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  • THE LOST BOOKSHOP
    WOODS, EVIE
    On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking t...
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    12,75 €

  • WHITE NIGHTS
    DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR
    Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy....
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    12,50 €

  • CATALONIA IN A NUTSHELL
    SMEDLEY, CLAIRE / SANTANA BIGAS, EVA
    Just why are the Catalans so obsessed with poop? And have you seen how carried away they get with pyrotechnics? As Catalans, they probably haven't given these things a second thought. It's not until someone begins to question them that they realize that placing a man pooping next to the baby Jesus in the nativity scene is perhaps not that common, nor is having a donkey as a nat...
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    19,90 €

  • FIESTA
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?' Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady at...
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    13,25 €

  • MRS. DALLOWAY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames' In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. ...
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    13,25 €

  • MY FAMILY AND OTHER ENEMIES
    NOVAKOVICH, MARY
    Part travelogue, part memoir, travel journalist Mary Novakovich dives into the hinterland of her native Croatia, weaving a narrative of family, nationhood andidentity, conflict and reconciliation, resilience and laughter.• A unique and timely title, 30 years on from the start of the Yugoslav break-up and the beginning of the war in neighbouring Bosnia• Opens up a world that is ...
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    16,00 €

  • ROAD TRIP, THE
    O'LEARY, BETH
    Addie and her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, who she hasn't seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier.Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. And with four hundr...
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    13,64 €

  • THE MAD WOMEN'S BALL
    MAS, VICTORIA
    The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society.But the truth is much more complicated - for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand ball is held at the hospital. For the Parisian elite, ...
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    13,25 €

  • MICHEL THE GIANT: AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND
    KPOMASSIE, TÉTÉ-MICHEL
    Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tété-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.A book of rich and immersiv...
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    14,75 €

  • THE PROFESSOR
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    When the orphaned William refuses his uncles´ proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother´s mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys´ school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls´ school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative head...
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    12,50 €

  • A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, an event that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the cour...
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    8,95 €

  • THE MIST
    JÓNASSON, RAGNAR
    The Mist is a book I devoured in one day. The characters fascinated me, their story holding my attention until the last page. Now here’s the thing, I did not read the other two books in the trilogy but I have read Ragnar Jónasson in the past and knew I was in for a treat. The fact the story is in reverse chronology left it very easy for me (and any new reader) to jump right in ...
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    14,70 €