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A salt merchant’s daughter walks the old coastal road from the marshes to the mountains, carrying a letter she is not allowed to read.
A salt merchant’s daughter walks the old coastal road from the marshes to the mountains, carrying a letter she is not allowed to read. Novel, 384 pages.
- A novel in three journeys
- 384 pages, clothbound
- Map endpapers
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Elise Marchetti grew up between a salt marsh and a mountain village. The Salt Road is her second novel.
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Twenty short essays on the first hour of the day: coffee, birdsong, the light on a kitchen table and the art of not checking your phone. Essays, 192 pages.
- Twenty short essays
- Printed on cream paper
- Fits in a coat pocket
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Henrik Aalto writes about ordinary things for a Helsinki newspaper. This is his first book.
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For one winter, a lighthouse keeper writes to a woman she has never met. The letters arrive in the wrong order, decades later. Novel, 336 pages.
- A novel in letters
- 336 pages
- Set in Garamond
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Maren Holt lives on an island off the Norwegian coast and has kept a diary since she was nine.
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Sixty poems about gardens, grandmothers and the patience of growing things, each one given its own page and plenty of white space. Poems, 128 pages.
- Sixty poems
- Linen hardcover
- Each poem on its own page
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Lucie Fontaine is a gardener and a poet in Provence. Her poems have appeared in small magazines for twenty years.
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Twelve stories set in twelve small apartments of the same building, over one very long winter. Short stories, 256 pages.
- Twelve linked stories
- 256 pages
- Reading group guide inside
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Jonas Berg lives in Gothenburg, in a building very much like this one. He teaches literature in a high school.
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Venice, 1790. A mapmaker’s daughter finishes her late father’s atlas and discovers a city that is not on any map. Novel, 448 pages.
- A historical novel
- 448 pages
- Illustrated with maps
- DRM-free ebook (EPUB + PDF)
Inside the book
About the author
Isabel Corran is a historian of maps in Edinburgh. She spent four winters in the archives of Venice writing this book.
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This season’s books
New
Twenty short essays on the first hour of the day: coffee, birdsong, the light on a kitchen table and the art of not checking your phone.
New
For one winter, a lighthouse keeper writes to a woman she has never met. The letters arrive in the wrong order, decades later.
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Sixty poems about gardens, grandmothers and the patience of growing things, each one given its own page and plenty of white space.
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Twelve stories set in twelve small apartments of the same building, over one very long winter.
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Venice, 1790. A mapmaker’s daughter finishes her late father’s atlas and discovers a city that is not on any map.
All six books of the season as DRM-free ebooks, plus a printed postcard set — for less than the price of four.
- Six ebooks, EPUB + PDF
- Every reading guide
- A set of six printed postcards
- Future editions of these books, free
In the collection
The Salt Road, A Field Guide to Quiet Mornings, Letters from the Lighthouse, The Paper Garden, Small Rooms, Long Winters, The Cartographer’s Daughter.
The bundle
The complete collection
All six books of the season as DRM-free ebooks, plus a printed postcard set — for less than the price of four.
Side by side
This season’s books, side by side
Every book in three formats. Ebooks are DRM-free.
| The Salt Road | A Field Guide to Quiet Mornings | Letters from the Lighthouse | The Paper Garden | Small Rooms, Long Winters | The Cartographer’s Daughter | |
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| Genre | Novel | Essays | Novel | Poems | Short stories | Novel |
| Pages | 384 | 192 | 336 | 128 | 256 | 448 |
| Ebook | €12 | €10 | €12 | €9 | €11 | €12 |
| Paperback | €22 | €18 | €22 | €16 | €20 | €24 |
| Signed hardcover | €38 | €32 | €38 | €28 | €34 | €40 |
| Reading guide | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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