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Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin
  • Author(s): Alexander Pushkin
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin’s novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men – Onegin the bored...

Eureka Street

Eureka Street
  • Author(s): Robert McLiam Wilson
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various legal but immoral means; and...

Europa

Europa
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Europe, Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From Amazon: Jerry Marlow is on a coach hurtling from Milan to Strasbourg, even though he loathes coaches and everything they stand for:…all the contemporary pieties of getting people together and moving them off in one direction or another...

Europa

Europa
  • Author(s): Charlie Mansfield
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 2006

English verse makes a journey onto the mainland of continental Europe. With exercises for students of English and writing

Europea Halls

Europea Halls
  • Author(s): Alan Shivers
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Europea Halls. Only the select few have made it into these prestigious dorms in the capital of the EU, Brussels. When six best teenage friends get stalked by a serial killer, the campus is on high alert....

Eva Luna

Eva Luna
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Though her 1987 novel Eva Luna is set in an unnamed Latin American country, Allende says it was inspired by her time living in Venezuela, and her friendship with a young artist named Elsa Morales ‘My name is Eva,...

Evaders

Evaders
  • Author(s): E C Scullion
  • Location(s): South America
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A red-hot, action-packed thriller’ Adam Hamdy ‘An adrenaline rush from start to finish, Evaders is in a class of its own and an absolute must for all thriller fans’ A.A.Chaudhuri ‘I KNOW THINGS… THINGS I SHOULDN’T KNOW’ A crime...

Eve out of Her Ruins

Eve out of Her Ruins
  • Author(s): Ananda Devi
  • Location(s): Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

TRANSLATED BY JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country’s endless cycle of fear and violence: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of...

Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing

Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing
  • Author(s): Mykel Board
  • Location(s): Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Presents a trip into the depths of Outer Mongolia. This book recounts the author’s year teaching English at the National University in Ulaanbaatar. It features his twisting journey through Mongolian drinking, heavy metal, wrestling and problematic plumbing as he...

Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran

Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
  • Author(s): Afschineh Latifi
  • Location(s): Iran, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

At the age of ten, a young Iranian girl witnesses the horror of her father’s execution and escapes the revolution with her sister. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed...

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