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HardbackPeter Turchin What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieva

SoftbackLucius Seneca No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one

Henry James Hardback 768 pages Henry James's great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bi

HardbackHerman Melville In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (an

Vladimir NabokovPaperback 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps

Yukio MishimaPaperback Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. Isao is a young, enga

Shauny BythellPaperback A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday"Do you have a list of your bo

Ocean Vuong Paperback 256 pages ** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller **Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's d

PaperbackJeroen Olyslaegers It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero

SoftbackMargaret Atwood To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this cr

HardbackGuido Van Genechten Wat is het prachtig om jou je eerste stapjes te zien zetten! Dit ondersteunende boekje is het perfecte geboortecadeau voo

SoftbackAli Smith From the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to Be Both comes the unmissable second novel in Ali

HardbackToni Morrison Lied van Solomon is het verhaal van Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead, erfgenaam van de rijkste zwarte familie in het Midden-Westen van A

SoftbackPeter Wohlleben Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of T

Paperback Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertra

PaperbackJ.S. Margot When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the

SoftbackHolly Black I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Jude has tricked Cardan onto the t

Donna Tartt Paperback 576 pages Donna Tartt's huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller The Secret HistoryThe sunlit rai

SoftbackChinua Achebe Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for

SoftbackChinua Achebe Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his aut

SoftbackMikhail Bulgakov Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in l