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  This book is in memory of Margaret West, Martin Chalmers and Philippa Maddern.

  Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections and the novels Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry and Five Bells. Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the WA Premier’s Award for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award and the ASAL Gold Medal. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina. Her fiction has been translated into thirteen languages.

  Also by Gail Jones

  Black Mirror

  Sixty Lights

  Dreams of Speaking

  Sorry

  Five Bells

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  Version 1.0

  A Guide to Berlin

  9780857988171

  First published by Vintage in 2015

  Copyright © Gail Jones, 2015

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  A Vintage book

  Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd

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  Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

  Jones, Gail, 1955- author

  A guide to Berlin/Gail Jones

  ISBN 978 0 85798 817 1 (ebook)

  Interpersonal relations – Fiction

  Interpersonal communication – Fiction

  Berlin (Germany) – Fiction

  A823.3

  Cover image © Gail Jones

  Cover design by Sandy Cull, gogoGingko