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16 independent UK publishers have come together to promote a selection of novels from EU countries intended to let the reader know the literature, history and culture of each country better and all translated into English.

Together, the novels provide a cultural case for Europe. The list of 49 novels was described as "like a chocolate box of treasures waiting to be discovered" by Alison Flood in The Guardian.

The Reading Europe Tour will take all 49 novels on the road to showcase European literary fiction in a series of speaking events and pop up shops across the UK in June.