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  • 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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    18,75 €

  • FOSTER
    FOSTER
    CLAIRE KEEGAN
    It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is ...
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    12,50 €

  • 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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    12,50 €

  • 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 MEMORY MONSTER
    THE MEMORY MONSTER
    YISHAI SARID
    In a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession. He resents the...
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    16,25 €

  • SECOND PLACE
    SECOND PLACE
    RACHEL CUSK
    A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between o...
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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 €

  • LAST LETTER TO A READER
    LAST LETTER TO A READER
    GERALD MURNANE
    "In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane--perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose--began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archi...
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    14,99 €

  • ANXIOUS PEOPLE
    ANXIOUS PEOPLE
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a major Netflix TV series 'A brilliant and comforting read' MATT HAIG 'Funny, compassionate and wise. An absolute joy' A.J. PEARCE'A surefooted insight into the absurdity, beauty and ache of life' GUARDIAN 'I laughed, I sobbed, I recommended it to literally everyone I know' BUZZFEED 'Captures the messy e...
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    13,75 €

  • 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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    12,50 €

  • MAYFLIES
    MAYFLIES
    ANDREW O'HAGAN
    "Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything tha...
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    12,50 €

  • 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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    13,75 €

  • 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 €

  • COCKFIGHT
    COCKFIGHT
    MARÍA FERNANDA AMPUERO
    In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family's maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, charac...
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    9,99 €

  • 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 €

  • MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; w...
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    12,50 €

  • 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 €

  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    "Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things....
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    12,50 €

  • HOW LATE IT WAS HOW LATE
    HOW LATE IT WAS HOW LATE
    JAMES KELMAN
    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE‘A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book’GuardianSammy's had a bad week.Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row wi...
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    12,50 €

  • 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 €

  • LIE WITH ME
    LIE WITH ME
    PHILIPPE BESSON
    THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first lo...
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    12,50 €

  • I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN
    I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN
    JACQUELINE HARPMAN
    Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollect...
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    12,50 €

  • THE PISCES
    THE PISCES
    MELISSA BRODER
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Frank, provocative and brilliant' INDEPENDENT 'Utterly mesmerising' TATLER 'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' ELLE 'Laugh-out-loud funny' i...
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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 €