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The Girl with Ice in her Veins

Karin Smirnoff

'Fresh, fearless, faithful and original. One of the great crime series of our time could not be in safer, more capable hands' Chris WhitakerDiscover Lisbeth Salander - one of the most memorable female characters in all crime fiction.Spring returns to Sweden's far north,...

Generation GDR

Jamie Bulloch , Peter Wensierski

A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....

The Bolthole

Peter Papathanasiou

"A rising star of crime fiction" Sunday Times"Outback noir has a new star" The TimesLocated off the coast of South Australia, Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring deadly great white sharks and forgotten shipwrecks.Over the centuries the Islanders...

The Unworthy

Don Bartlett , Roy Jacobsen , Don Shaw

"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary SupplementThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the...

Fortress of Evil

Javier Cercas , Anne Mclean

A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared.Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta.But their idyll is shattered when...

The Heirs of the Arctic

Sean Kinsella , Aslak Nore

The Falcks are one of the most powerful families in Norway. And where there is power, there is envy and greed.December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost testament testament shook the Falck family to its core.Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the...

40 Weeks

Anna Blix , Nichola Smalley

The Stolen Heart

Boris Dralyuk , Andrey Kurkov

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer...

The Night of the Scourge

Deborah Dawkin , Lars Mytting

A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogyButangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the...

Oromay

David Degusta , Baalu Girma , Mesfin Felleke Yirgu

"A modern classic" Observer"Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow KingEthiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of...

The Widow

Helene Flood

"This compelling, slow-burn thriller is my first of Flood's, and it won't be my last" Good Housekeeping"A wonderful storyteller" Chris WhitakerThe big dark house at the top of the hill never felt like Evy's.Erling's parents insisted it be held in his name only, that...

Dear Dickhead

Virginie Despentes , Frank Wynne

"The book of the moment" Sunday TimesA Guardian Book of the Year"Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian"Despentes at her very best" New European"Full of emotional suspense" FT"Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous...

The Alaska Sanders Affair

Robert Bononno , Joël Dicker

The sequel to the iconic worldwide bestseller THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR"If you likedThe Truth AboutThe Harry Quebert Affair, you will love this"The Times"One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction"A. J. Finn, #1 bestselling author ofThe...

The Blanket Cats

Jesse Kirkwood , Kiyoshi Shigematsu

Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat

Kim Jiyun , Shanna Tan

*THE HEARTWARMING KOREAN BESTSELLER**A new book from Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop*Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary...

Fatal Gambit

David Lagercrantz

Jellyfish Have No Ears

Adèle Rosenfeld , Jeffrey Zuckerman

"Brilliant" Telegraph"Captivating" TLS"Superb, surprising . . . A work of spirited imagination" Irish TimesLouise has always felt adrift between communities: not deaf enough to be a part of Deaf culture, not hearing enough to be fully within the hearing world. Hearing,...

Comrade Papa

Gauz' , Frank Wynne

BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to...

The Boundless River

Mathijs Deen , Jane Hedley-Prole , Jonathan Reeder

"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning " PATRICK McGUINNESSThe...

Confessions

Jaume Cabre

"Absolutely captivating" ANDREA CAMILLERI"Monumental" GuardianDrawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative...