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Fontamara

Fontamara

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Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was...

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,...

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

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The French Riviera, home to the Beautiful People, and none are more beautiful than Cécile, a...

Liquidation

Liquidation

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"Not since Kafka or Beckett has a writer packed so much metaphysics into so tight a space." -- New...

Detective story

Detective story

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"A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner...

The Late Mattia Pascal

The Late Mattia Pascal

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Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters and...

The Mandarins

The Mandarins

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With thanks to Kenny Campbell for the review. An immersive experience of a book, taking you into...

Gigi & The Cat

Gigi & The Cat

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In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best....

A Model Childhood

A Model Childhood

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In 1933, Nelly is four years old and lives in Landsberg. Nelly's family believes in Hitler's new...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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According to Primo Levi, Alone in Berlin is "the greatest book ever written about the German...

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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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