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Meticulously researched and carefully told, this is the story of how a city of 200,000 Jews in 1938 had fewer than 10,000 in 1946. From the author of the excellent Former People: The Destruc... read more

The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna ...

Douglas Smith

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An account of the journey undertaken by the young Habsburg emperor (including a visit to his sister Marie-Antoinette at Versailles) that persuaded him that reform was necessary.

The Emperor Incognito: Joseph II’s Journey through Enlightenment ...

Monika Czernin

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Seethaler's first novel, published now for the first time, is about Mahler returning from from New York by sea, ill and grieving for Alma.

The Last Movement

Robert Seethaler

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Maine 1919: a return to the world of his bestselling classic The Cider House Rules. Esther, a Jewish orphan, is adopted by the Winslow family. The novel follows her life as she retraces her ... read more

Queen Esther

John Irving

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Twenty stories of the Golden Age in Austro-Hungary before WW1: Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Margit Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke et al.

Tales from the Dual Monarchy

Annabel Barber

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Egon Schiele: Last Years 1914-1918

Kerstin Jesse

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High social comedy at a dinner party that goes horribly wrong.

Cooking in the Wrong Century

Teresa Präauer

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RB is the ne plus ultra of Habsburg chroniclers. Readers will recall his bestselling memoir Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89. Here is a biography of exemplary ele... read more

Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment ...

Richard Bassett

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Seethaler writes with warmth and restraint about the lives that coalesce around a caf? in a poor district of Vienna in the 1960s and '70s. Immensely beguiling.

The Cafe with No Name

Robert Seethaler

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It seems scarcely credible that these essays should have remained unpublished for so long.

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

W. G. Sebald

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Quiet, forgetful lives in a small town on the Austro-Hungarian border are shaken up by the events of 1989: an epic of historical complicity, brilliantly executed.

Darkenbloom

Eva Menasse

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Looks at the lives of 21 key statesmen during the demise of the Habsburg period.

Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 ...

Iryna Vushko

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Snow Country: The epic historical novel from the author of Birdsong ...

Sebastian Faulks

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Freud is the primary focus here, but we also encounter Klimt, Schiele, Herzl, Empress Sisi and many others in this fine account of the new understanding of the mind that arose from Vienna at... read more

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind ...

Frank Tallis

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The second in Helfer's Austrian wartime trilogy. The first, Last House Before the Mountain (pbk, 9.99) came out last year and was much admired.

Library for the War-Wounded

Monika Helfer

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In the wake of the success of Baron Bagge in 2022, here's another tight novella by the Austrian mid-C20th novelist, this time about the fear of revenge after WW2.

Count Luna

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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Set in inter-war Vienna, this is a dark and satisfyingly convoluted tale of identity and murder.

I Was Jack Mortimer

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more

Josef Hoffmann: Falling for Beauty

Adrian Prieto

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Mozart was taken to Italy three times by his father in his early and mid-teens; already astonishingly accomplished as a thirteen-year-old, he drank in Italian opera like a thirsty man findin... read more

Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera ...

Jane Glover

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Whether in music, architecture, economics, art, mathematics, physics or philosophy - Vienna in the early C20th led the world. This astonishing vibrancy was dispersed by Nazism and WW2 to the... read more

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World ...

Richard Cockett

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In a remote Austrian valley during WW1, a woman tries to provide for her family after her husband is drafted into the army. Based on the author's own family history. Powerful, succinct.

Last House Before the Mountain

Monika Helfer

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Born near Lemburg in Galicia - now in Ukraine - the author of The Radetzky March and several other outstanding works died in alcoholic exile on the eve of WW2. This is a powerful account of ... read more

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Keiron Pim

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Schmidt was an Austrian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister 1936-1938. With access to previously unpublished family papers, Bassett shows how this controversial figure in fact tried to m... read more

Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria ...

Richard Bassett

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New translation of the 1936 bestselling Austrian novella in which a cavalry officer rides through Russian guns into a world of enchanted love... With a foreword, rather surprisingly, by Patt... read more

Baron Bagge

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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From C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Romantic Sturm und Drang to Chopin, Berlioz and Wagner. Walsh's recent book on Debussy was excellent.

The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age

Stephen Walsh

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The first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his student days at Cambridge, grappling with the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of a ... read more

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Walter and Alma. Her attempts to free herself from maternal expectations and the recurrent image of herself in her stepfather's novels are movin... read more

Manon’s World: A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alm ...

James Reidel

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In 1864 the Austrian Archduke Maximilian went to assume a distant throne. The operatic episode ended in his death by firing squad, famously memorialised by Manet.

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World ...

Edward Shawcross

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This classic story with watercolours by one of the greatest living illustrators, the artistic heiress of Dulac and Rackham. For ages 8-80.

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

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In February 1938 Georg Klaar, a Jewish lad of seventeen, went to his first ball in Vienna, staying until the band's last waltz. A month later came the Anschluss. The ensuing years brought ch... read more

Last Waltz in Vienna

George Clare

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Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina, Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg, sloe-eyed actress, niece of Gianni Agnelli, sister-in-law of Diane von F... Large format, In a slip case.

Ira: The Life and Times of a Princess

Nicholas Foulkes

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Salzburg: City of Culture

Hubert Nowak

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The author of 'Wittgenstein's Poker' traces the influential circle (Neurath, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Popper) whom the Austrian fascists and Nazis saw as such a threat.

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circl ...

David Edmonds

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The stupendous and vaulting 'Symphony of a Thousand', first performed in Munich in 1910 to huge acclaim, and its effect on those around the composer: Berg and Schoenberg, Korngold, Bruno Wal... read more

The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910

Stephen Johnson

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Gathering Evidence

Thomas Bernhard

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The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and ...

Professor A J P Taylor

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