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Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 9780241681183
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a... -
The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer 9780814336267
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied... -
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers by Knut Hamsun 9780141180670
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.76The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psycheA Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn... -
Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World by Christoph Schulte 9781512824353
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "contraction," "withdrawal," "retreat," "limitation," and "concentration." In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God's self-limitation, done before creating the... -
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak by Maurice Sendak
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the... -
The Town by Conrad Richter 9781613737439
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.31The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character... -
Growth Of The Soil by Knut Hamsun
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.65The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story... -
The Vegetarian Pocket Bible Carys Matthews 9781907087295
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Whether you are a life-long vegetarian or a new convert this essential guide gives you practical information on how to live a healthy vegetarian lifestyle: * Dip in and out for delicious vegetarian... -
Globetrotter by David Albahari 9780300201321
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.24One of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession "Easily one of the finest writers of fiction today... -
What is American Literature? by Ilan Stavans 9780198816218
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.43An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The... -
Jean-Claude Grumberg: Three Plays by Jean-Claude Grumberg 9780292754584
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Winner of seven Molieres, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in... -
Fervour by Toby Lloyd 9781399724616
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller'JONATHAN COE'Magnificent, indelible . . . That a... -
Fervour Toby Lloyd 9781399724654
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller'JONATHAN COE'Magnificent, indelible . . . That a... -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West... -
Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire by Joel Schechter
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.70A lively examination of the vitality and imagination of Yiddish Theatre during the Great DepressionA lively examination of the vitality and imagination of Yiddish Theatre during the Great... -
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.65The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his... -
Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £23.52This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography... -
A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav by Howard Schwartz
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.40Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement,... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years by Ilan Stavans 9780312240332
Booksplease Price: £21.19This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research,... -
Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us allWhy was Saul... -
The Trees by Conrad Richter 9781613737415
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.04The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character... -
Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems Nezahualcoyotl 9781632063861
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcoyotl was a... -
Wandering Stars: A Novel by Sholem Aleichem 9780143117452
Booksplease Price: £17.13In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs... -
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang 9780393339963
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £31.92When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents' home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history she'd ignored while... -
The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales by Jay Michaelson 9798986780399
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.41A provocative collection of interconnected tales, bridging the worlds of mysticism and heresy, faith and desire-from the award-winning author of Everything is God and The Heresy of Jacob Frank.The... -
American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States by Roger L. Simon 9781641773973
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50"Roger Simon is among the many refugees fleeing blue state neoliberalism, and he's written the best account of our generation's greatest migration."-Tucker Carlson, fired Fox News host"As a citizen... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and... -
Daniel and Ismail by Juan Pablo Iglesias Yacher 9781632063793
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A one-of-a-kind, uplifting picture book about an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field-translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic.Daniel and Ismail, one Israeli and the... -
Stand By Me by Wendell Berry
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to... -
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy 9781503604117
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about... -
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy 9780804797610
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about...