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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529412239 | ISBN 10: 1529412234
A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. ‘You can’t really know another woman until you know yourself.’ Weaving together two parallel narratives, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648365 | ISBN 10: 1526648369
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE 'Epic, beautifully crafted... Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571331499 | ISBN 10: 0571331491
The propulsive debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today – a searing and affecting depiction of what redemption can be for a person and for a country in the wake of trauma. Lina returns to Colombia after twent ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529402681 | ISBN 10: 1529402689
He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, NoemÃ. You have to save me. When glamorous socialite Noemà Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it’s clear something is ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526615947 | ISBN 10: 1526615940
'September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fat ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473613614 | ISBN 10: 1473613612
The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman. In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on l ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999859329 | ISBN 10: 1999859324
Translated by Daniel Hahn ‘My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categoric ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099587590 | ISBN 10: 0099587599
It was Paula’s mother who had the brilliant idea of digging the holes. My mother said that the State of Guerrero was turning into a rabbit warren with young girls hiding all over the place... ‘Now we make you ugly,’ my mother said. ‘The best t ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241968727 | ISBN 10: 0241968720
The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón BolÃvar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, author of One Hundred Years ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141196688 | ISBN 10: 0141196688
Andrés Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music. María del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408833728 | ISBN 10: 1408833727
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. H ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847086273 | ISBN 10: 1847086276
A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing re ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753
As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099461722 | ISBN 10: 0099461722
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007274451 | ISBN 10: 0007274459
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007251872 | ISBN 10: 0007251874
Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747576808 | ISBN 10: 0747576807
Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. It is the original novel on which the Oscar-nominated film was based. Cicade de Deus, the City of God... Welcome to one of Rio's most ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780007146376 | ISBN 10: 000714637x
With his mother in hospital, Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote wor ... more
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