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Near to the Wild Heart

Near to the Wild Heart

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Clarice Lispector's prize-winning debut novel was published in 1943 when she was twenty-three...

Charlie Chaplin’s Last Dance

Charlie Chaplin’s Last Dance

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After hearing this 2012 novel highly praised by a Sicilian YouTuber who describes it as one of the...

Why We Took The Car

Why We Took The Car

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You're the most boring boy in the class. Your mum's in rehab and your dad has taken off with a...

The Time of the Doves

The Time of the Doves

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The first time I have come across a book written originally in Catalan, this is a classic that...

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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I try my best to avoid using clichés in these sales pitches, but what can I say except this book...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

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"This is a novel to lose oneself in, and it promotes the sort of reading experience we remember...

The Prisoner of Heaven

The Prisoner of Heaven

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The third in Ruiz Zafon's Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, the first two installments being The...

The Watcher in the Shadows

The Watcher in the Shadows

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Set in Normandy just before the outbreak of the Second World War, The Watcher in the Shadows tells...

The Midnight Palace

The Midnight Palace

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It's 1932, Ben and his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for...

The Angel’s Game

The Angel’s Game

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"The Angels's Game draws with relish on all the conventions beloved of Wilkie Collins and...

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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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