A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
by: Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Category: Fiction
Price: € 13,20
2002. A young American woman stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin - hands dirty, clothes torn. She can remember nothing of the night. She returns to the life she once knew, but soon an enigmatic letter arrives from an unknown doctor claiming to be "concerned for her fate". Shortly after, ...
Recommended by: Eva ("Amazing, strange, fascinating first novel")
The Detour
by: Gerbrand Bakker
Category: Fiction
Price: € 19,80
A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She is a lecturer doing some research, and sets about making the farmhouse more homely. When she arrives there are ten geese living in the garden but one by one they disappear. Perhaps it's the work of a local fox.
She has ...
Recommended by: Hadewijch
The Elephant Within Us
by: Peter Peeters
Category: Fiction
Price: € 24,75
Dr John Garfinger is a penniless, jobless about-to-be divorcee, a man with an unwarranted reputation for philandering and a hapless knack for getting himself into embarrassing situations. In desperation he goes to East Africa to start a new life working on a remote elephant reserve - even though he knows ...
The Sense of an Ending
by: Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Price: € 21,45 >> € 16,50
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious ...
Recommended by: Eva
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
by: Nathan Englander
Category: Fiction
Price: € 21,45 >> € 19,50
"Courageous and provocative, edgy and timeless. Put him alongside Singer, Carver and Munro" -- Colum McCann
"One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers" -- Dave Eggers
“Nathan Englander’s wisest, funniest, bravest, and most beautiful book. It overflows with revelations and gems.” ...
Recommended by: Eva
The Descendants
by: Kaui Hart Hemmings
Category: Fiction
Price: € 13,20
A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matt King finds his luck changed when his fun-loving, flighty wife Joanie falls into a coma, victim of a boating accident. Matt is left in sole charge of his two daughters, teenage ex-model and recovering drug addict Alex, and Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old. ...
Jamrach’s Menagerie
by: Carol Birch
Category: Fiction
Price: € 11,55 >> € 10,50
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
"One of the best stories I've ever read" -- AS Byatt
"Everything you could want in a rousing adventure is here... A remarkable achievement' -- Scotsman
Young Jaffy ...
The Sisters Brothers
by: Patrick deWitt
Category: Fiction
Price: € 13,20
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold ...
Pure
by: Andrew Miller
Category: Fiction
Price: € 14,85 >> € 12,50
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At ...
A Man of Parts
by: David Lodge
Category: Fiction
Price: € 13,20 >> € 10,50
"The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now..."
Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, "H.G." to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, ...