A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
By: Dorthe Nors
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of th…
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1. Atlas of Remote Islands
By: Christine Lo , Judith Schalansky
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth… read more
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2. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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3. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nature
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
4. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
5. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
6. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
7. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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8. Det blinde øje
By: Mathilde Walter Clark
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
DET ER EFTERÅRET 2020. Isoleret i sit hjem sidder Mathilde Walter Clark og ser på, da den nationale… read more
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9. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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10. Luonnollinen näytelmä
By: Ulla Donner
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Minä olen ainutlaatuinen ja itsevarma. Minä kutsun positiivista energiaa elämääni. Minä ansaitsen k… read more
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11. Varme hænder
By: Stine Askov
4.01
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Camilla træffer et livsvalg, da hun siger op som børnehavepædagog for i stedet at blive handicaphjæ… read more
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12. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor… read more
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13. Een zee van liefde
By: Pieter Gaudesaboos
4.59
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pinguïn is onderweg naar het huis van zijn vriend Beer. Hij zeult een koffer, een lantaarn, en een … read more
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14. Osebol
By: Marit Kapla
3.95
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
Osebol är en by vid Klarälven i norra Värmland. Sedan mitten på förra seklet har många flyttat häri… read more
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15. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
By: Dorthe Nors
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of th… read more
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- essays
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- nature
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16. Rzeka dzieciństwa
By: Andrzej Stasiuk
3.67
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Do rzeki dzieciństwa podróżuje się bez końca – szuka jej źródeł w historii i ujścia w pamięci. Wspo… read more
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17. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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18. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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19. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
By: Hannah Stowe
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more
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20. The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
By: Anthony Seldon
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Ant… read more
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21. Ghosts on the Shore: Travels along Germany's Baltic Coast
By: Paul Scraton
4.03
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Germany's Baltic coast. A place of escape, of carefree summer holidays, of spa towns and health ret… read more
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