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Anatolian Blues Package

For delivery from 17 April 2023, get all three of the Anatolian Blues novels for the price of two – as long as you’re in the UK or Ireland.
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Ivana Sajko

Every Time We Say Goodbye

‘Ivana Sajko’s language is distilled to perfection. It flows and is poetic and hits every nerve. Blazingly relevant writing.’ Clemens Meyer, author of While We Were Dreaming Publishing 10 October 2025. ‘… every goodbye is a little death, each one clinging tightly to what it leaves behind, and each deserves its own photograph, its own …

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Birgit Weyhe

Rude Girl

‘Not just for fans of graphic novels, but for anyone who has ever felt different.’ Priscilla Layne. Published 29 April 2024. The white German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe teaches at a US college through an academic exchange programme. At a conference of American Germanists in the Midwest, she is accused of cultural expropriation. Is she …

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Karosh Taha

In the Belly of the Queen

‘Together, the twin narratives generate a memorable portrait of youth in a Kurdish-German (post)migrant community, one that gains depth and interest from the disagreements and inconsistencies among its narrators. Taha is a talent. Read this, and then read whatever she writes next.’ Exberliner Published 1 April 2023. Amal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating …

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Selim Özdoğan

A Light Still Burns

‘This book is full of wisdom.’ Jane Campbell, author of Cat Brushing. Published 15 April 2023. Part 3 of the Anatolian Blues trilogy. ‘There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’ After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband …

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Sally McGrane

Odesa at Dawn

‘As befits any book set in Odesa, Sally McGrane’s smart new thriller bristles with dark humour, slinking along and zigzagging through its plot like one of the city’s streetwise felines. Come for the story, but don’t forget to take in the sights.’ Boris Dralyuk, poet and translator of Isaac Babel. Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels …

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Mithu Sanyal

Identitti

‘A provocative and knotty debut.’ The New York Times Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her superstar postcolonial and race studies professor. But Nivedita’s life and sense of self are upturned when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. …

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Selim Özdoğan

52 Factory Lane

‘Quietly captivating.’ The Monthly Booking Published 1st April 2022. Part two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy. ‘You’ll live out your lives in a foreign country,’ Gül is warned. But the whole world is foreign when you’re far from your loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of long-awaited letters, night-time telephone …

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Ivana Sajko

Love Novel

‘A brilliant novel: intense and poetic, exhilarating and devastating.’ Priya Basil. Published 1st April 2022. Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has given up her safe job …

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Marcel Beyer

Putin’s Postbox

‘Everyone should read this melancholy examination of cross-border phenomena.’ Adam Thirlwell Published 1st April 2022. Eight essays on literature, language, art, Europe and life from one of Germany’s most revered living writers. After a visit to Putin’s old postbox, the reader is taken to Dresden and Brixton, Gdańsk and Minsk, diverted to birds, bees, stray …

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Iris Hanika

The Bureau of Past Management

‘A novel that opens up a window. A masterpiece.’ Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch. Each of us has something that feels essential to who we are. For Hans Frambach, it’s the crimes of the Nazi era, which have hurt him for as long as he can remember. That’s why he became an archivist at the Bureau …

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