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The Bandit Queens
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
2024 || Paperback || Parini Shroff || Veltman Distributie Import Books
For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife... Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.
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The Best Japanese Short Stories
Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
2023 || Paperback || Lane Dunlop || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!
Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi.
Highlights of thi...
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City in Ruins
2024 || Paperback || Don Winslow || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.
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Our Missing Hearts
2023 || Paperback || Celeste Ng || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.
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Old God's Time
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
2024 || Paperback || Sebastian Barry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
A FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A masterpiece' Sunday Times
'Stunning' LIZ NUGENT
'Extraordinary' Irish Times
Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea.
His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case...
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Open Throat
2023 || Hardcover || Henry Hoke || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city's perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: Does it want to eat a human, or become one?
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Cold People
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44
2023 || Paperback || Tom Rob Smith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Stunning' Publishers Weekly
'Absolutely captivating' Booklist
What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no ...
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Sleeper
2021 || Paperback || Jed Mercurio e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The first in a hotly anticipated new graphic novel series
DS-5, a biologically-enhanced law enforcement marshal, is due to be decommissioned after decades in deep space. He returns to a solar system finally rising out of a devastating climate war following the discovery of a miraculous new energy source: Titan Green. His pod crashes on Titan following a mysterious explosion, and DS-5 deploys for his final mission: an investigation into mass murder that becomes entwined with a geologist's ques...
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How to Love Your Daughter
2023 || Paperback || Blum Hila Blum || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A striking and memorable novel. With single-minded intensity, How to Love Your Daughter reckons with parent-child boundaries: the ones that are clear, and the ones that are sometimes hazy, or dangerously nonexistent' Meg Wolitzer
A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of...
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Go Lightly
The funny, sharp and heartfelt bisexual love story
2024 || Paperback || Lee-Kennedy Brydie Lee-Kennedy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually
WHO IS ADA?
With Sadie she's an Aussie girl in London, a performer, a ball of creativity and a lover of food.
With Stuart she's funny and quirky, capable of finding romance in a dinner of crisps on a cold harbour and long train rides.
With her family she's the joker, the peacekeeper, the entertainer.
But she doesn't have to choose which vers...