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- Location(s): Vienna, London
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A richly imagined story of unexpected love, independence, and belonging – The Morning Gift is a classic WWII romance from Eva Ibbotson, with an introduction from Sarra Manning. Eighteen-year-old Ruth lives in the sparkling city of Vienna with her...
The Music and Life of Beethoven
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 19th Century
The life of Beethoven and the creation of his works, amidst his a turbulent personal situation and against a background of political and social upheaval. Highly accessible as a read and real insight into the life and times of...
- Location(s): Munich, Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 1940s,
- Location(s): The Sudan, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when...
- Location(s): Cork City, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1930s
1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother’s belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack’s mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
“On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.” Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for...
- Location(s): Vienna, Arizona
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1938, 1919
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht – the night their family loses everything. As her child’s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on the...
- Location(s): Vienna, Tyrol
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1918-1936
**FINALIST: The Chanticleer Goethe Awards for Late Historical Fiction** Who is the young woman with the haunting gaze in Gustav Klimt’s 1917 masterpiece, The Women Friends? Selina Brunner is running from the demons of her past, cut off from...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century / later 20th Century
VIENNA PASSION is the autobiography of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. It is interleaved with the story of a tentative romance: that...
- 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...
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