Twelve Nights
By: Urs Faes
3.37
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
'I may have been gone a long time, but I'm no stranger...' Manfred walks alone through a snowy val…
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1. Fox 8
By: George Saunders
4.12
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more
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- novella
- fiction
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."-George Saunders, Fox 8
"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
2. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
3. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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4. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- novella
- fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
5. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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- novella
- fiction
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
6. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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- novella
- fiction
"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
7. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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- christmas
- fiction
8. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- fiction
9. Night Side of the River
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more
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"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
10. Summerwater
By: Sarah Moss
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more
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- novella
- fiction
11. Tussentijds
By: Peter Zantingh
3.83
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Een jonge vader gaat met de trein naar zijn vrouw, die voor haar werk in Zuid-Duitsland is. De reis… read more
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- fiction
"Ik probeerde bomen te redden, zij maakte er boeken van."-Peter Zantingh, Tussentijds
12. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- fiction
13. Territory of Light
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.59
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more
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- fiction
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
14. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- fiction
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- novella
- fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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- fiction
17. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
18. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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- fiction
"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
19. Kleine haperende vluchten
By: Femke Brockhus
3.74
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Een ongewoon mooie roman over een vrouw die verdwijnt en haar man en dochtertje achterlaat. Een a… read more
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20. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
21. Twelve Nights
By: Urs Faes
3.37
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
'I may have been gone a long time, but I'm no stranger...' Manfred walks alone through a snowy val… read more
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- christmas
- germany
- fiction
- novella
