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The Prince of Mist

The Prince of Mist

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1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an...

Our Riches

Our Riches

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"One who reads is worth two who don't." Our Riches celebrates the love of books in the person of...

Game for Five

Game for Five

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At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort in Northern Italy, between shots of espresso and hands...

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

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The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and...

Ferocity

Ferocity

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Ferocity, winner of the Strega prize in 2015, is an exhilirating, ambitious, and vivid work of...

If on a winter’s night a  traveller

If on a winter’s night a traveller

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"The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening...

The Traitor’s Emblem

The Traitor’s Emblem

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Often billed as the Spanish Ken Follett, Juan Gómez-Jurado is one of Spain's most succesful living...

Catastrophe and other stories

Catastrophe and other stories

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Dino Buzzati (1906 - 1972) is arguably the most loved and renowned Italian short story writer of...

The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains

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Paolo Cognetti won the Strega Prize in 2017 with this semi-autobiographical novel set in the...

Like Family

Like Family

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Giordano, a physicist and mathematician before he became a writer of fiction, writes of love,...

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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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