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Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman

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Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will …

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Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House

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Vier unterschiedliche Charaktere treffen sich im abweisenden Hill House, um seinem Spuk auf die Spur zu kommen: Dr. Montague, ein okkulter Gelehrter und Theodora, seine fröhliche Assistentin; die Polterge…

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George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia

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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or ind…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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Truman Capote
In Cold Blood

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Ein dramaturgisch geschickter Roman, der aus der Perspektive der Mörder, der ermordeten Familie und der ermittelnden Beamten erzählt. Spannend, psychologisch stimmig, fesselnd von der ersten bis zur letzt…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

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'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigatesis not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating…

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

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Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. …

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Göran Rosenberg
Israel

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Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg's family embark from his native S…

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Aharon Appelfeld,
Katerina

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'Read this book . . . what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is' Los Angeles TimesFleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish…

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Georges Simenon,
Letter to My Judge

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My dear Judge, I would like one man, just one, to understand me. And I really hope that man can be you.In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavoine seems to lead the perfect life: his own medica…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

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'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

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'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such…

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Len Deighton
London Match

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'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia,
Mars in Aries

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Vienna, 1939. Count Wallmoden, an officer and veteran of the First World War, is preparing to take part in a mysterious 'military exercise'. One evening, while off duty, he meets the austere and beautiful…

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William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch

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At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern Classics Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunc…

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Terry Pratchett
Night Watch

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A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett's multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels'A master storyteller' A.S. Byatt'Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted s…

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George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of …

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George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four. Anniversary Edition

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Versteckt in der Dokumentationsabteilung des weitläufigen Wahrheitsministeriums arbeitet Winston Smith an der Fälschung der Geschichte, damit sie den Erfordernissen der Partei genügt. Dabei wird er - wie …

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James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son

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Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain , appeared in 1953 t…

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Torborg Nedreaas,
Nothing Grows by Moonlight

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'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen MasudIn the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful…

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