Stefan Zweig’s reputation often precedes his work, especially when you consider his extraordinary life. Exiled from Austria in the 1930s, going from London, Bath, New York, and Conneticut, to Brazil,…
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Book review)
Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler (Book review)
Robert Seethaler is an amazing writer, and I’ve read a few of his works in translation. He’s one of those Austrian authors I actually first stumbled upon in Vienna, when…
Murder in Vienna by E.C.R Lorac (Book review)
This was a book that was very much enhanced by reading it while I was in Vienna! It starts off in a really beautiful way: you’re in a plane leaving…
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
I read his The Tobacconist years ago, which was a wonderful read as well – a moving tale of wartime Vienna seen through the eyes of a young apprentice to…