While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the "countess", but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.

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One of Britain's foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to chart the perennial allure of this perilous and myth-rich stretch of sea

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Kurt Neder was once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his generation, now a lost soul wandering Europe in the hope that someone will pay him heed. Enter Lena - an intrepid young British journalist, hoping for a story to kick-start her stalled career, and driven by her own needs and beliefs, and her own need to believe.

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The book brings vividly to life the passions and hopes of four generations, amid tales of wealth inherited and lost, eccentricity, sexual indiscretion and madness.

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A miniature masterpiece from acclaimed writer Peter Stamm, in which he asks unsettling questions about destiny and desire

Rudolf leaves his comfortable origins in Delft by ship for Java to help run the family's estates there. He moves from plantation to plantation, attempting to understand the ways of the local people, their version of Islam and their relationship to their land. On a visit to the capital, Jakarta, he falls in love with a teenage girl, Jenny.

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When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected.

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The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.

Set in the present-day Czech Republic, this novel traces a year in the life of a Protestant pastor, Daniel Vedra. Ostensibly a happily married father of three, he is gradually beset by spiritual doubt and temptations, both physical and material.

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The dazzling new state-of-the-nation novel from one of America's most significant contemporary writers and winner of the Women's Prize for May We Be Forgiven, which explores the makings of our political times.

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Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents

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In the last years of Weimar Germany, Roth set out to explore the Jewish communities scattered across Europe. He brought back varying reports and witnessed the twilight years of the shtetls and schools of Eastern Europe, and foresaw the dangers posed by extreme German nationalism.

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A new cover edition of the classic bestseller of British nature writing.

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The first readable, entertaining, non-worthy book about AIDS.

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Part boys' own adventure, part war-zone hell, this story takes us on a journey to one of the wildest corners of the African continent, and into the psychology of the altar-boy-turned-rebel-leader who is waging a war without end, for a cause nobody understands.

A novel that explores the nature of belief, the boundaries between madness and sanity, revelation and delusion, and good and evil.

A history of Britain's long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.

For nearly two centuries, Thugs haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way. Mike Dahs tells the story of the Thugs' rise and fall from the cult's beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its demise at the hands of British East India Company officer William Sleeman in 1840.

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Herge's "Tintin" cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77.' Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by great novelists, this book asks a simple question: is "Tintin" literature

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As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of the nascent Czech Republic, Havel led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down 5 years ago, in February 2003. This memoir recollects his thirteen years at Prague Castle during this period.

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From the celebrated author of Border comes a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the past.

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From a lyrical new voice in British fiction, an astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War - for readers of Max Porter and Pat Barker. Longlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize.

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