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  • HOUSEMAID, THE
    HOUSEMAID, THE
    MCFADDEN, FREIDA
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

    18,00 €

  • KATABASIS
    KATABASIS
    KUAN, R.F.
    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

    23,50 €

  • INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    YPI, LEA
    ‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

    23,95 €

  • 1984
    1984
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper ...

    30,00 €

  • MEN IN LOVE
    MEN IN LOVE
    WELSH, IRVINE
    It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

    22,00 €

  • FOX
    FOX
    OATES, JOYCE CAROL
    Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

    24,00 €

  • RELEASING
    RELEASING
    WALSH, CHLOE
    Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own.But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look...

    13,70 €

  • THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    VUONG, OCEAN
    One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, hi...

    24,00 €

  • DREAM COUNT
    DREAM COUNT
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until - betrayed and brokenhearted - she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka's bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to questi...

    25,00 €

  • NEVER LET ME GO
    NEVER LET ME GO
    KAZUO ISHIGURO
    A beautiful anniversary edition to mark twenty years of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, in which he imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of 1990s England.Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with...

    16,50 €

  • LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    SEE, LISA
    According to Confucius, ‘an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. She begins her training in medicine with her grandmother and, as she navigates the male world of medicine, requiring tact and diplomacy, she struggles against the confi...

    17,00 €

  • MOSCOW X
    MOSCOW X
    MCCLOSKEY, DAVID
    A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin.But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a coupl...

    16,00 €

  • ORBITAL
    ORBITAL
    HARVEY, SAMANTHA
    Life on our planet as you've never seen it beforeA team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and d...

    16,00 €

  • THE BEE STING
    THE BEE STING
    MURRAY, PAUL
    The Barnes family are in trouble.Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are risin...

    16,00 €

  • LORD OF DARK PLACES
    LORD OF DARK PLACES
    BENNETT, HAL
    PEN Faulkner Award winner; "Bennett is a New York Genet." New Statesman ...

    25,00 €

  • RHYTHM OF WAR
    RHYTHM OF WAR
    SANDERSON, BRANDON
    The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the sensational fourth book in Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling series. ...

    22,00 €

  • HOMECOMING
    HOMECOMING
    MORTON, KATE
    Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most mystifying murder investigations in the history of Australia.London, 2018. Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London fo...

    17,50 €

  • DEMON SLAYER VOL 10
    DEMON SLAYER VOL 10
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Despite some comic misunderstandings that almost blew their cover, Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu have smoked out Daki, a demon that has been devouring the residents of an entertainment district for years. The Hashira Tengen Uzui and his ninja companions engage Daki, but if they cannot handle her, what chance do Tanjiro and his friends have of taking on one of Kibutsuji's Upper-...

    13,00 €

  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 9
    DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 9
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Tanjiro and his friends accompany the Hashira Tengen Uzui to an entertainment district where Tengen's female ninja agents were gathering information on a demon before they suddenly disappeared. In order to investigate, Tanjiro and the others disguise themselves as women to sneak in! As they close in on their target, the demon reaches out for the courtesans of the district! ...

    15,00 €

  • HOUSEMAID'S SECRET, THE
    HOUSEMAID'S SECRET, THE
    MCFADDEN, FREIDA
    WINNER OF THE GOODREADS AWARD FOR BEST CRIME AND THRILLER 2023 As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . .. It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky sta...

    18,50 €

  • DEAD LIONS
    DEAD LIONS
    HERRON, MICK
    From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's no...

    18,50 €

  • A LITTLE LIFE
    A LITTLE LIFE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
    When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they''re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor. JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world. Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm. And withdrawn, brill...

    19,00 €

  • CROSSROADS
    CROSSROADS
    FRANZEN, JONATHAN
    Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless-unless his wife, Mario...

    22,50 €

  • 12 BYTES
    12 BYTES
    WINTERSON, JEANETTE
    Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson.An original, and entertaining new book from Jeanette Winterson, drawing on her years of thinking about and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bew...

    17,00 €

  • HAMNET
    HAMNET
    O'FARRELL, MAGGIE
    On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.Hamnet is a...

    18,00 €

  • MR WILDER AND ME
    MR WILDER AND ME
    COE, JONATHAN
    In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good. While ...

    18,00 €

  • THE AIR YEAR
    THE AIR YEAR
    BIRD, CAROLINA
    Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021.Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection.Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020.A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020).A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020.A Guardian Book of the Year 2020.The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in ...

    16,50 €

  • METROPOLIS
    METROPOLIS
    KERR, PHILIP
    Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he is seconded to investigate the Silesian Station killings: four prostitutes urdered in as many weeks, and in the same gruesome manner.Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another murder occurs. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims. But this time the girl's father runs Berl...

    18,00 €

  • ATOMIC HABITS
    ATOMIC HABITS
    CLEAR, JAMES
    A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every dayPeople think when you want to change your life, you need to think big.But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone c...

    25,92 €

  • POPPY WAR, THE (BOOK 1)
    POPPY WAR, THE (BOOK 1)
    KUANG, R.F.
    A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardi...

    16,00 €