Tales of Villa Diodati: The Origins of Iconic Science Fiction and Gothic Horror by VARIOUS
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Category: World Literature
In 1816, also known as The Year without a Summer, a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friend ...Show more
Teacher Narit by Pamda Bure
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Category: World Literature
A story told in three parts, Teacher Narit is a historical novel centering on the main protagonist, Narit, a mysterious civil war veteran who escaped the capital in the 70s to start a new life as a history teacher in northern Thailand.Once a young, idealistic postgraduate student and activist during one ...Show more
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
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Category: World Literature
'A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real - don't miss this fantastic thriller debut.' LEE CHILD If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
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Category: World Literature
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
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Category: World Literature
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
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Category: World Literature
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES. A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS! A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans. Against changing sea ...Show more
The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
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Category: World Literature
'A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live, but what sets it apart from it's contemporaries is Abbs' outstanding prose' Santa Montefior ...Show more
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
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Category: World Literature
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom. Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, ...Show more
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
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Category: World Literature
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is six ...Show more
Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo
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Category: World Literature
The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Fills the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh out loud' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain co ...Show more
Shigidi: and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
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Category: World Literature
The debut fantasy novel from the award-winning Nigerian author Wole Talabi. Shigidi is a disgruntled nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering the prayers of his few remaining believers to satisfy the demands of the company board. When he meets Nneoma, a sort-of succubus with a ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: World Literature
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' - New York TimesA mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in ...Show more