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Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811225946
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the... -
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia by Peter Roberts 9781498510851
Booksplease Price: £46.74Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as... -
Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER 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... -
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02WINNER 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 Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead: Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater Brent Wood (University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada) 9781032237367
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group's live performances showing how Garcia brought about catharsis through dance by leading songs of... -
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic - Intersections of Literature and Politics by Karl Leydecker 9781571134691
Booksplease Price: £27.80New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability,... -
Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811238113
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.66The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things that Disappear is an exciting... -
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant ... It is full of poetical phrasing ... yet allows for the naughty spirit of childhood to remain true' Guardian'Never before had Nils travelled... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the winner of the International Booker Prize 'Bracing, unflinching and alive' Nicole Krauss 'Intense and beautifully written' Time Out A child is found standing on the street, with an... -
Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars by Mark Christian Thompson 9781438469867
Booksplease Price: £25.94Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.Anti-Music examines... -
The Bureau of Past Management: 2021 by Iris Hanika 9783863913076
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Each of us has something that feels essential to who we are. For Hans Frambach, it's the crimes of the Nazi era, which have hurt him for as long as he can remember. That's why he became an archivist... -
The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 9781803511726
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian... -
Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann 9781782279488
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann tells this story in a remarkable novel about two women in... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.18The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place," Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among... -
Spontaneous Acts Yoko Tawada 9780349704234
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.51The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of... -
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that... -
The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in... -
The Kingdom of Wurttemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871 by Bodie A. Ashton 9781350079700
Booksplease Price: £37.81CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 This book examines the 1871 unification of Germany through the prism of one of its 'forgotten states', the Kingdom of Wurttemberg. It moves beyond the... -
Two Plays of Weimar Germany: Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals by Ferdinand Bruckner 9780810137721
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.94If a theater-goer in Weimar Berlin were asked to name the best living German playwright, the answer would not be Bertolt Brecht or Georg Kaiser or Arnolt Bronnen. It would be Ferdinand Bruckner. ... -
Wond'rous Machine: A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ by Robert N. Roth 9780810837881
Booksplease Price: £86.43You do not have to be an organist to be blown away by the sound of the 'full organ' in St. Paul's, London; Notre Dame, Paris; or St. John the Divine, New York. Some of this inexplicable excitement... -
Eurotrash: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 Christian Kracht 9781805226598
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... -
The I Ching: A Biography by Richard J. Smith 9780691145099
Booksplease Price: £29.54The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a... -
Assassin of Reality: A Novel by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko 9780063225435
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.39The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina's journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is... -
Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck 9781803512532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Vital... [Erpenbeck] is asking a compelling and timely question' Sally Rooney, Irish Times Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. Recently... -
Before the invention of paradise by Ludwig Steinherr 9781904614456
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections... -
Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch 9781786077608
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter Cunningham Winner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022 Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing... -
Lea: A Novel Pascal Mercier 9780802121660
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon mesmerized readers around the world, and went on to become an international bestseller, establishing Mercier as a breakthrough European literary talent. Now, in... -
The Complete Introduction to Magic by Julius Evola 9781644119556
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £75.85All three volumes of the occult classic available together as a deluxe boxed set for the first time. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian esotericists formed the mysterious UR group. The... -
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty by Modris Eksteins
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.16In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through...