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Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

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Sharply observed detail, acute social and psychological insight, a keen sense of irony and a...

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood

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"Children never ask themselves any questions. Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles...

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

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Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet attempt to circumnavigate the world in...

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

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An extraordinary novel about one of history’s most reviled figures For three decades, until the...

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...

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

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Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France 1956. A young revolutionary...

Death on Credit

Death on Credit

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"The most blackly humourous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature..." London Review...

The Reprieve

The Reprieve

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It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich...

Iron in the Soul

Iron in the Soul

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The third part of Sartre's trilogy, Roads to Freedom. June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the...

Fergus of Galloway, Knight of King Arthur

Fergus of Galloway, Knight of King Arthur

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The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of...

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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

Author: Pascal Mercier

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

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

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

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