The Lost Daughter
46.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s taut, unsettling portrait of a woman on holiday who becomes obsessed with a young mother on the beach — and with her own buried ambivalence as a mother. A meditation on maternal love, resentment, and guilt treated with characteristic directness and complete truth.
The Lying Life of Adults
46.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s standalone novel after the Neapolitan tetralogy — a teenager’s obsessive search for her father’s disreputable sister, and the painful process of seeing parents clearly for the first time. Ferociously precise on adolescent disillusionment and the discovery of adult lies.
The Story of the Lost Child
50.00 ₾The fourth and final Neapolitan novel — sixty years of friendship, competition, love, and mystery brought to devastating conclusion. The full meaning of Elena and Lila’s extraordinary relationship comes into final focus in pages that are among the most powerful in contemporary fiction.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
50.00 ₾The third Neapolitan novel — Elena and Lila through 1970s Italy’s political tumult, the labour movement, and the complexities of feminism. Ferrante’s most explicitly political volume traces two women navigating class, identity, and the tension between personal life and collective action.
The Story of a New Name
46.00 ₾The second Neapolitan novel — Lila married and constrained, Elena escaped to university and finding liberation complicated by loss. Ferrante traces their diverging paths with ferocity and psychological depth: richer, darker, and more complete than its predecessor, and equally essential.
My Brilliant Friend
50.00 ₾The first volume of Ferrante’s celebrated Neapolitan novels — the friendship of Elena and Lila from childhood in 1950s Naples. Intense, competitive, and one of literature’s greatest portraits of female friendship: the starting point for one of the great reading experiences in contemporary fiction.
The Days of Abandonment
46.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s incandescent, terrifying portrait of a woman whose life dissolves when her husband leaves. Compact, relentless, and ferociously psychologically precise: the novel that first showed international readers the full force of Ferrante’s gifts, and one of the defining feminist novels of the century.
Incidental Inventions
60.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s short essays on everyday objects and moments — a piece of clothing, a gesture, a word — that find universal truths in particular details. Her characteristic intelligence turned to the small incidents of daily life: essential for devoted readers and a perfect introduction for newcomers.
Lust for Life
46.00 ₾Irving Stone’s celebrated biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh — an immersive, passionately researched account of the painter’s obsessive genius, poverty, and tragic life. The definitive fictional portrait of van Gogh, which has introduced generations of readers to one of art history’s most transcendent careers.
Tina Turner – My Love Story (Official Autobiography)
45.00 ₾Tina Turner’s official autobiography — the story of a life that moved from trauma and abuse to global superstardom and a late-life transformation. Intimate, candid, and told without self-pity: one of popular music’s greatest performers on survival, resilience, and beginning again.
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
55.00 ₾A giant frog arrives at a Tokyo bank employee’s apartment with a mission: together they must prevent an earthquake from destroying the city. Murakami’s celebrated story about heroism, invisibility, and saving the world without recognition — beautifully illustrated and a perfect introduction to his magical realism.
The Pole & Other Stories
50.00 ₾J.M. Coetzee’s late story collection — including the title novella about an elderly Polish musician’s love for a younger Spanish woman, and accompanying stories meditating on desire, age, and human connection. Precise, morally serious, and characteristic of a Nobel laureate’s late mastery.
Top Gear Hypercars The Greatest Automotive Gamechangers
120.00 ₾Top Gear’s guide to hypercars — the machines above supercars that redefine what automotive engineering can achieve. Jason Barlow profiles the Bugatti Chiron, McLaren Speedtail, Rimac Nevera, and their peers with technical authority and genuine excitement, explaining why each one changes everything.
Bond Cars The Definitive History
150.00 ₾The definitive guide to James Bond’s automobiles — from the iconic Aston Martin DB5 to the present day. Jason Barlow’s authoritative volume combines stunning photography, technical specs, and behind-the-scenes stories in a celebration of 60 years of the most stylish cars in cinema history.
Top Gear Ultimate Supercars
120.00 ₾Top Gear’s definitive guide to the most spectacular road cars ever created — from the Ferrari 250 GTO to the Bugatti Veyron and their modern successors. Jason Barlow’s technically authoritative, irreverent, and genuinely passionate writing makes this essential for every serious car enthusiast.
Surrounded by Idiots The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood)
50.00 ₾The international phenomenon selling millions worldwide — Thomas Erikson’s accessible framework for understanding four fundamental behaviour types. Using red, yellow, green, and blue personalities, a practical guide to why people behave as they do, and how understanding them transforms every relationship.
The Myth of Normal Illness, Health & Healing in a Toxic Culture
60.00 ₾Gabor and Daniel Maté’s sweeping examination of how modern culture systematically produces illness — and why healing requires addressing the social and emotional environments that generate it. Ambitious, compassionate, and essential: a fundamental challenge to what we call ‘normal’ in contemporary life.
When the Body Says No The Cost of Hidden Stress
60.00 ₾Gabor Maté’s landmark exploration of how suppressed emotion and chronic stress manifest in the body as disease — from cancer to autoimmune conditions. Through case studies and research, a compassionate challenge to the mind-body split, and essential reading for anyone interested in emotional and physical health.
Hold on to Your Kids Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
60.00 ₾Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté’s groundbreaking argument that peer orientation — not parents stepping aside — undermines healthy child development. Drawing on clinical experience and research, a practical guide to restoring the parent-child connection that protects children and allows them to mature.
The Martian
55.00 ₾Mark Watney, left behind on Mars, must use real science to survive long enough to be rescued. Andy Weir’s compulsively readable novel makes the physics, chemistry, and botany genuinely accurate — a survival story that is simultaneously a thriller, a comedy, and a love letter to problem-solving.
America Day by Day
50.00 ₾Simone de Beauvoir’s sharp, intelligent account of a four-month journey across America in 1947 — from New York jazz clubs to segregated Southern states. The existentialist philosopher’s analytical rigour and political engagement make this an essential portrait of America at the midpoint of its century.
Slaughterhouse 5 Vintage War
46.00 ₾Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comedic anti-war masterpiece — Billy Pilgrim, unstuck in time, moving between Dresden’s firebombing and suburban American life. ‘So it goes.’ One of the most important novels ever written about war, time, and the mechanics of surviving an insane world.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2
100.00 ₾The second volume of the landmark cyberpunk anthology traces the movement’s evolution and global spread — Japanese, Chinese, and other non-Western traditions alongside the familiar American and British strands. Together, the two volumes constitute the most comprehensive survey of cyberpunk fiction ever assembled.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1
100.00 ₾The foundational stories of cyberpunk — the genre that imagined the internet, the surveillance state, and the body-as-technology before they arrived. Volume 1 of this landmark anthology surveys the movement’s origins with Gibson, Sterling, Cadigan, and the stories that shaped science fiction and contemporary culture.
Don Quixote
55.00 ₾The first modern novel and one of literature’s greatest achievements — Cervantes’s knight errant tilting at windmills in a parody that becomes a profound meditation on fiction, reality, and idealism. Four hundred years old and never less than contemporary: an essential work for every serious reader.
Grimus
50.00 ₾Salman Rushdie’s first novel — a wildly ambitious 1975 fantasy about an immortal Native American’s journey to an island outside time, drawing on Sufi philosophy and science fiction. Less polished than his mature work but essential for understanding the development of one of literature’s great imaginations.
Light in August
46.00 ₾William Faulkner’s formally ambitious masterpiece — three narrative strands exploring race, religion, and the crushing weight of the Southern past. Joe Christmas, Lena Grove, and Reverend Hightower: characters whose stories interweave into one of the great American novels of the twentieth century.
Eileen
46.00 ₾Ottessa Moshfegh’s Booker-shortlisted debut — Eileen Dunlop, consumed by misanthropy and dark fantasies in 1960s Massachusetts, until a glamorous colleague changes everything. Cool, precise, and wickedly funny: the novel that announced a major and discomforting new voice in American fiction.
Fiesta The Sun Also Rises
46.00 ₾Hemingway’s 1926 masterpiece — Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, and the Lost Generation adrift in Paris and Pamplona, living brilliantly and feeling nothing. Revolutionary prose style and one of modern fiction’s most vivid accounts of post-war disillusionment. The essential Hemingway text.
Bodily Harm
50.00 ₾Margaret Atwood’s taut, psychologically complex novel — a Canadian journalist’s Caribbean escape becomes entanglement in a coup and genuine danger. A thriller that explores voyeurism, bodily autonomy, and political complacency, and one of Atwood’s most formally accomplished early works.
Life Before Man
46.00 ₾Margaret Atwood’s underrated 1979 novel — three people in Toronto navigating a suicide’s aftermath, failing marriages, and emotional paralysis. Precise, unsentimental, and rich in Atwood’s characteristic irony, this portrait of small cruelties and accumulated distances is one of her most accomplished works.
Under the Glacier
46.00 ₾Halldór Laxness’s singular philosophical comedy — a young emissary investigates why an Icelandic pastor has stopped conducting services and discovers a community with its own relationship to Christianity, paganism, and the supernatural. Deadpan, strange, and ultimately profound from Iceland’s Nobel laureate.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
46.00 ₾One of the defining novels of the last decade — a young woman with everything decides to sleep for a year, aided by a cocktail of psychiatric medications. Ottessa Moshfegh’s dark, funny, and deeply unsettling portrait of numbness, grief, and the desire to absent yourself from your own life.
Welcome to the Monkey House
46.00 ₾Kurt Vonnegut’s essential story collection — science fiction, satire, and something stranger, spanning two decades and including Harrison Bergeron and other classics. Short, fast, and deceptively simple: stories that arrive quickly and leave behind ideas that expand in the mind for days.
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