This month I returned to Berlin to see my older daughter Cynthia, which always includes some book shopping. Last time we visited the Another Country Book in the Kreuzberg district (during my 2019 European book shopping tour) and this time it was the Hopscotch in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. Both have plenty of English language offerings.
It took a little hunting to find Hopscotch which lies inside a large courtyard with no street signage. Inside is a small shop, but it is crammed full of all kinds of books and smaller publications. It would have been an ideal outlet for my earlier works, The Book Shopper and the quirkier Down and Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire, but alas, I had no copies with me.
We spent nearly an hour there. Cynthia replaced her copy of Walter Benjamin's voluminous The Arcades Project and she recommended Saidya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019), which I purchased and started reading while I was in Germany.
(For the record, my "in country" books for the trip were: Philip Kerr's' The Pale Criminal (1990) the second novel of his Berlin noir trilogy set on the eve of Kristallnacht 1938 and W.G. Sebald's Vertigo also published in 1990.) 
