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Socrates, Agatha and the Future
Beppe Severgnini

Socrates, Agatha and the Future

A book for all generations, which invites us to “age with elegance”. An ironic guide to the art of ageing wisely, by a wise Italian.
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The Rain Man
Jonas Karlsson

The Rain Man

Ingmar Carlsson is a grumpy old man who lives in a small country town in Sweden, doesn't communicate with anyone and refuses to follow the unwritten rules of the local community. After losing his beloved wife, the only thing that gives meani
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Notes from Chateau Lacrotte: Zlokuchane Residence
Maria Kassimova-Moisset

Notes from Chateau Lacrotte: Zlokuchane Residence

Do you remember the crazy summer in Chateau Lacrotte, which the Bulgarian Kalina spent together with the family of her Parisian husband Didier? Well, there was no way eight months later the international family would not return the gesture and w
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The Prophet and the Idiot
Jonas Jonasson
★★★★★

The Prophet and the Idiot

Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times. Circumstances bring Petra the do
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The Perfect Che and New Unprincipled Stories
Alexander Tsypkin

The Perfect Che and New Unprincipled Stories

In this second book, published by Colibri, the Russian O’Henry, the rock star of Russian literature, the hooligan writer, the worthy successor of Zoshchenko and Koltsov once again proves that he can laugh to tears. The collection includes a
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Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd
Jonas Jonasson

Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gall
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Autobiography
Branislav Nušić

Autobiography

In his famous autobiography, Branislav Nušić tells the happiest events of his youth - from school, barracks and prison. The writer's unique sense of humor turns his vicissitudes into an unforgettable experience for a lifetime. As a
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Notes from Chateau Lacrotte
Maria Kassimova-Moisset

Notes from Chateau Lacrotte

The Bulgarian woman Kalina is married to the Frenchman Didier. The family is going to spend a whole summer with Didier's parents - Madame Jonvien and Monsieur Jean-Baptiste de Lacrotte - at their mansion in the French countryside. Where expect
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Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men on the Bummel

"Three Men on the Bummel" (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel bri
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Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889. Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they
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How To Be An Alien / How To Be Decadent
George Mikes

How To Be An Alien / How To Be Decadent

George Mikes says, "the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead". But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book
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Goodbye to All Cats
P. G. Wodehouse

Goodbye to All Cats

Wodehouse is a tonic - New Yorker A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood. Cheaper and more effective than Valium. Offers ‘relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour&rsqu
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Ask Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
★★★★★

Ask Jeeves

This brilliant collection translated by Jechka Georgieva, contains stories from the books Carry on, Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves and The inimitable Jeeves. Bertie Wooster and his resourceful manservant Jeeves appeared in over thirty sh
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Less
Andrew Sean Greer

Less

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes - it would be too awkward - and you can't say no - it would look
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Women of Unyielding Age and Other Unprincipled Stories
Alexander Tsypkin

Women of Unyielding Age and Other Unprincipled Stories

From this collection of seventeen stories, the reader will learn how to assemble a wardrobe, what happens when you send a sms not to whom you have to, and when you go to have sex not when you need to. You will know more about the St. Petersbu
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The Cat of Socrates
Ventseslav Konstantinov

The Cat of Socrates

"The Cat of Socrates" encompasses over 1,000 spiritual challenges by the master of aphorism and wisdom Ventseslav Konstantinov. What are knowledge and deception, character and personality, love and hate, literature and art, Life and Deat
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Timur and His Commandos
Vilislav Georgiev

Timur and His Commandos

Timur and His Commandos is a collection of stories and feuilletons. The author brilliantly juggles with political, national and socio-cultural stereotypes, highlighting their sustainability and significance for various social groups. With creative
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London Fields
Martin Amis

London Fields

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for some
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The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing by
Elitza Gueorguieva

The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing by

In "The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing by" a little girl makes great plans for her own future: to become Yuri Gagarin, and then Kurt Cobain, or at least a partisan like her grandfather, so that adults allow her to plant a pine tree in the schoolyard a
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Bridget Jones`s Baby: The Diaries

Bridget Jones`s Baby: The Diaries

Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not b
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The Garden of the Gods
Gerald Durrel

The Garden of the Gods

The third volume in the 'Corfu Trilogy' continues the accounts of the young Gerald Durrell during the years that he and his family lived in Corfu before the Second World War. While the animals of Corfu are young Gerald's focus, it is the an
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Hitman Anders and the Meaning Of it All
Jonas Jonasson

Hitman Anders and the Meaning Of it All

A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden! IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It’s always awkward when five th
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My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrel

My Family and Other Animals

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended
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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

79-year-old Martha Anderson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an armchair and is determined to find a much more exciting life-style. Along with her four oldest friends - ot
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Father Noster
Manos Vourakis

Father Noster

God thinks Christ - Jesus Christ, affectionately named Chris, is not stylistically suitable for carrying out the Second Coming, so he entrusts this mission to his second-born son Jesus Crist Jr., affectionately named Jess, who is a modern God-man
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The Viper's Glen Miracle
Ante Tomić

The Viper's Glen Miracle

The story is centered on the family of an old man living in the Dalmatian mountains, who refuses to accept the modern civilization despite his four sons' attempts to change his mind. Kidnapping, police chase, painful hiding and spectac
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Beasts in My Belfry
Gerald Durrel

Beasts in My Belfry

A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday TelegraphIf you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and
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The Perfect Woman Is an Idiot
Marie-Aldine Girard

The Perfect Woman Is an Idiot

According to twin sisters Anne-Sophie and Marie-Aldine Girard, the woman who cooks gourmet meals and keeps her figure after having produced numerous children does not exist, and anyone who tries to be like her is an "idiot". Their book, "The Per
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Fillets of Plaice
Gerald Durrel

Fillets of Plaice

Durrell's hilarious and warm "My Family and Other Animals" (1957) began a trio of reminiscences of his life growing up with a slightly dotty family—the overbearing and omniscient Larry; the affectionate and loving siblings, Margot and Leslie;
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Encounters with Animals
Gerald Durrel

Encounters with Animals

Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. "Encounters with Animals" is one of these entertaining accounts of the courtshi
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Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart

Absurdistan

Open Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music, and lover of a South Bronx Latina whom he longs to rejoin in
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like w
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Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones' Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, v
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones is back! Great comic writers are as rare as hen's teeth. And Helen is one of a very select band who have created a character of whom the very thought makes you smile. Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-som
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Mamma Mia!: Berlusconi Explained For Posterity And Friends Abroad
Beppe Severgnini

Mamma Mia!: Berlusconi Explained For Posterity And Friends Abroad

What is it in the operatic Italian psyche that allows-indeed, forgives, even applauds-Italy's premier for conducting a lifestyle as decadent as a Fellini extravaganza, while organizing an ongoing string of questionable behaviors and politicall
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrel

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to "My Family and Other Animals" is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, "Birds, Beasts, and Re
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

On his hundredth birthday, just as the celebrations are about to begin out in the lounge in the old people's home, Allan Karlsson hastily decides that he wants nothing to do with the party. He climbs through his window and disappea
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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
Gerald Durrel

The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

This book constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including ‘The Picnic’, a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the D
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Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern

Sh*t My Dad Says

After his girlfriend has left him, twenty-eight-year-old Justin moves back to his parent’s house and finds himself in the company of his seventy-tree-year-old father Sam Halpern. His father has always said everything directly an
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We the Geniuses
Jechka Georgieva

We the Geniuses

WE THE GENIUSES could be called a collection of short stories, but the author prefers to think of it as “a collection of incidents”. It is purely autobiographical and was originally written for the amusement of friends and relative
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The Amazing Journey of Pomponio Flato
Eduardo Mendoza

The Amazing Journey of Pomponio Flato

The Roman philosopher and natural scientist Pomponio Flato wanders throughout the Roman Empire and searches for the spring of wisdom in the beginning of the 1 c. B.C. This is a funny story about the good, the friendship and the sudden twists o
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The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse

The Code of the Woosters

“The Code of the Woosters”, first published in 1938, is the first part of the Totleigh Towers saga by the English author P. G. Wodehouse. In this story Jeeves has to do his best to rescue his young employer Bertram Woost
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Bertram Wooster likes too much his new playful Tirol hat. However, Jeeves is on a different opinion. This trifle will cool their interrelations. But when Bertram went to the estate Totleigh Towers, he quickly made a mess and had to seek help
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La Nurse anglaise
San Antonio

La Nurse anglaise

England, noblemen and a strange story about a midget. Jokes, murders and erections. No-one else but the famous San Antonio could invent such a criminal, obscene and funny story?
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Uncle Fred in Springtime
P. G. Wodehouse

Uncle Fred in Springtime

THE Duke of Dunstable was a nobleman of proud and haughty spirit, swift to resent affronts and institute reprisals —the last person in the world, in short, from whom one could hope to withhold pigs with impunity. Yet the Earl of Emsworth, fac
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Something Fresh
P. G. Wodehouse

Something Fresh

This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Bl
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Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

Right Ho, Jeeves

Bertram Wooster’s manservant, Jeeves, is renowned for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie’s friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves’s fam
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History of France
San Antonio

History of France

Rough, ironic, uncompromising laughter. This seems to be the first reaction of every average reader, after reading a few lines of “History of France”. But this book is more complicated and poly-semantic, addressed to those, who can lau

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