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The Vienna Writers Circle

The Vienna Writers Circle
  • Author(s): J C Maetis
  • 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...

Wiener Requiem

Wiener Requiem
  • Author(s): I Sydney Jones
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Fin de Siecle, late 1800s

Set during the peak of Vienna’s cultural renaissance and featuring some of the city’s most colorful residents, including Gustav Mahler, Requiem in Vienna is perfect historical fiction – rich description, vivid characters, and a mystery that will leave readers...

Woodcutters

Woodcutters
  • Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Over the course of a few hours, following a performance of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, we are in the company of the Auersbergers, and our narrator, who never once leaves the relative comfort of his ‘wing-backed chair’ where he...

The Fig Eater

The Fig Eater
  • Author(s): Jody Shields
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

A slow paced but luxurious read charting the investigation of the death of a young woman, Dora, in Fin de Siecle Vienna.

The Hare with Amber Eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes
  • Author(s): Edmund de Waal
  • Location(s): Paris, Tokyo, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1870s onwards

de Waal is one of Britain’s most well known potters and this is the story of a collection of netsuke, inherited from his Uncle. This is their story, which starts in Paris in the 1870s,where they were purchased by...

The House at Tyneford

The House at Tyneford
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is previously titled the Novel in the Viola. In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows...

The Third Man

The Third Man
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

This Novella (in this edition together the Fallen Idol)is set in Vienna, it was intended as a draft for a screenplay. Greene felt the film was superior to his writing. Gone are the fin de siècle coffee houses, and...

Setting Free The Bears

Setting Free The Bears
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1960s

1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in John Irving’s first novel.

A Death in Vienna

A Death in Vienna
  • Author(s): Frank Tallis
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1890s

Fin du Siecle Vienna – Tallis sets his intelligent murder mystery in the Austrian capital. Freud’s contemporary, Max Lieberman assists his friend Rheinhardt, who is exmaning the death of beautiful medium. There is a suicide note and she died...

All the Beautiful Liars

All the Beautiful Liars
  • Author(s): Sylvia Petter
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The fictional memoir of Katrina Klain. How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth? During a...

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