John Hughes
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199 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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It was a place to see and be seen.
And yeah, Kish was often there.
Oh.
Well, I think he did it for commercial reasons.
He wanted to build on the success of Radetzky March.
But after 1933, he writes quite a lot of novels and novellas.
But in difficult circumstances, not only is his lifestyle, you know, working against him, but he's working to tight deadlines.
He's never quite sure, you know, where, you know, he's working with different publishing houses in all based in exile now, many of them in the Netherlands.
And he's desperate really to just make ends meet.
So the sequel, The Emperor's Tomb, Die Kapuzinergift, it follows a sort of a separate branch of the Fontotta family and tries to bring the story up to the point of the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938.
And it's an interesting read.
And anyone that's enjoyed Radetzky Marshall should probably read it.
But it isn't the same.
It isn't of the same quality.
Yeah.
He sort of rushed it as well in 1938 as events were happening in Austria.
He thought, I better get this out quickly as well.
At least the name does.
Tea or coffee?
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