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Gun-Britt Sundström
Engagement

'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.' Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage?…

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James Joyce
Exiles

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After ten long years spent away from Dublin, Richard, Bertha and their young illegitimate son Archie are back home. Despite expectations of comfort and domesticity, the couple's return to the place where …

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James Joyce
Finnegans Wake

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A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Mod…

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James Joyce
Finnegans Wake

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'A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page' - Anthony BurgessJoyce's final work, Finnegans Wake is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses i…

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Len Deighton
Funeral in Berlin

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'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mo…

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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and…

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James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain

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"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin…

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Wang Xiaobo,
Golden Age

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The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him' …

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Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House

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Vier unterschiedliche Charaktere treffen sich im abweisenden Hill House, um seinem Spuk auf die Spur zu kommen: Dr. Montague, ein okkulter Gelehrter und Theodora, seine fröhliche Assistentin; die Polterge…

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George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia

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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or ind…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light' How does a pain…

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Truman Capote
In Cold Blood

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Ein dramaturgisch geschickter Roman, der aus der Perspektive der Mörder, der ermordeten Familie und der ermittelnden Beamten erzählt. Spannend, psychologisch stimmig, fesselnd von der ersten bis zur letzt…

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Joanne Greenberg
In This Sign

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Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple 'Outside' - in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstanding about the payment plan …

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

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'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child 'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinat…

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Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here

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Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Minnesota. He attended Yale University and subsequently worked as a reporter and editor. In 1920, he had a major breakthrough with Main Street (1920), which was followed…

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William S. Burroughs,
Junky

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Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Thro…

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Aharon Appelfeld,
Katerina

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'Read this book . . . what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is' Los Angeles Times Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewi…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

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'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph 'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me s…

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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita

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With one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Pengui…

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John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer

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A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 19…

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