World Literature

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571542758Author Alfred MusicPage Count 32Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music Ltd

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861689Author Paulina ChizianeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994423Author Sam AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

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...

For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960611109Author Cyprian EkwensiFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Toys & Gifts Delivery, IncPublisher Toys & Gifts Delivery, IncWeight(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...

The Ars Notoria is a mediaeval grimoire which was widely distributed and very popular in the 13th-16th century, but virtually unknown until recently. Version B (MS Bibliotheque Nationale Lat. 9336.) is a commentary on the Method which has never been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730350Author Alexander ProkhanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043481Author Philip DallingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788396970633Author Xavier MessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Limitless Mind PublishingPublisher Limitless Mind PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178569Author Ernest HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602184Author Agatha ChristieFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838226664Author William PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Editiones RarioresPublisher Editiones Rariores

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914958823Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 313g

A woman arrives alone in Kolkata, taking refuge in a deserted apartment while she waits to undergo an unspecified surgery. In this disorienting city, everything seems new and strange: the pavement-dwellers outside her block, the collective displays of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891237Author Ko Ko ThettFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality. Ihuoma is a woman of great beauty and dignity, beloved in a village that...

A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writersThere's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger.Enemies since childhood, the small town of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374722937Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm *...

'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony BurgessBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl,...

On the eve of the Second World War a public attorney, devastated because his Jewish lover has fled without him, runs over a young girl. He is torn by grief at the loss of his girlfriend and guilt about the accident - which is shrouded in a mystery that...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's masterly skill for storytelling.Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint 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 9781914079238Author Dom ConlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913224349Author Kate FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint PJ SkinnerPublisher PJ SkinnerWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyoshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250824028Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975763643Author Meryl Dunton-RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North BankPublisher North BankWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378220Author Xi XiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

From the author of The Memory Monster, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, comes a gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on...