Blogs in July 2019

Vienna Passion 4th July 2019

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...

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The Oblique Place 30th April 2019

The discovery of photographs in an album – of her Spanish grandfather who joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht and her father in the uniform of Franco’s army- leads Caterina Pascual Söderbaum to explore her family’s links to some of the most...

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The Saffron Conspiracy 7th January 2019

Botanist Andreas Bauer, passionate about saffron, plans to reintroduce organic farming of the world’s most expensive spice to a region of Austria now known for its wine. Meeting resistance from vintners, he does research in a local abbey and...

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The Second Rider 21st December 2018

Most of the remaining population of Vienna―a city scarred by World War I in which the grandeur of the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory―is surviving by its wits, living hand to mouth in a city rife with crime,...

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Roger and the Cancelled Czech 10th December 2018

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...

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