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City of God

City of God

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Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life...

A Country Doctor’s Notebook

A Country Doctor’s Notebook

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With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five year old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into...

The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War

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"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not...

The Sum of Our Days

The Sum of Our Days

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A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California,...

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the...

If this is a man

If this is a man

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"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built,...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

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

Author: Pascal Mercier

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

Ears of wheat from below with a bright blue sky and clouds

I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

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

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