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The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove KnausgaardOne evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Julian Preece
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German... -
From the Berlin Journal Max Frisch 9781803092140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin. Max Frisch... -
The Art of Distances: Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century European Literature by Corina Stan 9780810136854
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of... -
![The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans by Dagmar Barnouw 9780253220400 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5049407/5048604/9780253220400__35937.1722944938.jpg?c=1 "The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans by Dagmar Barnouw 9780253220400 [USED COPY]")
The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans by Dagmar Barnouw 9780253220400 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £1.25"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on... -
Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing... -
Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them... -
Poppies in Translation by Sujata Bhatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua: many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal,... -
Mr. Zed's Reflections Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857422248
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75One should always only adhere to what he doesn't say. Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the world's most influential and internationally... -
Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community by Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780822316404
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois... -
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by... -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let... -
The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel by Peter Handke
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.96A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke-one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010410
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.21'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document... -
Angina Days: Selected Poems by Gunter Eich 9780691144979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780141184999
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by... -
New Selected Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9781780372501
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range... -
Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645 by David Wallace 9780199661343
Booksplease Price: £39.21It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and... -
Baader-Meinhof and the Novel: Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010 by J. Preece 9780230341074
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich... -
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.37It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Gunter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes... -
The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks by Eka Kurniawan 9780811239769
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village-until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of... -
Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers by Joyce Wexler 9781501325298
Booksplease Price: £102.21As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the... -
Wolves at the Door: Migration, Dehumanization, Rewilding the World by Dr. Peter Arnds 9781501366758
Booksplease Price: £26.90In view of the current rhetoric surrounding the global migrant crisis - with politicians comparing refugees with animals and media reports warning of migrants swarming like insects or trespassing... -
Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645 by David Wallace 9780199541713
Booksplease Price: £65.70It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and... -
Wolves at the Door: Migration, Dehumanization, Rewilding the World by Dr. Peter Arnds 9781501366765
Booksplease Price: £102.21In view of the current rhetoric surrounding the global migrant crisis - with politicians comparing refugees with animals and media reports warning of migrants swarming like insects or trespassing... -
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Ernestine Schlant 9780415922203
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.47Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms... -
Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers by Joyce Wexler
Booksplease Price: £27.89As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811228725
Booksplease Price: £15.00In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between... -
A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary by Hans Fallada 9780745669892
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57"I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National... -
The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks Eka Kurniawan 9781805334897
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be Southeast Asia's most ambitious writer in a generation' EconomistOnce, Sato Reang's father tried to bully him into being a pious child. Now... -
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing by John Sturrock 9780198182627
Booksplease Price: £113.18Keeping track of contemporary writing is by its nature difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism?... -
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen 9780811229180
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.61Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes... -
Brother Alive by Zain Khalid
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in Staten Island. The... -
Brother Alive Zain Khalid 9781611854237
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31*Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Award**Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award*Finalist for the NBCC John Leonard PrizeA New York Times Writer to Watch This SummerNamed a Best Book of the Year by... -
Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 9780099569480
Booksplease Price: £14.54A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of... -
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times'I never thought I would see myself in an eel, until I read Svensson's... -
Contextualizing Indian Experiences of Covid-19: People, Pandemic, and Policies Rajesh Kharat 9781032303284
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context. The book is divided into four parts. Part I highlights... -
CoDex 1962: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023 Victoria Cribb 9781473663053
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'A masterpiece . . . I challenge any author to top it!' Sigridur Alberstsdottir, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.Josef Loewe enters the world...