World Literature

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 ...

The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster - a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab - demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly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...

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...

'Not only beautifully written but gripping and full of soul' SARAH PEARSE, author of THE SANATORIUM 'A nifty fusion of psychological thriller and police procedural' SUNDAY TIMES Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn't it? ...

The Prize-winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922330536Author Bianca PitzornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her...

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with...

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo cafe, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever ... a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart... 'Set against a...

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421972Author Christos ChomenidisFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

A dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman - whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time. In today's Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong...

Written by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin's bizarre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993540028Author Radim MalinicFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Brand Nu LimitedPublisher Brand Nu LimitedWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman...

'This wove a spell on me' - Marian Keyes 'F***ing brilliant' - Daisy May Cooper ___________Meet Gosia.She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602214Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250239358Author Michael CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 137mm * 94mm *...

One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERNARD SHAW PRIZEA woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156002721Author Luis SepulvedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Fiddle Time Joggers is a landmark book in the popular Fiddle Time series, which is enjoyed by students and teachers all over the world. It contains Kathy and David Blackwell's trademark attractive and engaging compositions that appeal to learners of all...

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecraft...

"A literary joyride." -Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novelsMore than ten years after The Foulest Things, murder and mayhem return to Ottawa in the highly-anticipated next installment of Amy Tector's...

A completely new look at plants - not only in food, drink and commerce, and how they have created civilisation, trade and empires, but also in love, in war, in crime, in horror and delight, in music, poetry and prose, and on the screen. Not just another...

College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George's last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. What transpires is a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories...

While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shining...

In the whole delightful world of Wodehouse, the English clergy offers some of the richest sources of good-natured good humour. Confronted by burglars or belted earls, they plough serenely on with the Advent sermon or the opening of the village fete -...

From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175873Author Natsume SosekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398801851Author Robert W. ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A perfect Christmas read...about family ties and forgiveness that will get you in the mood for the festive season' Woman's Way Two sisters...two very different lives. Alison. As Christmas approaches, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491789285Author Antal SzerbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 17mm

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542668Author Yu MiriFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...