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The Essential Kafka
Franz KafkaLike George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafkas world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. the Trial, where the rules are hidden from eve..
9781840227260, Paperback
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4,95€
Madame Bovary
Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and s..
9781912714728, Hardback
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20,99€
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonNew Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse ..
9780241970560, Paperback
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13,95€
All the Birds, Singing
Evie WyldJake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which..
9780099572374, Paperback
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13,99€
Middlemarch
George EliotGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search ..
9780141196893, Hardback
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30,99€
Fallen Land
Patrick FlaneryPoplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-..
9780857898791, Paperback
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13,95€
The Son
Philipp MeyerTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and p..
9780857209443, Paperback
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12,95€
MaddAddam
Margaret AtwoodBy the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that ..
9781844087877, Onbekende bindwijze
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12,95€
The Bell Jar
Sylvia PlathI was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to beco..
9780571308408, Hardcover
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16,99€
The Middlesteins
Jami AttenbergThe Middlesteins had me from its very first pages - Jonathan Franzen Edie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them-even their own ..
9781846689352, Paperback
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10,95€
Animal farm
George Orwell. Animal Farm, by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain's most popular novels - is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corr..
9780141036137, Paperback
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12,99€
My Year of Meats
ruth l. ozeki*PRE-ORDER RUTH OZEKI'S NEW NOVEL, THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS, TODAY* In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little..
9781782111146, Paperback
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14,95€
The Dog Stars: The hope-filled story of a world changed by global catastrophe
Peter HellerAn Oprah Book club favourite that spreads joy, mindfulness, and hope to all who read it. Or in the words of Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl: "A dreamy, post-apocalyptic love letter to things of bea..
9780755392629, Paperback
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16,99€
Fahrenheit 451
Ray BradburyVoyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a mast..
9780007491568, Hardcover
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18,95€
Eleanor & Park. by Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell'Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love, but what it's like to be young and in love with a book' John Green, author of The Fault in our Stars Eleanor is the new girl in town, a..
9781409120544, Paperback
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12,95€
Middlemarch
George EliotIn nineteenth-century England, Dorothea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings...
9780143123811, Hardcover
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19,99€
The Leftovers
Tom PerrottaFrom the author of 'Little Children' and now a major new TV series, 'The Leftovers' asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind? Following the sudden disa..
9780007453115, Paperback
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13,99€
In Cold Blood
Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the ..
9780241956830, Paperback
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The Folded Leaf
William MaxwellThe path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships. In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural ath..
9780099573593, Paperback
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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph **Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011** Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hu..
9780099564973, Paperback
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12,95€
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card'Delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic' - New York Times 'An affecting novel full of surprises.' - The New York Times Boo..
9780356500843, Paperback
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13,99€
His dark materials
Philip PullmanNorthern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving ..
9781841593425, Hardback
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32,00€
A Feast for Crows (Reissue)
George R. R. MartinHBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the four..
9780007447862, Paperback
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John Dies at the End
David WongMy name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korroc..
9780857684837, Paperback
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12,95€
Skippy Dies
Paul MurrayPaul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include ver..
9780141009957, Paperback
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Moveable Feast
Ernest HemingwayPublished posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the c..
9780099557029, Paperback
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Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldThese sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and ..
9780141194059, Hardcover
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott FitzgeraldThese sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves..
9780141194073, Hardcover
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Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School Of Villainy
Shamini FlintInspector Singh is home - and how he wishes he wasn't. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual 'you're a disgrace to the force' lecture. Fo..
9780749929770, Paperback
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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION Based on..
9780552775489, Paperback
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Franny and Zooey
j. d. salingerA funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeFranny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives..
9780141049267, Paperback
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Ulysses
James JoyceWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloo..
9781840226355, Paperback
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond CarverThis powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in t..
9780099530329, Paperback
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Things The Grandchildren Should Know
Dba E Mark Oliver EverettHow does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what ..
9780349120843, Paperback
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One Straw Revolution
Masanobu FukuokaCall it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems ..
9781590173138, Paperback
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14,95€
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm TóibinSet in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after year..
9780330389860, Paperback
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10,99€
The old man and the sea
Ernest HemingwaySet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for ..
9780099273967, Paperback
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11,99€
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen'Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart' Daily Mail 'Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, ..
9780007232444, Paperback
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Mockingbird
Walter TevisThe future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather bu..
9780575079151, Paperback
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12,99€
Restless
William BoydIt is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and..
9780747586203, Paperback
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13,99€
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey'A thing of beauty. . . . A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine.' 'Houston Chronicle Edward Abbey's classic comic gem of destructive mayhem and outra..
9780061129766, Paperback
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cat..
9780099494096, Paperback
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Hungry Tide
Amitav GhoshA profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer... I cannot think of anot..
9780007141784, Paperback
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The Magus
John FowlesWITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR 'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bul..
9780099478355, Paperback
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Sophie's Choice
William StyronIn this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fier..
9780099470441, Paperback
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The Bone People
Keri HulmeWinner of the Booker Prize in 1985, Keri Hulme's The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. '..
9780330485418, Paperback
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The Robber Bride
Margaret AtwoodZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are the..
9781853817229, Paperback
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12,99€
Vintage Classics Temple Golden Pavilion
Yukio MishimaBecause of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly al..
9780099285670, Paperback
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki MurakamiRead the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kiz..
9780099448822, Paperback
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The Painted Veil
W. Somerset MaughamKitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townse..
9780099286875, Paperback
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The Grapes of Wrath
John SteinbeckShocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Califor..
9780141185064, Paperback
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The Orchid Thief
Susan OrleanSusan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world s..
9780099289586, Paperback
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I Know This Much is True
Wally LambThe #1 New York Times bestselling novel, now a major Sky Atlantic drama starring Mark Ruffalo as two identical twins, Thomas and Dominick. Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowled..
9780006513230, Paperback
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16,99€
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his cred..
9780099282877, Paperback
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rah..
9780006550686, Paperback
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12,50€
The Dumas Club
Arturo Pérez-ReverteA well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his han..
9780099448594, Paperback
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Secret History
Donna Tartt'Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartts bestseller the Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'What we did was terrible, b..
9780140167771, Paperback
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman RushdieHaroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun ..
9780140366501, Paperback
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11,99€