Popular European Fantasy Books
Find fantasy books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (311)
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
EnglandDescription:
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course and must fight to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
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Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones EN
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Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it. But he's not the only one snooping around. His fellow servant-in-training, Christopher Chant, is charming, confident, and from another world, with a mission of his own -- rescuing his friend, lost in an alternate Stallery Mansion. Can they save the day before Conrad's awful fate catches up with them?
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In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. Coraline is an extraordinary fairy tale/nightmare from the uniquely skewed imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
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Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh EN
WalesDescription:
GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTSFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . .'A shimmering fever-dream of a novel' Telegraph'A dreamy sapphic romp' The Times'Gauzy [and] gripping, a qu[Bokinfo].
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D : (a Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo's parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from her school dinners. Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures
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Dark Woods, Deep Water by Jelena Dunato EN
CroatiaDescription:
n the depths of a remote forest, an enchanted castle preys on unwary travellers. The servants of the Goddess Morana sacrifice to their dark mistress every soul who crosses its threshold. One terrible night, three people who should never have met find themselves trapped there: a spoiled lady escaping an unwanted marriage, an aging warrior-prince on a deadly mission, and a resourceful rogue caught up in a botched heist. As their destinies entwine and the dawn approaches, the solution to the castle's riddle becomes clear: if they want to escape, one of them must die. A dark fantasy tale inspired ... continue
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Das Gespenst von Canterville und andere Märchen by Oscar Wilde DE
IrelandDescription:
"Das Gespenst von Canterville" erzählt die Geschichte der amerikanischen Familie Otis, die in ein englisches Herrenhaus zieht und dort auf das Gespenst Sir Simons trifft. Doch anstatt vor Angst zu erstarren, begegnet die Familie dem Geist mit Pragmatismus und Humor, was Sir Simon an seine Grenzen bringt. Wilde vereint hierin meisterhaft die klassischen Elemente einer Geistergeschichte mit satirischem Witz und Tiefgang. Zusammen mit "Der glückliche Prinz", "Die Nachtigall und die Rose" "Der eigensüchtige Riese" und "Das Sternenkind" versammelt dieser Band eine Auswahl der berühmtesten Märchen u... continue
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Datura by Leena Krohn EN
FinlandDescription:
The narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar.