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- 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): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could speak? This is the story of the charismatic – and controversial – artist, Egon Schiele, and his four muses, set against the vibrant backdrop of...
- Location(s): Vienna, Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1946 / 2018
Papa whispered to Chana, ‘If we get separated, if something happens to me, look after Mama and Aron. And one last thing-‘ He smoothed an affectionate hand over her hair. ‘Remember everything I’ve taught you, and all your gifts....
- 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...
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