Lampie

by Annet Schaap & Laura Watkinson (translator)

***Shortlisted for the 2020 Carnegie Medal***

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Lampie

by Annet Schaap & Laura Watkinson (translator)

Other books by Annet Schaap and Laura Watkinson (translator)

Girls by Annet Schaap & translated by Laura Watkinson

The Secrets of the Wild Wood by Laura Watkinson (translator) & Tonke Dragt

The Letter for the King Tonke Dragt, translated by Laura Watkinson

Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw & Laura Watkinson (translator)

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Girls
by Annet Schaap & translated by Laura Watkinson

The Secrets of the Wild Wood
by Laura Watkinson (translator) & Tonke Dragt

The Letter for the King
Tonke Dragt, translated by Laura Watkinson

Winter in Wartime
by Jan Terlouw & Laura Watkinson (translator)

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson