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  • INLAND
    INLAND
    GERALD MURNANE
    "Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination--from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing, to the narrator's own nativ...
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  • ATALANTA
    ATALANTA
    JENNIFER SAINT
    The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021). 'Brilliantly evocative' Women & Home 'A spirited retelling' Times 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harper's Bazaa...
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    12,50 €

  • GABRIEL'S MOON
    GABRIEL'S MOON
    WILLIAM BOYD
    In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . . 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun' MICK HERRON 'Wonderfully ambiguous with notions of twisted reality and uncerta...
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    18,75 €

  • ON A WOMAN'S MADNESS
    ON A WOMAN'S MADNESS
    ASTRID ROEMER
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    18,75 €

  • MEDUSA'S ANKLES
    MEDUSA'S ANKLES
    A. S. BYATT
    A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princes...
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    12,50 €

  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
    TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
    JOHN LE CARRÉ
    Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out... George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contemplating his new life in retirement when he is called back on an unexpected mission. His task is to hunt down an agent implanted by Moscow Central at the v...
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  • BOURNVILLE
    BOURNVILLE
    JONATHAN COE
    From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell fai...
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    12,50 €

  • RIPE
    RIPE
    SARAH ROSE ETTER
    Between the long hours, toxic bosses and unethical projects, she struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of houseless people bathing in the bay. Startup burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains and men literally set t...
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    13,75 €

  • DEAR DOLLY
    DEAR DOLLY
    DOLLY ALDERTON
    Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the p...
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    13,75 €

  • THE WINNERS
    THE WINNERS
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book' JOJO MOYES WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO STAND TOGETHER? 'It's often said that winners write history, but there are no winners here' This is a small story about big questions. It's a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm - and a death. But how does it end? Two...
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    13,75 €

  • MILK TEETH
    MILK TEETH
    JESSICA ANDREWS
    'Consuming and sexy' The Times 'Unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful' Financial Times ?? ?? ?? A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she meets someone who offers her a new way to experience the world. ...
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  • I'M A FAN
    I'M A FAN
    SHEENA PATEL
    An exhilarating, addictive take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a corrosive relationship ...
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    12,50 €

  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of CARRIE SOTO IS BACK, THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling MALIBU RISING 'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six. From the moment Daisy walked barefoot on to the stage at the Whisky, she and the band ...
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    12,50 €

  • A MAN CALLED OVE
    A MAN CALLED OVE
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project and David Nicholl's US.Soon to be a major film starring Tom HanksNew York Times bestsell...
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    11,25 €

  • AND EVERY MORNING THE WAY HOME GETS LONGER AND LONGER
    AND EVERY MORNING THE WAY HOME GETS LONGER AND LONGER
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The tender and moving novella from the author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People 'I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know' Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice _________ Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. As t...
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    12,50 €

  • IT STARTS WITH US
    IT STARTS WITH US
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two yea...
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    18,75 €

  • DEMON COPPERHEAD
    DEMON COPPERHEAD
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing...
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    25,00 €

  • IT STARTS WITH US
    IT STARTS WITH US
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas' side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us. ...
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    16,25 €

  • DEMON COPPERHEAD
    DEMON COPPERHEAD
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing...
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    18,75 €

  • IT STARTS WITH US
    IT STARTS WITH US
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, ...
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    16,95 €

  • THE WINNERS
    THE WINNERS
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The long-awaited conclusion to the beloved New York Times bestselling and 'engrossing' (People) Beartown series - which inspired an HBO series of the same name - follows the small hockey town's residents as they grapple with change, pain, hope, and redemption. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's som...
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    25,00 €

  • THE WINNERS
    THE WINNERS
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    "It starts with a storm, a death, and two funerals on the same day. One person's life is being celebrated by all of Beartown. One person's life is being forgotten. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed....
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  • CITIES OF THE PLAIN
    CITIES OF THE PLAIN
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern h...
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  • DINOSAUR COLOURING BOOK
    DINOSAUR COLOURING BOOK
    Grab your pens and pencils and get creative with this T-rific colouring book, packed with over 50 species of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures for hours of ROARsome fun! Simple to understand graphic icons show the period when each species lived and what it ate, and phonetic spellings for every dinosaur name will encourage and inform all young dinosaur fans - captivating their...
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    6,25 €

  • THE FOUR WINDS
    THE FOUR WINDS
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    'A powerful, stirring, wind-swept tale set in Depression-era America that makes your heart break and soar in equal measure.' - Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library The Four Winds, an instant New York Times number one bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, is a deeply moving story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter,...
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    12,50 €

  • KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    HARUKI MURAKAMI
    A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the author Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned u...
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    25,00 €

  • HOW TO FLY
    HOW TO FLY
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally. ...
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    13,75 €

  • MIGRATIONS
    MIGRATIONS
    CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
    'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations plummet, Franny talks her way onto one of ...
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  • THINGS MY SON NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD
    THINGS MY SON NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood From the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove ________ 'You can be whatever you want to be, but that's nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you ar...
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  • THE GLASS HOTEL
    THE GLASS HOTEL
    EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. "The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious." --The Washington Post Vincent is a ba...
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    12,50 €