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  • Appaloosa

    Appaloosa
    Robert B. Parker

    Paperback · 01 Aug 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    A brilliant introduction to Robert B. Parker, grandmaster of American crime and one of the biggest selling authors in the world.

  • The Finkler Question

    The Finkler Question
    Howard Jacobson

    Paperback · 02 Aug 2010 · €17.35
    Our Price: €14.99

    Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick.

  • The Foster

    The Foster
    Claire Keegan

    Paperback · 02 Sep 2010 · €8.99
    Our Price: €7.99

    A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.

  • The Museum of Innocence

    The Museum of Innocence
    Orhan Pamuk

    Paperback · 02 Sep 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    Set in Istanbul, this title tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.

  • Super Sad True Love Story

    Super Sad True Love Story
    Gary Shteyngart

    Paperback · 02 Sep 2010 · €17.35
    Our Price: €11.99

    Lenny Abramov is the son of working-class Russian immigrants, a bumbling minor functionary in a company that just may hold the secret to eternal life, and the reluctant star of the show, "101 People We Need To Feel Sorry For". He has fallen way too hard for the imperious Eunice Park, a blistering, beautiful Korean-American, a seductive shopper.

  • Auntie Mame

    Auntie Mame
    Patrick Dennis

    Paperback · 05 Aug 2010 · €13.35
    Our Price: €10.99

    When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy and eccentric aunt, a New York socialite named Mame. Prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy and expensive whims, Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how - with humour, mishaps, unforgettable friends and lots of love.

  • Summertime

    Summertime
    J.M. Coetzee

    Paperback · 02 Sep 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair.

  • Noah's Compass

    Noah's Compass
    Anne Tyler

    Paperback · 19 Aug 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    LIam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodgin issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certaint and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.


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