I’ve said it before and now I’m saying it again: Europa Editions consistently makes books that I simply cannot help but pick up and want to read. Case in point is this fellow to the left, A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse, which is Alison Anderson’s most recent translation for Europa after The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

I’ve been sneaking glances at my copy all week, and each time I see it I have the urge to start reading it, despite the fact that I’m knee-deep in four separate books right now and have plenty more in the queue.

That’s how you know a publisher makes awesome covers: when you’re already drowning in a sea of prose, and their books still scream out to you read me!