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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find his…

Colleen Hoover

Klára A. Samková

JUDr. Klára Alžběta Samková, Ph.D., born in 1963 in Brno into a family of art historians. She graduated from the Law Faculty in Brno and Prague, furthermore studied at London´s College of Law. She…

Zuzana Palovic

In the beginning of the 21st century, Europe opened its borders to the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, over 100 million citizens, including Slovaks gained the freedom to move West…

Margaret Atwood

Paperback edition of Atwood's dystopian novel, set in a near-future in which American citizens can buy security by spending some time in prison. From the Booker Prize winning author of "The Handmaid's…

George Saunders

The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at…

Jerome D. Salinger

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of…

Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

From the creators of the #1 international podcast WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE and the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Two of their…

Edmund White

Guy takes on the fashion world in New York and becomes the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Never ageing, at 35 he is still modelling, helplessly enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe…

Anna Pasternak

Drawing on both archival and family sources, this is a revealing account of the critical role played by Olga Ivinskaya in Boris Pasternak's life and how their own love story inspired the great literary…

Chris Petit

Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full of questions with no easy answers. Why is he being called out on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? Why did the old Jewish soldier with…

Donna Leon

Commissario Brunetti takes a break on an island in the laguna. There he meets Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house he's staying in. Together, Brunetti and Casati spend their days rowing and visiting…

Abraham Verghese

Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution…

Chris Cleave

Carol Birch

ORPHANS OF THE CARNIVAL sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to…

A. L. Kennedy

Poignant and beautifully written, SERIOUS SWEET is about two decent, damaged people trying to make moral choices in an immoral world: ready to sacrifice what's left of themselves for honesty and a chance…

Teju Cole

An acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. Will appeal to fans of "The Brief & Wonderous Life Of Oscar Wao" and "White Teeth". 'An indelible debut...' "New York…

Salman Rushdie

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities Set against…

Sharon J. Bolton

Ben Aaronovitch

A new title in the bestselling "Peter Grant" series, it is a unique and exciting mix of crime, London and the supernatural. 'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups' "The Times"

Jo Thomas

Ronan Farrow

Ben Aaronovitch

Nina George

Marianne Messmann longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, she throws herself into the Seine, but is rescued by a passer-by. While recovering in hospital, Marianne sees a painting…