Blogs in February 2020

All the Beautiful Liars 21st February 2020

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...

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Night Falls On The City 15th July 2019

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...

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THE DOUBLE GAME 6th July 2019

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...

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The Radetzky March 5th July 2019

Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and...

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Dream Story 5th July 2019

Probably based on Vienna. Fridolin is a doctor living and working in a town – perhaps Vienna, though this is less important than the fact that it is in Austria… where psychoanalysis has its roots. He has a wife...

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