Saint Georges English Bookshop is located in Prenzlauer Berg and specialises in good-quality second-hand English books at a reasonable price. They also have a good selection of new books and offer to order in books. Staff are very pleasant and go out of their way to accommodate unusual requests. The shop's also furnished with comfy Chesterfield sofas, which makes browsing even more enjoyable. Once a week they have a movie night, for which you need to be registered on a mailing list.

Woerther Strasse 27, 10405 Berlin; tel: (030) 817 98 333;
Transport: M2 to Marienburger Strasse, or U2 to Senefelder Platz
www.saintgeorgesbookshop.com

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Not a name that really sticks out, but this is the hive of the Kreuzburg area. On a cold day in February its numerous cafes and geek shoppers are a welcome from the intense cold. In the summer walk down and see numerous musical acts. Not a place to be seen but a place to just be.

U-Bahn Moritz Platz right slap bang in the middle

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A German friend showed me this astonishing and very moving place, which is currently being restored. I knew Berlin quite well but had never found the cemetery before. It had probably been closed. Here you can discover for yourself, in a way that is more impressive than visiting the Jewish Museum, the tragic story of Berlin's Jews.

Read Amos Elon's superb book 'The Pity of it All' and then come here both to mourn and celebrate the wonderful culture destroyed by 'Aryan' Germans in the 1930s and 40s.

Schönhauser Allee in Mitte

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Tricky to pick just one book on Berlin, but I would probably plump for Mr Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood’s sometimes infuriating account of louche early-1930s Berlin, on the brink of Nazi lunacy.

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