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- Location(s): Vienna, Arizona
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1938, 1919
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht – the night their family loses everything. As her child’s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on the...
- Location(s): Cork City, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1930s
1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother’s belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack’s mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Spring 1938 The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. Mathias and Johannes – fellow writers, cousins, and close as brothers – thrive within this creative group of friends. But when...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From WW2 onwards
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could speak? This is the story of the charismatic – and controversial – artist, Egon Schiele, and his four muses, set against the vibrant backdrop of...
- Location(s): Lviv, Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Vienna
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. An ordinary world of fitting in at school, learning the language and forging friendships lies before Madina. Yet she finds herself caught between...
- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
- Location(s): Vienna, London
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A richly imagined story of unexpected love, independence, and belonging – The Morning Gift is a classic WWII romance from Eva Ibbotson, with an introduction from Sarra Manning. Eighteen-year-old Ruth lives in the sparkling city of Vienna with her...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
“On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.” Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for...
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