Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
By: Tim Parks
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un’occhio (turn…
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1. The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime se… read more
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- italy
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"In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,"-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
"«Questo sta a lei scoprirlo, se ne ha voglia. Oppure può fermarsi alla forma che hanno fatto prendere all'acqua». «Non ho capito, mi scusi». «Io non sono siciliana, sono nata a Grosseto, sono venuta …"-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
2. The Italians
By: John Hooper
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Ital… read more
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- italy
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3. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
By: Dianne Hales
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Italians say that someone who acquires a new language 'possesses' it. In my case, Italian possesse… read more
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5. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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6. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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7. Ti prendo e ti porto via
By: Niccolò Ammaniti
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A Ischiano Scalo il mare c'e ma non si vede. E' un paesino di quattro case accanto a una laguna pie… read more
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8. Sweet Caress
By: William Boyd
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an a… read more
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9. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
10. The Prophet and the Idiot
By: Jonas Jonasson
3.65
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more
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11. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
12. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- fiction
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
13. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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14. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- fiction
15. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- fiction
17. La felicità del lupo
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.68
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arrivato alla fine di una lunga relazione, Fausto cerca rifugio tra i sentieri dove camminava da ba… read more
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- contemporary
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- italian literature
18. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- travel
19. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
20. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
21. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
22. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
23. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
24. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
By: John Banville
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more
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- fiction
25. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- contemporary
26. Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk
By: Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Jag kan ha fel är Björn Natthiko Lindeblads självbiografiska berättelse om hur han lämnar en löftes… read more
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"Någon som försökte lugna mig efteråt menade att anledningen till att ormen var så långsam och inte hann hugga efter mig var att detta var en av de giftigaste ormarna och de behövde inte vara så snabb…"-Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk
27. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- contemporary
28. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
29. Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By: Caroline Moorehead
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influ… read more
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30. Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
By: Tim Parks
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un’occhio (turn… read more
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- italian literature
- travel
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- contemporary
31. American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
By: Colum McCann
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In late 2021 Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey. A member of the ISIS group know… read more
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"Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling"-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Even the worst of humans demand a portion of love."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"He didn’t just want to be at the edge, he wanted to become the edge."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
