Book Launch:

19th November, 2009 at 7 p.m.
3 Geothe Centre, Park Circus, Glasgow.
Telephone: 0141 332 2555

At home, incipient Spring had been in evidence. Late January was mild and in London the trees showed buds. But after he had boarded the train from the night boat across the channel and began to travel East, it became colder??.. The Berlin Wall was as permanent as the Great Wall of China, everyone knew that now.

1982, The Cold War is at its height ? Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Poland?.. An enigmatic Scots scholar crosses the the Berlin Wall, the Front Line in this conflict, to an austere East Berlin to undertake research at the University?.. He becomes involved with a female student but things are not all they seem and both the British Cultural Mission and the East German Stasi show an interest in the couple?..Two decades after the Wall tumbled down, Winter in Berlin evokes in accurate detail everyday life in the now-vanished world of the former German Democratic Republic through an examination of the ever-present question of the limits of individual human influence on history.

Luath Press - £7.99