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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...

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...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Now on Netflix 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to...

The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat

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In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence...

When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

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When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted...

A Heart So White

A Heart So White

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In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse...

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

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"Here presented complete and unabridged, in the memorable Walter Starkie translation, is the epic...

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 Way to Paradise

The Way to Paradise

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The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his...

Brickmakers

Brickmakers

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Two young men are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just...

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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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