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Klara and the Sun
The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Paperback || Kazuo Ishiguro || Veltman Distributie Import Books
AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWFrom the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love?
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Joan Is Okay
Paperback || Weike Wang || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can't be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry
"A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang masterfully probes the existential uncertainty of being other in America."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came ...
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Malibu Rising
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON TIKTOK
2022 || Paperback || Taylor Jenkins Reid || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and TikTok sensation THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book' PANDORA SYKES
'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON
'It's 365 pages of pure exhilaration' THE TIMES
August,1983, it is the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation ...
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The Christie Affair
Paperback || Nina de Gramont || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A stunning novel that reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world.
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The Paris Bookseller
A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris
2022 || Paperback || Kerri Maher || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The compelling story of Sylvia Beach, founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, who fought against all the odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world.
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Avalon
2022 || Paperback || nell zink || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
Bran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her “common-law stepfather” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends ...
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The Guncle
2022 || Paperback || Steven Rowley || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An NPR Book of the Year
Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards
From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or...
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Mika In Real Life
2022 || Paperback || Emiko Jean || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Definitely 'best books of 2022' material!' Glamour
'By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a total joy of a read' Holly Miller, author of The Sight of You
'With the offbeat humour and poignancy of Maria Semple and Kirsty Capes, this has the potential to be a big hit' Bookseller, Editor's Choice
AT 35, MIKA SUZUKI IS STRUGGLING.
She's been fired (again). Her last relationship went up in flames. Her mother is perpetually disappointed in her. And now, she's had a phone call from sixteen-...
Small Things Like These
Winner of the Orwell Prize
2022 || Paperback || Claire Keegan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'Miraculous.' Herald'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin'Stunning.' Sunday Independent'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas StuartA Book of the Year in The Times and The New StatesmanIt is 1985, in an Irish town.
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Fifth Act
2022 || Paperback || Elliot Ackerman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy
Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worke...