The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio…
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1. Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
By: Peter Temple
3.94
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look fo… read more
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"I slumped in the chair. I'd known it was coming. Absolutely no doubt. You know. I'd been feeling sick about it for weeks. So, why did I now feel even sicker? Love. Not a word for casual use. The life…"-Peter Temple, Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
2. Hag-Seed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.80
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assist… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza"-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"But once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don’t intend to go down it again."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
3. Bad Debts (Jack Irish, #1)
By: Peter Temple
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard e… read more
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- fiction
4. Shadowboxing
By: Tony Birch
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shadow Boxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Me… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Riders
By: Tim Winton
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seve… read more
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6. 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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- france
- french literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
7. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- literature
- fiction
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
8. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
9. O que é Meu
By: José Henrique Bortoluci
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more
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- contemporary
10. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
11. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
12. Tell
By: Jonathan Buckley
3.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
- contemporary
13. The Book of All Loves
By: Agustín Fernández Mallo
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more
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14. Attaquer la terre et le soleil
By: Mathieu Belezi
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Attaquer la terre et le soleil narre le destin d’une poignée de colons et de soldats pris dans l’en… read more
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- france
- fiction
15. The Chase
By: Candice Fox
3.89
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestse… read more
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- fiction
16. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
17. The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more
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- roman
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- french literature
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- contemporary
- 21st century
- dark
- family
- drama
18. Herscht 07769
By: László Krasznahorkai
4.20
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Krasznahorkai új műve, egy több száz oldalas elbeszélés 2021 februárjában jelenik meg a Magvető kia… read more
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- roman
- fiction
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19. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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20. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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21. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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