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We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more

On the Calculation of Volume III

Solvej Balle

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A surgeon returning home from the trenches at the end of WW1 finds himself at odds with his wife and haunted by what he has seen. First English translation of this powerful 1926 novel.

A Shadow of Myself

Peter Flamm

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A man's journey on a wooden boat from a small town, Vaim, to a larger city and then back again, lured by a past love. Fosse's first new novel since his 2023 Nobel Prize.

Vaim

Jon Fosse

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Once the most widely read of German romantic stories, the capricious water nymph Undine has inspired countless artists and writers, from E.T.A. Hoffmann to George MacDonald, Arthur Rackham a... read more

Undine

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

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An immersive, rather sinister novel of ambition, success and artistic corruption in 1980s' London. The fourth in his Morning Star series, it nevertheless works well on its own and is a good ... read more

The School of Night

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Four fugitives hide from Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, fighting their desire to return home and learning to survive in the wild, unforgiving Cantabrian mountains.

Wolf Moon

Julio Llamazares

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An illustrated edition of this celebrated novella. By turns quotidian, esoteric and fantastical - as you might expect from the irresistible title.

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo

Haruki Murakami

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Already a huge bestseller in Europe, this novel - written with a bludgeon wielded in fury - is set during Finland's Winter War with the USSR in 1939-40. It centres on Simo Häyhä, the snipe... read more

The Winter Warriors

Olivier Norek

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Based on a C17th Danish witch trial and set in a world where magic is a real power and rightly feared.

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

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Warned that she only has a year before she loses her eyesight forever, Mona's grandfather resolves to take her to see a great work of art each week. A stirring book about beauty, loss, melan... read more

Mona’s Eyes

Thomas Schlesser

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A 'constellation' novel, full of images and fragments, set in a hamlet in Silesia. A revised translation.

House of Day, House of Night

Olga Tokarczuk

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In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more

Beasts of the Sea

Iida Turpeinen

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A haunting, spectral thriller with its own turbulent history. Due to its allusions to Austrian resistance and its brutal account of Germany's invasion of Poland, the book was banned by the N... read more

Mars in Aries

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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Tekla Berg - enigmatic, pill-popping doctor and amateur sleuth - is enlisted by an unsavoury detective to figure out a spate of shootings in Stockholm.

Blood Will Tell

Christian Unge

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First published in 1936, this endearing Icelandic novella follows the annual wintry trek of an aging shepherd, his dog and a tough old ram to round up any stray livestock and bring them off ... read more

Advent

Gunnar Gunnarsson

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Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more

Take a Walk with the Wind

Xiong Liang

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A small girl braves her fears in her quest to find her mother a life-saving flower, guarded by dragons. Richly illustrated and exciting, for ages 4-7.

Dragon Flower

Chen Jiang Hong

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A thoughtful, poetic little tale about a man embarking on a voyage at sea, adapted from the Nobel prize winner's Lanzarote Notebooks. Ages 4-8.

The First Boat

Jose Saramago

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A Japanese classic, recently translated. Each generation of the Moriyamas must take on the care of a group of tiny people who live in their house in Tokyo. Now the task has fallen to Yuri. B... read more

The Secret of the Blue Glass

Tomiko Inui

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A satirical and entertaining tale of a mother and son who bicker their way around Switzerland, fuelled by vodka and a grim determination to squander a fortune made from the arms trade.

Eurotrash

Christian Kracht

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A moving portrait of a large Polish-Jewish family living in Tarnów, in south-eastern Poland, between the wars and into the shadow of WW2. This is the first novel by this prize-winning autho... read more

My Name is Stramer

Mikolaj Lozinski

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Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

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Eastbound

Maylis de Kerangal

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The White Dress

Nathalie Leger

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Goncourt-winning historical love story.

Watching Over Her

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

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This seminal Spanish novel is set in Estremadura in the 1960s, where tensions simmer between impoverished workers and their wealthy landlords.

The Holy Innocents: A Novel

Miguel Delibes

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Slim picaresque novel by the German Romantic poet.

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

Joseph von Eichendorff

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From a former winner of the International Booker, translated from the Bulgarian, this is a poignant tale of a father, son and a fading garden.

Death and the Gardener

Georgi Gospodinov

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A powerful novel about teenage boys in Oslo during the Nazi Occupation, whose usual dodging suddenly gets serious.

The Unworthy

Roy Jacobsen

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A huge novel of sibling rivalry and the push-me-pull-you of inhabiting two cultures, spanning thirty years and three continents. Khemiri teaches creative writing on the prestigious NYU cours... read more

The Sisters

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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Gloriously gothick fantasy about Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the Italian 'garden of the monsters' with its vast stone mouths and leaning buildings. An historical novel to beat them... read more

Bomarzo

Manuel Mujica Lainez

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A passionate love affair across the social divide in the years after the Spanish Civil War. First English translation of Mars?'s 1996 masterpiece.

Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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Twenty stories of the Golden Age in Austro-Hungary before WW1: Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Margit Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke et al.

Tales from the Dual Monarchy

Annabel Barber

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The Maude translation from Everyman. Edna O'Brien loved this.

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

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Her final novel, translated from the Danish.

Vilhelm’s Room

Irma Margit Tove

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Curious tale of a museum worker and a statue of Venus falling in love. Translated from the Japanese.

When the Museum is Closed

Emi Yagi

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