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The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger 9781782279259
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.45The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation On being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pulls a crafty... -
Background for Love Helen Wolff 9781805330745
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France written by famed publisher Helen Wolff, based on her early life with Kurt WolffIn a giddy rush, a young woman and her older... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278467
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer 'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' Financial Times ... -
A Chess Story Stefan Zweig 9781805332411
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' Economist 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov' Paul Bailey, TLS Chess... -
There's No Turning Back Alba de Céspedes 9781805331148
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A stunningly powerful novel of a group of young women coming of age in 1930s Rome, from the celebrated author of Forbidden NotebookThe young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life... -
The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet 9781805331575
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece' New Statesman'So shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever... every page he wrote was a delight' Fay WeldonIn this novel of desire and... -
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol 9781805330332
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - 'The... -
The Silence and the Roar Nihad Sirees 9781805333104
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Amidst the roar of authoritarianism, one writer finds himself on a quest for silence and calm. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through an unnamed Middle Eastern city... -
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9781805330295
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami 'The quintessential writer of his era' David Peace These are short stories... -
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov 9781805330233
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A tantalising mystery... a mesmerising work of literature' Antony Beevor 'Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war and sex' Paris Review A superb early postmodern classic by one of... -
Poems to Night Rainer Maria Rilke 9781805333135
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A gorgeous collection of odes to the night and darkness' ExBerlinerIn 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed... -
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle 9781782279464
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new... -
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 9781805330226
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' GUARDIAN 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' ALI SMITH 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought,... -
The Wanderer's Song: Essential Poems Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781805333401
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'He is incomparable... the age of Goethe extends not only over centuries but over millennia' Thomas Mann Novelist, scientist, courtier, poet - Goethe's genius spanned disciplines in his lifetime, and... -
The Crying of the Wind: Ireland Ithell Colquhoun 9781805331568
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a... -
Her Side of the Story Alba de Céspedes 9781782278238
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante Alessandra has always wanted... -
A Bad Business: Essential Stories Nicolas Slater Pasternak 9781805332060
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Reminds us how extremely funny he could be' A.N. Wilson, TLS 'The man more than any other who has created modern prose' James Joyce A refreshingly accessible way in to this iconic Russian... -
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes 9781782278221
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant... -
Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories Bruno Schulz 9781805333319
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'One of the most original imaginations in modern Europe' Cynthia OzickThe stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. Over a city forever altered by the... -
The Anatomy of Love Robert Burton 9781805333333
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'One of the indispensable books' Philip Pullman'The best book ever written' GuardianWith an introduction by Becca Rothfeld.Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's... -
The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9781805332220
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A master of death and eros' LA Weekly 'Japan's great modern novelist. Tanizaki created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy'... -
The Allure of Chanel by Euan Cameron 9781805330219
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential women in... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9781805330196
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' Sunday Times 'It's hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone' Guardian An... -
The Meadow Where Time Stands Still: Essential Poems Osip Mandelshtam 9781805331674
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Probably the greatest Russian poet of [the 20th] century' New York Times'We know the sources of Pushkin and Blok, but who will tell us from where that new, divine harmony, Mandelshtam's poetry, came... -
Silence Shusaku Endo 9781805330783
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Father Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan in 1640. He is on a mission to find one of the Portuguese Jesuits that went before him, a spiritual example to the younger priests, and disprove the... -
Flight Without End Joseph Roth 9781805331216
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century' - Simon Schama'An almost perfect book' Rolling StoneAt the close of the Great War, a captured Austrian soldier escapes... -
Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 9781782277804
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-WestIn 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of... -
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth by Hermann Hesse 9781805330349
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Emil Sinclair is a troubled young outsider. But everything changes when he meets Max Demian, a mysterious and charismatic older student, who reveals the glittering possibilities that lie beyond... -
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton 9781805330929
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A master storyteller' - Elizabeth Strout The power of money threatens young love in this charming story of romantic misadventure by one of the greatest authors of America's Gilded AgeNick Lansing... -
Deep River Shusaku Endo 9781805331551
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Endo is one of the world's greatest novelists' Washington PostA group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the... -
In Love by Alfred Hayes 9781805331070
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a hotel bar, a disenchanted writer tells a beautiful stranger the story of his latest doomed love affair. Sipping... -
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Various 9781782278498
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.71These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing... -
Weights and Measures Joseph Roth 9781805330653
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A masterly performance' Evening StandardJoseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlandsIn the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,... -
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories by Franz Kafka 9781805330400
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament' John Updike 'The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic' New York Times The... -
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin 9781805330936
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon and, possibly, the only manifestation of the Russian spirit' Nikolai Gogol The selected works of one of Russia's greatest writers, including 'The Queen of... -
And Time Was No More: Essential Stories and Memories by Teffi 9781805330424
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Amazingly modern, as easy to devour as a box of chocolates' Observer 'Teffi's brilliance at capturing the dark comedy of her milieu should no longer prevent her from being recognised as an... -
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter 9781805330899
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights' Sara Wheeler '[An] astonishing, haunting memoir' Isabella Tree The... -
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman 9781805330479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The best short story writer in the world' Susan Hill 'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' Sunday Times The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has... -
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang 9781911590668
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A work of gorgeous, enduring prose' Washington Post 'Luminously elegiac stories... Complex and rueful... gives voice to internal struggles, catalogues of loss' New York Times Book Review A...