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- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II, and early 21st century
Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, Márton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The Secret Police have come to arrest him on charges of subversion....
Not an Ordinary Life, from class enemy to the Hall of Fame and a lifetime in between
- Location(s): Szeged, Budapest, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940-2015
A compelling and adventurous story that unfolds in Hungary, a country caught up in the frightening political and social issues of the 40’s and 50’s. Les’ early family life was one of privilege and success, but it quickly changed...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hollywood, Hungary, Kansas
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): 1938
From the Best-selling Author… Lights! Camera! Hollywood! In 1938, nineteen-year-old Vivian Harris’s mother wants her to get married and have a family, but Vivian’s seduced by someone else entirely: Hollywood. Yearning to trade in farm dust for stardust, she...
- Location(s): Stamford Hill, Budapest, Cardiff
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
1997 and Elizabeth’s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution – she is going to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government – hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but...
- Location(s): Prague, Budapest, Munich, Vienna
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Who is The Cobra, a shadowy character with major connections to the worlds of espionage and art theft? The answer to this question is the key to finding the leaders of a mysterious worldwide political conspiracy with its roots...
- Location(s): Vienna, Budapest
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
WINNER OF THE BATH NOVEL AWARD Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was closest to her grandfather: a charismatic painter – and a keeper of secrets. So when he dies, she’s hit by a greater loss – of...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family’s Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this...
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