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  • A Brief History of Seven Killings
    7,00 

    by Marlon James

    Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.

  • A Tale of Two Cities
    3,00 

    by Charles Dickens, Lenore Mussoff (Introduction)

    In Paris, the streets run red with blood. In London a beautiful young women waits for word of the nobleman she loves….

     

     

  • Butcher's Crossing
    16,50 

    by John Williams, Bret Easton Ellis (Introduction)

    The author of Stoner delivers something completely different but equally unique, skewering romantic notions of the Wild West with a brilliant, brutal tale of buffalo hunters that reverberates with understated power.

     

  • Cannery Row -70% Off
    Original price was: 3,00 €.Current price is: 0,90 €.

    by John Steinbeck

    First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survive—creating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works.

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    16,90 

    by Isabel Wilkerson

    Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

  • Delayed Rays of a Star
    7,00 

    by Amanda Lee Koe

    A dazzling novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women–Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl–cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century.
  • Expo 58
    4,00 

    by Jonathan Coe

    A tale of Cold War love and intrigue by Jonathan Coe, “probably the best English novelist of his generation” (Nick Hornby).

  • Held
    5,00 

    by Anne Michaels

    A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.

  • In Search of the Dark Ages -30% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 4,90 €.

    by Michael Wood

    In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain’s leading historians.

  • Ingenious Pain -30% Off
    Original price was: 4,00 €.Current price is: 2,80 €.

    by Andrew Miller

    Born in the mid-18th century, James Dyer is unable to feel pain and becomes, in adulthood, a brilliant but heartless surgeon. On the way to St Petersburg, he meets a woman with magical powers who enables him to feel pain and his whole life is changed.
  • Pulp -70% Off
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,80 €.

    by Robin Talley

    Told in dual narratives, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far we’ve come and how much farther we have to go.

  • Reading in the Dark -30% Off
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 4,20 €.

    by Seamus Deane

    Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.

  • Regeneration
    5,00 

    by Pat Barker

    The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels.
  • The Birth of Venus
    5,00 

    by Sarah Dunant

    In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it.

  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    6,00 

    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas #1

    by John Boyne

    If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.

  • The Cloud Sketcher
    6,00 

    by Richard Rayner

    The Cloud Sketcher is a transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with such authenticity and drama as to place Richard Rayner in the company of our very best novelists.
  • The Dig -50% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 3,50 €.

    by John Preston

    A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.

  • The First Casualty
    4,00 

    by Ben Elton

    Ben Elton’s tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?

     

     

  • The Historian
    7,00 

    by Elizabeth Kostova

    For centuries, the story of Dracula has captured the imagination of readers and storytellers alike. Kostova’s breathtaking first novel, ten years in the writing, is an accomplished retelling of this ancient tale.
  • The Last Song Of Dusk -30% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 3,50 €.

    by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

    Set in 1920s India, this magical debut novel tells the story of beautiful Anuradha, whose songs are spellbinding, but whose fate is troubled.

     

     

  • The Nickel Boys Out of Stock
    5,00 

    by Colson Whitehead

    This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

  • The Son
    7,00 

    by Philipp Meyer

    The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century.
  • The Vagrants -70% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 2,10 €.

    by Yiyun Li

    Writing with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historic period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art.

  • The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
    3,00 

    by Alan Bradley

    From Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.

  • This Other Eden
    27,00 

    by Paul Harding

    National Book Award and Booker Award-nominated novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.

  • Under a Gilded Moon -70% Off
    Original price was: 8,00 €.Current price is: 2,40 €.

    by Joy Jordan-Lake

    From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House.

  • Zennor in Darkness -30% Off
    Original price was: 4,00 €.Current price is: 2,80 €.

    by Helen Dunmore

    In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War.