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  • Moonlight in Odessa

    Moonlight in Odessa
    Janet Skeslien Charles

    Paperback · 15 Feb 2010 · €15.45
    Our Price: €12.99

    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian meets Desperate Housewives in this wry and sparkling debut

  • The Lieutenant

    The Lieutenant
    Kate Grenville

    Paperback · 04 Feb 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    'A compelling narrative ... an intelligent, spare, always engrossing imagining of first contact, in which the fictionalization of history allows a comment about current postcolonial race relationships which escapes the didacticism of special pleading.' Times Literary Supplement

  • All That I Have

    All That I Have
    Castle Freeman

    Paperback · 21 Jan 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. But when local tearaway Sean 'Superboy' Duke starts to get tangled up with a group of major league Russian criminals, things start to go awry in the sheriff's small, protected domain.

  • The Salati Case

    The Salati Case
    Tobias Jones

    Paperback · 24 Dec 2009 · €8.99
    Our Price: €7.99

    Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. When a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is 'presumed dead' in order to dispose of a dead woman's estate to the other heirs, Casta smells a rat.

  • Wolf Hall

    Wolf Hall
    Hilary Mantel

    Paperback · 04 Mar 2010 · €11.60
    Our Price: €9.99

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

  • One Day

    One Day
    David Nicholls

    Paperback · 04 Feb 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. The best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!' The Times

  • The Infinities

    The Infinities
    John Banville

    Paperback · 05 Mar 2010 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    An exploration of the terrifying, wonderful, immutable plight of being human.

  • The Unnamed

    The Unnamed
    Joshua Ferris

    Paperback · 25 Feb 2010 · €16.75
    Our Price: €13.99

    Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, ageing with the grace of a matinee idol. He loves his work. He loves his family. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out on all of it. He cannot stop walking.


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