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Peirene No. 24Available soonDance by the Canal
Kerstin Hensel– PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2017 – A tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany. Gabriela grows up in the East…
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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£6.00 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£10.00 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. 16Add to basketWhite 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 IsmailovA haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of…
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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. 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 MersbergenA story about anger, aggression and the desire for intimacy by a rising star of modern Dutch literature. A professional…
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Peirene No. 4Add to basketNext World Novella
£10.00£5.00 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. 3Add to basketPortrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
£10.00 Friedrich Christian DeliusA literary masterpiece by one of Germany’s most renowned contemporary writers. Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German…
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Peirene No. 2Out of StockStone in a Landslide
£10.00 Maria BarbalThe Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th edition, for the first time in English. The…
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Peirene No. 1Add to basketBeside the Sea
£8.99 Véronique OlmiThe French controversial bestseller for the first time available in English. A single mother takes her two young sons on…
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Peirene Now! SeriesAdd to basketPeirene Now!
£20.00Peirene 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
£28.00£20.00Our 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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Peirene Series No. 4Add to basketTurning 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:…