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  • DEEP CUTS
    DEEP CUTS
    HOLLY BRICKLEY
    Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. ------------------------------------------------------- Picked by Cosmopolitan and RED as a best book of 2025. 'For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and One Day, here is the will they, won't they love story of Percy and Joe ... Destined for the screen' i Paper ------------------------------------------------------- 'Te...
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    21,25 €

  • DREAM COUNT
    DREAM COUNT
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    A sweeping story about four women whose lives are shaped by love, longing, and pain. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in the US who is unlucky in love and coping with the pandemic on her own. Zikora, is a successful lawyer living in Washington DC who finds herself, unexpectedly, a heartbroken single mother. Omelogor is a scholar researching pornography for a Master's...
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    23,75 €

  • VICTORIAN PSYCHO
    VICTORIAN PSYCHO
    VIRGINIA FEITO
    NOW BEING ADAPTED FOR A MAJOR FILM STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating chil...
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    16,25 €

  • LAVINIA
    LAVINIA
    URSULA K. LE GUIN
    She chose love. The price she paid was war. A stunning combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES READERS on LAVINIA: 'Utterly compelling' ????? 'Clever twist' ????? 'Super' ????? 'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wo...
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    13,75 €

  • THE ARTIST
    THE ARTIST
    LUCY STEEDS
    'A blaze of a book, poetic, passionate and quietly powerful' Daily Mail 'The year's most lauded debut novelist . . . A sultry, headily perfumed portrait of monstrous male egos and oppressed overlooked women . . . The Artist uncovers its secrets by stealth' Telegraph 'Dextrous and powerful . . . a hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment' Guardian 'The Art...
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    21,25 €

  • REJECTION
    REJECTION
    TONY TULATHIMUTTE
    'A thrill for the sickos among us' JIA TOLENTINO 'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI 'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENT LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION An audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of int...
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    21,25 €

  • GOOD BEHAVIOUR
    GOOD BEHAVIOUR
    MOLLY KEANE
    We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour. Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic St Charles family is sinking into a state of decaying grace. Aroon, the unlovely daughter of the house, silently longs for affection - which she receives neither from her icy mother nor her hunting-obsessed father.The fierce f...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BALLAD OF MARY KEARNEY
    THE BALLAD OF MARY KEARNEY
    KATHERINE MEZZACAPPA
    "I am dead, my Mary; the man who loved you body and soul lies in some dishonorable grave." In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times? An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of his Ascendancy landlord. ...
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    19,95 €

  • A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS
    A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS
    DYLIN HARDCASTLE
    1972. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, Australia, two teenage girls must each make a choice: to act upon their desires or suppress them? To live an openly queer life or to try desperately not to? Over the following three decades, these girls grow into women and live out their decisions, always almost crossing paths at pivotal moments. In an era that spans Australia's first...
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    13,75 €

  • SKY DADDY.
    SKY DADDY.
    KATE. FOLK
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    16,25 €

  • MORNING AND EVENING -- WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
    MORNING AND EVENING -- WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
    JON FOSSE
    A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed ...
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    12,50 €

  • EUROTRASH
    EUROTRASH
    CHRISTIAN KRACHT
    A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF 2024'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2024'Resonant and spiky' DAILY MAIL'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPERRealising he and she are the very...
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    16,25 €

  • THE WOOD AT MIDWINTER
    THE WOOD AT MIDWINTER
    SUSANNA CLARKE
    "Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees-and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst-and the path of her life is changed forever."--Back cover ...
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    12,50 €

  • OUR EVENINGS
    OUR EVENINGS
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirte...
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    18,75 €

  • THE EMPUSIUM
    THE EMPUSIUM
    OLGA TOKARCZUK
    In September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or...
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    18,75 €

  • INTERMEZZO
    INTERMEZZO
    SALLY ROONEY
    An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, fromthe global phenomenon Sally Rooney. ...
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    18,75 €

  • NOT FOREVER, BUT FOR NOW
    NOT FOREVER, BUT FOR NOW
    CHUCK PALAHNIUK
    From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire “equal parts saccharine caricature and startling raunch” (Kirkus Reviews) about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers who grew up privileged in the Welsh countryside. The...
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    12,50 €

  • FRANK AND RED: THE HEART-WARMING STORY OF AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP
    FRANK AND RED: THE HEART-WARMING STORY OF AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP
    MATT COYNE
    Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. And then Red moves in next door. Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of...
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    12,50 €

  • THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
    THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
    ELIF SHAFAK
    The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - available for pre-order now ***** This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, ther...
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    23,75 €

  • LITTLE ROT
    LITTLE ROT
    AKWAEKE EMEZI
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    23,75 €

  • MONSTRILIO
    MONSTRILIO
    GERARDO SAMANO CORDOVA
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    13,75 €

  • THE THIRD LOVE
    THE THIRD LOVE
    HIROMI KAWAKAMI
    From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny. ...
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    16,25 €

  • BLUE SISTERS
    BLUE SISTERS
    COCO MELLORS
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawye...
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    18,75 €

  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    JENNY ERPENBECK
    "Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fif...
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    11,25 €

  • THE COVENANT OF WATER
    THE COVENANT OF WATER
    ABRAHAM VERGHESE
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.[Bokinfo]. ...
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    13,75 €

  • THE FOGHORN ECHOES
    THE FOGHORN ECHOES
    DANNY RAMADAN
    WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTIONA devastating novel about queer love, broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your pastHussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wa...
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  • THE INMATE
    THE INMATE
    FREIDA MCFADDEN
    A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars... As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendl...
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    11,25 €

  • BUTTER
    BUTTER
    ASAKO YUZUKI
    'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE TIMES The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true sto...
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    18,75 €

  • THE BOOK OF ALL LOVES
    THE BOOK OF ALL LOVES
    AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO
    In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI...
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    16,25 €

  • FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN
    FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN
    ELLE COSIMANO
    ? THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? 'Finlay Donovan is irresistible!' JANET EVANOVICH 'I adore everything about it . . . the perfect blend of mystery and romcom' ALI HAZELWOOD Finlay Donovan is ready to bite the bullet. She's done with her accidental life of crime. But first, there's the small matter of her debt to the Russian mob. Her task should be simple: locate a ...
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    13,75 €