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Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers... (more)

Passenger to Frankfurt

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read... Passenger To Frankfurt It was an unusual predicament for Sir... (more)

History of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr

A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British... (more)

Marcel

by Erwin Mortier

The narrator is a ten year old boy who lives with his grandparents in a Flemish village. His grandmother guards the family dead with fierce determination, arranging and re-arranging their photographs in a special cabinet, talking to them and arguing with them. The cabinet is an extension of heaven, with its own purgatory and hell: their place in his grandmother's favour is marked by their proximity to a statue of... (more)

The Return of Depression Economics

by Paul R. Krugman

Surely the Great Depression could never happen again. Or could it? Today, the tragedy of the Great Depression looks gratuitous and unnecessary: Our economists and policy makers simply have gained too much experience since then. It could never happen again. Or could it? Over the course of the last two years, six Asian economies have experienced an economic slump that bears an eerie resemblance to the Great... (more)

Mijn tweede huid: Roman (Meulenhoff editie)Erwin Mortier

Mijn tweede huid: Roman (Meulenhoff editie)

by Erwin Mortier

Text: Dutch

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John Le Carre

A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called “the best spy story I have ever read.” On its publication in 1964, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously... (more)

The Tin Drum

by Gunter Grass

The publication of "The Tin Drum" in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we... (more)

The Cold War: A New History

by John Lewis Gaddis

The "dean of Cold War historians" ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why —from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the... (more)

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Postwar

A History of Europe Since 1945

by Tony Judt

Passenger to Frankfurt

by Agatha Christie

History of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr

Marcel

by Erwin Mortier

The Return of Depression Economics

by Paul R. Krugman

Mijn tweede huid: Roman (Meulenhoff editie)

by Erwin Mortier

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John Le Carre

The Tin Drum

by Gunter Grass

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

The Cold War: A New History

by John Lewis Gaddis