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Himmler's Cook

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

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Aged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships: the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and the delirium of Maoism. Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie …

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Vendela Vida

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‘Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar… (It’s also insanely funny.)’ — Lena DunhamFrom the …

Heaven Forbid

Christopher Hope

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In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extend …

Jimfish

Christopher Hope

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and ther …

Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEDamon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the Booker Pr …

The Quarry

Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA breathtaking parable of death and deception from the Booker Prize-winning author.Damon Galgut’s ‘lost’ novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outsi …

When the Doves Disappeared

Sofi Oksanen

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army – Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his sli …

Kruger's Alp

Christopher Hope

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Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an …

Too Weird for Ziggy

Sylvie Simmons

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Sylvie Simmons’ fiction debut, Too Weird for Ziggy is a darkly comic collection of linked stories all set in the world of crass A & R men, fans mired in hero worship, and music stars perpetually on th …

Before, During, After

Richard Bausch

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Natasha, a lonely congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, a priest struggling with his faith. Love blossoms over the spring and summer of 2001. A month before their wedding, Natasha is on a trip in J …

Only the Animals

Ceridwen Dovey

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Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench o …

White and Red

Dorota Maslowska

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An audacious, fresh portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. Andrzej ‘Nails’ Robakoski is a tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time searching for his next line of speed and d …

Merciless Gods

Christos Tsiolkas

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A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and r …

The Puttermesser Papers

Cynthia Ozick

RRP: £25.00

Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental; her love life is minimal. And her most idle fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true. She yearns for a daughter and pr …

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

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Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage and vengeance. In riveting prose, Shacochis …

Volcano Street

David Rain

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‘What would Germaine do?’This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jan …

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