Based on a true story, the novel tells of an elderly former Nazi who has forged a new life on Spain’s eastern coast and another octogenarian, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp who lives in Buenos Aires. A third character, ...read more

Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine ...read more

“The Old King in His Exile” is Arno Geiger’s account of his father’s years suffering from dementia (Alzheimer’s).
August was part of a large family, and though he started his own relatively late (only marrying ...read more

“No one ever suspects”, begins “Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me”, “that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...” Marta has just met Victor when she ...read more

“ Baby Apocalypse” is the story of two women who are hired to find Valentine, the teenage daughter of a novelist, who has disappeared. Lucie Toledo, an insecure woman of forty, who is afraid to order tea in a bar as it may create an ...read more

Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the first novel of Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox from a middle-class English family living in York.

By interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, ...read more

Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo ...read more

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"How shall I go about establishing contact?" The question is asked by the main character trying to teach a stone to speak. "You can if you want to, it is not difficult, make an effort!", he hisses to the stubborn stone which ...read more

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist José Saramago

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named ...read more

Half love, half about love. This, in short, might define Dan Lungu’s new novel.
Andi and Marga are a young couple who hook up in odd circumstances and live together for one and a half years. They both ...read more

Last Afternoons with Teresa is appealing especially ...read more

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?

But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where ...read more

Finally. After the Great American Novel we can now read the Great European Novel. A book with as many chapters as there are European capital cities. A biting quest for happiness. The Great European Novel describes how we, strangers, can find each ...read more