World Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805081555Author Irina ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old...

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small...

This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In."* * *Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is...

Twelve princesses long to leave the palace and go dancing. When their shoes are worn out night after night, the king is determined to solve the mystery. Finally a soldier in a cloak of invisibility follows the girls to a magical underground realm. With...

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...

From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent. Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that occur among officials of a provincial Russian town...

Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his whole life upside down. Destined to live forever as an immortal, Noam travels through the centuries in search of the...

Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788088628033Author Max BlecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press

Balraj Khanna witnessed as a child in the Punjab, the cataclysmic Partition of India in 1947, when Hindus and Muslims who had lived peacefully together for generations, succumbed to blood-soaked enmity. At school and university a love of English language...

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships,...

All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner, an intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own, and, as he begins to find happiness, he commits an act of violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179673Author Basil CreightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this...

The publication of Martin Popoff's Uriah Heep: A Visual Biography is something of a bitter-sweet pill given recent events. Following the sad loss of Lee Kerslake in September 2020, Popoff - having interviewed various band members over the past few years...

Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger's flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch...

The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values.Kulsum wants her...

China is a transitional society with one of the highest inequality rates in the world. Criminologists would typify this as a highly toxic combination, creating very high levels of crime. Yet China reports extremely low crime rates. How might this be?...

"Queer writing at its most exhilarating." **-Times Literary Supplement **The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830775Author Sara MesaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250332219Author Patrick TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

This colourful illustrated flap book by Priddy Books is aimed at toddlers to help improve their observational and language skills by seeing inside farm buildings and discovering lots of animals and objects on the farm.The large, shaped flaps are easy for...

In Heidelberg, Germany, over the course of a hot week in July, two gentle souls begin a prelude to love, testing the pull of romance against the weight of their family histories. After fifteen years in a relationship with a man she did not love, Ute...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOCIn the course of a career that encompassed nearly one hundred novels and short story collections (written over more than seventy years), P.G. Wodehouse established himself as not only a fond satirist of the foppish...

This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthday Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412595383Author Toni MountFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal Publishing

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha - a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993020421Format PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Alex DayPublisher Alex Day

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating wallpaper soup and dead rats. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage...

'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung ChangA searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China.Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply moving novel shares the tragic story of the...

'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian'She writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter' Francesca Angelini, The Times'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957296081Author Razinat T MohammedFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Spears Media PressPublisher Spears Media PressWeight(grams) 299g

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423891Author Ariel DorfmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646894553Author Nteranya SangingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Vert PublishingPublisher Vert PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying...