Maria Trapp recalls the events that brought her talented family from Austria to the hills of New England.

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino to the entombment of the last Hapsburg emperor, Roth's intelligent compassion illuminates the crumbling of a way of life.

Not many cities can match Vienna for fine art and fascinating history. This book includes 3-D aerial views of Vienna's most interesting districts and cutaways and floor plans of various major sights. Using the detailed maps and colour Street Finder, it lets you navigate your way around beautiful palaces, churches and art collections.

The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.

A translation of Dream Story that tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife were driven apart into rival world's of erotic revenge.

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her.

A guide to Vienna. It features a colour section that introduces Vienna's highlights, from churches to the Staatsoper, the Prater's Ferris wheel, and mountains of freshly made cakes. It offers a look at Vienna's history, literature, and cultural life with background on the Habsburg palaces to the galleries of the MuseumsQuartier.

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book recounts the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It discusses about the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, and more.

Murder, mystery and the famous white stallions of Vienna

A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed.

When Ellen Carr abandons dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she finds her destiny. Swept into a world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her. He has a dangerous secret.

Persepolis ended in a cliffhanger in 1984, just as 14 year old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war in Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow her through the next eight years of her life - four years in Vienna, and four years back in Iran.

The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna. This is a conventional family saga.

Vienna, 1910 and a young girl's body has been discovered. She was strangled. The Chief Inspector uses the latest scientific techniques in his attempt to catch the killer. While his wife, a woman steeped in the Gypsy lore of her native Hungary, relies on intuition, instinct and superstition.

A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. It offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a heterogeneous population.

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. This autobiography tells the stories of Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, and Gorky, among others.

On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. The chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a voice begins to whisper suggestions. The speaker is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable.

Roithamer has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. This work talks about the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion of the negation of his own soul.

In the tradition of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, a beautiful, atmospheric and sensual debut that re-imagines the tempestuous relationship between the painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floege, the youngest daughter of a bourgeois businessman.

The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.