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Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they... -
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a... -
Novecento by Alessandro Baricco 9788433966223
Booksplease Price: $25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433966223Author Alessandro BariccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
La Esposa Joven by Alessandro Baricco
Booksplease Price: $31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433960993Author Alessandro BariccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprin -
Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco 9781400034789
RRP: $33.32Booksplease Price: $26.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Without Blood Alessandro Baricco 9781841955742
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the... -
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of... -
Silk by Alessandro Baricco 9781841958354 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $6.78France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silkworm breeder, has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to... -
Palermo by Roberto Alajmo
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.71The siren-like qualities of the Sicilian capital are woven layer upon layer, each one revealing a stratum of the city's character. In Palermo, Robert Alajmo lays out a compelling series of... -
The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a... -
A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28"[It] will move you across the globe and back in time." - Library Journal Europa Compass series - new format and covers For the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the... -
Tonight is Already Tomorrow by Lia Levi
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97The tragic history of mid-century Europe told through the lives of ordinary people 1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to deal with the influx of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria... -
There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes 9781805333173
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.18The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But... -
What Is Progress by Aldo Schiavone 9781787702998
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44Does it still make sense to talk about progress? The word "progress" conjures up a positivistic view of the world, a late Victorian boundless trust in humanity's talents for discovery and... -
Oxygen by Sacha Naspini
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97SHORTLISTED: DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2022 What would you do if one day you found out the person who raised you is a monster? Laura disappeared into thin air in 1999, at eight years... -
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio 9781787702653
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40Without warning or a word of explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... -
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous 9781787703841
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40Clash of Civilisations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio tells the story of the immigrant tenants of a building in Rome, who offer skewed accounts of a murder. In this award-winning satire by the... -
Judges by Andrea Camilleri 9781782067870
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.04Camilleri, best known for his Inspector Montalbano series, presents the charming Judge Surra who moves to a small Sicilian town in the late nineteenth century. He does not quite understand the quirky... -
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante 9781787704664
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40The debut novel from the author of My Brilliant Friend in a brand-new edition Following her mother's untimely death, Delia sets off on a breath-taking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating... -
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.71OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off. Lila has recently... -
A Sister's Story by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A GIRL RETURNED, COMES A MOVING NEW NOVEL ABOUT SISTERHOOD, THE PAST AND ITS INDELIBLE MARKS * NATALIE PORTMAN'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR JULY 2022* *A... -
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.4018M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide "Stunning... the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare." - The New York Times THE BREAK-OUT NOVEL BY THE INTERNATIONALLY... -
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 9781787702226
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE OVER 14 MILLION COPIES OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE GUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY From one of Italy's most acclaimed... -
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $23.0418M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide "This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My... -
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40A NEW EDITION TO TIE IN WITH THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM DIRECTED BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, STARRING OLIVIA COLMAN, DAKOTA JOHNSON AND PAUL MESCAL From the international bestselling author of MY... -
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE "Nothing quite like this has ever been published before."-The Guardian "This is high stakes, subversive literature."-The Daily Telegraph "With the... -
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri 9781408866139
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York... -
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante 9781787702691
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.71OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE Nothing quite like this has ever been published before."-The Guardian "This is high stakes, subversive literature."-The Daily Telegraph "With the... -
In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $23.49"Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." THE SUNDAY TIMES A delightful collection of original essays on reading and writing. From the... -
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer Elena Varvello 9781473654891
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel'...