World Literature

This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a...

"A moving mural of lives in the underclass of Luanda." -The Guardian In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774083444Author Jiang Zi BeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Via Lactea Ltd.Publisher Via Lactea Ltd.Weight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate...

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...

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories.Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their...

'These two feisty and funny women stole my heart... Perfect for bookclubs.' Faith Hogan Two women. A community under threat. Can they save their home? In the peaceful Worcestershire village of Stonecastle, Matilda Reynolds lives a quiet, contented...

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

Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Known by his contemporaries as 'the Russian Proust', Felsen died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, his life...

Introducing 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.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Munoz and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes and artists Diego...

'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE'Historical fiction at its finest. Antoinette Chanel will capture your heart' ANN WEISGARBER,...

She felt their eyes, all those executioners...Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250767301Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 6mm

Lady Augusta Gregory's Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Irish oral story tellers at the close of the nineteenth...

'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916059887Author Carolyn HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Riverdown BooksPublisher Riverdown BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Featuring short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston and more Edited and Introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, charming, irreverent: a flapper is a girl who knows how to have a roaring good time. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of German Book Prize 2002 and Carl Amery Literature Prize 2005 and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2018 and Deutscher Buecher Preis 2002 and Thomas...

Dive into the heart of Australia with this blockbuster debut as one woman confronts her past, family secrets, and her own identity amid the chaos of midlife, offering a poignant exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery.Layla Byrnes is exhausted...

This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel-a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare...

The latest in the nationally bestselling 'edge-of-your-seat' (Book Riot) Hayley Chill series. WHEN JUSTICE FALLSNO ONE IS SAFE An associate justice of the Supreme Court is dead, killed by the very police officer assigned to protect him. As shockwaves...

'I'm going to live in that house, Dad. One day I'll be mistress of Thornsby Manor . . .'It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Young Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby estate. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915502162Author Jane BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Orla Kelly PublishingPublisher Orla Kelly PublishingWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)...

Skinheads is the story of a way of life, told through three generations of a family: Terry English, original ska-loving skinhead and boss of a mini-cab firm; Nutty Ray, street-punk skin and active football hooligan; and Lol, son of Terry, nephew of Ray,...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central...

Singing and Teaching Singing: A Holistic Approach to Classical Voice, Fourth Edition continues to be a beloved resource for singers and their teachers, speech-language pathologists, and laryngologists and an adopted text for instructors and students in...

NETFLIX SERIES TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 2022 WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE "Mencarelli writes with the grace and power of a poet. His words illuminate truth like a flash of lightning."-Il Sole 24 Ore "Moving and engaging. This novel will stay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531805Author Carlos FuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Exploring the wealth of career opportunities open to those with an interest in economics, Pryce, Ross, Birdi, and Harwood reflect on how students can become successful economists. An ideal complement to skills and employability modules on economics...

A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580730Author Jane SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513278605Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

A feel-good tale of unlikely friendship, community and learning to live life in the slow lane, perfect for fans of Clare Pooley and Hazel Prior Daniel isn't used to living life in the slow lane. So when he finds himself unexpectedly jobless and back in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578355443Author Katerina DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Historium PressPublisher Historium PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This gripping story of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774769218Author Alexandre DumasFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Engage BooksPublisher Engage BooksWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

The novella and eight short stories that constitute Year of the Elephant-an allusion to a battle described in the Qur'an-serve as an eloquent representation of life in the wake of Morocco's successful struggle for independence from French occupation. In...