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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a weal
€6.90 excl tax

The Children's Train: A Novel

The inspiration behind the forthcoming Netflix film “The innocence of childhood collides with the stark aftermath of war in this wrenching and ultimately redemptive tale of family, seemingly impossible choices, and the winding paths to destiny, which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings.” – Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The
€7.60 excl tax

Psyche and Eros Intl

 “A pure delight . . . Romantic, poignant, and spellbinding.”— REBECCA ROSS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals “Fiercely feminist and deeply romantic, Psyche and Eros has the allure of an old fable and the epic quality of ancient myth, tinged with a provocative, modern wit. Passionate and deftly-told.” — AVA REID, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A St
€10.70 excl tax

The Friendly Ones

The things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a family barbecue. They are in the house in Sheffield that will do for the rest of their lives. In the garden next door is a retired doctor, whose four children have long since left home. When the shadow of death passes over Nazia and Sharif’s party, Doctor Spinster’s actions are going t
€10.40 excl tax

The Parlour Wife

Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war.

€7.60 excl tax

Diva

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. 'An extraordinary, vivid, and skilful re-imagining of a modern Greek legend' - Victoria Hislop In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as l
€6.90 excl tax

The House of Barbary

Beatrice's father has been murdered. Her life is in disarray. Her future uncertain. But she will not be lied to any more. Vengeance will be hers.
€9.80 excl tax

Burnt Shadows

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'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times

'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled ... Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian

'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' - Emma Thompson
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€6.60 excl tax

The Portrait Artist

All that is hidden will soon be revealed . . .

'A triumph ... deliciously intriguing' Harriet Constable, author of The Instrumentalist
'Impeccably researched, masterfully plotted, beautifully written' Santa Montefiore
'Imaginative. The streets, parlours and galleries of London and Oxford come alive in this

€9.80 excl tax

The Unrecovered

An unforgettable historical debut inspired by a real life legend which marks the arrival of an outstanding new talent
€9.80 excl tax

The Instrumentalist

A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces
€6.60 excl tax

33 Place Brugmann

An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms - and the magical and myriad ways we are connected to each other
€9.80 excl tax

All Quiet on the Western Front

The most famous anti-war novel ever written.

In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

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€6.60 excl tax

The Canary Keeper

'Historical fiction at its very best' ELLY GRIFFITHS. A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. Talk soon spreads of the killer and his striking accomplice: a young widow in mourning dress. Birdie Quinn's sleeplessness led her to the riv
€3.10 excl tax

Wandering Stars

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024* The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'A towering achievement’ New York Times 'As vital as air' Guardian 'This novel is alive' Tess Gunty Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering
€12.50 excl tax