World Literature

In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn't write fiction for ten years after completing it--his next book being the infamous Blue Lard, which...

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional...

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501110368Author Colleen HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Finely textured, humane and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging, challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt...

On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.But what will happen when she returns to the island? Based on the Japanese...

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 9781935744320Author Miljenko JergovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 490g

In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and preserve its traditions while being tied down to the present...

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848717893Author Sinclair FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 824Imprint Banner of TruthPublisher Banner of TruthWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990436116Author Linda ShantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Linda ShantzPublisher Linda ShantzWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374504649Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

'This is Mike Phillips's best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic' The Times Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend's message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh...

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 9780060932206Author Ron HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from...

In the beginning was the Word- When Theodore Terhune's wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula,...

At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593687314Author Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789980943Author David BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint The Secret Book CompanyPublisher The Secret Book CompanyWeight(grams) 174g

God is utterly faithful. That's his nature. He cannot lie, always keeps his word, and is fully committed to his glory. So what does this mean for me today? * No sin is too awful for him to deal with * Because he's kept all his promises to me in the...

A chilling allegorical novella by the masterful Colombian writer who poses timeless questions about violence and subjugation, power and freedom.Imagining the darkest of power imbalances in a dystopian world, in which the most vulnerable are held captive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645992929Author J K KnaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Encircle Publications, LLCPublisher Encircle Publications, LLCWeight(grams) 295g

In this wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something inhuman, upending society as we know it. Shortly to be adapted by Netflix into Uprising The body of a young woman found...

The Gods of Pegana (1905) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Gods of Pegana would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering...

Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married...

"Detective Patrolman McClane watched the two-man space station spin into view, a shining disc against the black backdrop... Waiting for the airlock to fill, he though bitterly of his situation-promotion due and he had to get a job like this..." ...

The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805081517Author Irina ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 354g

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe, Sekoni and Kola have returned to Lagos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915310002Author Rose GanFormat PaperbackImprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon BooksWeight(grams) 129g

Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless...

A completely new look at plants - not only in food, drink and commerce, and how they have created civilisation, trade and empires, but also in love, in war, in crime, in horror and delight, in music, poetry and prose, and on the screen. Not just another...

While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643629Author Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu BandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

From No. 1 bestselling author Beth Moran comes a story about family, friendship and community.Sometimes when you can't see the way forwards, the best thing to do is to look back...When Jessie left home at eighteen, she swore she'd never go back. But when...

‘A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao’s extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese grandparents’ traumatic life.’ – The ObserverMoving from 1930s Hanoi through wars and displacements to...