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A sequel to The Harry Quebert Affair.

The Alaska Sanders Affair

Joel Dicker

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Fritz D?rries was a German entomologist who first travelled to Siberia as a young man in 1877. He went on to spend a total of twenty-two years there, encountering tigers, bandits, vipers and... read more

The Man Who Loved Siberia

Roy Jacobsen

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Five stories - from a young artist and a deserting soldier to an old man reminiscing beneath a lime tree - all interwoven by the common threads of war, memory and German history.

German Fantasia

Philippe Claudel

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Black comedy from the fine Ukrainian novelist, author of Death and the Penguin, Grey Bees and others.

Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv

Andrei Kurkov

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Ada is not one woman but many: from the Ada that gives birth in pre-colonial west-Africa to a young pregnant Ghanaian arriving in C21st Berlin. Translated from the German.

Ada’s Realm

Sharon Dodua Otoo

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Smoky, noirish novel that follows an actress from her childhood in provincial Hungary to the glamour - and strictures - of her career behind the Iron Curtain.

The Fawn

Magda Szabo

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A welcome return for investigator Rebecka Martinsson and the Arctic Murders series, absent from our lists too long! Well plotted and richly realised.

The Sins of our Fathers

Asa Larsson

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Using episodes in the life of the film director Sergio Cabrera, the Colombian novelist shows how ideologies mark personal lives.

Retrospective

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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An Alpine hotel with a room missing, a private bank in Switzerland, skullduggery over an inheritance, a ravishing young woman - just some of the layers in this fiendish onion of a novel.

The Enigma of Room 622

Joel Dicker

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The final part of his superb medieval Estonian trilogy 'Between Three Plagues'.

A Book of Falsehoods

Jaan Kross

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First in a new series of Swedish crime by the author of The Girl in the Spider's Web. Meticulously crafted.

Dark Music

David Lagercrantz

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An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more

The Invisible

Peter Papathanasiou

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Things start to go wrong in a Stockholm hospital and Dr Tekla Berg, a senior doctor, must save lives even faster than usual while solving the mystery of an untraceable and nameless young boy... read more

A Grain of Truth

Christian Unge

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Adulterous deceptions twist and unravel when a body is found.

The Lover

Helene Flood

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Contemporary short fiction from Afghanistan, all written before the Taliban retook power in August 2021. An extraordinary collection brought into being through the efforts of UNTOLD's Write ... read more

My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

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A powerful coming-of-age story - and its consequences for others - by the French-Mauritian writer who won the Prix Femina des Lyceens for The Tropic of Violence.

The Sky Above the Roof

Nathacha Appanah

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Second in the historical trilogy that began with the powerful The Bell in the Lake.

The Reindeer Hunters

Lars Mytting

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An atmospheric, creepy thriller set in a remote valley in northern Italy, where a writer, investigating an apparent drowning many years before, is hampered by superstition.

The Wanderer

Luca D'Andrea

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Grounded by Covid like the rest of us, Nooteboom - a tireless explorer of other cultures - withdrew to his house on Menorca. There he wrote this impressionistic non-diary, reflecting on his ... read more

533: A Book of Days

Cees Nooteboom

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SJ, a Swedish linguist, draws on recent research to argue that, rather than being something peculiar to Homo sapiens, language may have in fact originated among the Neanderthals.

The Dawn of Language: The Story of How We Came to Talk

Sverker Johansson

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Rejmer has collected personal accounts of survival in one of the most isolated countries on earth, under the brutally oppressive regime of Enver Hoxha. Touching, engrossing, harrowing...

Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania

Margo Rejmer

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Two young people vanish within days of each other; perhaps the good burghers of the Black Forest are not as nice as they seem.

Night Hunters

Oliver Bottini

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Set in post-war Japan, this is a Chandleresque tale of murder, political corruption and black marketeering, with a heavy-drinking investigator out on a limb. Familiar tropes perhaps, but in... read more

The Wrong Goodbye

Toshihiko Yahagi

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Creepy Norwegian noir:

The Therapist: From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.

Helene Flood

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The choices made by five women, all of whom experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall in their teens, and now grapple with different kinds of freedom. This has been a huge success in Germany.

Love in Five Acts

Daniela Krien

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Moves from art student life in Brussels to Lascaux; trompe l'oeil and the art of deceit. MdeK won the Wellcome Book Prize and was longlisted for the International Man Booker for 'Mend the Li... read more

Painting Time

Maylis de Kerangal

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Twenty years after he cracked a murder case, Detective Rosenburg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who is convinced of his mistakes in the original investigation. But before sh... read more

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer: A gripping new thriller with a killer twist

Joel Dicker

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Set in Sweden's far north in 1852, where a milkmaid is the first to go missing in the forest. It's presumed that a bear is the nocturnal bumper, but the preacher Laestadius deduces different... read more

To Cook a Bear

Mikael Niemi

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Short stories of subtle moral complexity by the great Colombian author.

Songs for the Flames

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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The brilliant Ukrainian novelist who gave us 'Death and the Penguin' and 'The Bickford Fuse' has turned now to a bee-keeper in no-man's land to reflect the conflicts in his country.

Grey Bees

Andrey Kurkov

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Three dark-skinned bodies wash up on the beach of a Mediterranean island. The attempts of the islanders to hush up the implications are upset by the arrival of a detective, who unpicks their... read more

Dog Island

Philippe Claudel

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A remarkable odyssey around the edges of that vast country - through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finl... read more

The Border – A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

Erika Fatland

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Meditative yet pin-sharp: armed with a suitcase of books and half a century of visits to the lagoon, this is a generous and learned homage.

Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water

Cees Nooteboom

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Beekeepers of the world unite! And all lovers of bees and the natural world, ho hum. This is an excellent cultural history of apiculture and was a bestselling book in Sweden last year.

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

Lotte Moeller

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A powerful tale about a 13-year-old girl, a Russian deserter and retreating Germans, set in 1944 in Lower Austria.

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

Paulus Hochgatterer

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A wonderful sequence of meditations about loss, ranging from the Caspian tiger to Greta Garbo's beauty.

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky

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