World Literature

Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deia. But beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths the...

'Japrisot is the most welcome talent since the early Simenons' New York Times Car mechanic Fiorimond is irresistibly drawn to beautiful, provocative Elle, a recent arrival in his sleepy Provence village. Their relationship develops quickly,...

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea...

Four estranged friends reunite for a motorcycle trip up the Isle of Skye, in the hope of coming to terms with how their lives have splintered since a transformative ride in Northern India fourteen years earlier. In their fumbling attempts to...

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the...

'Askildsen's dry, absurd humour is not unlike that of Beckett... His short stories are packed with irony, and the dialogue is sharp and expressive' TLSSpare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356993822Author Rakhshanda JalilFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 10mm

THE CELEBRATED SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE AMERICAN POET AND WRITER OFTEN CALLED THE 'POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM'A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a black model...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350274Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671428Author Antonio MorescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 195g

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743434379Author ManfrediPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the...

A young woman wakes in a hospital room. What happened to her and why is a mystery. Is she victim or murderer? The young woman has been badly injured in a fire and has amnesia. But what happened to her? Is she Mi, Micky or Michele, or Do, Dominique? As...

The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.About the AuthorSaul Bellow was born in 1915 to Russian emigre parents. As a young child in Chicago, Bellow was raised on books - the Old...

A disenchanted man struggles to get beyond the first chapter of the books he's writing, and to separate fact from fiction in his own life. His friend's suicide changes everything ... The mind-blowing, heart-rending new thriller from cult bestselling...

'For me the true heart of the book was Min, and his search for a sense of belonging that neither America nor Korea is quite able offer him. His story is truly unforgettable' Abi Dare, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding...

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author,...

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**No 1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark' Daily ExpressHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to...

A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writersThere's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496737441Author Stephen GrecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire,...

Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothingAn Evening Standard 'Best New Book' of 2021'A short, sharp, shock of a novel... beautifully done' Daily Mail'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan' Evening Standard'Jestin evokes adolescent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642860115Author Pierre JarawanFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint World EditionsPublisher World Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377391Author Joe KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country series, An Irish Country Yuletide. December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal...

The expert guide to creating production machine learning solutions with ML.NET! ML.NET brings the power of machine learning to all .NET developers- and Programming ML.NET helps you apply it in real production solutions. Modeled on Dino Esposito's...

Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when she's made redundant from her job at a publishing house...

In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377186Author Martin HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915568229Author Diego MaraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350212Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters...

Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. As an adult he moves to an English city where he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912714957Author Thomas HardyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374722937Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm *...

The gripping debut techno thriller from cybercrime specialist Daniel Scanlan. FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood chases a deadly online predator in a high-stakes hunt for the truth. Perfect for fans of Thomas Harris and Stieg Larsson. He's online...

'A master class in the art of storytelling' ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain's talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title story, Evangelista's Fan, is set in a disturbing dreamlike version of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374511715Author Carlos FuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Hope and circumstance define a young woman's life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature. For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the...