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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...

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...

The Pornographer of Vienna

The Pornographer of Vienna
  • Author(s): Lewis Crofts
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Schiele is the son of a railway inspector, he rejects his traditional upbringing and searches for artistic fulfilment. He is drawn to portray the louche social society of Veinna in the fin de siècle, but is rejected by the...

The Second Rider

The Second Rider
  • Author(s): Alex Beer
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Most of the remaining population of Vienna―a city scarred by World War I in which the grandeur of the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory―is surviving by its wits, living hand to mouth in a city rife with crime,...

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