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Is Mother Dead

Is Mother Dead

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A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged...

Will and Testament

Will and Testament

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Long-listed for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Four siblings. Two summer...

The Darkest Winter

The Darkest Winter

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In November 1944, in the worst winter ever known in Bologna, in the depths of the war, the...

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 Empusium – A Health Resort Horror Story

The Empusium – A Health Resort Horror Story

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Olga Tokarczuk has done it again! A powerful mix of gothic horror and philosophical ideas stirred...

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Madonna in a Fur Coat

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"The essence of life is in solitude — wouldn’t you agree? All unions are built on falsehood....

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...

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...

We Want Everything

We Want Everything

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It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers...

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...

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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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