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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 307 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman
    The Witches of Vardo - by Anya Bergman

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786581952 | ISBN 10: 1786581957

    They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn.   'Three women's fight for survival in a time of madness' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies   Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    The Wind Knows My Name - by Isabelle Allende

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526660312 | ISBN 10: 1526660318

    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende ... more

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  • Cover image of book Balkan Bombshells: Contemporary Women
    Balkan Bombshells: Contemporary Women's Writing from Serbia and Montenegro - by Will Firth (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781912545841 | ISBN 10: 1912545845

    A collection to whet the appetite of anyone wishing to learn more about a region rich in history, folklore and (her)stories. Telling it like a woman does not mean literature for women only: it provides an insight into half of humanity, a window onto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nothing is Lost by Cloe Mehdi
    Nothing is Lost - by Cloe Mehdi

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787704350 | ISBN 10: 1787704351

    In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Saïd, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.   Mattia is just eleven years old, and witnesses the hatred and sadness felt by those around him. While he d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi
    The Sharing Economy - by Sophie Berrebi

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398515567 | ISBN 10: 1398515566

    Three Women meets Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam.  ‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why not give the other sexual freedom, as a ges ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde
    The Last Wild Horses - by Maja Lunde

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781471175688 | ISBN 10: 1471175685

    The sensational new novel from the author of The History of Bees.   Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and the most successful Norwegian author of her generation, Maja Lunde returns with a heart-wrenchi ... more

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  • Cover image of book What You Need From The Night by Laurent Petitmangin
    What You Need From The Night - by Laurent Petitmangin

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529063509 | ISBN 10: 1529063507

    'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read for some time' Daily Telegraph   'Affecting and haunting' Observer   After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone. His bond with Fus, the eldest, and Gillou, the youngest, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
    Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - by Andrey Kurkov

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529427820 | ISBN 10: 1529427827

    Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023  "Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times"   Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European   "A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian   A love lett ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
    Black Butterflies - by Priscilla Morris

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780715654613 | ISBN 10: 0715654616

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2023  ‘A moving, compelling, deeply human novel about love, hope and resilience in a city under siege. Everyone should read it’ Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters  Sarajevo, spring ... more

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  • Cover image of book Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy
    Iron Curtain: A Love Story - by Vesna Goldsworthy

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529115291 | ISBN 10: 1529115299

    'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The Times   This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...  The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable for Milena, a Red Princess trapped in a lifetime ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
    The Half Life of Valery K - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781408885154 | ISBN 10: 1408885158

    The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month   The truth must come out.  In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Medusa by Jessie Burton
    Medusa - by Jessie Burton

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x

    'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra   If I told you tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Tom de Freston
    Leila and the Blue Fox - by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Tom de Freston

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781510110274 | ISBN 10: 1510110275

    'A captivating tale that glistens with wonder. Leila and Fox will always have a home in my heart’ Sophie Anderson  ‘This is an extraordinary book – wild and beautiful and perfect. The mess and tangle of humanity is so brilliantly contrasted w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Seamstress Of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno
    The Seamstress Of Sardinia - by Bianca Pitzorno

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781922330536 | ISBN 10: 1922330531

    The irresistible story of a young woman seeking freedom and happiness.   Born into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families. Her work is simple and honest; taught by her nonna, she skilfully prepares nig ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Censor
    The Censor's Notebook - by Liliana Corobca, translated by Monica Cure

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838415938 | ISBN 10: 1838415939

    A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship.  The Censor’s Notebook opens with an exchange of letters between “Liliana Corobca” and Emilia Codrescu, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola
    The Clockwork Girl - by Anna Mazzola

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398703803 | ISBN 10: 139870380x

    ‘Historical fiction with a fantastical twist, done with verve and skill’ IAN RANKIN ‘An atmospheric and constantly surprising thriller’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Kept me guessing until the end. An absolute masterpiece’ JENNIFER SAINT ‘A deliciou ... more

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  • Cover image of book A German Christmas: Festive Tales From Berlin to Bavaria by Vintage Publishing
    A German Christmas: Festive Tales From Berlin to Bavaria - by Vintage Publishing

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784878221 | ISBN 10: 1784878227

    From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditions  Eine fröhliche Weihnachten -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Half-Life of Snails by Philippa Holloway
    The Half-Life of Snails - by Philippa Holloway

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595523 | ISBN 10: 1914595521

    A note from Parthian Books: "This novel is partly set in Ukraine circa 2014. The writer travelled to Ukraine and was made very welcome by lots of people in the course of her research work. We are supporting the Red Cross Appeal for Ukraine by donatin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
    Daughters of Sparta - by Claire Heywood

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529333695 | ISBN 10: 1529333695

    ‘Required reading for fans of Circe... a remarkable, thrilling debut‘ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.   For millennia, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
    Lucky Breaks - by Yevgenia Belorusets

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782278726 | ISBN 10: 1782278729

    In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist su ... more

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  • Cover image of book Farewell Fountain Street by Selcuk Altun
    Farewell Fountain Street - by Selcuk Altun

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781846592164 | ISBN 10: 184659216x

    Translated by Nilgün Dungan and Mel Kenne  Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherish ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living Pictures by Polina Barskova
    Living Pictures - by Polina Barskova

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782277606 | ISBN 10: 1782277609

    Growing up in Leningrad, Polina Barskova saw no trace of the estimated million people who died in the city during the Nazi blockade of 1941-44. As one of Russia’s most admired and controversial contemporary writers, she has repeatedly returned to t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flower Factory by Richard Foster
    Flower Factory - by Richard Foster

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838388713 | ISBN 10: 1838388710

    Freedom of Movement wasn’t always an alien concept to the British. Flower Factory tells of an English seasonal worker going to live and work in the Netherlands at the turn of the millennium. These psyched-out remembrances are set in the Bollenstree ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Perilous Dishes by Doina Rusti
    The Book of Perilous Dishes - by Doina Rusti

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911107446 | ISBN 10: 1911107445

    1798: A magical, dark adventure.   Fourteen-year-old Pâtca, initiated in the occult arts, comes to Bucharest, to her uncle, Cuviosu Zăval, to retrieve the Book of Perilous Dishes.   The recipes in this magical book can bring about d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palace Of Flies by Walter Kappacher
    Palace Of Flies - by Walter Kappacher

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781954404021 | ISBN 10: 1954404026

    This absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns to a summer resort outside of Salzburg that he visited as a child.  But in the spa town where he once thrilled to the joys of y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Still Life by Sarah Winman
    Still Life - by Sarah Winman

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008283391 | ISBN 10: 0008283397

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD  ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton  ‘Utterly beautiful... filled ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wonders by Elena Medel
    The Wonders - by Elena Medel

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782276586 | ISBN 10: 1782276580

    "A poet’s novel, delicate but strong"(Hilary Mantel) María and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. María, scraping together a living as a cleaner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl: A Novel by Camille Laurens
    Girl: A Novel - by Camille Laurens

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635421019 | ISBN 10: 1635421012

    From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.  Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
    Remote Sympathy - by Catherine Chidgey

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787703711 | ISBN 10: 1787703711

    Longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award  An exquisitely readable, polyphonic novel of domestic drama and human connection set in and around a concentration camp in Germany during the second w ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
    We Want Everything - by Nanni Balestrini

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784783693 | ISBN 10: 1784783692

    The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969.  It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Easy Reading by Cristina Morales
    Easy Reading - by Cristina Morales

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787332676 | ISBN 10: 1787332675

    An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales.  Angela, Patricia, Marga and Nati are cousins living together in Barcelona. As women branded as disabled who shar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Land Of Short Sentences by Stine Pilgaard
    The Land Of Short Sentences - by Stine Pilgaard

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912987306 | ISBN 10: 1912987309

    Winner of the Scandinavian American Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize for 2021  Where small talk is a big deal.  A young woman relocates to an outlying community in West Jutland, Denmark, and is forced to find h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller
    Galatea: A Short Story - by Madeline Miller

    £6.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526652065 | ISBN 10: 1526652064

    From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.  **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**  In ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
    When I Sing, Mountains Dance - by Irene Sola

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787142 | ISBN 10: 1783787147

    When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war. But t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
    Ariadne - by Jennifer Saint

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472273901 | ISBN 10: 1472273907

    A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.  As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
    Grey Bees - by Andrey Kurkov

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857059352 | ISBN 10: 0857059351

    Ukraine’s most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. From the author of the bestselling Death and the Penguin.   Little Starhorodivka, a village of three street ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner
    The Light of the Midnight Stars - by Rena Rossner

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780356511498 | ISBN 10: 0356511499

    Experience an evocative combination of fantasy, history, and Jewish folklore in this lush and lyrical fairytale-inspired novel from the author of The Sisters of the Winter Wood.  Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon l ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
    My Brilliant Friend - by Elena Ferrante

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787702226 | ISBN 10: 1787702227

    OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE  OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK  14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE  NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES  GUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY  58 WEEKS ON THE BOOKSELLER'S TOP 20 ORIGINAL FICTIO ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction by Becca Parkinson & Vera Juliusdottir (Editors)
    The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction - by Becca Parkinson & Vera Juliusdottir (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910974032 | ISBN 10: 191097403x

    Featuring Friðgeir Einarsson, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Björn Halldórsson, Fríða Ísberg, Auður Jónsdóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Andri Snær Magnason & Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson  Re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Exile and the Mapmaker by Emma Musty
    The Exile and the Mapmaker - by Emma Musty

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800319431 | ISBN 10: 1800319436

    Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once loved before Alzheimer’s takes his memories of her.   Elise, his estranged daughter, moves in to take care of him. She still blames him for the tragic los ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
    The Lying Life of Adults - by Elena Ferrante

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787703124 | ISBN 10: 1787703126

    A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend.  Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Registrar
    The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages - by Sophie Hardach

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838939236 | ISBN 10: 1838939237

    The compelling and original debut novel from the Costa Prize-shortlisted author of Confession with Blue Horses.   Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
    All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD   All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olga by Bernhard Schlink
    Olga - by Bernhard Schlink

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474611152 | ISBN 10: 147461115x

    THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
    Tyll - by Daniel Kehlmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529403671 | ISBN 10: 1529403677

    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020  He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
    Good Citizens Need Not Fear - by Maria Reva

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349012681 | ISBN 10: 0349012687

    This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a major new talent. A cast of unforgettable characters--citizens of the small industrial town of ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Don
    I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me - by Juan Pablo Villalobos

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911508489 | ISBN 10: 1911508482

    Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize  The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona.  ‘I don’t expect anyone to believe me,’ warns the narrator of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
    The Discomfort of Evening - by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571349371 | ISBN 10: 0571349374

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020   I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'   Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her sk ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dancer by Colum McCann
    Dancer - by Colum McCann

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526617361 | ISBN 10: 1526617366

    This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
    Katalin Street - by Magda Szabo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857058478 | ISBN 10: 0857058479

    BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019   In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
    A Thousand Ships - by Natalie Haynes

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509836215 | ISBN 10: 1509836217

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019'   In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories by Golnoosh Nour
    The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories - by Golnoosh Nour

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916129283 | ISBN 10: 1916129285

    Set mostly in Iran, but making forays to London, Germany, and the transit area of a Ukrainian airport, the stories are brilliantly deft in summoning up the dilemmas of their protagonists, be they characters who are kicking against the confines of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
    Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank - by David Gillham

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241367667 | ISBN 10: 0241367662

    A breathtaking new novel that asks the question: what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust?   In 1945, aged sixteen, Anne Frank walks out of the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and into a new life as a survivor of the Holocaust. Ret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Jonathan Reeder
    Two Blankets, Three Sheets - by Jonathan Reeder

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912987023 | ISBN 10: 1912987023

    A humorous account of a nine-year wait.  Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Hussein’s army, he has ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Of The Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
    The Sisters Of The Winter Wood - by Rena Rossner

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780356511450 | ISBN 10: 0356511456

    Every family has a secret... and every secret tells a story.  In a remote village surrounded by forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami’s babka and the low rumb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden
    Zuleikha - by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076847 | ISBN 10: 1786076845

    WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD   A sweeping, multi-award winning novel set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as gangs of marauding soldiers terrorise and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781913097257 | ISBN 10: 1913097250

    With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.   In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts t ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - by Elif Shafak

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241293867 | ISBN 10: 0241293863

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019   'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...'   For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre
    The Godmother - by Hannelore Cayre

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910400968 | ISBN 10: 1910400963

    WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE   Meet Patience Portefeux - 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen... and soon to become The Godmother.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
    The Silence of the Girls - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983201 | ISBN 10: 0241983207

    "A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women."(Kate Atkinson) There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.  Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig
    One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century - by Roland Schimmelpfennig

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857056979 | ISBN 10: 0857056972

    One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge.   On an icy m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amsterdam Noir by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)
    Amsterdam Noir - by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781617756146 | ISBN 10: 1617756148

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.  Brand-new st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Horseman
    Horseman's Song - by Ben Pastor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912242115 | ISBN 10: 1912242117

    The sixth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series.   Spain, July 1937. The tragic prelude to World War II is played out in the Spanish Civil War. Among Franco’s troops is Martin Bora, the young German officer and detective, assigned to the Sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    Bottled Goods - by Sophie van Llewyn

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912054305 | ISBN 10: 1912054302

    Longlisted for The People’s Book Prize.   Alina’s life was on the right track, until the secret service knocked on her door.   When Alina’s brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz - by Heather Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679

    Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Impostor by Javier Cercas
    The Impostor - by Javier Cercas

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857056528 | ISBN 10: 0857056522

    Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.   But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man wit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
    The Good Doctor of Warsaw - by Elisabeth Gifford

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786492487 | ISBN 10: 1786492482

    ‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’   Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
    Go, Went, Gone - by Jenny Erpenbeck

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846276224 | ISBN 10: 1846276225

    Translated by Susan Bernofsky.  One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue.  Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
    The Red-Haired Woman - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571330317 | ISBN 10: 0571330312

    From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.   On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
    Death in Spring - by Mercè Rodoreda

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241352540 | ISBN 10: 0241352541

    Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. ... more

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  • Cover image of book House of Names by Colm Tóibín
    House of Names - by Colm Tóibín

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241257692 | ISBN 10: 0241257697

    'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'   On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agam ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
    The Forty Days of Musa Dagh - by Franz Werfel

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241332863 | ISBN 10: 0241332869

    'Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break'   It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But things are becoming increasingly dangerous f ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
    To Die in Spring - by Ralf Rothmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509812868 | ISBN 10: 1509812865

    "[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership."(Guardian) Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greek Wall by Nicolas Verdan
    The Greek Wall - by Nicolas Verdan

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908524850 | ISBN 10: 1908524855

    A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey.  The novel is based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration flooding int ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
    My Cat Yugoslavia - by Pajtim Statovci

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782273608 | ISBN 10: 1782273603

    Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family.   Decades later Emi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
    The Patriots - by Sana Krasikov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783781829 | ISBN 10: 1783781823

    Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prague Noir by Pavel Mandys (Editor)
    Prague Noir - by Pavel Mandys (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781617755293 | ISBN 10: 161775529x

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. The noir quotient ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lime Tree by César Aira
    The Lime Tree - by César Aira

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911508120 | ISBN 10: 1911508121

    Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator – who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by César Aira – suddenly recalls the Sunday mornin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
    The End of Eddy - by Edouard Louis

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099598466 | ISBN 10: 0099598469

    ‘Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner
    The Red Dancer - by Richard Skinner

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571333233 | ISBN 10: 0571333230

    A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.   When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts ad ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction by Becca Parkinson & Gvantsa Jobava (Editors)
    The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction - by Becca Parkinson & Gvantsa Jobava (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910974315 | ISBN 10: 1910974315

    Featuring Ina Archuashvili, Gela Chkvanava, Erekle Deisadze, Shota Iatashvili, Dato Kardava, Lado Kilasonia, Zviad Kvaratskhelia, Bacho Kvirtia, Iva Pezuashvili & Rusudan Rukhadze   A rookie reporter, searching for his first big story, re-open ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best European Fiction 2018 by Alex Andriesse (Editor)
    Best European Fiction 2018 - by Alex Andriesse (Editor)

    £13.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781943150366 | ISBN 10: 1943150362

    Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the ninth installment of the series, the anthology continues ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
    Call Me By Your Name - by Andre Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786495259 | ISBN 10: 1786495252

    Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar Nominee James Ivory.  Nominated for Four Oscars  A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Lo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snare by Lilja Sigurdardottir
    Snare - by Lilja Sigurdardottir

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910633809 | ISBN 10: 1910633801

    After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eye of the Reindeer by Eva Weaver
    The Eye of the Reindeer - by Eva Weaver

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780222929 | ISBN 10: 1780222920

    The Alchemist meets The Snow Child in this beautiful odyssey through the snowy landscapes of northern Finland.   Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Ritva is sent away to Seili, an island to the south of Finland. A former leper colony, Seili ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
    The Bear and The Nightingale - by Katherine Arden

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785031052 | ISBN 10: 1785031058

    ** Voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017 **   'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'   In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
    Memoirs of a Polar Bear - by Yoko Tawada

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846276323 | ISBN 10: 1846276322

    Three bears.  The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia.  The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus.   The third, Knut, a baby bear born and raised in Berl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
    Three Daughters of Eve - by Elif Shafak

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241978887 | ISBN 10: 0241978882

    On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party - a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood, ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to be a Kosovan Bride by Naomi Hamill
    How to be a Kosovan Bride - by Naomi Hamill

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784630959 | ISBN 10: 1784630950

    How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories of one of the newest countries in the world. It weaves together Albanian folktale, stories of Kosovan experience of the war in 1999 and a look i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden
    Nightmare in Berlin - by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344506 | ISBN 10: 1911344501

    Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.   Late April, 1945. The war is over yet Dr Doll, a loner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Low Voices by Manuel Rivas
    The Low Voices - by Manuel Rivas

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099597438 | ISBN 10: 0099597438

    Manuel is growing up in Franco's Spain. He adores his elder sister, María, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, and their father, a construction worker with vertigo. Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jews Queers Germans by Martin Duberman
    Jews Queers Germans - by Martin Duberman

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609807382 | ISBN 10: 1609807383

    A historical novel about Kaiser Wilhelm’s closest circle of friends — all of them gay — at the dawn of the 20th century by the author of Stonewall.   A breathtaking historical novel by Martin Duberman that recreates the intimate milieu arou ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
    The Unseen - by Roy Jacobsen

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781848666108 | ISBN 10: 1848666101

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017  A group of children inherit an elemental paradise on earth in Roy Jacobsen's phenomenally bestselling new novel about love, poverty and tragedy in early twentieth century Norway.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov
    The Bickford Fuse - by Andrey Kurkov

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781848666061 | ISBN 10: 1848666063

    A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin.  Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era.  The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares
    Wolf Moon - by Julio Llamazares

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780720619454 | ISBN 10: 0720619459

    Defeated by the Nationalists, four Republican fugitives flee into the Cantabrian mountains at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They are on the run, skirmishing with the Guardia Civil, knowing that surrender means death. Wounded and hungry they are f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orsinia by Ursula Le Guin
    Orsinia - by Ursula Le Guin

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473212060 | ISBN 10: 1473212065

    All of the stories set in award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin's fictional European nation of Orsinia, gathered together for the first time.   Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death of the Perfect Sentence by Rein Raud, translated by Matthew Hyde
    The Death of the Perfect Sentence - by Rein Raud, translated by Matthew Hyde

    £11.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908251701 | ISBN 10: 1908251700

    This thoughtful spy novel cum love story is set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. A group of young pro-independence dissidents devise an elaborate scheme for smuggling copies of KGB f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
    The Life of Elves - by Muriel Barbery

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910477335 | ISBN 10: 1910477338

    The highly anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.  The villagers had never seen anything like it: dense white curtains of snow that instantly transformed the landscape. Not in autumn, not here in Burg ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
    Cry Mother Spain - by Lydie Salvayre

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857054524 | ISBN 10: 085705452x

    A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl.  Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
    Hot Milk - by Deborah Levy

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241968031 | ISBN 10: 0241968038

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016   Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home.   Two women arrive in a village on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That Man Is by David Szalay
    All That Man Is - by David Szalay

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099593690 | ISBN 10: 0099593696

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Winner of the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize   Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devotion by Louisa Young
    Devotion - by Louisa Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007532902 | ISBN 10: 0007532903

    From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes’ Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Senility of Vladimir P by Michael Honig
    The Senility of Vladimir P - by Michael Honig

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782398097 | ISBN 10: 1782398090

    As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals.   Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
    The Vanishing Futurist - by Charlotte Hobson

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571234875 | ISBN 10: 0571234879

    When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller
    The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - by Herta Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846274770 | ISBN 10: 184627477x

    Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
    Little Man, What Now? - by Hans Fallada

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911545033 | ISBN 10: 1911545035

    Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a devent life amidst an economic crisis that’s transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. It was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
    The Gustav Sonata - by Rose Tremain

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784700201 | ISBN 10: 1784700207

    ***Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award***   ** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **   What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switze ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller
    My Own Dear Brother - by Holly Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866795 | ISBN 10: 140886679x

    It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enl ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Month of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck
    In the Month of the Midnight Sun - by Cecilia Ekbäck

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444789973 | ISBN 10: 144478997x

    From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fear of Mirrors by Tariq Ali
    Fear of Mirrors - by Tariq Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786939 | ISBN 10: 1784786934

    The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.  With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Istanbul, Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez
    Istanbul, Istanbul - by Burhan Sönmez

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592058 | ISBN 10: 1846592054

    Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.  Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners – Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber and Uncle Küheylan – sit, awaiting their turn at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Falling Detective by Christoffer Carlsson
    The Falling Detective - by Christoffer Carlsson

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228397 | ISBN 10: 1925228398

    The second instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series.   Leo Junker is back in the snake pit — aka the homicide unit — after a murder case where he was the intended victim. Still abusing prescription drugs and battling ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
    The History of a Town - by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784975425 | ISBN 10: 1784975427

    The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book War by Janne Teller
    War - by Janne Teller

    £9.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471161476 | ISBN 10: 1471161471

    Endorsed by Amnesty International.  Imagine if war broke out – not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, Janne Teller embarks on a thought-provoking experiment: by simply turning the current cris ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)
    1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution - by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272144 | ISBN 10: 1782272143

    'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'  The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl in the Spider
    The Girl in the Spider's Web - by David Lagercrantz

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857055323 | ISBN 10: 0857055321

    THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER   Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.   Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099549246 | ISBN 10: 0099549247

    A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December.   The Sunday Times bestseller   On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks – an English doctor who has seen the best and ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
    All the Light We Cannot See - by Anthony Doerr

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008138301 | ISBN 10: 0008138303

    WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION   A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths colli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brussels Noir by Michel Dufranne (Editor)
    Brussels Noir - by Michel Dufranne (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753985 | ISBN 10: 161775398x

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.   With Brussels Noir, the Noir Series ... more

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  • Cover image of book The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
    The High Mountains of Portugal - by Yann Martel

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782114741 | ISBN 10: 1782114742

    Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee.   The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi.   In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom�s discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    Thirteen Ways of Looking - by Colum McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869857 | ISBN 10: 1408869853

    As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.   It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Up ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old by Hendrik Groen
    The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old - by Hendrik Groen

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780718183004 | ISBN 10: 0718183002

    ** THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON **  'Another year and I still don't like old people. Me? I am 83 years old.'   Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily stroll ... more

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  • Cover image of book Submission by Michel Houellebecq
    Submission - by Michel Houellebecq

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784702052 | ISBN 10: 1784702056

    As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political lef ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alberto
    Alberto's Lost Birthday - by Diana Rosie

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447293033 | ISBN 10: 1447293037

    A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man's missing birthday in Diana Rosie's debut novel, Alberto's Lost Birthday.   Alberto is an old man. But he doesn't know how old - he remembers nothing before his arrival at ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Body in Barcelona by Jason Webster
    A Body in Barcelona - by Jason Webster

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099598268 | ISBN 10: 0099598264

    Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved to break awa ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
    A Strangeness in My Mind - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571275991 | ISBN 10: 0571275990

    At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his cousin, she agrees to elope with him, and on a dark night the two come together for the first time. As they rush to catc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Numero Zero by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon
    Numero Zero - by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701826 | ISBN 10: 1784701823

    The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duces death remain shrouded in confusio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
    The Japanese Lover - by Isabel Allende

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471152191 | ISBN 10: 1471152197

    From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptas, translated by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
    Reckless - by Hasan Ali Toptas, translated by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408850909 | ISBN 10: 1408850907

    Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Turkey's great sprawling cities to seek a serene existence in a village of which he has long heard dreamlike tales. Having endured two years of gruelling m ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
    What Belongs to You - by Garth Greenwell

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447280514 | ISBN 10: 1447280512

    On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko ag ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All by Jonas Jonasson
    Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All - by Jonas Jonasson

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008152079 | ISBN 10: 0008152071

    ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN.   Its always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, its particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman curren ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stockholm Noir by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg (Editors)
    Stockholm Noir - by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617752971 | ISBN 10: 1617752975

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Case of Lisandra P. by Helene Gremillon, translated by Alison Anderson
    The Case of Lisandra P. - by Helene Gremillon, translated by Alison Anderson

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780143126584 | ISBN 10: 014312658x

    A gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and The Silent Wife about a wifes secrets, a husband accused of murder, and a marriage gone terribly wrong. Buenos Aires, 1987. When a beautiful young woman named Lisandra is f ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolao
    A Little Lumpen Novelita - by Roberto Bolao

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447292913 | ISBN 10: 144729291x

    'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita.   Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Will Happen, You
    Something Will Happen, You'll See A Tale of Polygamy - by Christos Ikonomou, translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780914671350 | ISBN 10: 0914671359

    Something Will Happen, Youll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomous luminous and poignant short stories center around laid- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Party Headquarters by Georgi Tenev, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
    Party Headquarters - by Georgi Tenev, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781940953267 | ISBN 10: 194095326x

    Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the 80s and 90s, during Bulgarias transition from communist rule to democracy. The book which is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a poli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl at War by Sara Novic
    Girl at War - by Sara Novic

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349140988 | ISBN 10: 0349140987

    Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016   Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the str ... more

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  • Cover image of book La Place de l
    La Place de l'Etoile - by Patrick Modiano

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867952 | ISBN 10: 1408867958

    Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.   We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphal Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner, translated by Michael Hofmann
    Blood Brothers - by Ernst Haffner, translated by Michael Hofmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099594048 | ISBN 10: 0099594048

    Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World War.   Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the ill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neuland by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston
    Neuland - by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099578550 | ISBN 10: 0099578557

    Doris father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel.  Inbar is escaping f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780091936853 | ISBN 10: 0091936853

    On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.  His host, and antagonist, is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zagreb Noir by Ivan Sren (Editor)
    Zagreb Noir - by Ivan Sren (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753084 | ISBN 10: 1617753084

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.  Featuring brand-new stories translated ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin by Oleg Kashin
    Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin - by Oleg Kashin

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781632060396 | ISBN 10: 1632060396

    When a scientist experimenting on a humans in a sanatorium near Moscow gives growth serum to a dwarf oil mogul, the newly heightened businessman runs off with the experimenters wife, and a series of mysterious deaths and crimes begins. Fantastical a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whispering City by Sara Moliner
    The Whispering City - by Sara Moliner

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349139951 | ISBN 10: 0349139954

    An intricate, atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery in the vein of Carlos Ruiz Zafn's novels, in the 1950s Barcelona of The Whispering City violence and rumour are rife, and every secret can be lethal.  Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Transla ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
    The Little Paris Bookshop - by Nina George

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349140377 | ISBN 10: 0349140375

    The international bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop is a delightful, bittersweet tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love and friendship.   On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
    The Book of Aron - by Jim Shepard

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784290320 | ISBN 10: 1784290327

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD** 'Powerful . . . shattering . . . a masterpiece' The Times 'Testament of love and sacrifice . . . a masterpiece' Joshua Ferris, Guardian 'Transcendent and timeless . . . masterpiece' Washington Post Aron ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
    A Whole Life - by Robert Seethaler

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447283904 | ISBN 10: 1447283902

    The 170,000-copy German bestseller Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her han ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl in the Spider
    The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series - by David Lagercrantz

    £19.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857059994 | ISBN 10: 0857059998

    THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER   Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.   Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones
    Sworn Virgin - by Elvira Dones

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908276681 | ISBN 10: 1908276681

    "Elvira Dones is among the best of Albanias writers and her publication in English is excellent news."(Ismail Kadare) Hana Doda is an ambitious literature student in cosmopolitan Tirana. Mark Doda is a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd, livin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arab Jazz by Karim Misk
    Arab Jazz - by Karim Misk

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848664395 | ISBN 10: 1848664397

    A ritualistic murder threatens to destabilise the turbulent multicultural melting pot of suburban Paris.   Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where multicultural ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fires of Autumn by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
    The Fires of Autumn - by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099520368 | ISBN 10: 0099520362

    The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Franaise: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war.  The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irne Nmirovskys life, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
    Pedigree - by Patrick Modiano

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857054913 | ISBN 10: 0857054910

    "It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"   Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
    The Story of the Lost Child - by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609452865 | ISBN 10: 1609452860

    Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimed The Guardian newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. The first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was a New York Times bestseller. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
    The Age of Magic - by Ben Okri

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784081485 | ISBN 10: 1784081485

    'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the tower ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
    Twilight of the Eastern Gods - by Ismail Kadare

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857866196 | ISBN 10: 0857866192

    1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
    The Praise Singer - by Mary Renault

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781844089604 | ISBN 10: 1844089606

    In a masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Mary Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skylight by Jose Saramago
    Skylight - by Jose Saramago

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099581826 | ISBN 10: 0099581825

    In 1953, Jos Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers. Thirty-six years later, he heard back.  Called the book lost and found in time by its author, Skylight is one of Saramagos earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
    The Emperor Waltz - by Philip Hensher

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007459599 | ISBN 10: 0007459599

    The Emperor Waltz is a single novel with three narrative strands: fourth-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Calligraphy of Dreams by Juan Mars
    The Calligraphy of Dreams - by Juan Mars

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782064886 | ISBN 10: 1782064885

    Young minds meet adult passions in a Spanish counterpart to L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between - by the winner of the Cervantes Prize  When Seora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg, translated by Sen Kinsella
    See You Tomorrow - by Tore Renberg, translated by Sen Kinsella

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910050583 | ISBN 10: 191005058x

    Pl has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to repay on his modest civil servant salary. He desperately doesn't want anybody to find out especially not his teenage daughters or his ex-wife. It's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour by Elif Shafak
    Honour - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972946 | ISBN 10: 0241972949

    From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Architect
    The Architect's Apprentice - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970942 | ISBN 10: 0241970946

    When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark.   As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco
    Tiger Milk - by Stefanie de Velasco

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781857458 | ISBN 10: 1781857458

    'We need to practise for later on, for real life. We need to know everything so nobody can ever mess with us.'   Nini and Jameelah are best friends forever. This summer they're going to grow up. Together. On their terms. But things don't alway ... more

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  • Cover image of book Munich Airport by Greg Baxter
    Munich Airport - by Greg Baxter

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241969984 | ISBN 10: 0241969980

    An American expat in London takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman, and the news she has to convey to him is almost incomprehensible: his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation.   Three weeks late ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
    The Flea Palace - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241201909 | ISBN 10: 024120190x

    Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.   By tur ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
    All That Is Solid Melts Into Air - by Darragh McKeon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964675 | ISBN 10: 0241964679

    Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book Look Who
    Look Who's Back - by Timur Vermes, translated by Jamie Bulloch

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782067832 | ISBN 10: 1782067833

    Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.   Peop ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville
    Gretel and the Dark - by Eliza Granville

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241146460 | ISBN 10: 0241146461

    Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope. For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to enco ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
    The Spring of Kasper Meier - by Ben Fergusson

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349139760 | ISBN 10: 0349139768

    Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.   The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of Our Power by Victor Serge
    Birth of Our Power - by Victor Serge

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630304 | ISBN 10: 1629630306

    Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 19171919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum
    The Human Flies - by Hans Olav Lahlum

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447232766 | ISBN 10: 1447232763

    The first mystery in the hugely compelling, bestselling international crime series from Norway's answer to Agatha Christie  Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjrn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
    The Miniaturist - by Jessie Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447250937 | ISBN 10: 1447250931

    There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...   On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
    The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! - by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447274902 | ISBN 10: 1447274903

    You're never too old to have some fun...  The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends - the League of Pensioners - have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best European Fiction 2015 by Various authors, with a Preface by Enrique Vila-Matas
    Best European Fiction 2015 - by Various authors, with a Preface by Enrique Vila-Matas

    £11.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781564789679 | ISBN 10: 1564789675

    For the past five years, this anthology has provoked reactions across the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. Best European Fiction brings new names and new work to an international audience, at a time when the United States and B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Helsinki Noir by James Thompson (Editor)
    Helsinki Noir - by James Thompson (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781617752414 | ISBN 10: 161775241x

    Helsinki Noir joins Copenhagen Noir in representing the Akashic Noir Series in the far north of Europe, exposing its frigid and sometimes frightening confines. Brand-new stories by: Leena Lehtolainen, Johanna Holmstrm, James Thompson, Antti Tuom ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
    Under Fire - by Henri Barbusse

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432

    'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
    Blood & Beauty - by Sarah Dunant

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844087457 | ISBN 10: 184408745x

    Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias.  By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone to Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
    Someone to Watch Over Me - by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444734447 | ISBN 10: 144473444x

    Chilling Icelandic crime from the internationally bestselling author of Last Rituals and Ashes to Dust.  A creepy, compelling thriller, Someone to Watch Over Me is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larss ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah
    The Mouseproof Kitchen - by Saira Shah

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575146 | ISBN 10: 0099575140

    A heartbreakingly honest and funny autobiographical novel about family, love and life in rural France  Anna knows that if you want something really badly, you have to plan it. After all, shes a chef. To make a bchamel sauce, you need the righ ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
    The Man Who Loved Dogs - by Leonardo Padura

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908524447 | ISBN 10: 1908524448

    Cuban writer Ivn Crdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him the man who loved dogs. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramn Mercade ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boyhood Island: My Struggle, Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
    Boyhood Island: My Struggle, Book 3 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099581499 | ISBN 10: 0099581493

    Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
    The Undertaking - by Audrey Magee

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053

    Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
    In Times of Fading Light - by Eugen Ruge

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571288588 | ISBN 10: 0571288588

    A sweeping story of one family over fifty years and four generations in East Germany.  In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
    The Hired Man - by Aminatta Forna

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843161 | ISBN 10: 1408843161

    Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, g ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
    The Light and the Dark - by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780871080 | ISBN 10: 1780871082

    Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - by Anthony Marra

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575573 | ISBN 10: 0099575574

    When everything else seems lost, watch out for the unexpected ties that bind us together...  Longlisted for the National Book Award 2013  In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
    The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden - by Jonas Jonasson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007557905 | ISBN 10: 0007557906

    As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, this is a tale of how one womans attempt to change her future ended up changing everything.   Nombeko Mayeki is on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson
    The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig - by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782271079 | ISBN 10: 1782271074

    "I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel and suddenly there were ... more

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  • Cover image of book Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
    Astragal - by Albertine Sarrazin

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846689413 | ISBN 10: 1846689414

    'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.'   At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
    The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules - by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447250616 | ISBN 10: 1447250613

    The International Bestselling Sensation  The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is an incredibly quirky, humorous and warm-hearted story about growing old disgracefully - and breaking all the rules along the way!  79-year-old Martha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell
    The Shadow Girls - by Henning Mankell

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099455486 | ISBN 10: 009945548x

    The inspirational tale of a writer who finds himself caught up in the extraordinary stories of three young immigrant girls in Sweden by the 'Swedish John le Carre', Henning Mankell.  Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Satantango by Lszl Krasznahorkai
    Satantango - by Lszl Krasznahorkai

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848877658 | ISBN 10: 184887765x

    In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irim ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher
    Three Strong Women - by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857051073 | ISBN 10: 0857051075

    Three women who almost had it all...  Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband now all she wants is ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
    A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555162 | ISBN 10: 0099555166

    A searingly honest, addictive and controversial read from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard. "It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind"(Zadie ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
    The Fall of the Stone City - by Ismail Kadare

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857860125 | ISBN 10: 0857860127

    Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastr, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dre ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Bitter Than Death by Camilla Grebe & sa Trff
    More Bitter Than Death - by Camilla Grebe & sa Trff

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857209504 | ISBN 10: 0857209507

    The new beautifully written and utterly compelling psychological crime thriller from number 1 Swedish bestselling sisters.  Sometimes reliving the past revives old demons . . .  In a Stockholm apartment, five-year-old Tilde watches from u ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
    Black Sky, Black Sea - by Izzet Celasin

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906694838 | ISBN 10: 1906694834

    1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making.   Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oaks interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing 2 by David Hewson
    The Killing 2 - by David Hewson

    £18.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447208426 | ISBN 10: 1447208420

    It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case.  Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark.  When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Blood by Sara Blaedel
    Blue Blood - by Sara Blaedel

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780751551211 | ISBN 10: 075155121x

    The UK debut from the million copy Danish No.1 crime bestseller and international smash-hit.  In an idyllic neighbourhood of Copenhagen, a young woman, Susanne Hansson, is discovered in her apartment bound and gagged, the victim of an extraordi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
    Silent House - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275953 | ISBN 10: 0571275958

    In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The Prisoner of Heaven - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780222851 | ISBN 10: 1780222858

    You've read The Shadow of the Wind - now read what happens next ... Includes Reading Group Notes. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sentinel by Mark Oldfield
    The Sentinel - by Mark Oldfield

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908800671 | ISBN 10: 1908800674

    1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco's shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day.   1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco's secret p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
    Beware of Pity - by Stefan Zweig

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908968371 | ISBN 10: 1908968370

    Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked he ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Fine By Me - by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099548386 | ISBN 10: 0099548380

    The brilliant and moving story of a young man's life from the author of the prizewinning Out Stealing Horses. Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    The Song of Achilles - by Madeline Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821985 | ISBN 10: 1408821982

    WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012   Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing by David Hewson
    The Killing - by David Hewson

    £19.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447208419 | ISBN 10: 1447208412

    'Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs ...There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cain by Jose Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
    Cain - by Jose Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099552246 | ISBN 10: 0099552248

    A controversial book in the mode of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and the last novel to be written before the death of the great Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago. Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Lau ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
    The Lighthouse - by Alison Moore

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781907773174 | ISBN 10: 1907773177

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.  The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.   Spending hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The German Boy by Tricia Wastvedt
    The German Boy - by Tricia Wastvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780670919437 | ISBN 10: 0670919438

    In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him.  Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Summertime Death by Mons Kallentoft
    Summertime Death - by Mons Kallentoft

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444721577 | ISBN 10: 1444721577

    As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and paralysed by the heat.   However, when a teenage girl is discove ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jubilate by Michael Arditti
    Jubilate - by Michael Arditti

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908129406 | ISBN 10: 1908129409

    Jubilate is a love story unlike any other.   A woman wakes in a Lourdes hotel room beside her lover of just two days. She has brought her brain-damaged husband on a pilgrimage to seek a miracle cure; her lover is making a TV documentary to ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Einstein
    Einstein's Dreams - by Alan Lightman

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780335575 | ISBN 10: 1780335571

    A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland.  As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia
    Hate: A Romance - by Tristan Garcia

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571251841 | ISBN 10: 0571251846

    Paris in the eighties. Four friends. Three men and one woman. Two affairs that destroy a life.   In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    The Magician of Lublin - by Isaac Bashevis Singer

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141197609 | ISBN 10: 0141197609

    Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
    My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You - by Louisa Young

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007361441 | ISBN 10: 0007361440

    While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
    Satori in Paris - by Jack Kerouac

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141198231 | ISBN 10: 0141198230

    This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
    The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles - by Giorgio Bassani

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141192154 | ISBN 10: 0141192151

    Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Underground Time by Delphine de Vigan
    Underground Time - by Delphine de Vigan

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821749 | ISBN 10: 1408821745

    Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a di ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein
    From the Land of the Moon - by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450014 | ISBN 10: 1609450019

    An young unnamed woman reflects the life of her grandmother, a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century.   In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, the young womans gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pure by Andrew Miller
    Pure - by Andrew Miller

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444724288 | ISBN 10: 1444724282

    A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other he has lived.   Deep in the heart of Paris ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas
    The Anatomy of a Moment - by Javier Cercas

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822104 | ISBN 10: 1408822105

    In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firin ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
    In the Sea There are Crocodiles - by Fabio Geda

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099555452 | ISBN 10: 009955545x

    A bestseller in Italy, a beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boys journey in search of safety. Recommended by PEN One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollahs mother tells him three things: do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
    Two Caravans - by Marina Lewycka

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961841 | ISBN 10: 024196184x

    An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday.  But who picks our strawberries these days? The U ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - by Marina Lewycka

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961827 | ISBN 10: 0241961823

    "Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surfac ... more

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  • Cover image of book The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons
    The English German Girl - by Jake Wallis Simons

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846972089 | ISBN 10: 1846972086

    Fifteen-year-old Rosa Klein slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron
    The Unseen - by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677672 | ISBN 10: 1844677672

    An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion. For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italys cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Au ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev
    I Am a Chechen! - by German Sadulaev

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099532354 | ISBN 10: 0099532352

    The first compelling voice in literary fiction to emerge from the Chechen War.  I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rome Tales by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)
    Rome Tales - by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199572465 | ISBN 10: 0199572461

    In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine  (Editor and translator)
    Paris Metro Tales - by Helen Constantine (Editor and translator)

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199579808 | ISBN 10: 0199579806

    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Budapest Protocol by Adam LeBor
    The Budapest Protocol - by Adam LeBor

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908238191 | ISBN 10: 1908238194

    Nazi-occupied Budapest, winter 1944. Miklos Farkas is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. 65 years later, as the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Farkas is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Appointment by Herta Muller
    The Appointment - by Herta Muller

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846273766 | ISBN 10: 1846273765

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she k ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart of Tango by Elia Barcel, translated by David Frye
    Heart of Tango - by Elia Barcel, translated by David Frye

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849164078 | ISBN 10: 184916407x

    Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stillness of the Sea by Nicol Ljubic
    Stillness of the Sea - by Nicol Ljubic

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251015 | ISBN 10: 1908251018

    The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrators unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suff ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accident by Ismail Kadare
    The Accident - by Ismail Kadare

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847673404 | ISBN 10: 1847673406

    Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna? Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat? How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
    Hotel Bosphorus - by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738688 | ISBN 10: 1904738680

    Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbuls only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Purge by Sofi Oksanen
    Purge - by Sofi Oksanen

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848872134 | ISBN 10: 1848872135

    Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it.   Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.  Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can the Gods Cry? by Allan Cameron
    Can the Gods Cry? - by Allan Cameron

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251008 | ISBN 10: 190825100x

    With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
    The Warsaw Anagrams - by Richard Zimler

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849013697 | ISBN 10: 1849013691

    A chilling and stunningly written mystery set in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto.   Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psy ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
    An Unfinished Business - by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809440 | ISBN 10: 1408809443

    A major novel that tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture the Shoah.  Rachel and Malrich are the sons of a German father and an Algerian mother. Born in a small village in the Algerian hinterland, they are sent to Paris to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent
    The Auschwitz Violin - by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849019811 | ISBN 10: 1849019819

    An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brodeck
    Brodeck's Report - by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906694685 | ISBN 10: 1906694680

    From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one ... more

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  • Cover image of book Krakow Melt by Daniel Allen Cox
    Krakow Melt - by Daniel Allen Cox

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781551523729 | ISBN 10: 1551523728

    This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall ... more

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  • Cover image of book No and Me by Delphine de Vigan, translated from the French by George Miller
    No and Me - by Delphine de Vigan, translated from the French by George Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747599647 | ISBN 10: 0747599645

    A tense, brilliant novel of home and homelessness.  Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely spea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Novelists by Various authors
    Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Novelists - by Various authors

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905881239 | ISBN 10: 1905881231

    From Borges to Bolao, the Spanish language has given us some of the most beloved writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. But as the reach of Spanish-language culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and as the US tilts towards a majority ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
    The Museum of Innocence - by Orhan Pamuk

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571237029 | ISBN 10: 0571237029

    It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didnt know it. And so begins the new novel from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name is Red, his first since winning the Nobel Prize. It is a perfect Spring in 1975, Istanbul. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
    Baba Yaga Laid an Egg - by Dubravka Ugresic

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847673060 | ISBN 10: 1847673066

    Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky
    The Cowards - by Josef Skvorecky

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141047676 | ISBN 10: 0141047674

    The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication.  In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
    Old Masters - by Thomas Bernhard

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141192710 | ISBN 10: 0141192712

    Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.   For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
    The Book of Disquiet - by Fernando Pessoa

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846687358 | ISBN 10: 1846687357

    This is a prize-winning international classic, first published in English by Serpent's Tail in 1993.   Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Union Jack by Imre Kertesz
    The Union Jack - by Imre Kertesz

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781933633879 | ISBN 10: 1933633875

    A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.  An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack the British Flag during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People
    The People's Train - by Thomas Keneally

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340951866 | ISBN 10: 0340951869

    After a long, dangerous escape from Tsarist Russia, Artem Samsurov might have reached sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia, but that doesn't stop him trying to create a socialist paradise with his fellow emigres and workmates. And despite getting entangl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Solo by Rana Dasgupta
    Solo - by Rana Dasgupta

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007182152 | ISBN 10: 0007182155

    Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2010. The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled.  Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one-hundred-year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O
    Not Untrue and Not Unkind - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141038063 | ISBN 10: 0141038063

    In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
    The Island at the End of the World - by Sam Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571240524 | ISBN 10: 0571240526

    Through the eyes of eight-year-old Finn we find ourselves on a small island, surrounded by nothing but sea. Finn lives here with his Pa, his elder sister Alice and his younger sister Daisy, and has no memory of any world but this one. All he knows of ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
    How Many Miles to Babylon? - by Jennifer Johnston

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046969 | ISBN 10: 0141046961

    Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. Wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peace by Richard Bausch
    Peace - by Richard Bausch

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848870857 | ISBN 10: 184887085x

    Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of World War II. Haunted by the col ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
    The Glass Room - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121321 | ISBN 10: 034912132x

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechos ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Black Sisters
    On Black Sisters's Street - by Chika Unigwe

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099523949 | ISBN 10: 0099523949

    Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, ...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'. At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat four very different women have made their way from Afri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angel
    The Angel's Game - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826492 | ISBN 10: 0753826496

    In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his night ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sappho
    Sappho's Leap - by Erica Jong

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906413668 | ISBN 10: 1906413665

    Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known.   At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book To the Wedding by John Berger
    To the Wedding - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599395 | ISBN 10: 0747599394

    A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years old - and she is dying of AIDS.   As their wed ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Crowd by Laurent Mauvignier
    In the Crowd - by Laurent Mauvignier

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571236374 | ISBN 10: 0571236375

    May 1985, Jeff and Tonino, two Parisian football fans with serious drinking habits, are on their way to the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels.  So too are Tana and Francesco, newlyweds fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante
    See How Much I Love You - by Luis Leante

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780714531540 | ISBN 10: 0714531545

    When Montse and Santiago meet as teenagers in 70s Barcelona they have little idea where their summer romance will lead. After they break up, in spite of Montse's pregnancy, Santiago decides to spend his military service as far away from her as p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Class by Francois Begaudeau
    The Class - by Francois Begaudeau

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583228852 | ISBN 10: 1583228853

    Winner of the Prix France Culture/Tlrama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596592 | ISBN 10: 074759659x

    The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.  Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.  Beginning in America, and spilling back over m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry
    The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Barberry

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906040185 | ISBN 10: 1906040184

    "Resistance is futile...You might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group. It's charm will make you say yes."(The Guardian) Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams from the Endz by Faiza Guene
    Dreams from the Endz - by Faiza Guene

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099512929 | ISBN 10: 0099512920

    Dreams from the Endz is the story of twenty-four Ahlme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with.  Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Witch
    The Witch's Trinity - by Erika Mailman

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340962213 | ISBN 10: 0340962216

    Witch. Some words can kill.  Germany, 1507. In a time when famine is rife and panic spreading, people resort to desperate measures in order to survive.  When a visiting friar suggests that witchcraft is to blame for their failing crop ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
    Homecoming - by Bernard Schlink

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823286 | ISBN 10: 0753823284

    When thirteen-year-old Peter discovers an old manuscript in his family home it instantly captivates him. The manuscript tells the compelling story of a German soldier's homecoming after escaping from a POW camp, but the document is incomplete, and Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann
    Child of All Nations - by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141188454 | ISBN 10: 0141188456

    "Nothing short of a revelation... I am still haunted by it."(Evening Standard) Because Kully's father has written the wrong things about his country, and because there might be a war coming (Kully's heard of some of the men involved, like Hitler, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
    The Enchantress of Florence - by Salman Rushdie

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099421924 | ISBN 10: 0099421925

    A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital.   T ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
    A Most Wanted Man - by John Le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340977088 | ISBN 10: 0340977086

    A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an id ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
    Call Me By Your Name - by Andre Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843546535 | ISBN 10: 1843546531

    Set during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, Call Me By Your Name tells the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver. Currents of obsession and fear, fascinati ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    A Tale of Two Cities - by Charles Dickens

    £5.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511854 | ISBN 10: 0099511851

    'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'   Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes beco ... more

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  • Cover image of book People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
    People of the Book - by Geraldine Brooks

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007177424 | ISBN 10: 0007177429

    The new novel from the author of March and Year of Wonders takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
    Olivia - by Dorothy Strachey

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511885 | ISBN 10: 0099511886

    When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straigh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
    Zugzwang - by Ronan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747587293 | ISBN 10: 0747587299

    Zugzwang: Used in chess to describe a deadly position in which a player is obliged to move, but every move only makes his position even worse.   St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Fox by Sjon
    The Blue Fox - by Sjon

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846590375 | ISBN 10: 184659037x

    The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox.  We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
    The Lost Daughter - by Elena Ferrante

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781933372426 | ISBN 10: 1933372427

    Leda is a middle-aged divorce devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada, Leda anticipates a period of loneliness and longing. Instead, slightly embarrassed by t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
    The Ministry of Pain - by Dubravka Ugresic

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846590399 | ISBN 10: 1846590396

    Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the city's red light district. She and her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Langua ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sarah
    Sarah's Key - by Tatiana de Rosay

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719524523 | ISBN 10: 0719524520

    Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
    Absurdistan - by Gary Shteyngart

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080066 | ISBN 10: 1847080065

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
    A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi - by Primo Levi

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141188911 | ISBN 10: 014118891x

    Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction - all i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)
    The Reader - by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753823293 | ISBN 10: 0753823292

    For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
    The Unforgiving Years - by Victor Serge

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781590172476 | ISBN 10: 1590172477

    Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
    The Speed of Light - by Javier Cercas

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585916 | ISBN 10: 0747585911

    An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
    Murder in Montmartre - by Cara Black

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781569474457 | ISBN 10: 1569474451

    The sixth Aimee Leduc Investigation set in Paris by two-time Anthony Award nominee Cara Black.   Trying to save a childhood friend, now a policewoman, from being charged with murder, Aimee crosses the paths of Corsican Separatists, gangsters a ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza
    No Word from Gurb - by Eduardo Mendoza

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846590160 | ISBN 10: 1846590167

    A shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has disappeared in Barcelona, having assumed the form of Madonna, whose image he glimpses on a street poster. His partner, desperate to get him back, goes about trying to find him in a more discreet guise ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stolen Time by Vangelis Hatziyannidis
    Stolen Time - by Vangelis Hatziyannidis

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780714531267 | ISBN 10: 071453126x

    Translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife.  The second novel from the author of Four Walls, again stems from the authors fascination with the way people act when confined or imprisoned in some way.  A young and poverty-stri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Colour of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn
    The Colour of a Dog Running Away - by Richard Gwyn

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781902638720 | ISBN 10: 1902638727

    A contemporary mystery set in the bohemian under-belly of Barecelona. This novel skillfully combines a gothic tale of a 13th century Carthar cult with an urban thriller."The love story, the black humour, the sinister thriller element, the evocation o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tenant and The Motive by Javier Cercas
    The Tenant and The Motive - by Javier Cercas

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578970 | ISBN 10: 0747578974

    The Tenant and The Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis.  The Tenant is the mischievous story of Mario Rota, a linguistics professor whose life starts to unravel after he twists his ankle w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
    Hallucinating Foucault - by Patricia Duncker

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747585152 | ISBN 10: 0747585156

    In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental i ... more

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    '54 - by Wu Ming

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099472339 | ISBN 10: 0099472333

    The year: 1954, the height of the Cold War. The world is divided into East and West. In Naples, Lucky Luciano and his minions are busy fixing horse races, and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade.  In Hollywood, members o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
    The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War - by Jaroslav Hasek

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140449914 | ISBN 10: 0140449914

    Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People
    The People's Act of Love - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841957067 | ISBN 10: 1841957062

    1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Killed Durruti by Pedro de Paz
    The Man Who Killed Durruti - by Pedro de Paz

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781873976265 | ISBN 10: 1873976267

    A former policeman, now a Major in the Spanish Republican Army, is sent to Madrid to investigate the circumstances in which the legendary anarchist was killed. In his search for the truth he interviews the key witnesses and uncovers a number of contr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lizard Tails by Juan Marse
    Lizard Tails - by Juan Marse

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099455172 | ISBN 10: 009945517x

    In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence, Marse paints a picture of family life in a suburb of Barcelona at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War. David's alcoholic father, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Child of an Ancient People by Anour Benmalek
    The Child of an Ancient People - by Anour Benmalek

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099453697 | ISBN 10: 009945369x

    It is 1872. Lislei is a young French woman escaping from the bloody turmoil of the Paris commune; Kader is an Arab prince fleeing from the revolt of the Saharan tribesmen in Algeria. Together they succeed in boarding an old sailing ship bound for Aus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
    The Dreamers - by Gilbert Adair

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571216260 | ISBN 10: 0571216269

    Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the Spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, and American student th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
    Death and the Penguin - by Andrey Kurkov

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781860469459 | ISBN 10: 1860469450

    In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.  Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Complete Fairy Tales (2nd edition) by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
    The Complete Fairy Tales (2nd edition) - by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm

    £15.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780415285964 | ISBN 10: 0415285968

    The tale of Cinderella is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with Rapunzel and The Golden Goose, but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm?  Well, here's your chance, for within ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
    The Dark Room - by Rachel Seiffert

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099287179 | ISBN 10: 009928717x

    The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans : Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastate ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Married Man by Edmund White
    The Married Man - by Edmund White

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780099285144 | ISBN 10: 0099285142

    A middle-aged American, wary and on the rebound from the bruising affair, works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Photocopies by John Berger
    Photocopies - by John Berger

    £12.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780747531722 | ISBN 10: 0747531722

    This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket.  The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and country ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life: A User
    Life: A User's Guide - by Georges Perec

    £10.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780099449256 | ISBN 10: 0099449250

    One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth- century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene, one of the inhabitants of the apartment block, has conceived the idea of a painting ... more

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  • Cover image of book If On a Winter
    If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - by Italo Calvino

    £8.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780099430896 | ISBN 10: 0099430894

    Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni by Alexander Bogdanov
    Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni - by Alexander Bogdanov

    £14.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780253203175 | ISBN 10: 0253203171

    A communist society on Mars, the Russian Revolution, and class struggle on two planets are the subjects of two remarkable science fiction novels by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), one of the early organisers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik Part ... more

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