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Le Mariage by Diane Johnson
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- Wonderfully mischievous, this rollicking comedy of manners skewers with intense delight the stereotype of Americans in Paris.
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Measuring The World by Daniel Kehlmann
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- A magnificent tale of exploration, both physical and intellectual. Kehlmann sets a wonderful fictional account of the intrepid Alexander von Humboldt against an equally vivid portrait of mathematical genius Carl Friedrich Gauss, each in his own way 'measuring the world'. Dazzling and wildly entertaining.
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The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson
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- Written whilst the author was in hiding during the Second World War and originally published in 1959 this is another recently rediscovered classic of European literature. Not as thrilling as Fallada's Alone in Berlin, this is nevertheless a quietly powerful novel, brooding and paranoid and utterly gripping.
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Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
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- Comprising 'March Violets', 'The Pale Criminal' and 'A German Requiem', this collection of Kerr's exceptional, intelligent thrillers never leaves our Favourites Table. Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther is drawn into a series of shadowy cases, all loomed over by the menace of Nazism. Atmospheric, complex and taut.
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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
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- A fine new translation of Keun's hit late 1930s novel, narrated by a young girl forced to move from hotel to hotel and from country to country with her poverty-stricken family, banned from returning to Germany thanks to some subversive remarks made by her journalist father. Tender, compelling and heartbreaking.
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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
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- Jonathan Littel's controversial novel about a former SS intelligence officer has attracted huge acclaim in his native France, picking up the Prix Goncourt and Prix de la Litterature. Looking back on his life, Dr Max Aue, father, factory-owner and asassion, dispassionately recounts his participation in the most horrific events on the Nazi's Eastern Front, with the intention of setting the record straight. A brutal yet brilliant read.
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Joop: a novel of Anne Frank by Richard Lourie
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- A brave and engaging novel narrated by the man who may have betrayed Anne Frank. Lourie tackles a controversial subject with effortless aplomb.
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Innocence by Pierre Magnan
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- In June 1945 Pierrot, a Provencal teenager, discovers a letter on the body of a local Resistance hero. What he reads leads him into a dramatic story of illicit passion and pitiless revenge. A marvellously evocative and erotic portrayal of rural France still haunted by war.
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Buddenbrooks by Thoman Mann
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- Mann's fantastic autobiographical first novel tells of the gradual disintegration of a prosperous merchant family, offering an extraordinary portrait of the transition from stable 19th century bourgeois life to a modern uncertainty. A distinctly German classic.
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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- Mann's fiercely brilliant intellectual drama takes as its setting a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. Informed by the author's own experiences in Davos, and by the shift in his attitude towards the European bourgeois after the horrors of WWI, the novel's characters embody a microcosm of pre-war Europe, and their stay at the sanatorium an elusive but subtle assessment of human nature.
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A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
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- Fans of Wolf Hall will find this remarkable dramatisation of the French Revolution as believable, gripping and wonderfully written as her recent Booker winner. Mantel describes a time of unimaginable horror through the eyes of three pivotal, real-life figures: Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins.
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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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- Protege of Flaubert and riotously successful across 19th century Europe, Maupassant is widely regarded as a father of the modern short story. The tales in this fantastic collection range from nouveau riche Paris to the Normandy countryside and the French Riviera. Darkly humourous and infused with great clarity, these are stories that lay humanity bare with uncanny ease.
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Therese by Francois Mauriac
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- An excellent novel which retells the true story of a young French woman accused of trying to poison her husband. Mauriac explores Catholicism, sexuality and the oppressive nature of life in rural France in the early 20th century, all set against the beauty of the Bordeaux landscape.
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The Chateau by William Maxwell
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- It is 1948 and a cheerful American couple arrive in France expecting to be welcomed as heroes and liberators of the French people. What they find is a country ravaged by the recent war and, much to their confusion, a resentful hostess. A subtle, well-written novel.
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The Innocent by Ian McEwan
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- A spy novel in the most literary sense. Leonard Marnham is conducting surveillance in Cold War Berlin whilst having his innocence thoroughly corrupted by his local lover, Maria. The two elements of his life collide in a taut and suspenseful novel of the highest order.
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Pure by Andrew Miller
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- It is Paris in 1785, and a young, provincial upstart named Jean-Baptiste Baratte is charged with demolishing a fetid, overflowing cemetery. A deeply unpleasant task, Baratte nevertheless sees it as a chance to clear the burden of history. That is, until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might foreshadow his own demise.
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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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- A landmark work that was banned for almost 30 years, 'Tropic of Cancer' is an addictive fictional account of Miller's depraved Parisian adventures. Lacking unashamedly in plot and characterisation it nonetheless surges forth on a wave of vitality and pleasure, flecked with exquisite poetic moments.
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Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
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- A delicious treat of a novel which tells the story of dowdy Fanny whose life is turned upside down when her academic husband is made English ambassador in Paris. Light-hearted and very funny.
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Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
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- A thrilling and tragic love story set in 17th century Amsterdam amidst the chaos of 'tulipmania'.
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In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring
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- Set in Assen in 1980 this is an intriguing novel about Jacob Noah, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi occupation. The book retraces Noah's life's stories, drawing upon an exuberant array of narrative styles to explore the loss and guilt which have ravaged the town.
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The Assault by Harry Mulisch
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- In the Dutch winter of 1945 young Anton Steenwijk witnesses the murder of his family. The ensuing taut political thriller traces the complex repercussions of this event on Anton's life. A slender novel of considerable power, 'The Assault' comes highly recommended.
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The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
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- An epic of great philosophical profundity that also manages to be wildly entertaining, this is one of the most criminally overlooked novels of late 20th century Europe. Beginning with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complex individuals brought together by fate, this is a book that strives for the status of a masterpiece, and succeeds.
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The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
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- Colossal, sprawling, intimidating: this hulking masterpiece of European fiction is all of these things and yet so packed with sly humour, delightful observation and irresistible humanity that anyone brave enough to rise to its challenge will be greatly and lastingly rewarded.
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The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
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- If daunted by 'The Man Without Qualities' (forgiveable), try this bleak but beguiling novel of tortured youth, first published in 1906 and set in an isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Musil writes with poetic precision and soon has you in his talons.
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David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
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- Long before 'Suite Francaise' it was this sharp and merciless portrait of an amoral Jewish businessman that shot a young Nemirovsky to literary fame. Spare when compared to her later work, this is nonetheless a chilling and brilliant attack on the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s.
