The Magic Room: Der Magisch Raum

Where do you hide in a dying city?

Where some want revenge, some will never surrender, some are crazy, others are evil and then there are those who just want to survive.

Is there a place that is safe? A place where they won't find you? Who can you trust? Who will help?

And when the time is right, can you escape?

Adriane Gerst has run all the way into Berlin.

It is April 1945 and the Russians are right behind.

Dieter Falke has fought the Americans across half of Europe. He has had enough.

Hauke Kluge doesn't want to fight. He's twelve and too young to die.

They all need somewhere to go and be unseen and safe.

A place where no one would think of looking.

Is there such a place?

After a life in advertising and journalism, along with photography, art, cartooning, family and being a part-time blues guitarist Neil Stanners finally found time to write a book. He enjoyed it so much he decided to write another. Then another. He is now working on others and wishes he'd started sooner. Neil Stanners has lived and worked in Europe but these days resides in his home town of Sydney. His books are very observational. He tells you of people and their situations. Neil Stanners books are historically accurate. Not always comfortable but fellow humans you can relate to and understand. People you want to know. As one reviewer says " He has ..... imagination and heart that is rarely found. There is a simple, yet stark realism ........"