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The English Patient
Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize
2024 || Paperback || Michael Ondaatje || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
'Magnificent' Sunday Times
'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories.
The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a...
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The Radetzky March
2024 || Paperback || Joseph Roth || Granta Books
Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.
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Destination (Heruitgave)
|| Paperback || Henk Vaessen || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
2024 || Paperback || Louis de Bernieres || Vintage Publishing
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces.
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Black Butterflies
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
2024 || Paperback || Priscilla Morris || Duckworth Books
Inspired by real-life accounts of the Siege of Sarajevo, only thirty years ago, Black Butterflies is a heartrending and utterly captivating portrait of disintegration, resilience and hope.
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The English Patient
Bloomsbury Modern Classics
2024 || Paperback || Michael Ondaatje || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
'Magnificent' Sunday Times
'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories.
The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a...
The Good Soldier
A Tale of Passion
2012 || Paperback || Ford Madox Ford || Oxford University Press
A masterpiece of early Modernism, The Good Soldier tells the story of the unfolding relationships between two couples in the words of an archetypal 'unreliable narrator'. Its portrayal of the destruction of a civilized elite is a work of unforgettable power and literary skill, here accompanied by Ford's important essay 'On Impressionism'.
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Berlin Finale
2024 || Paperback || Heinz Rein || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Heinz Rein was an influential German novelist writing before and after the Second World War. He became a major figure in the 'rubble literature' period and his famous novel Berlin Finale, published in 1947, was one of the first bestsellers in the tumultuous German rebuilding period. He abandoned East Germany for the West in the 1950s.
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A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition
2024 || Paperback || Ernest Hemingway || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. This special edition lifts the lid on Hemingway’s creative process.
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Orlando King
2024 || Paperback || Isabel Colegate || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times)
'If you are curious as to why Britain is still ruled by a tiny cadre of not-very-introspective aristo-capitalists, Orlando King is essential reading' Sunday Times
'Colegate's sharp-eyed trilogy about a young man on the make in 1930s London feels particularly resonant right now, given its acute take o...