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Notes from the Underground
2019 || Paperback || Fyodor Dostoyevsky || Outlook Verlag
Reproduction of the original: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
2014 || Paperback || Jeanette Winterson || Vintage Publishing
'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.
At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tende...
History of Love
2024 || Paperback || Nicole Krauss || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.
Children's Book / druk 1
2024 || Paperback || A S Byatt || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children.
Brick Lane
By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
2022 || Paperback || Monica Ali || Transworld
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' Sunday TimesStill in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband.
Confined in her tiny flat, Nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons...
Almost English
2014 || Paperback || Charlotte Mendelson || Macmillan
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . .
In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel ...
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The Thing Around Your Neck
2009 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
Night Circus
2024 || Paperback || Erin Morgenstern || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. When the tents are all aglow, the sign appears. Le Cirque des Reves The Circus of Dreams. Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.
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Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
2024 || Paperback || Katarina Bivald || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody. Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too.
Brooklyn / druk 1
2010 || Paperback || Colm Toibin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and home for the first time.