English books from Europe
Recommended English books (1914)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Europe for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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IrelandDescription:
A deceptively low-key glance at love and death, from the acclaimed young author of the Booker-longlisted and Costa-shortlisted Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
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Mr. Lepron's Mystery Soup by Giovanna Zoboli EN
ItalyDescription:
Stunning artwork from the acclaimed illustrator of The Midnight Fair illuminates a sweet cautionary tale about a rabbit whose fabled soup-making gets away from him. Mr. Lepron is a rabbit who lives in a cozy burrow with many offspring. Every year on the first day of autumn, he reaps vegetables from the farmer's garden--carrots, onions, celery, beans, aromatic herbs, and much more--and makes the best soup on earth, adored by his family. As it simmers, he dozes and dreams of being a famous cook, hosted by kings. And sure enough, his soup is so good that it starts drawing creatures from all over-... continue
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Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who – enthralled by her stories – begins to write Mrs Death’s memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced (or facilitated), their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .... continue
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Poland765.
Mrs S by K. Patrick EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Oozes with erotic tension from the start' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Sublime ... I loved this book' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea 'Tense and taut and exhilarating' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually 'I've completely fallen for the astonishing Mrs S' Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead autho... continue
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches it glittering climax.
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Murder by Matchlight by E. C. R. Lorac EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"Originally published in 1945 by Collins. "Permanent Policeman" was first published in MacKill's Mystery Magazine, March 1953"--Title page verso.
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Murder on the Orient Express : A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected : Poems by Valzhyna Mort EN
BelarusDescription:
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected, Valzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical first-hand accounts of a past grandparent generation of the Soviet labor camps, redistribution of land, and massacres of World War II in Belarus. As her country is being run by a long-time dictator, the poet creates a ceremony of myth making for the erased ... continue
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Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memo... continue