Wednesday 20 January: Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Thomas Glavinic 

An ordinary man wakes up on a seemingly ordinary day to find that he is the last man alive. His response and attempts to unravel the mystery of what has happened reveals the fragility of the individual and the uncertain borders between waking and dreaming. 

Wednesday 10 March: The Royal Game (Schachnovelle, 1942) by Stefan Zweig

On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger whose dark and damaged past emerges as the game unfolds. 

Wednesday 21 April: The English Years (Die Englischen Jahre, 1999) by Norbert Gstrein

This novel pieces together the story of a literary icon, Gabriel Hirschfelder, who fled Vienna shortly before the outbreak of World War II and lived in London with the family of a judge. In 1940 he was classified as an ‘undesirable alien’ and interned in a camp on the Isle of Man.