“I will always be considerably more grateful to you for sending back my manuscripts than for their publication,” wrote Kafka coyly to the...

Popularly known as the Waltz Kings, Johann Strauss I and II shaped the musical fortunes of Austria for almost a century. The father brought...

Beethoven needs no introduction. His life and work have formed the basis of hundreds if not thousands of pages in countless erudite books,...

On 15 March 1939, Hitler’s troops march into the “rump” of Czechoslovakia. German-speaking residents of the Iglau language island celebrate...

The Grandmother is an entirely unsentimental portrayal by Vienna-born Czech author Božena Němcová (1820–1862) of both the rural customs and...

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...

The perfect companion for all occasions, journeys and adventures great and small. This notebook is ideal for jotting down your thoughts,...

It is the pinnacle of a lifelong passion – through over fifty years of meticulous detective work, Hartmut Binder has helped shape our image...

Many young visitors to Kafka’s little cottage at Prague Castle exclaim something along the lines of “They inflicted Kafka on us at school!”....