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The Discomfort of Evening [9780571349364]

** WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020 ** The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a Dutch far…

Maigret in Court: Inspector Maigret #55 [9780141985916]

Maigret receives an anonymous phone call concerning the brutal murder of a woman and young child. The tip off concerns the woman's nephew, a mild-mann…

Maigret and the Ghost: Inspector Maigret #62 [9780241304037]

During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retra…

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Serotonin [9781785152238]

THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading …

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The Wolf and the Watchman [9781473682122]

Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 'Thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful' Fredrik Backman The year is 1793. Over a y…

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The Island: Hidden Iceland Series, Book Two [9781405930826]

If you liked And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders, and Nordic noir you'll love this . . . 'The ending really took my breath away and that's hard …

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The Train Was on Time [9780241370384]

The hauntingly beautiful first novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Boll Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is t…

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe [9781529050868]

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop o…

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Lie With Me [9780241987094]

THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE MAISONS DE LA PRESSE PRIZE'Stunning and heart-gripping' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name Jus…

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Maigret and Monsieur Charles: Inspector Maigret #75 [9780241304419]

When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office and reports her rich and successful husband missing, Maigret and Lapointe find…

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We [9781838850586]

One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universa…

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Maigret's First Case [9780241206386]

A sparkling new translation of this flashback to the start of Inspector Maigret's career, part of the new Penguin Maigret series. The profession he h…

Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66 [9780241304174]

A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet only to return it the following day, on the condition that he visit the thief's apartment. When the thief leads …

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Rave [9781913097196]

Following on his monumental examination of `the most contrary and most political, the most radical and rich, the most unstruggling decade of decades,'…

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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur [9780241357453]

'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic …

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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job [9781526622242]

Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the m…

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Child of Fortune [9780241335031]

'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughte…

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Death Is Hard Work [9780571346059]

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE AWARD Death Is Hard Work is a tale of three people embarking on an absurd quest - an …

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Grove [9781913097288]

An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hil…

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Serotonin [9781529111712]

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age…

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