World Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566985Author Emmy WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Jaco van Gass was 23 when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan in 2009. Losing his left arm to the blast, he sustained life-threatening injuries that stopped his heart twice; yet by a miracle - and the skill of the medics treating him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649603449Author Phil ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Ambassador InternationalPublisher Ambassador InternationalWeight(grams)...

Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting, which is often inspired by her personal life, has received widespread media coverage and critical praise.This is her story.Book...

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesIn Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime...* PRE-ORDER IRVINE WELSH'S NEW NOVEL, RESOLUTION, NOW *Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated...

An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Every Line of You - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets virtual reality ... 'This dark, dystopian thriller is genuinely disturbing and the...

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765386632Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 46mm

**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A THE TIMES TOP 10 CRIME BOOK OF THE DECADE**HARRY HOLE'S DEADLIEST ENEMY IS BACK... AND OUT FOR BLOODHarry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he's working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein Finne is back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913527174Author Christopher BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Dean Street Press LimitedPublisher Dean Street Press Limited

A devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today's world, based on a true story from Korean history.Hope is dangerous. Love is deadly. 1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan,...

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley becomes involved in the horrifying, chilling search for a violent serial killer targeting dancers from a club ... the first book in an award-winning, wildly original, addictive series... 'Such a revelation' Laura...

You know she's lying...But so are you.---------------------------'Grips with menace and dread, yet touches the heart' Nicci French 'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' Claire DouglasTwo women are staying in Willowmead House. One of them is running...

'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' Evening Standard'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' ObserverThe Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders,...

**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR**____________________________________Murder. Assassination. Revenge.Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime.Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin;...

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct-the best ever...

_______________ 'A boisterous tribute to her home town that crackles with the chaos of Pakistani political life' - The Times 'Deftly woven and provocative ... Shamsie's blistering humour and ear for dialogue scorches through their whirl of whisky...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century,...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century,...

Celebrating 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse with his very first novel.'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.'Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson, a...

'Fun, festive and fabulous. A story that sparkles like Christmas snow.' MILLY JOHNSON 'A page-turner' - Woman's Weekly When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet...

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915204745Author Vladimir RadovanovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Globland BooksPublisher Globland BooksWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

While Mortals Sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789360493Imprint Rockschool LtdPublisher Rockschool Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496732590Author Mary MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143458609Author Sri MFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 10mm

Does what you see change who you are?Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a...

Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library...

'Honest, acerbic, alert, and always dazzling.' - Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, MontanaThings to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.'Birds of a Feather'...

"Thuan's prose, at once expansive and claustrophobic, haunts without weighing the reader down. Across Hanoi, Saigon, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul, our narrator attempts to force a sense of clarity into her past, but colonialism blurs history and scripts...

A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again ... Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller.....

From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia, unfurls a story of sensuality...

The second novel of the visceral Divided Kingdom series sees the action turn westwards to Bristol, where a Royalist army is determined to wrest the city from the forces of Parliament.Once again, the story revolves around the vicious enmity of the Reeve...

Easy-to-use peekaboo sliders, a funny rhyming text and surprise mirror ending combine in this stylish, interactive board book for babies and toddlers!With a total of 10 smooth mechanisms to push, pull or turn on every spread this beautiful book is packed...

'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' GuardianHow our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the theme that runs like a thread of revelation through these extraordinary stories. They explore the roots of love, of murder...

Classic crime, at its very best.With a new introduction by Gyles Brandreth.The Red House is a country residence far removed from the world of the Hundred Acre Wood but its story has much of the same charm and wit. There is, of course, a murder, and when...

The Seers follows the first years of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of...