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  • 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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  • GOOD GIRL
    GOOD GIRL
    ARIA ABER
    A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery 'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A must-read ... Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh' Guardian 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berl...
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    21,25 €

  • 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 €

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

  • ATMOSPHERE
    ATMOSPHERE
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
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    25,00 €

  • CONCLAVE
    CONCLAVE
    ROBERT HARRIS
    ***OUT NOW - PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS*** THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals are meeting in conclave to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they are ambitious. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one o...
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  • 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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  • 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 €

  • RESERVOIR BITCHES
    RESERVOIR BITCHES
    DAHLIA DE LA CERDA
    A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth. In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From t...
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  • 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 €

  • INTERMEZZO
    INTERMEZZO
    SALLY ROONEY
    ** Available for pre-order now ** From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fa...
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    25,00 €

  • 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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  • 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 €

  • ANYONE'S GHOST
    ANYONE'S GHOST
    AUGUST THOMPSON
    It took three car crashes to kill Jake. Theron David Alden was there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, when he's fifteen and Jake's seventeen; then seven years later in New York City, those too-short, nearly sleepless days and nights that change both their lives and end up being all they'll ever have together, the dream and the end of the dream and...
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    18,75 €

  • 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 €

  • ALL FOURS
    ALL FOURS
    MIRANDA JULY
    A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. ...
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    21,25 €

  • PENANCE
    PENANCE
    ELIZA CLARK
    It's been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time. That story is 'Penance', a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable ...
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  • SMALL WORLDS
    SMALL WORLDS
    CALEB AZUMAH NELSON
    The one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fa...
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  • GREENER
    GREENER
    GRÁINNE MURPHY
    'A beautifully crafted novel'Sunday Independent 'An exploration of care, loneliness and the space required for bonds to flourish'Irish Times 'A thoughtful meditation on what happens to old friendships when you make yourself a new life. Insightful, believable and raw, there are questions here about all of our lives'Joanna Glen, the author of The Other Half of Augusta Hope As te...
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  • 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 €

  • HAPPY PLACE
    HAPPY PLACE
    EMILY HENRY
    'At turns hilarious and wise, another knockout from the champ' Taylor Jenkins Reid, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, IT ENDS WITH US 'Smart, sunny, sexy and also a gorgeous story of female friendship' Beth O'Leary, THE FLATSHARE ----- Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they g...
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  • IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER
    IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER
    ANNE DE MARCKEN
    The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was k...
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  • 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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    12,50 €