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  • NORWEGIAN WOOD
    NORWEGIAN WOOD
    MURUKAMI
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    13,75 €

  • BOY PARTS
    BOY PARTS
    ELIZA CLARK
    The incendiary first novel from critically-acclaimed author Eliza Clark - 'an impressive, fiercely current debut' - i ...
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    12,50 €

  • NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
    NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
    CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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    13,75 €

  • THE WEDDING PEOPLE
    THE WEDDING PEOPLE
    ALISON ESPACH
    The #2 New York Times bestseller A Read With Jenna book club pick 'UTTERLY CHARMING' PANDORA SYKES 'WICKEDLY FUNNY' JENNY JACKSON 'A PERFECT NOVEL' CATHERINE NEWMAN 'THE BEST READ OF THE YEAR SO FAR' THE TIMES It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately sh...
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    12,50 €

  • TRUST ME ALWAYS
    TRUST ME ALWAYS
    MEAGAN BRANDY
    I loathe the day I ran smack dab into the hard chest of Alister Howl, Avix University's second-string quarterback. I should've run the moment that beautiful liar smiled my way. Unfortunately for me, he takes my dismissal as a challenge and comes back twice as hard. But how can I be with him if I can't trust him? And that is how I end up at a party, locking lips with campus pl...
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    12,50 €

  • SCAFFOLDING
    SCAFFOLDING
    LAUREN ELKIN
    'Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...elegant, original and often very funny' Kevin Barry, New Statesman Books of the Year Two couples inhabit the same apartment in Paris, almost fifty years apart... 2019. When David takes a job in London, Anna is left alone in their Paris apartment. It's August and the city is deserted but when Clémentine moves into the bu...
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    12,50 €

  • ISOLA
    ISOLA
    ALLEGRA GOODMAN
    A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in a deeply moving novel of love, faith and survival, for readers of Ariel Lawhon and Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See In sixteenth-century France, as the heiress to an aristocratic fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of privilege. Then she is orphaned, and her enigmatic and volatile guardian squanders h...
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    18,75 €

  • ATMOSPHERE
    ATMOSPHERE
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    AN EPIC NOVEL SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 1980S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS WE GO TO LIVE AND LOVE BEYOND OUR LIMITS. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists J...
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    19,99 €

  • THE DIRECTOR
    THE DIRECTOR
    DANIEL KEHLMANN
    An artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks ...
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    27,50 €

  • WHEN THE CRANES FLY SOUTH
    WHEN THE CRANES FLY SOUTH
    LISA RIDZÉN
    WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED for ADLIBRIS BEST DEBUT and for BEST FICTION of the Year 'The kind of book you give to someone when you're really trying to say "I've been thinking about you" but don't know how.' Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove 'A book that will echo in your soul' Garth Stein 'As if Fredrik Backman's Ove h...
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    21,25 €

  • SUNSTRUCK
    SUNSTRUCK
    WILLIAM RAYFET HUNTER
    AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025 WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS 2022 NEW WRITERS' PRIZE 'This summer's hottest read' SUNDAY TIMES 'You won't want to put it down' BRITISH VOGUE 'Sticky, twisting and dangerous' REBECCA K REILLY It's summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of France. At the dinner table, the Blake siblings await him- ...
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    21,25 €

  • THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    OCEAN VUONG
    THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION A Most Anticipated Book in Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times Style, BBC, GQ, New York Times and AnOther Desperate college dropout Hai is ready to make a devastating choice until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes the course of his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chanc...
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    18,75 €

  • SPEAK TO ME OF HOME
    SPEAK TO ME OF HOME
    JEANINE CUMMINS
    From the internationally bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a classic novel of a family in crisis 'A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest' JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies 'I loved this book... a big, sweeping story of family and identity, and what it means to belong' EDEL COFFEY, author of Breaking Point and In Her ...
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    25,00 €

  • EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS
    EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS
    OISIN MCKENNA
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    12,50 €

  • PARADISE LOGIC
    PARADISE LOGIC
    SOPHIE KEMP
    'A wild, roaming marvel of a debut... some of the weirdest and funniest prose imaginable' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest' GARY SHTEYNGART A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time. It was decreed from the moment she was bornth. Twenty-three...
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    21,25 €

  • A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
    A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
    ALBERT CAMUS
    Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous 'Nuptials at Tipasa', one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would info...
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    7,50 €

  • SUMMER HEAT
    SUMMER HEAT
    DEFNE SUMAN
    'Vivid, evocative and tender.' Elif Shafak 'In our family, secrets were buried deep like treasure, never to be spoken of...' 1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she's scared. She can tell from her parents' urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul is chang...
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    12,50 €

  • RABBIT MOON
    RABBIT MOON
    JENNIFER HAIGH
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    22,50 €

  • THE RESTAURANT OF LOST RECIPES
    THE RESTAURANT OF LOST RECIPES
    HISASHI KASHIWAI
    'Author Hisashi Kashiwai shows a tremendous amount of empathy for his characters as well as a gentle humor. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll open a delivery app' - Apple Books The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and fo...
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    12,50 €

  • THE PARIS EXPRESS
    THE PARIS EXPRESS
    EMMA DONOGHUE
    Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb.With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine,...
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    18,75 €

  • 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 €

  • 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. Picked by The Bookseller as Book of the Month for March 2025 ------------------------------------------- 'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS 'Clever and heart-wrenching and addictive' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'An incredibly special book'...
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    17,50 €

  • 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 €

  • ISAAC
    ISAAC
    CURTIS GARNER
    Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app - a disappointing yet addictive experience - he spends his final months before uni...
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    13,75 €

  • PERFECTION
    PERFECTION
    VINCENZO LATRONICO
    Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city's twenty-four-hour party scene - an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond t...
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    16,25 €

  • BUTTER
    BUTTER
    ASAKO YUZUKI
    WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER 'Compelling, delightfully weird' PANDORA SYKES The cult Japanese bestseller about a f...
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    12,50 €

  • 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 €

  • BLUE SISTERS
    BLUE SISTERS
    COCO MELLORS
    'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE 'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR 'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN ...
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    12,50 €

  • 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 €