Hocus Pocus
46.00 ₾Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — narrated by Vietnam veteran and prison warden Eugene Debs Hartke from a prison cell, it is a dark, funny portrait of America in decline. Vonnegut’s compassion, anger, and moral intelligence at full power. Essential late Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions
46.00 ₾Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — one of the most formally inventive American satirical novels. Vonnegut brings together the unhinged Dwayne Hoover and the sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout in a work illustrated with his own drawings — a devastating, funny critique of consumerism and the stories America tells itself.
The Tennis Partner
46.00 ₾The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a remarkable memoir about friendship, medicine, and addiction. Verghese’s friendship with David Smith, a brilliant medical student fighting cocaine addiction, is told with clinical precision and emotional intelligence. One of the finest books about addiction in recent American literature.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
46.00 ₾The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage) — narrated by Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old with extraordinary mathematical ability, as he investigates the murder of his neighbour’s dog. Simultaneously a detective story, a portrait of neurodiversity, and a moving father-son narrative. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
The Story of a Nutcracker
40.00 ₾The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas (Vintage) — his charming retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Christmas tale that inspired Tchaikovsky’s ballet. Written for his own children, Dumas brings characteristic warmth and narrative pace to Marie’s magical adventures. A delightful festive classic.
The Second Sex
55.00 ₾The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Vintage) — the foundational text of modern feminism, first published in 1949. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ — de Beauvoir’s central argument revealed femininity as social construction and permanently transformed thinking about gender. In Borde and Malovany-Chevallier’s landmark translation.
Covering Islam
50.00 ₾Covering Islam by Edward W. Said (Vintage) — the third volume of his landmark trilogy examines how Western media distort their coverage of the Islamic world. Drawing on the Iranian hostage crisis and other events, Said shows how ‘Islam’ functions as a threat-image in Western journalism. First published in 1981 — still urgently relevant.
The Ten Types of Human
55.00 ₾The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias (Vintage) — a human rights barrister uses evolutionary psychology and neuroscience to identify ten fundamental human responses to extreme situations. Moving between international courts and cutting-edge science, it asks what makes us capable of both cruelty and compassion. Remarkable science writing.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
46.00 ₾Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — Tsukuru, still haunted by his friends’ inexplicable rejection sixteen years earlier, finally seeks the truth. Murakami’s most emotionally direct novel — about friendship, loss, and the wounds that shape a life. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
How Should a Person Be?
46.00 ₾How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (Vintage) — one of the most original and provocative novels of the twenty-first century. Blurring fiction and autobiography, Sheila pursues the central question through friendship, love, and art with radical candour and considerable humour. A landmark of contemporary autofiction.
Look at the Birdie
46.00 ₾Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — fourteen previously unpublished stories discovered after his death. These 1950s tales of postwar American life stand fully alongside his published work: warm, funny, and morally intelligent. A genuine posthumous discovery.
Independent People
50.00 ₾Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage) — the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic masterpiece. The story of the magnificently stubborn crofter Bjartur, who sacrifices everything for independence, is both absurd and devastating: one of world literature’s great portraits of human will. Translated by J.A. Thompson.
The Prince
35.00 ₾The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Vintage) — the 1513 political masterpiece that inaugurated modern political science. Machiavelli’s stark account of how power is acquired and maintained, separated from conventional morality, remains one of the most famous and influential short texts in the history of ideas.
The Complete Novels
60.00 ₾The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka (Vintage) — The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika in one definitive volume. These three unfinished masterpieces define the Kafkaesque: arbitrary authority, impenetrable bureaucracy, and the individual’s helpless confrontation with the incomprehensible. Essential Kafka.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
60.00 ₾The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Arrow) — the landmark 1982 speculative history proposing that Jesus survived the crucifixion and that his bloodline was protected through centuries by the Priory of Sion. The inspiration for The Da Vinci Code — one of the most controversial works of popular historical investigation ever written.
As I Lay Dying
46.00 ₾As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Vintage) — told through fifteen narrators as the Bundren family transports their dead matriarch for burial. A formally brilliant, darkly comic masterpiece of American modernism, written in six weeks with concentrated power. One of literature’s great experiments in narrative voice.
Absalom, Absalom!
46.00 ₾Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Vintage) — widely considered his greatest novel. Through multiple overlapping narrators reconstructing the story of the enigmatic Thomas Sutpen, Faulkner creates a devastating meditation on Southern history and the impossibility of knowing the past. A masterwork of world literature.
The Sound and the Fury
46.00 ₾The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Vintage) — a masterpiece of American modernism. The Compson family’s decline is told through four radically different perspectives, beginning with the fragmented consciousness of Benjy. Technically dazzling, emotionally devastating, and one of the most important American novels ever written.
The Elephant Vanishes
46.00 ₾The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — seventeen short stories that established his international reputation. The mundane and the surreal coexist with quiet, unsettling force in tales of loneliness, strange encounters, and inexplicable loss. An essential introduction to Murakami’s singular voice.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
40.00 ₾South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a quietly devastating novel about the longing that haunts a life. When Hajime is reunited with his childhood love after twenty-five years, his apparently settled existence begins to unravel. Murakami’s most focused exploration of desire and the life unlived. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Sputnik Sweetheart
46.00 ₾Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a haunting short novel of unrequited love and mysterious disappearance. When Sumire vanishes on a Greek island, her friend K’s search opens onto the uncanny distances between even the closest people. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Cutting for Stone
50.00 ₾Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a sweeping, luminous family saga set in an Ethiopian mission hospital. The story of twin brothers born of a vanished surgeon and a nun, unfolding against Ethiopia’s political upheavals. One of the most celebrated debut novels of the twenty-first century.
The Sound of Waves
46.00 ₾The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) — the most lyrical and accessible of his novels. A tender love story set on a small Japanese island, inspired by the ancient Greek romance Daphnis and Chloe, it is suffused with natural beauty and animated by Mishima’s characteristic luminosity. An ideal introduction to one of the twentieth century’s great writers.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
46.00 ₾The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) — a masterpiece of psychological intensity. When a merchant sailor’s love affair with a widow is seen as a betrayal of his heroic ideal by a nihilistic boys’ gang, the consequences are devastating. Mishima’s most accessible short novel.
Spring Snow
46.00 ₾Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) opens the masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Set in Meiji Japan, it traces the forbidden love between the aristocratic Kiyoaki and the betrothed Satoko in prose of luminous beauty — a meditation on desire, loss, and the desire for transcendence.
Bagombo Snuff Box
46.00 ₾Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — twenty-three early short stories from the 1950s, as warm, funny and morally intelligent as his celebrated novels. An ideal introduction to Vonnegut’s humane, ironic voice at its most accessible.
Runaway Horses
46.00 ₾Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) — the second volume of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Set in 1930s Japan, it follows Honda as he becomes convinced a young nationalist fanatic is the reincarnation of his childhood friend — a devastating portrait of idealism, sacrifice, and Japan at a historical turning point.
Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill
46.00 ₾Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill (Vermilion) — the definitive anthology of Hill’s most powerful ideas, drawn from Think and Grow Rich, The Law of Success, and beyond. His core principles on desire, persistence and achievement in their most compelling form. Ideal introduction and essential reference.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
40.00 ₾How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Vermilion) — the 1936 self-help classic with over 30 million copies sold worldwide. Carnegie’s practical principles for communication, persuasion and leadership remain the gold standard for anyone seeking stronger relationships in business and life.
Think and Grow Rich
46.00 ₾Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Vermilion) — the legendary 1937 self-help classic with over 100 million copies sold. Hill’s thirteen principles for success, drawn from interviews with America’s most accomplished people, remain the definitive guide to the mindset behind extraordinary achievement.
Concrete Architecture
333.50 ₾Cayetano Cardelus explores the transformative power of concrete in modern architecture through this insightful examination of building design and construction. Concrete Architecture reveals how this versatile material has shaped contemporary cityscapes and revolutionized structural possibilities. Perfect for architects, students, and design enthusiasts seeking deeper understanding of concrete’s aesthetic and functional potential in today’s built environment.
Container Architecture
333.50 ₾David Andreu Bach’s Container Architecture reveals the transformative power of shipping container construction in contemporary design. This expert guide explores sustainable building solutions, from technical implementation to creative applications across residential and commercial projects. Bach illuminates how architects and designers are converting industrial containers into innovative architectural statements, addressing modern challenges through resourceful, environmentally conscious construction methods.
Patrick Genard and Asociados
290.00 ₾Discover the innovative architectural world of Patrick Genard through this comprehensive exploration of his professional practice and design collaborations. Published by Loft Publications, this architecture book reveals the creative methodologies and collaborative approaches that define contemporary architectural excellence. Perfect for architecture professionals, students, and design enthusiasts seeking insights into modern architectural practice and innovative design thinking.
High On… Modern Villas
333.50 ₾Ralf Daab’s High On… Modern Villas presents an exceptional collection of contemporary residential architecture that defines luxury living today. Published by Loft Publications, this architectural showcase explores innovative villa designs that seamlessly blend cutting-edge aesthetics with functional excellence. Perfect for architects, designers, and anyone passionate about modern residential architecture seeking inspiration from the world’s most striking contemporary villa projects.
Back to Nature Zurück Zur Natur
333.50 ₾Cayetano Cardelus explores the vital connection between agriculture and environmental stewardship in Back to Nature Zurück Zur Natur. This Loft Publications release offers a bilingual perspective on sustainable farming practices and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Essential reading for agriculture enthusiasts, environmental advocates, and anyone interested in ecological balance and farming innovation.
Coastal Charm
333.50 ₾Coastal Charm by Francesc Zamora captures the irresistible magnetism of seaside living through an authentic lens. Published by Booq Publishing SL, this engaging work explores the sophisticated elements that define coastal aesthetics and lifestyle. Zamora’s distinctive approach offers readers genuine insights into the timeless appeal of waterfront environments, making this title indispensable for coastal enthusiasts and design aficionados seeking inspiration.
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