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  • Joe Speedboat

    A Novel

    by Tommy Wieringa ...
    "A brilliant coming-of-age story with an outlandish twist . . . this wonderfully weird novel is not one to miss." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAfter a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he's paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life where he must rely on others to complete even the simplest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caesarion

    by Tommy Wieringa ...
    In the port of Alexandria, a very long time ago, Julius Caesar impregnated and then abandoned Cleopatra. The child of their union – groomed for greatness by his devoted mother but destined for tragedy – was called Caesarion. Little Caesar. History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. In our time, another boy, Ludwig, is born in Alexandria and again the father flees the scene of the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Little Caesar

    A Novel

    by Tommy Wieringa ...
    From the international bestselling author of These Are the Names: "A brilliant exploration of the uneasy transition from adolescence into adulthood" ( The Independent).After a decade away, gifted young pianist Ludwig Unger returns to his hometown of Kings Ness, England, where the houses are on the verge of falling into the sea. With little else but a plastic bag filled with his mother's ashes, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    These Are the Names

    by Tommy Wieringa ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    A moody, atmospheric literary thriller and “a timeless tale of migration” (The Guardian), from one of Europe’s biggest-selling authorsDespite its Biblical title—which comes from the opening lines of the Book of Exodus—award-winning novelist Tommy Wieringa has crafted perhaps his most timely book yet, as he traces two stories doomed to collide.In one, we follow a group of starving, near-feral ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

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