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.

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...

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...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn’t recognize his talents – only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what...

Evliya Celebi was the Pepys of the Ottoman world—a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This...

It’s Ball Season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family’s hotel, the Hotel Wallner, to its former glory. She’s not going to let anything get in her way – not her parents’ three-decade-long...

Who was Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his handwriting was found – addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claimed to have been the composer’s lost love. But...

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when...