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From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past.

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange)Anna is five. Narrated by Anna, this is white-knuckle storytelling that captures the fear, wonder and bewilderment of our worst nightmares - and the power of one girl's endurin

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A beautiful, funny, vital novel of teenage years and teenage mistakes from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *Fresh out of high school, Kar

An astonishing new masterpiece from the Nobel and twice Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace and SummertimeAfter crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. In this strange new country they are assigned

Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simon catches sight of a woman

One game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, fi

`I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out ...

Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?’Darling and her friends live in a shanty called P

Only one person knows what happened that day... Julia was the only person who knew what happened that day. But she didn't tell the police. And then it was too late. Now, years later, her secret looms large. Is it really too late? And if she doe

Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not successful young criminal - is going about his m

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...’The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer, so they reluctantly leave their three pets in the care of a friend.

That is until the dreaded Russians roll into Vienna and move in too...Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can test your knowledge of the book, and learn more about the Second World War Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first cent

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife.

Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read. Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer.

The young D’Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France.

The international thriller sensationIt starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors.

In a detention centre in Dover exiled Chinese musician Jian is awaiting an unknown fa

‘Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking th

Boek The New World, geschreven door Sir Andrew Motion, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

In 1942 a young railway enthusiast and radio buff was caught up in the troubles in Singapore. Put to work on the 'Railway of Death', the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma, he was brutally tortured and emotionally destroyed by his experiences. It w

EVERY CORPSE IS A CLUE N47 Degrees 46.605 E013 Degrees 21.718. A dismembered hand N47 Degrees 48.022 E013 Degrees 10.910 Two severed ears N47 Degrees 26.195 E013 Degrees 12.523 A mutilated corpse A woman is found murdered. The start of a sinis

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. The witchlike psychologist and detective Mrs Bradley takes up the position of warden at a girl

Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The WifeWhatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool.

No witnesses, no fingerprints - only a positive ID of the victim as an immigrant with a long list of enemies. Detectives Zigic and Ferreira are called in from the Hate Crimes Unit to track the killer, and are met with silence in a Fenland community r

'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You’ll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won’t be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters o

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unfli

Not only that, he also manages to incur the wrath of an ailing ganglord, and soon finds himself tangled in a penthouse robbery and an underground boxing match. Trouble Man takes Bane through a hell, perhaps of his own making, where he is pushed to

Boek I Refuse, geschreven door Per Petterson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

You're heavily pregnant with the baby you've wanted for so long.And then Zoe steps into your life.And when you find Zoe in your room, going through your most personal possessions, your anxiety turns to real fear... It's a totally unputdownable thrill

________________________The gripping new psychological suspense novel from the author of Until You're Mine.It has taken nearly two years for the Warwickshire village of Radcote to put a spate of teenage suicides behind it. Then a young man is killed

Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992's Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator ha

Until she meets Matthew Williams, a Canadian who has inherited a run-down hill farm in North Wales. Young and enthusiastic, Matthew has no knowledge of farming and no experience of living in the countryside.

Can love survive the worst betrayal of all?From the moment Elizabeth Nugent arrives to live on his family's farm in Shropshire, Richard Wilde is in love with her. But as the Second World War rages, Richard is sent to fight in the jungles of Burma, le