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Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck 9781398529397
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $17.02The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in... -
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.71Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding... -
A Season: Poems Michael Joseph Walsh 9780820375526
RRP: $39.81Booksplease Price: $27.61A Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen-between self and world, sound and echo, the... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $22.36WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out... -
Forty Stories by Dave Eggers
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $17.54This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright... -
The Guide: A Novel by R. K. Narayan
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant... -
All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that... -
Collected Stories by Janice Galloway
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most... -
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 9780141189666
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION In 1949 two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out... -
Illusions (Faber Editions): with an introduction by Megan Nolan by Ruth Rehmann 9780571396580
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'The rediscovery of this lost classic will shift perceptions of German literature in the English speaking world. Mercurial, seductive, smart and startling.' - Megan NolanFour office workers, one... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 9781857151381
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty... -
Back by Henry Green 9781860463693
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us... -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece,... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges,... -
A Book Of Memories by Peter Nadas
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.25A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende 9781857152814
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted,... -
The Collected Stories Of Colette by Colette
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.32Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K-pi', Colette's subtle and ruthless... -
Hopscotch and Blow-Up by Julio Cortazar
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.60With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.21'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.09'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the... -
I Hate the Lake District by Charlie Gere 9781912685110
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $13.95An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past. I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary... -
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich 9781523504459
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $47.79"The ultimate literary bucket list." -The Washington Post "If there's a heaven just for readers, this is it." -O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing... -
People in the Room by Norah Lange 9781911508229
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.01A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled... -
Dog Poems: An Anthology by Various
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.57Our canine companions offer us friendship, love, understanding, all unadulterated. They are our joyful playmates and our furry shoulders to cry on, from the cradle to the grave. This book... -
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer 9781573660969
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.90The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through... -
Newly Born Woman by Helene Cixous 9780816614660
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $27.25Published in France as La jeune nee in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Helene Cixous and... -
Girl Imagined by Chance by Lance Olsen 9781573661034
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $28.33Lance Olsen's sixth novel, Girl Imagined by Chance, is a formally innovative, intensely lyrical novel about the way fictions can take over our lives. It tells the story of an unnamed cyber-journalist... -
Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson 9781573661904
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.90A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice.Messiahs centers on two nameless lovers, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration... -
Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade by Eugenio De Andrade 9780811215237
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico Garcia... -
Grandma’s Story by Trinh, T. Minh-ha 9781068591808
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.91The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on, not only the stories... -
Dirty Poem by Ferreira Gullar 9780811223959
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $16.04Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author's political and... -
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz 9781999722784
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.46Man Booker International Prize 2018 FinalistIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling... -
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams 9780008725297
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.27'A novel to marvel at' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH 'Like Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the world' SUNDAY TIMES 'Astonishing' MICHAEL MAGEE ... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
Slater Orchard: An Etymology by Darcie Dennigan 9781573660723
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.90An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization. In Slater Orchard, a cleaning woman navigates a half-imaginary world ravaged by industrial waste and...