World Literature

'Exceptional' The Times'Luminous . . . Unexpected' GuardianShortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group AwardsLuke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane...

'It's not a game for gentlemen we're playing, Political and civilized. This is Historic' 2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House - and at what cost? Mike Bartlett's viciously funny and...

The Sleeping and The Dead is a tense psychological thriller from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of three astounding TV series: Shetland, Vera and The Long Call.Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been...

MJ Porter's epic bestselling adventure 'The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles' continue at pace...A mercy mission in the heart of Wessex is beset with deadly, bloody dangers.Tamworth AD831Icel's profile continues to rise. Lord of Budworth and warrior of Mercia,...

'Gripping, compelling and beautiful.' Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret big enough to destroy the Fuhrer's reputation. . . January 1939: ...

When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy's had a bad week.Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes,...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.A tumultuous neighbourhood known as 'the alley' has seen successive heroes rise and fall as they...

Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art MalikFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011, an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery...Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late...

In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's...

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are...

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother's love; the smell of fresh herbs,...

Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.'I'm a huge fan of Barbara...

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly evocative classic, now with a new introduction by the authorEyes mark the shape of the cityThe midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a...

'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before...

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her...

At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But...

Mariama Ba's pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916222663Author Tim KeyFormat PaperbackImprint "Utter" & PressPublisher "Utter" & Press

EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLEIn this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city...

Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy has decided to expand his beer business, and on the advice of his wife Rose, is thinking about distilling gin, what can possibly go...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839243Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Division Street is full of secrets. And one night in particular has been kept buried.'Lyrically examines the ways a single event can alter many lives for ever . . . wonderful' Good HousekeepingAn impulsive lie - told with the best intentions - consumes...

* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own...

Romance, intrigue, and dangerous ambitions combine to create the perfect escape: welcome back to the beautiful Hotel Portofino on the magical Italian Riviera. HOTEL PORTOFINO: LOVERS AND LIARS IS OUT NOW! ***NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA*** A heady historical...

The Sleeping and The Dead is a tense psychological thriller from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of the three astounding TV series: Shetland, Vera and The Long Call. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838218928Author Terry TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Cripplegate BooksPublisher Cripplegate BooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'Comforting and uplifting, this book is a joy to read' - MY WEEKLY, on The Farmhouse of Second ChancesSun, sand and secrets at the bay!As a kid, Nina O'Brien spent all her summers at her grandparents' cabin by the beach at Stepping Stone Bay. Long, sunny...

'One for Sally Rooney fans' Sunday Telegraph'Compelling, raw and thrillingly strange' MONA AWAD, author of Bunny'Cinematic and confessional . . . electric' The New York Times-----*FOR FANS OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION and...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' ObserverThere is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.Why did a...

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778785443Author Snorri SturlusonFormat HardbackPage Count 780Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 1306g

A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the...

Shimmering writing depicting California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Munoz depicts the...

In Cops and Horrors: Uncut Tales from the Frontline, Matt Calveley offers an up close and personal view into the life of a dedicated officer serving in one of the biggest police forces in the world. Highly decorated, Matt lived a varied career, meaning...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES**This love is all-consuming It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645170006Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 2024Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358560756Author Alexandre DumasFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! PublishingWeight(grams)...

A gripping, illuminating novel about recent Russian aggressions and the humans caught in the crossfire. One evening in 2015, journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack...