World Literature

Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel-he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim...

Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the...

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782491251000Author August StrindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649604132Author Bethan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ambassador InternationalPublisher Ambassador InternationalWeight(grams)...

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...

"[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people." -Pearl S. BuckThe Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, and is one of the earliest and greatest...

The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its centre, world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, is burdened...

The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa...

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love. Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion...

Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging and friendship. London E17, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong friendship between three women: Claude, the baker,...

A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question.'Remarkable...May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times' GuardianTwo people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come...

No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - 'The Overcoat', 'The Nose' and 'Diary of a Madman' - alongside...

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardBest Book of the Year - New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558619074Author Bei TongFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as...

For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Harriet Tyce, Jorn Lier Horst, Fred Vargas and Jean-Patrick Manchette.Early copies available for booksellers and influencers. EBook will be available at the same time as print publication, and will be promoted together...

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and...

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in...

The highly anticipated fourth book in the exciting and atmospheric Shadow of the Raven series. WESSEX 893 AD As the threat of yet another Viking invasion looms over his troubled realm, Alfred, King of Wessex, reviews and strengthens his defences. Among...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Basque Literary Prize 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781915568083Author Karmele JaioFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

The terrifying new psychological thriller by internationally bestselling phenomenon Sebastian Fitzek. Walk Me Home is Fitzek's most enthralling work to date. The Walk Me Home telephone helpline service has proved indispensable. Staffed by volunteers,...

In the 1930s, flying was all the rage. All over Britain women and men had grown up watching wartime flying aces perform aerobatics in the sky. Now they too were learning how to fly. Robert Owen is the only son from a Welsh vicarage, now a brilliant...

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173626Author Yasushi InoueFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 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 9781945099304Author Judith Galblum PexFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Cladach PublishingPublisher Cladach PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732594302Author Sepehr HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Appleyard & Sons PublishingPublisher Appleyard & Sons PublishingWeight(grams)...

An aspiring TV journalist faces a shattering moral dilemma and the prospect of losing her career and her life, when she joins an impetuous photographer in the Middle East. A shocking, searingly authentic thriller by award-winning ex-CNN news executive...

Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home, across...

In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child. Each passes the time by telling the baby stories, trying to pass on the lessons they've learned: tales of circuses and stargazing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930563Author Lydia KieslingFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Zando - Crooked Media ReadsPublisher Zando - Crooked Media ReadsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496715883Author Ellen Marie WisemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861627Author Jose Eduardo AgualusaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

"His stories shimmer like revelations - the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life when the veil lifts. They're exhilarating to read, just as exhilarating to re-read." -Deborah EisenbergChildhood does not last...

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed for ever.Now, twenty-seven years later,...

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut. An Untouched House is a mesmerising, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079238Author Dom ConlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound...