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In diesem witzigen, unterhaltenden und skurrilen Roman begleiten wir eine Gruppe von 13 australis...

Pathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is noth...

The second volume in the acclaimed The Wind from the Plain trilogyTurkey's greatest novelistYasha...

Old Mr Rocka widowerlives in a cottage with his granddaughter Elizabeth; his household includes D...

The collapse in 1989 of the newly-built church at Perugiakilling the congregation of notables gat...

Back isaccording to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction'Henry Green's most extended attempt to pl...

In 1969 Peter Matthiessen set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbelwhose aim was to find an...

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit cent...

Discover William Maxwell's classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck...

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Port...

When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last s...

Marta is raised by her grandmother in her house in Trieste, a safe haven of stories, books and en...

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, fal...

A collection of twenty-five essays on Spain, from the author of )Rituals( and )The Following Stor...

Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon...

Cricket writer, acclaimed biographer, editor of the 'London Magazine,' and one of the central fig...

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Wryly funny and compassionate novel set in a small Illinois town at the beginning of the century.

'My first mistake was to be heterosexual.'Such is one of several complaints in the first of four ...

At 33, obsessive, hypersensitive Susannah Rabin lives with her mother, their cloistered world pro...

When a Portuguese proofreader rewrites history by changing a word in a text, he unexpectedly wins...

This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as in...