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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.