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  • Trash!

    A Garbageman's Story

    by Simon Pare-Poupart ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    **The New York Times' 2026 “Summer Nonfiction We’re Excited to Read”A Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears" . . .**This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a portrait of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. The novel recounts how an apparently simple North German engineer, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon

    Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb

    by Richard von Schirach ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this quiet setting – Farm Hall, near Cambridge – that the interned physicists ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Shadow of Myself

    by Peter Flamm ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics

    $13.99 USD

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  • Love in a Time of Hate

    Art and Passion in the Shadow of War

    by Florian Illies ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    **“An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book ReviewAn ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century**As the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chinese Phantom

    the hunt for the world’s most dangerous arms dealer

    by Christoph Giesen, Philipp Grüll, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    A gripping, real-life thriller following the authors’ attempt to uncover the truth about one of the world’s most wanted men.Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei, plays a key role in the secret struggle between the world powers, bypassing Western sanctions to supply dictators with the weapons they need to wipe out their neighbouring countries — or even to trigger a third world war.For almost two decades, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The First Days of Berlin

    The Sound of Change

    by Ulrich Gutmair ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Berlin in the early 1990s, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall: this is the place to be. Berlin-Mitte, the central district of the city, with its wastelands and decaying houses, has become the centre of a new movement. Artists, musicians, squatters, club owners, DJs and ravers are reclaiming the old city centre and bringing it back to life. This interregnum between two systems – the collapse ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Greed

    The page-turning thriller that warned of financial melt-down

    by Marc Elsberg ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    CORRUPT BIG BUSINESS, ECONOMY IN MELTDOWN, THE THRILLER THAT WARNED US ALL'Marc Elsberg is nothing if not prescient' GUARDIANIt’s the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich.Nobel prize-winning economist Herbert Thompson drives to an emergency summit in ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Code Zero

    The unputdownable international bestselling thriller

    by Marc Elsberg ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    DISCOVER THE TECHNO THRILLER THAT ROCKED THE INTERNET GENERATIONA Guardian thriller of the month: 'Elsberg is nothing if not prescient'_______ZERO, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it’s too late.But is anyone listening?Thousands of teenagers are signing up to Freemee, the biggest new social media site, uploading personal information in exchange for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Slap in the Face

    by Abbas Khider ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series The German List
    Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany.In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s defeat. But Hussein wasn’t the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Troubled Water

    A Journey Around the Black Sea

    by Jens Mühling ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Armchair Traveller
    A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there.Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of the people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix of cultures found ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Leon and Louise

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD