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£30.00£25.00Peirene Now! is our new series where we commission writers to respond with fiction to current political topics.
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£12.00£6.00 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. 30Available soonFaces on the Tip of My Tongue
Emmanuelle PaganoWill be published in September 2019. Available June 2019 through our subscription service. Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France…
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Peirene No. 29Available soonYou Would Have Missed Me
Birgit VanderbekeWill be published in June 2019. Available May 2019 through our subscription service. By the author of Peirene’s bestseller The Mussel…
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Peirene No. 28Available soonChildren of The Cave
Virve SammalkorpiWill be published in February 2019. Available December 2018 through our subscription service. ‘It’s dangerous to be different where everyone…
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Peirene No. 27Add to basketAnd the Wind Sees All
£12.00 Guðmundur 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
£12.00WE DONATE 50p OF EACH SALE AND ALL PROFITS OF THIS BOOK TO THE LEBANESE NGO BASMEH & ZEITOONEH www.basmeh-zeitooneh.org…
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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. In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia…
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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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£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 HamedaAvailable to buy as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. A fascinating portrait of a pre-Gaddafi society on the verge…
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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
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Chasing the King of Hearts
£12.00£6.00 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. 10Add to basketThe 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. 4Add to basketNext 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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Peirene Series No.10Available soonThere 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
£28.00Pre-order now, to be delivered in the week commencing the 17th of December! Our Home in Exile series: how to…
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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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Fairy Tale
£28.00£25.00Our 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. 6Add to basketChance 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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£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. 2Out of StockMale Dilemma
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Peirene Series No. 1Out of StockFemale Voice
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