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  • THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    MADELINE MILLER
    **OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD****A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has be...
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    25,00 €

  • BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU
    BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU
    SALLY ROONEY
    Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they de...
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    21,25 €

  • SALT SLOW
    SALT SLOW
    JULIA ARMFIELD
    THE ELECTRIFYING DEBUT FROM THE WINNER OF THE WHITE REVIEW SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018'Thrilling . . . A writer whose next move you wouldn't want to miss.' Observer'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' M JOHN HARRISON, GuardianIn her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies...
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    12,50 €

  • DAISY JONES & THE SIX: REESE'S BOOK CLUB
    DAISY JONES & THE SIX: REESE'S BOOK CLUB
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is BackREESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NOW AN EMMY AWARD–NOMINATED ORIGINAL STREAMING SERI...
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    15,00 €

  • BRING UP THE BODIES
    BRING UP THE BODIES
    HILARY MANTEL
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. 'Our most brilliant English writer' Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glitteri...
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    12,50 €

  • US AGAINST YOU
    US AGAINST YOU
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The captivating and moving follow-up to the international bestseller Beartown, from the 18 million copy bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove 'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book' Jojo Moyes on Beartown________ Can a broken town survive a second tragedy?By the time the last goal is scored, someone ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY
    THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY
    EDNA O'BRIEN
    Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spend their childhood together, leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the city. Kate is dreamy and romantic and yearning for love, while Baba just wants to experience life as a single woman. Although they set out together, their lives take unexpected turns with each learning to find her own w...
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    16,25 €

  • THE GALLOWS POLE
    THE GALLOWS POLE
    BENJAMIN MYERS
    ____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker 'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times ______________...
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    12,50 €

  • THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ
    ANTONIO ITURBE
    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. 'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly th...
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    13,75 €

  • WOLF HALL
    WOLF HALL
    HILARY MANTEL
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. 'Every bit as good as they said it was' Observer 'Terrific' Margare...
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    13,75 €

  • L.A. WOMAN
    L.A. WOMAN
    EVE BABITZ
    Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle, one with the promises of youth, the other with the fulfilment of nostalgia as they wend their way through the pink sunsets and t...
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    12,50 €

  • THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
    THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    Holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path. It all begins with a father telling a story to his son on Christmas Eve. But this isn't your typical Christmas story. The father admits to his son that he's taken a life but he won't say whose--not yet. One week...
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    13,75 €

  • DAYDREAM AND DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY
    DAYDREAM AND DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY
    CLARICE LISPECTOR
    'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavou...
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    3,75 €

  • HEROES OF THE FRONTIER
    HEROES OF THE FRONTIER
    DAVE EGGERS
    THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'The mirror image of Eggers's brilliantly dystopian The Circle... [A] state of the nation novel, cleansing the spirit and lifting the heart' Guardian A hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it's time for the family vacation... Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR
    THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    "From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athle...
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    16,50 €

  • PACHINKO
    PACHINKO
    MIN JIN LEE
    "In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Ja...
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    11,25 €

  • MY GRANDMOTHER SENDS HER REGARDS AND APOLOGISES
    MY GRANDMOTHER SENDS HER REGARDS AND APOLOGISES
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    'A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief' Kirkus Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, this novel by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told the...
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    12,50 €

  • HIGH-RISE
    HIGH-RISE
    J. G. BALLARD
    Now a major film: J. G. Ballard s compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos. Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Within the walls of an elegant forty-storey high-ri...
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    11,25 €

  • THE BOOK OF TEA
    THE BOOK OF TEA
    KAKUZO OKAKURA
    'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celeb...
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    3,75 €

  • EILEEN
    EILEEN
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert ...
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    12,50 €

  • BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE [BOOK CLUB]
    BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE [BOOK CLUB]
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    "Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge o...
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    11,25 €

  • MODERN CLASSICS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    MODERN CLASSICS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    ANTHONY BURGESS
    Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story ...'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends ro...
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    11,25 €

  • SPOILED BRATS
    SPOILED BRATS
    SIMON RICH
    Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in 'The Last Girlfriend on Earth', Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood - to Sell Out, the...
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    12,50 €

  • THE INFATUATIONS
    THE INFATUATIONS
    JAVIER MARÍAS
    Every day, Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. And every day she watches a couple following the same routine. Then one day they aren't there. She comes across a photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street. When the woman returns with her children, who are then collected by a different man, a new light is shed on the death." ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    SYLVIA PLATH
    I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a ...
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    12,50 €

  • FINNEGANS WAKE
    FINNEGANS WAKE
    JAMES JOYCE
    Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and synt...
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    4,95 €

  • THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
    THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
    JOHN BOYNE
    Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-W...
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    9,99 €

  • A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
    A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
    JOAN DIDION
    An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil. Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca...
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    11,25 €

  • FOR ESMÉ - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
    FOR ESMÉ - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
    J. D. SALINGER
    A collection of stories of loss and unsuppressed rage - in which the children are fragile, odd, and hyper-smart and the adults beaten down by circumstances. In "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her that these creatures have a tragic flaw; if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    MARGARET ATWOOD
    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she ...
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    12,50 €