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City Of A Thousand Spies (Conor McBride #3)

City Of A Thousand Spies (Conor McBride #3)
  • Author(s): Kathryn Guare
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Conor McBride has accepted bargains he may live to regret – assuming he lives through them at all. He’s taken an undercover assignment in exchange for the chance to resume his career as a solo violinist. He’s also agreed...

The Child on Platform One

The Child on Platform One
  • Author(s): Gill Thompson
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World war two

Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away – even if it means never seeing her...

A Year and a Day

A Year and a Day
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Megan, visiting Prague with her friend Ollie is just business. Nothing more. Because if she admits the truth she might lose everything. For Hope, this trip is a surprise treat from Charlie, her new partner. But she’s struggling...

A Little Place in Prague

A Little Place in Prague
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been years since Anna has seen Leo Knight. And of all the apartments in all the cities in all the world, he just happens to walk in to her cosy new attic home – as her new housemate....

Losing Venice

Losing Venice
  • Author(s): Scott Stavrou
  • Location(s): Venice, Hydra, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Surrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home, so it’s no surprise when he’s called to Venice to help craft the Venice Tourism...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Author(s): Milan Kundera
  • Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...

HHhH

HHhH
  • Author(s): Laurent Binet
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2, present

The nameless narrator of “HHhH” has serious misgivings about the novel he is writing. Like Laurent Binet, the book’s French author, he has spent years examining the murder of the SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 with...

Prague Nights

Prague Nights
  • Author(s): Benjamin Black
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1599

Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman’s body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emperor’s mistress, and there’s...

A Christmas in Prague

A Christmas in Prague
  • Author(s): Helga Jensen
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Olivia’s beloved Aunt Grace passes, she leaves everything to her niece, with one condition: Travel to Prague and deliver a message to Grace’s long-lost true love, Marek. The trouble is, Olivia’s world is getting smaller. Since her husband...

Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz

Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz
  • Author(s): Bill Moody
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

The year is 1968. The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia’s new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and now, 250,000 Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders. For American intelligence, the situation is worsened when their prime source,...

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