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Baron Bagge
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine...
A Confirmed Bachelor
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany,...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
Girl in the Cellar: The Natasha Kampusch Story
When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the...
Animal Embroideries and Patterns: From 19th Century Vienna
This book perfectly complements Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna, Serena's first publication concerning the Nowotny Collection. Like its counterpart, Animal Embroideries and Patterns also surveys samplers, motifs and...
Tante Hertha's Viennese Kitchen
This beautiful book, based on the original notebook and recipe journal of a 1900s "Viennese Baroness", takes readers on a journey through fin de siecle Viennese high society. With over...
Austria in World War II: An Anglo-American Dilemma
Not only does Keyserlingk show that Great Britain and the US recognized the Anschluss both in fact and in law throughout the war, he also reveals the growing importance of...
Last Dance in Salzburg (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 4)
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930. After accepting an invitation...
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels , Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The seven rules...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof *Featuring new bonus material Arnold Schwarzenegger's 77 Lessons...
The Paper Man
An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...
Last Dance in Salzburg (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 4)
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930.After accepting an invitation to...
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg,
"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...
Mahler: His Life, Work and World
Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time,...
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through...
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...
The Battle of Fontenoy 1745: Saxe against Cumberland in the War of the
The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analysed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented...
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Austrian Revolution
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
The Liquid Land
Author: Raphaela EdelbauerFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 336 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2021When her parents die in a car accident, highly talented Austrian physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with...
CITIx60 City Guides - Vienna: 60 local creatives bring you the best of the city
Author: VictionaryFormat: Paperback, 113mm x 165mm, 140g, 132 pagesPublished: Viction Workshop Ltd, Hong Kong, 2015 CitiX60 are guides to some of the worlds most renowned design hubs curated by a...
Heidi Horten Collection: The House and its History
Author: The Heidi Horton CollectionFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 290mm, 1480g, 224 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022A new art location will be opening in the heart of Vienna in the spring...
Xenia Hausner: True Lies
Author: Elsy LahnerFormat: Hardback, 295mm x 295mm, 2240g, 252 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on...