The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Freefall
The Sense of an Ending
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
In One Person
HHhH
The Marriage Plot
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Marzi: A Memoir
In One Person
by: John Irving
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 31,35 >> € 26,00
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, 'In One Person' is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) ...
Recommended by: Liam ("A delightful return to form from an American master")
HHhH
by: Laurent Binet
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 21,45 >> € 19,50
"Charming, moving, and gripping" - Martin Amis
"'HHhH' blew me away" - Bret Easton Ellis
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief ...
Recommended by: Eva
The Marriage Plot
by: Jeffrey Eugenides
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 11,55 >> € 9,75
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." -- Anthony Trollope
It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George ...
Recommended by: Eva ("A 21st-century Pride and Prejudice. Magnificent.")
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
by: Jen Campbell
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 13,20 >> € 12,00
"So funny. So sad... Read it and sigh." - Neil Gaiman
"Can books conduct electricity?" "My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok, isn't it?" A John Cleese Twitter question ("What is your pet peeve?"), first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' blog, which grew over ...
Recommended by: Jonny & Hadewijch
Marzi: A Memoir
by: Marzena Sowa
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 18,00
"I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our daily bread. I'm scared of spiders and the world of adults doesn't seem like a walk in the park."
Told from a young ...
Recommended by: Eva
Fantastic Life
by: Kevin Mutch
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 9,95
'Fantastic Life' is Kevin Mutch's Xeric Award-winning graphic novel. Set in Winnipeg, Canada in1982, the story follows the misadventures of a young slacker who begins to question his own sanity against a backdrop of punk rock, quantum mechanics, and the living dead.
Included in 'Best American Comics ...
Recommended by: Jonny
Capital
by: John Lanchester
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 21,45 >> € 19,50
"This is an intelligent and entertaining account of our grubby, uncertain, fragmented London society that has almost replaced religion with shopping. Read it." - Guardian
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of ...
Recommended by: Eva
The Art of Fielding
by: Chad Harbach
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 12,75
"One of those rare novels - like Michael Chabon's 'Mysteries of Pittsburgh' or John Irving's 'The World According to Garp' - that seems to appear out of nowhere, and then dazzles and bewitches and inspires, until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as the unexpected ...
Recommended by: Eva ("Amazing American debut")
The Stranger's Child
by: Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Sterling recommends...
Price: € 11,55 >> € 10,50
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old ...
Recommended by: Eva
The Sense of an Ending
by: Julian Barnes
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Price: € 13,20 >> € 10,50
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