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Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

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Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same...

Budapest

Budapest

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After reading the novel, you even begin to wonder if this review is part of the puzzle..." It's...

Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole

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Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants...

Vernon Subutex One

Vernon Subutex One

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend. A fall...

I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

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From the author of Down The Rabbit Hole. 'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator...

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

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A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His...

Tommaso and the Blind Photographer

Tommaso and the Blind Photographer

Intrigue, blackmail and murder -- a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Tommaso, a former...

The Case of the General’s Thumb

The Case of the General’s Thumb

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By the author of Death and the Penguin, this 1999 novel opens in Kiev with the puzzling death of a...

Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

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Cracow, 1893. Desperate to relieve her boredom and improve her social standing, Zofia Turbotynska...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel...

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Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

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Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

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I'm Not Scared

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One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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