Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Mainland Europe.
Europe
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Happy: A Novel
by Celina Baljeet Basra
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams - a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.
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Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
Hardcover: Dec 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.
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We Must Not Think of Ourselves
by Lauren Grodstein
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II
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Roman Year: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
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Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.
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My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
by Sarah Moss
Hardcover: Oct 2024
An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.
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Suggested in the Stars
by Yoko Tawada
Paperback: Oct 2024
On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends' astonishing and intrepid adventures.
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The MANIAC
by Benjamin Labatut
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age ...
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
by Douglas Brunt
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
by Olga Tokarczuk
Hardcover: Sep 2024
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
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Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel
by C Pam Zhang
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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