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Elena Ferrante
“Ferrante Fever” documentary opening in London
10 million copies sold in 50 countries. A hit HBO series. A global literary sensation. Discover the secret to Elena Ferrante and her appeal in new doc “Ferrante Fever”, opening Fri 17 May.
Audrey Schulman
Theory of Bastards is the winner of the 2019 Philip k. Dick Award
Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards is the winner of the 2019 Philip K. Dick Award! The award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback in the United States, and is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.
Compass
Europa Launches Compass, a New Nonfiction Imprint
Europa Editions has launched Europa Compass, a new nonfiction imprint featuring titles on travel, contemporary culture, popular science, history, philosophy, and politics.
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Europa Editions is dedicated to bridging cultural divides by introducing fresh international voices into the American and British marketplaces. Explore our diverse catalogue by region and take in what the world has to offer.
The Neapolitan Novels
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, £ 12.99A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, £ 12.99The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, £ 12.99In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 464, £ 12.99This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
News
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Elena Ferrante on The New York Times: A Power of Our Own
“Power is a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over”.—Elena Ferrante -
Négar Djavadi at the Beyond Words Festival
We are thrilled to announce that Négar Djavadi is coming to the Institut Français of London on May 16th for the Beyond Words Festival! Book your tickets at www.beyondwordsfest.co.uk -
Karin Brynard's Weeping Waters longlisted for International Dagger Award
Karin Brynard's Weeping Waters is one of 10 international crime novels longlisted for the prestigious International Dagger Award.
Recent reviews
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Extravagant, intelligent fantasy which just gets better. In The Missing of Clairdelune, the delightful Ophelia - a reluctant Jane Eyre to her taciturn fiancé Thorn - continues to assert her independence as she negotiates the dangerous political maze of the Arks— Katherine Langrish, May 20 2019![]()
Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs – deliberately separated in time and place – to convey a message about time, violence...— The Times Literary Supplement, May 14 2019![]()
If I Had Two Lives is a brilliant debut novel in two parts. Abbigail, like the heroine in the book, was brought up in Vietnam until the age of twelve and then moved to the United States. The first half of the book describes life in Vietnam for our nameless heroine (the book is...— TripFiction, May 14 2019![]()
On a sunny yet decidedly chilly spring morning, I meet the illustrious French writer Laurent Gaudé in the legendary Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, long a gathering place for creative titans (think Henry Miller, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein et al). Gaudé arrives at the...— Lit Hub, May 12 2019![]()
Dabos’s follow-up to A Winter’s Promise finds protagonist Ophelia—a mirror-hopper who can divine objects’ histories via touch—still on an interplanetary shard called the Pole. She is awaiting her arranged marriage to Thorn, after which the couple will inherit each other’s...— Publishers Weekly, May 12 2019![]()
Some of you may have noticed that I’m attracted to novels about immigrants. The theme has an entry all to itself in my occasional Five Books I’ve Read series. I’ve lived my life in just one country which is perhaps why I’m so curious about how it might feel to leave your...— A life in books, May 12 2019![]()
”A gripping, deeply moving coming-of-age novel; immensely readable, beautifully written, and highly recommended.”— Kirkus Review, May 12 2019![]()
Agreeably useful reading in any season; as Compagnon quotes from Montaigne’s concluding essay, “Aesop, that great man, saw his master piss as he walked: ‘What then,’ said he, ‘must we drop as we run?’ Let us manage our time; there yet remains a great deal idle and...— Library Journal, May 9 2019
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World Noir
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Maurizio de Giovanni
Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2019, pp. 320, £ 13.99Cold winds, political hijinks, and murder on the streets of Naples -
Alex Beer
The Second Rider
2018, pp. 336, £ 12.99First in historical crime series by “the new star of Austrian crime fiction.”—( Kronen Zeitung) -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The Night of Rome
2018, pp. 320, £ 12.99In the night of Rome, nothing is what it seems -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Chourmo
2018, pp. 256, £ 11.99Book two in the Marseilles trilogy. His cousin's disappearance drags Montale back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Nameless Serenade. Nocturne for Commissario Ricciardi
2018, pp. 416, £ 12.99A long, rainy, deadly Autumn in Naples. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Total Chaos
2018, pp. 256, £ 11.99In Jean-Claude Izzo’s “Mediterranean noir” mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly.