Product details

Imprint: Hay Press
ISBN: 9781804472071
Paperback • 256pp • £10
129 mm x 198 mm
18/06/26
Thema: FA, 1QFE, 1DDB

EU Safety Information/EU Authorised Representative Information here

Flagey in Spring

Simon Mundy

Illustrated by Ewgeniya Lyras

ISBN: 9781804472071
Paperback • 256pp
Published 18 June 2026

£10.00

Free UK delivery on orders over £25

The Café Franck in Brussels’ Place Flagey puts people at their ease – artists with European politicians and their assistants, tousled intellectuals with bar staff, twenty-somethings in need of a job with thirty-somethings who have one.

Set in the spring of 2014, Flagey in Spring is a comedy of manners that takes place in the European Parliament itself, in bars where love and politics rub shoulders, and in Rome, where Italy is looking once again for a new Prime Minister.

About the author

Simon Mundy studied drama at university, but soon veered towards writing poetry and reviews, and at 23 he found himself a music critic and arts journalist. A champion of the arts, he has served as Director of the National Campaign for the Arts and Vice-President of PEN International’s Writers for Peace Committee, and he co-founded the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage; he remains an adviser to the European Festivals Association. His writing includes biographies, novels, non-fiction, playscripts and poetry. Waiting for Music is his fifth poetry collection. For the last 40 years Simon has bounced between Mid Wales, the far north of Scotland, London and Brussels. He likes his indecision.

More about this author →

Also available by Simon Mundy

Silent Movements

Silent Movements brings all Simon Mundy’s experience in politics and the music business together. Set in 1980 at the end of the Cold War, it tells the story of a Soviet violinist being helped by a young British cellist to defect. Along the way Mundy accurately depicts the challenges and excitement of concert performance. As Julian Lloyd Webber says, ‘Simon Mundy really knows the point where music, politics and history collide. He also understands the processes of a performer’s life.’

Find out more →
Add to basket

Shopping Cart
Scroll to Top