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The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...

Too Loud A Solitude

Too Loud A Solitude
  • Author(s): Bohumil Hrabal
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant’a – a man who has lived in a Czech police state – for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting,...

Virtuoso

Virtuoso
  • Author(s): Yelena Moskovich
  • Location(s): Prague, Paris, Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana’s seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur...

When the World Was Ours

When the World Was Ours
  • Author(s): Liz Kessler
  • Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): World War Two

Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...

Your Still Beating Heart

Your Still Beating Heart
  • Author(s): Tyler Keevil
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All it takes to change your life is a single moment. A random stabbing on a London bus leaves a young woman widowed and detached from her previous world. Stripped of a future that should have been hers, she...

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