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Odyssey
2024 || Paperback || Stephen Fry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?
Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
New York Trilogy
2024 || Paperback || Paul Auster || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels - from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work "one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature." Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He's drawn into the streets of New York, onto an e...
Elsewhere
2024 || Paperback || Yan Ge || Faber and Faber
'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' SARAH HALL
'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN
'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' LUCY CALDWELL
'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'
In her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and an...
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A courtyard full of finds
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
The Shock of the Fall
2024 || Paperback || Nathan Filer || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014
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Reducing the ecological footprint
1. The flowing of water 2. Refuge 3. Rural wisdom
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
This is a fantastic tale of how humans and nature can work together to manage the Earth. In this case, it is about water. The story takes place around a small area with a dry wadi, which can turn into a raging torrent during torrential rains.
That is the outer side of the story.
What matters to the collaborating people in this fiction is that nature itself gets a say. Globally, this already happens here and there, but nature’s interests are represented there by humans.
It is called a «Parl...
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Come and Get It
2024 || Paperback || Reid Kiley Reid || Veltman Distributie Import Books
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about...
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Oldtimers
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
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Hard by a Great Forest
2024 || Paperback || Vardiashvili Leo Vardiashvili || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it'
KHALED HOSSEINI
'Tender and raw and funny, it's a rattling good read'
COLUM MCCANN
'A wildly charming debut - propulsive, funny, and profound'
ELIF BATUMAN
Tbilisi's littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn't even bring toothpaste.
Saba is just a child when he flees his h...