English Books
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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19,95€
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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12,99€
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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13,95€
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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10,99€
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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4,95€
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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13,99€
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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14,95€
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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13,99€
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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17,99€
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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12,95€
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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13,99€
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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14,95€
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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14,95€
Not The End Of The World
Kate AtkinsonFeatures a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where..
9780552771054, Paperback
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12,99€
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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13,95€
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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12,99€
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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13,95€
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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12,95€
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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12,95€
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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14,95€
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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12,99€
Spring Snow
Yukio MishimaTokyo, 1912. the closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been r..
9780099282990, Paperback
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13,95€
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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12,99€
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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13,99€
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€