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To Make My Bread by Grace Lumpkin 9780252065019
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01A story of the growth of the new South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachian mountaineers small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners driven by economic... -
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelistsGarin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is... -
Memories of Chekhov: Accounts of the Writer from His Family, Friends and Contemporaries by Peter Sekirin 9780786458714
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19This revelatory documentary biography of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), one of the world's best playwrights, collects more than 100 written recollections of Chekhov's close friends, family and... -
The Alexander Medvedkin Reader by Alexander Medvedkin
Booksplease Price: £31.37Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the... -
The Alexander Medvedkin Reader by Alexander Medvedkin 9780226296135
Booksplease Price: £102.51Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the... -
To Make My Bread by Grace Lumpkin 9781590774366
Booksplease Price: £15.87This classic novel, written in the midst of the Great Depression, translates the themes of Balzac to a Southern Appalachian setting. Lumpkin traces the path of the McClure family as they move from... -
Larisa Reisner. A Biography: Decolonizing the Captive Mind by Catherine Porter 9781642599992
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15"She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path," Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago.Commissar,... -
Humanism, Empire, and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural Criticism by Travis Workman
Booksplease Price: £21.96Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century-writing in the context of... -
Hyumŏnijŭm, cheguk, minjok: Han'guk ŭi munhak kwa munhwa pip'yŏng by Travis Workman
Booksplease Price: £21.96Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century-writing in the context of... -
Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991 by Herman Ermolaev 9780847683222
Booksplease Price: £51.70In the first comprehensive picture of Soviet literary censorship, Herman Ermolaev highlights the aims of censorship and its evolution during shifts in Communinist Party policy. He draws on a great... -
Twenty Literary Essays by Evert Villarreal 9781793540966
Booksplease Price: £50.23Reading and studying great works of literature can help us expand our vision, worldview, and frame of reference and can make us feel more vital, exuberant, and alive. These activities can provide an... -
A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion by Louis J. Parascandola 9780231165730
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.00Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jose Marti, Maxim Gorky, Federico Garcia Lorca, Isaac... -
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the YearThe epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize... -
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... -
The Flight Gaito Gazdanov 9781805332091
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The Gazdanov revival ... is nothing short of a literary event' TLS'Gazdanov is a modernist master' Mary O'Donoghue Irish Times'The Flight is a suave, cosmopolitan human comedy with a twist ... All... -
Madness Treads Lightly Polina Dashkova 9781477823460
Booksplease Price: £10.43Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead. As a working mother, Lena... -
Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature by Irene Masing-Delic
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a... -
Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia by Michael Gorham 9780875803135
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.62From the classical dialogues of Plato to current political correctness, manipulating language to advance a particular set of values and ideas has been a time-honored practice. During times of radical... -
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New RussiaMoscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's... -
Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture by Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.50The Bolshevik Revolution uprooted not only the social and political systems of the Russian Empire, but existing artistic institutions and traditions as well. Following the revolution, Soviet artists... -
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers,... -
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings 9780349128566
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once... -
Katha Vilasam: The Story Within by S Ramakrishnan 9781032162461
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Katha Vilasam: The Story Within offers a path-breaking series of 50 articles by S. Ramakrishnan, published over the course of four years in the widely read Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan, to a wider... -
Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography Gary Scharnhorst 9780826369161
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.43Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more. A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family,... -
The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Winner of a PEN Translates Award Named a Most Anticipated Book by Literary Hub When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a... -
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds Simon Ings 9780349128597
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once... -
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781513278308
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.41We (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between 1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author's growing disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the... -
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781513204802
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52We (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between 1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author's growing disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the... -
Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich... -
ars viva 2024: Atiéna R. Kilfa, Daniel Lie, caner teker by Min-Young Jeon 9783735609533
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. has awarded the annual ars viva prize for visual arts to outstanding young artists based in Germany. The award honours work that... -
Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich 9780231187053
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich... -
Doctor Foster: The Scripts by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.31Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South... -
The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic John E. O'Neill 9781684512546
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Communism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability... -
Darling Days: A New York City Childhood iO Tillett Wright 9780349005638
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a... -
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy Deborah McDonald 9781780747972
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure... -
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant... -
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer by Tom Gill 9781498512008
Booksplease Price: £44.76Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the... -
Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era by Murray Leeder 9781628922134
Booksplease Price: £32.95In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted... -
The Novel of a Novel: Abridged Diary Entries from Moscow, 1935-1937 by Ervin Sinko 9781498546362
Booksplease Price: £113.41One of the first critiques of Stalinism from within the communist movement, The Novel of a Novel is a memoir in the form of a journal. It was first published in Yugoslavia in 1955 based on the...