Thanks
Special Thanks as always to my editors: Deborah Wall and Ryan Cheal for their hard work and saintly patience; and to my fantastic beta readers:
Melodie Ramone (author of “After Forever Ends”)
Danielle DeVor (author of “Constructing Markus”, “Sorrow Point” and “Tail of the Devil”)
Murielle Cyr (author of “Turtle Wish”, “Culloo” and “Catori’s World”)
Paulette Mahurin (author of “The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap”)
Bob Rector (author of “Unthinkable Consequences”)
Anna George Othitis (author of “My First Travel Book” and “My Greek Traditional Cook Book”)
Fran Lewis (author of “Because we Care“, “Bad Choices” and editor of “MJ Magazine”)
Damian Stevenson (author of “The Ian Fleming Files”)
Julia Gousseva (author of “Moscow Dreams” and “Anya’s Story”)
all of who have given me invaluable input and advice. I cannot thank you enough.
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More books by Christoph Fischer:
The Luck of the Weissensteiners
(Three Nations Trilogy: Book 1)
In the sleepy town of Bratislava in 1933 the daughter of a Jewish weaver falls for a bookseller from Berlin, Wilhelm Winkelmeier. Greta Weissensteiner seemingly settles in with her in-laws but the developments in Germany start to make waves in Europe and re-draw the visible and invisible borders. The political climate, the multi-cultural jigsaw puzzle of the disintegrating Czechoslovakian state and personal conflicts make relations between the couple and the families more and more complex. The story follows the families through the war with its predictable and also its unexpected turns and events and the equally hard times after. What makes The Luck of the Weissensteiners so extraordinary is the chance to consider the many different people who were never in concentration camps, never in the military, yet who nonetheless had their own indelible Holocaust experiences. This is a wide-ranging, historically accurate exploration of the connections between social status, personal integrity and, as the title says, luck.
Praise for The Luck of the Weissensteiners: “…powerful, engaging, you cannot remain untouched…” “Fischer deftly weaves his tapestry of history and fiction, with a grace…”
On Amazon: http://bookshow.me/B00AFQC4QC
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Trailer: http://studio.stupeflix.com/v/OtmyZh4Dmc/
Sebastian
(Three Nations Trilogy: Book 2)
Sebastian is the story of a young man who has his leg amputated before World War I. When his father is drafted to the war it falls on to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear loss and uncertainty and hopefully find love. Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the ‘golden days’ of pre-war Vienna, the times of the war and the end of the Monarchy while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear. Fischer convincingly describes life in Vienna during the war, how it affected the people in an otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end for the Monarchy, the arrival of modern thoughts and trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era. As in the first part of the trilogy, “The Luck of The Weissensteiners” we are confronted again with themes of identity, Nationality and borders. The step back in time made from Book 1 and the change of location from Slovakia to Austria enables the reader to see the parallels and the differences deliberately out of the sequential order. This helps to see one not as the consequence of the other, but to experience them as the momentary reality as it must have felt for the people at the time.
Praise for Sebastian: “I fell in love with Sebastian…a truly inspiring read for anyone!!!!” – “This is a MUST read, INTELLIGENT, SENSITIVE, ENGAGING, PERFECT.”
On Amazon: http://bookshow.me/B00CLL1UY6
On Goodreads: http://ow.ly/pthHZ
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Trailer: http://studio.stupeflix.com/v/95jvSpHf5a/
The Black Eagle Inn
(Three Nations Trilogy: Book 3)
The Black Eagle Inn is an old established Restaurant and Farm business in the sleepy Bavarian countryside outside of Heimkirchen. Childless Anna Hinterberger has fought hard to make it her own and keep it running through WWII. Religion and rivalry divide her family as one of her nephews, Markus has got her heart and another nephew, Lukas has got her ear. Her husband Herbert is still missing and for the wider family life in post-war Germany also has some unexpected challenges in store.
Once again Fischer tells a family saga with war in the far background and weaves the political and religious into the personal. Being the third in the Three Nations Trilogy this book offers another perspective on war, its impact on people and the themes of nations and identity.
On Amazon: http://bookshow.me/B00FSBW2L6
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Trailer: http://studio.stupeflix.com/v/mB2JZUuBaI/
A Short Biography
Christoph Fischer was brought up near the Austrian border in Bavaria and has since lived in Hamburg, London, Brighton and Bath. He always loved books and one of his first jobs was in a library.
‘Time To Let Go’ is his first break into contemporary fiction after his historical ‘Three Nations Trilogy’, consisting of ‘The Luck of The Weissensteiners’, ‘Sebastian’ and “The Black Eagle Inn’. The trilogy has a thematic connection but no direct link in the plots.
Since becoming an author, Christoph has begun to support other authors and has joined several Internet author groups.
For further information you can follow him on:
http://writerchristophfischer.wordpress.com
www.christophfischerbooks.com
www.facebook.com/WriterChristophFischer
@CFFBooks
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