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The cultural, commercial, artistic and scientific flourishing of the city-states of fifteenth century Italy is considered by the author of "The Mediterranean" and "A History Of Civilizations".

In Abruzzo, an unnamed thirteen-year-old is thrust back into her birth family for a life of struggle, conflict and - through her newly acquired siblings - a blossoming and resilient sense of self. A winner of the Campiello Prize.

Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet

Cold winds, political hijinks, and murder on the streets of Naples

French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne's best thinking is positioned in relation to the quandaries of today. Strikes a similar tone to Sarah Bakewell's "How To Live".

A collection of seven short stories from one of France's bestselling female authors, translated by Alison Anderson. Celebrates ownership of vulnerabilities and admission of weaknesses.

A young woman returns to the Vietnam of her origins following life in the United States, confronting her identity there and considering how the defining relationships of her youth played into the loves and losses of her subsequent time in America.

From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime.

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The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history.

Timely and essential, Hear Our Defeats is a novel about the battles that define us, the battles lost, won, and those still being fought.

A primal tale of cruelty and redemption.

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In Sydney's working class suburbs, the father in a family of complex characters is forced into early retirement by a workplace accident, causing him to feel an irrelevance that causes him to act in a manner that thrusts him into the bitter centre of the Australian 'immigrant question.' Georgia Delaney describes "No More Boats" as 'a striking work of suburban Australian realism.

This heartwarming story is about two unlikely friends who give each other the courage to do what they never thought possible. Through their trials and tribulations, they realize that they can always rely on each other to be there. Our story opens with Billie and Franck trapped in a gorge in the Cévennes Mountains. As Franck lies unconscious, Billie appeals to a star for protection by telling stories from their lives. Billie vividly recollects ...

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Sandrine works as a functionary in an employment office, but there is a lot more to her than one might suspect from her job description. With a volcanic personality and an imagination to match it, she is also a world-class cook who is waiting for the right occasion to realize her dream of opening a restaurant of her own. With a master plan that one could only describe as Machiavellian, Sandrine ropes Antoine, an unemployed professor looking fo...

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, a...

How to save the world, one family at a time

HBO series premiere October 2018. Elena Ferrante's masterpiece, the Neapolitan Novels, available as a beautiful boxed set. "Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, " proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish E...