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- 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...
- 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): 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...