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This is the third part of 'The Cairo Trilogy', by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is an Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family. This book takes the family into the middle of the 20th century.

She'd once come here to kill herself but now Mia Krüger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator. But when she is approached by 11-year-old Sofia asking for help in finding her missing friend, her old instincts a...

Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappear...

In this second instalment of Jon Fosse's 'Septology', the two Asles meet for the first time. They look strangely alike, dress identically, and both want to be painters. At art school in Bjorgvin, Asle meets and falls in love with his future wife, Ales.

Asle is a painter and widower who lives in the house in Dylgja where he used to live with his wife Ales. He is now alone; almost the only people he still sees are his neighbour, Åsleik - an old-fashioned country fisherman - and his gallerist, Beyer, who lives in the city of Bjørgvin, Fosse's fic...

France became a great nation under Philip the Fair - but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for he was a reign characterised by violence, scandalous adulteries of his daughters-in-law, and the triumph of royal authority.

Following 'My Brilliant Friend', this title features the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery.

The final book in a dazzling saga of two women - the brilliant Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Life's discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses suffered. But, throughout it all, their friendship remains the gravitational centre of their lives.

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcoh...

Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has fallen into disgrace. Her infidelity has left her estranged husband, King Louis X of France, with neither heir nor wife, and few options left to remedy his situation.