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  • NANNY WANTED
    BARBER, LIZZY
    Nanny Wanted is a gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Out of Her Depth, Lizzy Barber.'Nanny Wanted is the perfect gothic suspense novel, with complex characters and a creeping sense of dread that will have you turning the pages long after you need to sleep.' - Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last PartyA remote Cornish mansion. The perfect couple. And the deadly sec...
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    12,75 €

  • LESSONS
    MCEWAN, IAN
    While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is le...
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    12,75 €

  • BLACK BUTTERFLIES
    MORRIS, PRISCILLA
    SARAJEVO. SPRING 1992.Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe tha...
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    12,75 €

  • ABOUT LOVE
    CHEKHOV, ANTON
    Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and deep, powerful mystery. Collected here are five of his very best tales, 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and the trilogy of stories, 'The Man in the Case', 'Gooseberries' and 'About Love'. ...
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  • 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 €

  • A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    New annotated edition of George Orwell’s A Clergyman’s DaughterTwenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in...
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  • SIX DAYS
    ATKINS, DANI
    Gemma knows that she and Finn are destined to be together. They are soulmates. But then, on their wedding day, he never arrives at the church.Gemma is convinced Finn wouldn't abandon her like this, even though he has disappeared once before. But back then he had a reason. She feels sure something terrible has happened, but no one else is convinced. Even the police aren't concer...
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    14,25 €

  • 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 €

  • SONGBIRDS
    LEFTERI, CHRISTY
    Not all tragedies make headlines, not every voice is heard.Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. Now she spends her days caring for someone else's daughter while her own waits for her return, half a world away.For Petra, it is only natural to hire a domestic worker to keep her house clean and her family fed. Their lives have nothing in common, except the love the...
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    11,75 €