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  • A Little History of the World -63% Off
    Original price was: 8,00 €.Current price is: 3,00 €.

    by E.H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper (Illustrator)

    The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.
  • Billy Out of Stock
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,50 €.

    by Albert French, Rien Verhoef (Translator)

    “A work of art . . . Billy never lets up, not for a minute . . . The images rush straight to your brain. . . . Magnificient.”—Bill McKibben, New York Daily News
  • Butcher's Crossing -21% Off
    Original price was: 16,50 €.Current price is: 13,00 €.

    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.

     

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents -17% Off
    Original price was: 16,90 €.Current price is: 14,00 €.

    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 -86% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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.
  • Forgotten Voices of the Great War -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    by Max Arthur

    This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there.
  • Held -70% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,50 €.

    by Anne Michaels

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

  • Now We Shall Be Entirely Free -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    by Andrew Miller

    By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.

  • Pulp Out of Stock
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 -83% Off
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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.
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland -29% Off
    Original price was: 17,00 €.Current price is: 12,00 €.

    by Patrick Radden Keefe

    Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.
  • The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    by Melvyn Bragg

    Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.

  • The Birth of Venus -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 Cloud Sketcher -75% Off
    Original price was: 6,00 €.Current price is: 1,50 €.

    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 First Casualty -90% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 0,50 €.

    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 -86% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 -80% Off
    Original price was: 5,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 Son -86% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 -86% Off
    Original price was: 7,00 €.Current price is: 1,00 €.

    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 -83% Off
    Original price was: 3,00 €.Current price is: 0,50 €.

    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 -26% Off
    Original price was: 27,00 €.Current price is: 20,00 €.

    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.

  • Zennor in Darkness -88% Off
    Original price was: 4,00 €.Current price is: 0,50 €.

    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.