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  1. My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
    1. Deborah Levy

    My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

    A Fiction

    Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the essay on Stein will never get written, but here it is – odd, inventive and wonderfully entertaining – triumphantly proving her wrong

    € 26,50
  2. Leven van M
    1. Rachel Cusk

    Leven van M

    Rachel Cusk is de auteur van Tweede plaats (Prix Femina étranger), de Contouren-trilogie en de memoires Een levenswerk en Nasleep, en vele andere fictie- en non-fictieboeken, waaronder haar meest recente roman Parade(Goldsmiths Prize 2024). Ze ontving een Guggenheim Fellowship, de Premio Malaparte 2024. en is onderscheiden met de titel Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres. Ze woont in Parijs.

    € 22,99
  3. Transcription
    1. Ben Lerner

    Transcription

    'This may be the best novel you’ll read all year' Telegraph

    This may be the best novel you'll read all year... Brilliant and incisive... Intelligent and elegant

    € 17,95
  4. Glyph
    1. Ali Smith

    Glyph

    Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable

    € 20,95
  5. Hot Milk
    1. Deborah Levy

    Hot Milk

    Unsettling, challenging and gloriously written, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer

    € 13,95
  6. Small Things Like These
    1. Claire Keegan

    Small Things Like These

    The Irish Times readers' choice for best Irish book of the century

    An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.

    € 13,95
  7. On Beauty
    1. Zadie Smith

    On Beauty

    The tale of a mixed-race British American family in conflict with another family of opposing sensibilities. As with all Smith's work, it's smart, funny and a masterclass in the complexities of identity

    € 12,50
  8. Outline
    1. Rachel Cusk

    Outline

    'Cusk has glimpsed the central truth of modern life.' Patricia Lockwood

    A novel about writing and talking, self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.

    € 13,95
  9. The Cost of Living
    1. Deborah , Levy

    The Cost of Living

    Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011); Hot Milk (2016) and the forthcoming The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012; Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Deborah is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and two 'living autobiographies', Things I Don't Want To Know and The Cost of Living. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

    € 14,00
  10. Delta of Venus
    1. Anaïs Nin

    Delta of Venus

    Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.

    € 14,95
  11. Her Side of the Story
    1. Alba de Céspedes

    Her Side of the Story

    At once a revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration... What takes Her Side of the Story from feminist tragedy into actual-work-of-genius territory is its strange, almost nauseating moments of menace... I will turn to this shard-in-the-heart book again one day, knowing new treasures await me inside

    € 17,95
  12. August Blue
    1. Deborah Levy

    August Blue

    Intelligent and absurd, precise and dream-like . . . I know of few other authors who can capture an atmosphere of the eerie and the bizarre as well as she does

    € 13,95