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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta
€13.00Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why? Learn More -
Any Human Heart
€12.00Any Human Heat is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. Learn More -
Brooklyn
€9.99It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Learn More -
Death in Venice and Other Stories
€11.99"Death in Venice" is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city. Learn More -
Lucky Girls
€7.99A collection of five stories, "Lucky Girls" is set in India and southern Asia. The characters - rootless, often enroute to someplace else - find themselves variously attracted to or repelled by unfamiliar landscapes where every object seems strange and every emotion is heightened. Learn More -
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
€9.99Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people; a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself. Learn More -
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
€24.00Spencer Wells, in his thrilling and thoughtful new book, examines our cultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led us to the path we are on today, one he believes we must veer from in order to survive. Learn More -
Remote People
€16.00Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari Haile Selassie I, King of Kings; an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times... Learn More -
The Blue Afternoon
€12.00Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love. Learn More -
The End of the Alphabet
€9.99Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so, Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark upon a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them had expected. Learn More
Cultural Connections: Places
Grüto Parkas
Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a stateless and classless society structured...