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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349726724 | ISBN 10: 0349726728
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize & the Orwell Prize for Fiction A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year ‘a serious accomplishment‘ Sunday Times ‘vivid and expansive‘ Sophie Mackintosh ‘a lyrical celebration‘ TLS â ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781953861207 | ISBN 10: 1953861202
Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the ’80s.  Suspended between fear and longin ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999859329 | ISBN 10: 1999859324
Translated by Daniel Hahn ‘My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categoric ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471166907 | ISBN 10: 1471166902
New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Â Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241978146 | ISBN 10: 0241978149
Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about. The letter prompts And ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753121 | ISBN 10: 1617753122
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Â Brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908276209 | ISBN 10: 1908276207
One of the most original and comic voices to come out of Brazil – Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad. All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de Janeiro insane asylum. Our narrator is upset by his ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007302833 | ISBN 10: 0007302835
The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007274451 | ISBN 10: 0007274459
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007251872 | ISBN 10: 0007251874
Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747569077 | ISBN 10: 074756907x
When Emilie, the matriarch of a large and unruly family of Lebanese emigrants, is on her deathbed, her granddaughter must return to Manaus and her childhood home to say goodbye. Here, in the heart of the Amazon, she becomes enveloped in memories, as ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007235803 | ISBN 10: 0007235801
Like the Flowing River is an intimate collection of Paulo Coelho's reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005. These are powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choice, of love lost and found. Sometimes humorous, sometimes s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780722532935 | ISBN 10: 0722532938
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers for ever. Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist is such a book. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 61 languages, The Alchemist has already achieved the sta ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747576808 | ISBN 10: 0747576807
Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. It is the original novel on which the Oscar-nominated film was based. Cicade de Deus, the City of God... Welcome to one of Rio's most ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747573715 | ISBN 10: 0747573719
When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilheus, things would never be the same again... In 1925, the town's cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns. However, Nacib the Arab is desperately worried as his cook has walked out of h ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007166046 | ISBN 10: 0007166044
'Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer...' So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was ... more
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