The gripping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.

1968. Prague.

Two British students are hitchhiking across Europe.

A young diplomat is trying to smuggle a high-profile defector to safety.

The Red Army masses on the border.

A city in crisis and a world on the brink.

Prague Spring.


'Mawer is a superb chronicler of past events in foreign countries, and Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Masterly and chilling . . . it is very good indeed' Scotsman

Prague Spring...plunges into the heady days of 1968: the pleasures of new freedoms, the hopes that were brutally crushed, and the politics, both behind the scenes and in the streets. All that you would want from a novel