World Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177729Author Asja BakicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

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...

In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly couple confronts the note-taking fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A famous...

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 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...

'COMPELLING AND COMPULSIVE' Victoria Selman'GRIPPING' Claire McGowan'EXHILARATING AND DARKLY THRILLING' J A Corrigan'KEPT ME GLUED TO THE PAGES' Zoe Lea________Laura has a husband, children, a home in a city she loves. She thinks she can be happy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527358Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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...

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,...

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...

Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Womens Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the 1890s and the 1930s. Embracing the famous and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea 'Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!' - Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's...

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 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...

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,...

Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537147Author James Scott West IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 756Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

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)...

In the early 1980s, I began to visit South Wales on a regular basis to photograph the railway scene. At that time, the collieries and steelworks were generating a lot of rail traffic with Class 37 diesels being the usual motive power. Passenger trains...

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,...

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

A ground-breaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641295307Author Colin CotterillFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250238122Author SjonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 33mm

'Real escapism...for me the book was an absolute win' A gorgeous Greek island A stranger in a veil And a fatal fall from the cliffs... Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near...

Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496746368Author Patrice McDonoughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the...

______________________________________Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in his consummate distinctive style.This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story...

'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...

Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESCelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity'Nella Larsen wrote two novels...

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'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' M.W. Craven _______________ Sometimes work can be murder... The Consultant is very good at his job. He...