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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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Eliete

Dulce Maria Cardoso , Angel Gurria-Quintana

*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*Eliete is forty (-something) Eliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years Eliete has an average career as an average estate agent Eliete has a completely normal life Eliete has reached breaking-point Eliete is stuck in...

A Perfect Day to be Alone

Nanae Aoyama , Jesse Kirkwood

The Sea Cemetery

Deborah Dawkin , Aslak Nore

"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINNThere is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found,...

And the Stones Cry Out

Clara Dupont-Monod , Ben Faccini

This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby.This is the story of his place in the Cévennes house where he was born, overlooked by...

Before the Queen Falls Asleep

Huzama Habayeb , Kay Heikkinen

*As featured as an editor's pick on Radio Four's OPEN BOOK**One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024*"An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian...