Blogs in August 2021

Midnight in the Snow 16th August 2021

From Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high...

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The Missing Barbegazi 3rd March 2021

Barbegazi are fabled creatures who live in the alps, rather like gnomes. Tessa knows that they exist because her beloved grandfather told her about them. So she sets out to prove to her family and friends that her grandfather...

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The Women Friends Selina 22nd August 2017

**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...

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My Own Dear Brother 24th July 2016

It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the...

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A Whole Life 10th March 2016

Long listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 ‘Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.’ Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a...

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