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The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270677
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is... -
Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard 9780992974763
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In Tangier, young Lakhdar finds himself homeless after being caught in flagrante with his cousin Meryem. As the political and religious tensions in the Mediterranean flare up with the Arab Spring and... -
Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette 9781804272152
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In a family home in the north of France, a crime has been committed. But a crime of what order? Who exactly is the victim and who, if anyone, is the criminal? In Twenty Minutes of Silence, Helene... -
Representations of the Intellectual Edward W. Said 9781804272244
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers... -
City Like Water Dorothy Tse 9781804272282
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though so much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the... -
Ambivalence Brian Dillon 9781804272473
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television... -
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux 9781913097158
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride,... -
Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina Mercedes Halfon 9781804272350
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board was a delegation of businessmen, diplomats and journalists. Days later, the captain received orders to return home with... -
The Ways of Paradise Peter Cornell 9781804271063
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of... -
Rombo by Esther Kinsky
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In May and September 1976, two earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population. About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of... -
Seeing Further Esther Kinsky 9781804271162
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91While travelling through the Great Alfoeld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, 'mozi' in... -
Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaima, by Mario de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the... -
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq 9781804270653
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then... -
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova 9781804270585
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century... -
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail Hélène Giannecchini 9781804272220
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to... -
A Shining — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804271032
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but... -
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2019 by Alaa Abd el-Fattah 9781913097745
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.01Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent... -
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti 9781804270776
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Sheila Heti collected hald a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was... -
Intervals by Marianne Brooker 9781804270837
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.28What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis... -
Greyhound Joanna Pocock 9781804271384
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same... -
Joy Is My Middle Name Sasha Debevec-McKenney 9781804271872
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety,... -
The Edge of the Alphabet Janet Frame 9781804271186
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat,... -
The Use of Photography Annie Ernaux 9781804271148
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo... -
The Question of Palestine Edward Said 9781804271353
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said's... -
Dysphoria Mundi Paul B. Preciado 9781804271452
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the... -
Childish Literature Alejandro Zambra 9781804271100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a 'state of attachment', or 'under the influence' of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide for novice parents,... -
Zone Mathias Enard 9781804271735
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing... -
The Long Form by Kate Briggs
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing... -
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture by Annie Ernaux 9781804270707
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her... -
Event Horizon Balsam Karam 9781804272305
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters, banished from society, make their living - without rights,... -
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza Samar Yazbek 9781804272411
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement... -
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a... -
I is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in... -
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux 9781913097684
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment... -
Perfection Vincenzo Latronico 9781804271049
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish... -
What Is Mine by José Henrique Bortoluci 9781804270851
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In What Is Mine, sociologist Jose Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi's work... -
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton 9781804272176
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56What does it mean to lose yourself - and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on... -
Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives Alice Hattrick 9781804272374
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56What can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions, Alice Hattrick turns to the... -
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In... -
Goatsong Phoebe Giannisi 9781804271896
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The ancient Greek word for tragedy ( ) is a compound of goat ( ) and song ( ). In Phoebe Giannisi's Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body. ...