £10.47

Winner of the Kleist Prize.

By Odön von Horvath, Odön von Horvath, Odön von Horvath

£10.75 £5.38

By Karin Lachmann

£11.75 £5.88

Hauptkommissar Konstantin Butz im Untergrund Berlins auf drei verstümmelte Frauenleichen. Was ist es, das in den Winkeln und Ecken Berlins zu lauern scheint - fast wie ein Fluch?

By Jonas Winner

£21.50 £15.05