World Literature

"A heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn't put this book down" BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380731992Author Shani MootooFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

Justice can be a blunt instrument"Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story." Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse...

** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION ** 'A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER 'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER 'A writer of imagination and flair'...

Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593596050Author Hannah MichellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376318Author Felix SaltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Godfather of Nordic Noir Kjell Ola Dahl returns with tense, sophisticated, searingly relevant international thriller that explodes the Nordic Noir genre, as Frolich and Gunnarstranda investigate the death of a woman whose scientist boyfriend has also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788090217164Author Peter NadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865472808Author Anne LamottFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Humanity stands at the threshold of a new phase of Earth's planetary evolution. Breathtaking possibilities - in tune with the evolutionary path of the universe - are now available. Yet the question arises: Does humanity have the ideas, foresight and...

Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands. Different fates await each of these women. Hong-ju, who dreams of...

**Shortlisted for Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021**'An instantly gripping page-turner' Sunday Independent Life MagazineA young woman's body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six...

From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community-through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood. From the red soil of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780374270322Author Tom WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 742Imprint Farrar, Straus &...

'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read' - Daily Telegraph'Affecting and haunting' - ObserverAfter the death of his wife, a father in a forgotten corner of France raises his two sons alone. But their town is not one of opportunity, and the boys are...

Anne's diagnosis of terminal cancer shines a spotlight onto fractured relationships with her daughter and granddaughter, with surprising, heartwarming results. A moving, elegant and warmly funny novel by the Norwegian Anne Tyler. 'Helga Flatland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for International Booker Prize 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781912987139Author Jaap RobbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint World Editions LtdPublisher World...

Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and starting to panic - all she sees are other people's children, everywhere. On a family holiday in the idyllic Nowegian countryside, she's rapidly regressing, picking fights with her sister Marthe and flirting...

It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest...

A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250856913Author Kjell ErikssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 142mm...

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...

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician,...

Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his identity in colonial Martinique.As Jose transitions from...

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three...

This 11th edition contains final league tables for the Scottish Professional Football League from 2013-21 and its predecessors from 1890-2013. Also includes the Scottish Lowland Lge to 2021, Highland Lge 1893-2021, East of Scotland Lge 2014-21 and Cup...

Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374518790Author Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier". Beautiful, passionate, Moscow Chestnova bears her...

What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old...

In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park-an ancient estate that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future.Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and she had...

'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler'A smart and lively novel' Jess Walter_________________________________________________'How differently the Geller sisters'...

From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of Ireland...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's...

A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to...

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...

This timely and important intervention in the debates concerning Europe in Ireland begins with the 1916 Centenary celebration. The Brexit decision of June 2016 has fundamentally altered Ireland's relationship with the European Union and has exponentially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760891046Author Jacqueline HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia