Showing results for "Europa" in Genre Fiction

In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.

Wenn Delphine von El Hierro aus auf das Meer blickt, fühlt sie vor allem eines: dass sie nicht an diesen Ort gehört. Doch dann verunglückt ihr Zwillingsbruder beim Tauchen und Delphine bleibt keine andere Wahl, als sich ihren Ängsten zu stellen. Unter der sengenden Sommersonne der Kanaren wird sie schnell von den Schatten der Vergangenheit eingeholt und lang verdrängte Erinnerungen und unterdrückte Spannungen brechen sich Bahn.

Can a bookshop bring two hearts together? 'The perfect holiday read, romantic and so fun' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beth loves everything about living in Venice. The meandering canals and the cobbled streets have captured her heart, so when she loses her job and fears she’ll have to return...

Berlin im Vorfrühling. Eine Zufallsgemeinschaft ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen – ein Kunstkritiker und seine halbwüchsige trans Tochter, ein arabischer Prinz, ein alternder Lebemann mit seinem deutlich jüngeren Internet-Date und eine hinreißende Grande Dame – wandert durch die Stadt, von einem Galadiner im verblüht noblen Hotel Interconti quer durch den nächtlichen Tiergarten, stets verfolgt von einem Kripomann, der Verbotenes wittert.

For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive.

Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the Europe of his father’s stories, the Europe at the centre of civilisation and culture. But behind the facade of a unified and globalised contemporary society, he finds a history blasted wasteland, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. Dead Europe is an unsettling ghost story about blood lust, blood libel, and blood revenge.

Un écrivain néerlandais pose ses valises au Grand Hotel Europa, un palace à la splendeur délabrée. Il vient de rompre avec son grand amour, Clio, historienne de l’art passionnée, et souhaite coucher sur le papier leur tumultueuse histoire. Si l’écriture est un remède à sa désolation, les autres clients et le personnel de l’hôtel le sont tout autant.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.

Una giovane siriana, profuga di guerra, fugge sulla barca a vela di quattro uomini assetati di miti. La ragazza si chiama Evropa. Da quel momento la leggenda della principessa fenicia rapita sulla costa del Libano da Giove trasformatosi in toro si intreccia con gli eventi del Mediterraneo di oggi: emigrazioni, secessioni, conflitti, turismo di massa. Ingravidata in sogno dal re degli dèi, la ragazza riesce a sbarcare in Italia dopo infinite avventure e a dare il suo nome alla Terra del Tramonto, che però non riconosce in una figlia dell’Asia la Grande Capostipite.

Alice works at the Scottish embassy in Tallinn in Estonia as a member of the Cultural Section. When two men bring her the jeweled skull of a Scottish saint, her world gets turned on its head, and she becomes the latest recruit to Les Coureurs des Bois. On a Greek island, Benno is just one of hundreds of refuges dreaming of a new life in continental Europe. After hatching an audacious escape plan, he may just get his dream, but at the price of serving some powerful mysterious new masters.

A principis del segle XXI, Berlín es troba en mig d’una revolució apocalíptica contra el poder vigent, entre, per una banda, un grup d’alemanys vinculats a moviments antisistema que volen reactivar l’antiga RAF dels anys 70 disposats a atemptar contra una multinacional alemanya i, per l’altra, un grup de gallecs que volen aprofitar l’interès mediàtic i reivindicar la seva posició davant d’una societat que els margina i els manté en la clandestinitat.

Written as a confessional letter to his son, an 18th century opera singer recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europe’s celebrated opera houses and reveals how he came to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired. The celebrated opera singer Lo...

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Startlingly inventive.”—The New York Times Book Review “A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.”—Kate Atkinson On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots...

Ireland. The early twentieth century. Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war. Hear their story — and see why JOJO Moyes says that ""Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore."" Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in...

It is 1965 and Cora, a deaf young woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity, part of an experiment led by an obsessive Dr Bloom. Drawn by a strong connection to the dolphins, untrained Cora falls in with the scientists to protect the animals. Recognising Cora's knack for communication, Bloom uses her for what will turn into one of the most fascinating experiments in modern science: an attempt to teach the dolphins human language.

"Ich habe immer gewusst, dass ich in Paris sterben werde", flüstert Sally, als sie in einem Pariser Krankenhaus aus dem Koma erwacht. "Aber du bist nicht tot", antwortet der Arzt. "Du lebst und du wirst wieder in Ordnung kommen." Doch schon bald wird dem Mädchen klar, dass sie nie wieder in Ordnung kommen wird. Nach einem Überfall, bei dem sie beinahe vergewaltigt und ermordet worden wäre, erholt sie sich zwar körperlich und kehrt in ihre Heimat Montreal zurück. Doch ihr Zuhause ist nicht mehr der sichere Ort, der es einmal war.

In the spirit of Heather Morris, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff, an enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters in Ireland whose lives diverge for decades, until fate—and faith—reunite them in the twilight of their lives. Orphaned during the...

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers. Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the...

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Newt Gingrich returns with this rollicking tale of high-stakes international intrigue—the first book in a contemporary series filled with adventure, betrayal, and politics, that captures the tensions and divides of America and the world today. Valerie...

From an audacious new talent, The Story of H describes a searing quest by a Japanese woman and an American soldier to find a girl who goes missing in the aftermath of Hiroshima, a journey that spans the globe and travels to the darkest corners of the human mind and memory August 6, 1945: the day...