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Netherland / druk 1
2024 || Paperback || Joseph O’Neill || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.
The Lowland
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize and The Women's Prize for Fiction
2022 || Paperback || Jhumpa Lahiri || Bloomsbury Publishing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks r...
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Le gone du Chaaba
2022 || Paperback || Begag Azouz e.a. || Seuil
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built / druk 1
'Totally addictive' Daily Mail
2024 || Paperback || Alexander McCall Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Book 10 in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2024 || Paperback || Raymond Carver || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK.
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Green Grass, Running Water
2022 || Paperback || Thomas King || Bantam Doubleday
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...
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Hate U Give
2018 || Paperback || Angie Thomas || Walker Books
Movie tie-in edition of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, starring Amandla Stenberg
No. 1 New York Times bestseller
"A classic in the making." The Times
"Places a spotlight on Black Lives Matter." Stylist
"Passionate and uncompromising." The Observer
"A must-read." The Pool
"Outstanding." The Guardian
"Powerful." Metro
Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she wa...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2024 || Paperback || Khaled Hosseini || Bloomsbury Publishing
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph
'A triumph' Financial Times
'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
'Deeply moving' Sunday Times
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move ...
See Under Love
2010 || Paperback || David Grossman || Vintage Publishing
Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Beast' is. His 9-year-old mind imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews.
Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected...
A Clockwork Orange
Penguin Essentials
2018 || Paperback || Anthony Burgess || Penguin
In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.