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Peirene No. 35Add to basketYesterday
£12.00 Juan EmarIn San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single…
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Peirene No. 36Add to basketWinter Flowers
£12.00 Angélique VilleneuveIt’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the…
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Peirene No. 34Add to basketNordic Fauna
£12.00 Andrea LundgrenIn these six short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wilderness and human consciousness…
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Peirene No. 35Add to basket
Yesterday
£12.00 Juan EmarIn San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single…
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Peirene No. 33Add to basketThe Pear Field
£12.00 Nana EkvtimishviliLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Lela knows two things: her history teacher must die and she must start a…
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Peirene No. 30Add to basketFaces on the Tip of My Tongue
£12.00 Emmanuelle PaganoMeetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn’t your cousin but…
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Peirene No. 29Add to basketYou Would Have Missed Me
£12.00 Birgit Vanderbeke‘I can’t remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost…
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Peirene No. 28Out of StockChildren of The Cave
£12.00 Virve Sammalkorpi‘It’s dangerous to be different where everyone else is alike. Have you noticed?’ 1819. Iax Agolasky, a young assistant to…
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Peirene No. 27Add to basketAnd the Wind Sees All
£12.00 Gudmundur Andri ThorssonRelaxing Nordic hygge in a novel; the entire story takes place in two minutes. In this story we hear the…
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Peirene Now! No. 3Add to basketShatila Stories – Arabic Edition
£12.00Please note: this is the Arabic edition of Shatila Stories, for the English version of this book click here. ‘This…
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Peirene Now! No. 3Add to basketShatila Stories
£12.00‘This remarkable novel isn’t about the refugee voice; it is born from it and told through it. On every page,…
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Peirene No. 26Add to basketShadows on the Tundra
£12.00 Dalia GrinkevičiutėAn extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank. SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD…
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Peirene No. 25Out of StockSoviet Milk
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Peirene No. 24Add to basketDance by the Canal
£12.00 Kerstin HenselA tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany. Gabriela grows up in the East German town of Leibnitz. Her…
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Peirene Now! No. 2Add to basketThe Cut
£12.00 Anthony CartwrightThe Cut is a Brexit novel. The story offers a fictional response to a complex issue. It is also a…
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Peirene No. 23Add to basketThe Orange Grove
£12.00 Larry TremblayWar takes no prisoners. It involves everyone – even children. Twin brothers, Ahmed and Aziz, live in the peaceful shade…
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Peirene no 22Add to basketThe Last Summer
£12.00 Ricarda HuchA psychological thriller by the pioneering German writer Ricarda Huch. A novel of letters from the last century – but…
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Peirene No. 21Add to basketThe Empress and the Cake
£12.00 Linda StiftMadness lurks behind the pretty façade of everyday life. An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake….
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Peirene Now! No. 1Add to basketbreach
£12.00 Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes‘The Jungle is like a laboratory.’ In the refugee camp known as The Jungle, an illusion is being disrupted: that…
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Peirene No. 20Add to basketHer Father’s Daughter
£12.00 Marie SizunA taut and subtle family drama from France. A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris. She…
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Peirene No. 19Add to basketThe Man I Became
£12.00 Peter VerhelstAn impressively entertaining tale about the frailty of our civilization by the leading Flemish writer Peter Verhelst, now for the…
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Peirene No. 18Add to basketThe Looking-Glass Sisters
£12.00 Gøhril GabrielsenA tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains…
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Peirene No. 17Add to basketReader for Hire
£12.00 Raymond JeanA beautiful homage to the art of reading – light and funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality and…
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Peirene No. 16Out of StockWhite Hunger
£12.00 Aki OllikainenWhat does it take to survive? This is the question posed by the extraordinary Finnish novella that has taken the…
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Peirene No. 15Add to basketUnder the Tripoli Sky
£12.00 Kamal Ben HamedaA fascinating portrait of a pre-Gaddafi society on the verge of change. Tripoli in the 1960s. A sweltering, segregated society….
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Peirene No. 14Add to basketThe Blue Room
£12.00 Hanne ØrstavikA novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in…
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Peirene No. 13Out of StockThe Dead Lake
£12.00 Hamid IsmailovAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War….
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Peirene No. 12Add to basketChasing the King of Hearts
£12.00 Hanna KrallThe internationally acclaimed Polish bestseller about the Holocaust. A remarkable true story of love and survival. Now for the first…
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Peirene No. 11Add to basketMr Darwin’s Gardener
£12.00 Kristina CarlsonA postmodern Victorian novel about faith, knowledge and our inner needs. The late 1870s, the Kentish village of Downe. The…
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Peirene No. 10Out of StockThe Mussel Feast
£10.00 Birgit VanderbekeThe modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation. A mother and her two teenage children sit at the…
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Peirene No. 9Add to basketSea of Ink
£10.00 Richard WeiheA beautiful novella in 50 short chapters and 10 pictures about the life of Bada Shanren, the most influential Chinese…
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Peirene No. 8Add to basketThe Murder of Halland
£10.00 Pia JuulDenmark’s foremost literary author turns crime fiction on its head. Bess and Halland live in a small town where everyone knows everyone…
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Peirene Series No. 7Add to basketThe Brothers
£12.00 Asko SahlbergA Shakespearean drama from icy Finland. Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the…
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Peirene No. 6Add to basketMaybe This Time
£8.99 Alois HotschnigA spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his…
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Peirene No. 5Out of StockTomorrow Pamplona
£8.99 Jan van MersbergenAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. A story about anger, aggression and the desire for intimacy by a…
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Peirene No. 4Out of StockNext World Novella
£10.00 Matthias PolityckiGermany’s master of wit and irony now for the first time in English. Hinrich takes his existence at face value….
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Peirene No. 3Out of StockPortrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
£10.00 Friedrich Christian DeliusAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. A literary masterpiece by one of Germany’s most renowned contemporary writers. Rome,…
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Peirene No. 2Out of StockStone in a Landslide
£8.99 Maria BarbalAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. The Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th…
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Peirene No. 1Out of StockBeside the Sea
£8.99 Véronique OlmiAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. The French controversial bestseller for the first time available in English. A…
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Nordic Fauna
£12.00 Andrea LundgrenIn these six short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wilderness and human consciousness…
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Peirene No. 32Out of StockAnkomst
£12.00 Gøhril GabrielsenWINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2020 SUNDAY TIMES BEST FOREIGN FICTION JULY 2020 An environmental scientist has chosen to spend…
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Peirene No. 31Add to basketSnow, Dog, Foot
£12.00 Claudio MorandiniThe icy oblivion of the alps seen through the eyes of hermit. Adelmo Farandola doesn’t like people. In summer he…
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Peirene Series No.10Out of StockThere Be Monsters
At the edge of the map, in uncharted waters, just out of sight: there be monsters… A Finnish Victorian Gothic,…
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Peirene Series No. 9Add to basketHome in Exile
£28.00Our Home in Exile series: how to find a home within oneself when the outside home no longer exists: The…
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Peirene Series No. 8Add to basketEast and West
£28.00Our East and West series, with three novellas on being caught between two worlds: A psychological thriller from the woman…
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Peirene Now! SeriesAdd to basketPeirene Now!
£30.00Peirene Now! is our new series where we commission writers to respond with fiction to current political topics.
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Peirene Series No. 7Add to basketFairy Tale
£28.00Our Fairy Tale series, containing books about the fairy castles we build inside our minds: A Belgian gorilla on the…
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Peirene Series No. 6Out of StockChance Encounter
£28.00Our Chance Encounter series, containing three novels investigating what happens when we allow strangers into our lives: A stunning Finnish…
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Peirene Series No. 5Out of StockComing of Age
£28.00Our Coming of Age series contains three books about our individual struggles to reach maturity in an ever-changing world: A…
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Peirene Series No. 4Out of StockTurning Point
£28.00Our Turning Point series, in which three internationally acclaimed female authors depict pivotal historical moments from within a domestic setting:…
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Peirene Series No. 3Add to basketSmall Epic
£28.00Our Small Epic series contains three stories that rub shoulders with genre fiction: A Finnish historical family saga, a Danish…
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Peirene Series No. 2Out of StockMale Dilemma
£28.00Our Male Dilemma series, with three books about a particularly masculine struggle with intimacy: A German story about a man…
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Peirene Series No. 1Out of StockFemale Voice
£28.00Our Female Voice series contains three books about women who live inside their own heads and clash with outside reality:…
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Out of StockClosed Universe
£28.00Our Closed Universe series: An Italian hermit, a Norwegian scientist and a Georgian orphan. Isolated protagonists living in extreme conditions,…