World Literature

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower...

Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland.Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179673Author Basil CreightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga and Moscow, Berlin and Munich, all the way to Tel Aviv.Hubert and Konstantin Solm are...

THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S LewisIn this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes...

In their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements.Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, Happy Stories,...

How can you stop a serial killer who has been dead for a hundred years? The nail-biting new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Agent Pendergast series. FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance...

The perfect murder mystery for fans of THE WINDSOR KNOT, KNIVES OUT and THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB.King Eric is dead. And when the motive is succession, murder is a family affair. . . * * * * * During a violent snowstorm, the Royal Family gather at the...

'A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao's extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese grandparents' traumatic life.' - The ObserverMoving from 1930s Hanoi through wars and displacements to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684129058Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 1318gDimensions(mm)...

'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian'She writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter' Francesca Angelini, The Times'A...

Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With over 200 illustrations, it 'explodes' designs by 6 game-changing fashion designers from the world's leading fashion houses,...

A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our...

Shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2019 Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice Me and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of...

Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels...

_______________ 'Full of fun, longing and wit ... a debut of spirit and imagination, loaded with intelligent charm' - Ali Smith 'A touching and engrossing story ... an assured debut' - The Times 'A colourful and peripatetic view of politics in...

Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards expected nor control her pupils at Besley High School for girls. She knows that no other school will hire her now, but if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912923090Author Jane ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Five QuillsPublisher Five QuillsWeight(grams) 128gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 129mm * 10mm

Miscellaneous matters are what keep us fascinated by what's going on around us while we indulge our own favourite interests. If one of those interests happens to be horseracing, then The Racing Post Horseracing Miscellany, full of marvellously...

From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian AlpsThe remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861504Author Maylis De KerangalFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419770951Author Katya ApekinaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 152mm...

What if the end of the world is the best thing that's never happened? As the apocalypse rolls on Donna and her eight-year-old daughter prepare for the worst. But despite the dying world, they find salvation with neighbours they never knew before. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535568Author S YizharFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

ONE TURKEY FARM, FIVE WILD COLLEAGUES AND A BARN FULL OF MYSTERY When jilted crime writer August Saunders returns from London to her roots in rural Wiltshire, she feels lost and lacking in inspiration. Determined to reignite her writing mojo, she...

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti's second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade,...

On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled revolution and civil war in Russia, the family has worked tirelessly to establish themselves as crop farmers in Provence, their hopes of returning home a distant dream. While...

Amid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. From bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of sacrifice and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the...

'Phenomenal' Abi Dare'Moving and suspenseful' Jess Walter'Heart-stopping' Patricia Engel'Wonderful' Jessie BurtonYu-jin is gifted. Yu-jin is loved. Yu-jin is flourishing.Yu-jin is dead. Min Ford is searching for his place in the world. The Los Angeles...

Relive the magic of ITV's best loved drama series starring Martin ClunesDoc Martin arrives in the picture postcard fishing village of Portwenn, Cornwall. Once a high-flying London surgeon, his suddenly developed blood phobia means he has to take a job in...

'A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals' Daily Telegraph ...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from...

The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster - a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab - demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed. "A book by this guy is cause for happiness." - Stephen King ...

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of...

Inspirational book offering 67 step-by-step floral designs that are fun & easy to create, that don't require difficult to source flowers or sundries, or cost a fortune.Book InformationISBN 9780993571534Author Judith BlacklockFormat HardbackPage Count...

In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be...

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's...