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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2020 || Paperback || Jonathan Safran Foer || Penguin
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
Inherent vice
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Pynchon || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say.
Confederacy of Dunces
‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly
2024 || Paperback || John Kennedy Toole || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.
The Bell Jar
2001 || Paperback || Sylvia Plath || Faber & Faber
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
2023 || Paperback || Satoshi Yagisawa || Kings Road Publishing
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.
Hidden in Jinbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.
Twenty-five-year-old Takano has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Ojisan, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoki left him...
Daydream
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Grace || LYX
Das kleine Nähcafé am Fluss
2024 || Paperback || Sabine Schmidt || Blanvalet
Beginners
The Original Version 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2024 || Paperback || Raymond Carver || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.
On the Road
Penguin Essentials
2024 || Paperback || Jack Kerouac || Penguin
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
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Let Me Be Frank With You
A Frank Bascombe Book
2024 || Paperback || Richard Ford || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC