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Amadeus

Amadeus
  • Author(s): Peter Shaffer
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

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...

An Ottoman Traveller

An Ottoman Traveller
  • Author(s): Evliya Çelebi
  • Location(s): Iran, Istanbul (Constantinople), Ottoman Empire, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 17th century

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...

Immortal

Immortal
  • Author(s): Jessica Duchen
  • Location(s): Vienna, Hungary
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1792-1828

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...

Künstlers in Paradise

Künstlers in Paradise
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 onwards

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...

Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon

Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
  • Author(s): Andrea di Robilant
  • Location(s): Paris, Venice, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th century

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...

Me, In Between

Me, In Between
  • Author(s): Julya Rabinowich, Claire Storey (Translator)
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1970s

Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. An ordinary world of fitting in at school, learning the language and forging friendships lies before Madina. Yet she finds herself caught between...

Night Falls On The City

Night Falls On The City
  • Author(s): Sarah Gainham
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1930s

Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for...

Roger and the Cancelled Czech

Roger and the Cancelled Czech
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Prague, Budapest, Munich, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who is The Cobra, a shadowy character with major connections to the worlds of espionage and art theft? The answer to this question is the key to finding the leaders of a mysterious worldwide political conspiracy with its roots...

Sisi: Empress on Her Own

Sisi: Empress on Her Own
  • Author(s): Allison Pataki
  • Location(s): Vienna, Budapest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz...

The Accidental Empress

The Accidental Empress
  • Author(s): Allison Pataki
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s onwards

The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess...

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