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The Book of Prague: Reading the City
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed… The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at...
- Location(s): Vienna, Budapest, Prague
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary, 1970s
A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to young journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors. The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Gaslight era
For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against...
The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild
- Location(s): France, England, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 18/19/20th/21st century/2061
REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES… On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986/current day
Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1890s
An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fear stalks the newly reunified Czechoslovakia, the terror wrought by international terrorism and violent extremists overshadowing the forthcoming fiftieth anniversary of the Prague Spring, and threatening to burn the country in its wake. Into this arena steps Captain Lincoln...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
It is 1950 and communists are being hunted across America. When Walter Kotlar is accused of being a spy by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his young son Nick destroys a piece of evidence only he knows about. But...
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Oxford, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love...
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