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A 15-year-old and a tram conductor in 1958 Heidelberg, and her trial years later.

A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.

A murder in a 16th-century Bavarian abbey, drawn like a manuscript; Obsidian's history game.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.

The Frauenkirche rebuilt from rubble, the Zwinger's Old Masters and the Elbe skyline Canaletto painted.

The Kaiserburg above a rebuilt medieval city, the Nazi rally grounds and the Nuremberg trials courtroom.

Read the first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which introduces the wizarding world.