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Liam McIlvanney
The Quaker
It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades. But it’s not the weather that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer is on the loose. He’s been dubbed The Quaker. He leaves no clues, he moves in the shadows, and the investigation into his crimes has led police down one blind... -
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Andrew Miller
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England’s wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corunna stands out as a humiliation: a once-proud army forced to retreat, civilized men reduced... -
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James Hamilton-Paterson
Cooking with Fernet Branca
A witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every “wish-you-were-here” travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form. -
Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The Night of Rome
Sharp, dark, and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events. -
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A Girl Returned
WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Kirkus Reviews ・ Washington Post ・ Dallas Morning News) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I... -
Hiromi Kawakami
The Ten Loves of Nishino
Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami ( The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him.
