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Between the Woods and the Water
- Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1934-1968
In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 Recent divorcee Lana Hansen needs a break. Her luck has run sour for going on a decade, ever since she got fired from her favorite job as an investigative reporter....
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2015
Life’s tough for a Gypsy cop in Budapest. The cops don’t trust you because you’re a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you’re a cop. The dead, however, don’t care. So when Balthazar Kovacs,...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in Budapest 1936. The author brings Budapest to life, in similar vein to Philip Kerr’s Berlin based Bernie Gunther novels. Zsigmond Gordon is a crime journalist with a local newspaper who follows up the murder of a young woman....
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Kati Dunai travels to Budapest to settle her father’s estate, the last thing on her mind is the pursuit of pleasure. She’s a busy international conference planner, her life rooted in Manhattan. But from the moment she sets...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
When Natalie and Anna, sisters and life-long rivals, hide an abandoned child from the Nazis, their deception resurrects the scars of a star-crossed love triangle that threats their safety and tests the bonds of their loyalty. Hungary’s fragile alliance...
Parallel Lines: a Journey from Childhood to Belsen
- Location(s): Hungary
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
This is a story of a young boy s journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A group of American expats en route to adventure, inspiration, or perhaps even history-in-the-making in Prague, somehow get sidetracked and settle instead for the enigmatic city of Budapest. Arriving in Hungary’s capital to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John...
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