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An Equal Music

An Equal Music
  • Author(s): Vikram Seth
  • Location(s): London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

When The Maggiore, an English Quartet undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven’s, violinist Michael Holme is taken back to memories of playing this piece in Vienna as a student. At the same time he falls in love with Julia...

East West Street

East West Street
  • Author(s): Philippe Sands
  • 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...

Mortal Mischief

Mortal Mischief
  • Author(s): Frank Tallis
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

…Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst – and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are...

Prelude to Terror

Prelude to Terror
  • Author(s): Helen Macinnes
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

This takes place mainly in Vienna in the late 1970s, and partly in Salzburg, featuring Colin Grant, who is on the hunt for a specific painting, which he has been instructed to buy at any cost. It brings together...

Requiem in Vienna

Requiem in Vienna
  • Author(s): J Sydney Jones
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1890s

A series of accidents plague Vienna’s Court Opera and then a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production. It would seem that someone is trying to murder Gustav Mahler. And Mahler may not be the first musical...

The Columbus Affair

The Columbus Affair
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Prague, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th Century and modern

Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...

The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Maine, New Hampshire, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless...

The Lady in Gold

The Lady in Gold
  • Author(s): Anne Marie O'Connor
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Partly the story of Adele Bloch-Bauer, who is the subject of the painting later renamed by Austria as “The Lady in Gold” – was she one of Klimt’s lovers? Who’s to know? An intimate portrait of her in paint...

The Novel in the Viola

The Novel in the Viola
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

The Painted Kiss

The Painted Kiss
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hickey
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Late 19th century Vienna, café society, grand architecture and a lively artistic community, this is the imagining of the life between Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, who was reputed to be his model for his painting “The Kiss”. The...

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