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Many and Many a Year Ago by Selcuk Altun 9781846590672
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Kemal's friend mysteriously disappears, leaving him a generous allowance and the use of his large house. He discovers that his new dwelling involves an inheritance of $1.3 million, and a Russian... -
The School of War by Alexandre Najjar 9781846590092
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94'All wars are alike. What I experienced in Lebanon, others experienced in France, in Spain, in Yugoslavia, or elsewhere. Yes, all wars are alike, because while weapons change, the men who wage and... -
The cloud messenger by Aamer Hussein 9781846590894
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age of twenty-three, he leaves his job in a bank to... -
My Driver by Maggie Gee 9781846590795
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful... -
Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women by Jo Glanville 9781846590122
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54These fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember... -
Farewell Fountain Street by Selcuk Altun 9781846592164
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he... -
The Race Makers: A History of the Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Legacy Andrew S. Curran 9781908906632
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59In the early eighteenth century, Christianity began to lose its hold on the story of humankind. Yet centuries of xenophobia, religious intolerance and emerging biological ideas did not simply... -
Where the Earth Meets the Sky: Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica Louise K. Blight 9781908906670
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.56Antarctica is a land of extremes: the coldest, windiest and most remote place on Earth - and now one of the most vulnerable to climate change. On isolated Ross Island - from where legendary explorers... -
In Praise of the Artisan Idries Trevathan 9781916866188
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $64.55In this pioneering work, Idries Trevathan takes readers on a journey through the world of Islamic arts and crafts, revealing how master artisans are keeping ancient traditions alive in the 21st... -
The White Family by Maggie Gee 9781846592157
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. But family ties are strong, and when Alfred collapses on duty one... -
Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy by John M. Steele 9783319552200
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $107.52This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic... -
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu 9781846590238
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24WINNER OF THE 2010 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive charms,... -
My Cleaner by Maggie Gee 9781846590085
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94My cleaner. She does my dirty work. She knows more about me than anyone else in the world. But does she, in fact, like me? Does her presence fill me with shame? Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many... -
The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body Mineke Schipper 9781908906595
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure - Mother Earth - was recreated... -
All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman 9781846590009
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.58All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is hypnotized by her ex, Hypno, to believe that Tom is invisible... -
For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590108
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and... -
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My Cleaner by Maggie Gee 9781846590085 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $5.06My cleaner. She does my dirty work. She knows more about me than anyone else in the world. But does she, in fact, like me? Does her presence fill me with shame? Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many... -
In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590610
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14For much of the twentieth century, Tangier stood at a crossroads of cultures, creativity and chaos. Its labyrinthine streets and vivid contradictions attracted adventurers and artists, forming the... -
The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body Mineke Schipper 9781908906663
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84For centuries, wild and strange stories have been told about the female body. Some empowering, many absurd, these myths have not only endured but continue to shape perceptions of women today. The... -
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller 9781846590931
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Ivan stays on,... -
My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 9781846590900
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain,. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to... -
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov 9781846590320
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the Caucasus, accompanied by Seit,... -
Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare 9781846590665
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.51Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her... -
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi 9781846591464
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.451970s London: Young Michael runs past the railway arches and terraces of Vauxhall. Reaching the street on which he lives, he witnesses a young girl fall from a window, her sari floating down behind... -
A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi Carlo Greppi 9781908906618
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38'Nobody knows how much I owe that man', Primo Levi said of his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Perrone, who saved his life at Auschwitz. 'I could never repay him'. Each day for a period of six months,... -
Shake Off by Mischa Hiller 9781846590887
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94From surviving a massacre in Beirut to becoming a KGB-trained operative working undercover for the mysterious Abu Leila, Palestinian Michel's journey has been hard. Hooked on painkillers and posing... -
Walking on Thin Air: A Life's Journey in 99 Steps by Geoff Nicholson 9781908906571
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we... -
The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in... -
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee 9781846591990
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school... -
About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781846592010
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Longlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in... -
The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback by Lyn Innes
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880,... -
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba'I Al-Madhoun 9781846590917
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and place... -
The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai 9781846592003
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much in life may be reborn as 'hungry ghosts' - spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full.Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his... -
The Sultan of Byzantium by Selcuk Altun 9781846591488
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople in 1453, Emperor Constantine XI was killed, his body never found. Legend has it that he escaped in a Genoese ship, cheating certain death at the hands... -
Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices by Baudouin Dupret
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $221.84An exploration into the ways in which ethnography can create a greater understanding of Islam in particular social contexts This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in... -
The Halva-Maker: The Trilogy of the Fatimids (Sicilian, Armenian, Kurdish) by Reem Bassiouney 9781788711029
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.64The Halva-Maker (in Arabic, Al-Halwani, 2022) is a three-part novel, contributes through the medium of fiction to this different interpretation of the historical record, in that its third segment,... -
Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco's Secret Prison by Aziz BineBine 9781912208883
Booksplease Price: $33.35This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror...