In search of BerlinEver since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist east Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obsessed with memories, a place where traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. Hit by plague, fire and war, it is a city of reinvention, a city that is always becoming. Over the past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of Berlin, delving into the archives,

For years her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling unwanted

spelling out the difference they have just made

and some offer the racegoer uninterrupted views of gorgeous scenery (Cheltenham

witches' familiars and symbols of fertility

It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

it sparks off security checks

'The Generation Divide' provides a bold new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from culture wars to climate change and mental health to housing

After blowing a big presentation at work

the world outside and its immoderate sorrows

It turns out that two is a million more kids than one

three ships - from Malaysia