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Sarah Gilmartin - Service - HB - German Edition

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Sayaka Murata / Convenience Store Woman (Large Paperback)

Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when...

Sigge Eklund / The Group (Large Paperback)

A SEARING HOT SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF SALTBURN AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. 'Addictive, evocative and effortlessly stylish' Culturefly | 'Very much for fans of The Secret History . . . glamorous'...

Sōji Shimada / Murder in the Crooked House

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange...

Sōji Shimada / The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

A bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genre.Japan, 1936 an eccentric artist has been found dead, in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal a...

Sosuke Natsukawa / The Cat Who Saved Books (Hardback)

 Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really? Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering...

Stefan Zweig - Le Brésil, Terre d'Avenir - PB

En 1940, fuyant le désastre de l’Europe, l’auteur du Joueur d’échecs s’installe au Brésil, découvert quelques années plus tôt...

Suzanne Collins - Vlammen ( De Hongerspelen 2 ) ( Nederland Edition) - PB

Katniss Everdeen heeft meer geluk gehad dan ze ooit had durven dromen. Samen met Peeta Mellark heeft ze de roemruchte Hongerspelen gewonnen, ook al schrijven de regels voor dat er maar...

Søren Sveistrup / The Chestnut Man (Large Paperback)

A NAIL-BITINGLY THRILLING CRIME NOVEL FROM THE SCRIPT WRITER BEHIND THE KILLINGRosa Hartung is returning to her job as Minister for Social Affairs, a year since the disappearance of her twelve...

Torgny Lindgren / In Praise of Truth (Hardback)

In Praise of Truth is about fraud, forgery and lies. The centre stage of the story is taken up by a singer who has, between the twelfth and fifteenth year of her life, become the darling of TV...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz / The Passenger

 BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is...

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Hardback)

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombing...

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Large Paperback)

   An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the...

William N. Porter - A Hundred Verses from Old Japan - PB

Published in this edition by Tuttle Books, 1990, originally published in this translation by Clarendox Press, London 1909.  A translation into modern English of Hyaku-nin-isshu, with...

Xinran / Miss Chopsticks (Large Paperback)

Esther Tyldesley (Translator) Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big...

Yan Lianke / Heart Sutra (Large Paperback)

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she...

Ye Zhaoyan / Nanjing 1937 : A Love Story (Large Paperback)

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender story of...

Yoel Hoffmann / Katschen & The Book Of Joseph (Hardback)

Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of...

Yoko Ogawa / The Housekeeper + The Professor

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago ( Vintage PB 1974)

Published by Fontana UK, 1974, first published in translation in English in 1973. Translation by Thomas P. Whitney.  This is Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago - 'Book 1 & 2  ''The...