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Frictie by Miriam Rasch

Greenwood : a novel by Michael Christie

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a historical study of the Persian Empire …

Summer by Ali Smith

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Avonden, De by Gerard Reve

The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood

More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …

Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. …

Spring by Ali Smith

Brothers of the Wind by Tad Williams (The Last King of Osten Ard, #0.75)

Pride often goes before a fall, but sometimes that prideful fall is so catastrophic that it changes history itself.

Among …

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II …

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the existence and societal harm of …

The God is Not Willing by Steven Erikson

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of …

Assail by Ian C. Esslemont

Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and …