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My Life with Boris by Naina Yeltsin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $20.12In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and... -
Another Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks 9781846884726
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents a new selection of his latest essays on Italian literature, offering a lively,... -
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The Invisible City by Emili Rosales 9781846880902 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.32Emili Rosell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the 'Invisible City' - an ambitious project dreamt up by King... -
Men in Space by Tom McCarthy 9781846880568
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.08Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, "Men in Space" follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins and... -
Written in Water: Keats's final Journey by Alessandro Gallenzi 9781846884719
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health. Anguished at the thought of... -
Lila by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Phaedrus - a character familiar to readers of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' - is sailing down the Hudson River when he meets Lila Blewitt, an unapologetically sexual, psychologically... -
Bestseller by Alessandro Gallenzi
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.84Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of... -
Eclipse: Concrete Poems by Alan Riddell 9780714549149
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89In this volume of typographical (or "concrete") poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine... -
Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An adventure in landscape and Italian memory Tim Parks 9781846884757
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66The 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, in which a group of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, landing on the west coast of Sicily and advancing to its capital Palermo... -
My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt Irma Kurtz 9781846883552
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.26As Cosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the... -
The English Harem by Anthony McCarten
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or... -
Interrail Alessandro Gallenzi 9781846882449
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When Francesco decides to embark on his first trip outside his native Italy, he leaves behind a difficult relationship with his father, the narrow vistas of a small provincial town and the stifling... -
The New Teacher Dominique Demers 9781846883996
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.41Mademoiselle Charlotte, the new teacher, is not like the others: she wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that make her look like a scarecrow, and she talks to a rock. The children think she is... -
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The Emergency Zoo by Miriam Halahmy 9781846883972 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.15It is late August 1939: Britain is on the brink of war, and preparations are under way to evacuate London's children to the countryside. When twelve-year-old Tilly and her best friend Rosy find out... -
The Porridge Plot by Che Golden
Booksplease Price: $9.28When Maya and her family move to the countryside, strange things start to happen at night. Who is it that keeps tidying the house after everyone has gone to bed? While her parents don't believe her,... -
The Emergency Zoo by Miriam Halahmy
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22It is late August 1939: Britain is on the brink of war, and preparations are under way to evacuate London's children to the countryside. When twelve-year-old Tilly and her best friend Rosy find out... -
Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a... -
Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion... -
The Wall Jean-Paul Sartre 9780714548517
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of... -
The Garden Square by Marguerite Duras
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their... -
Babel by Alan Burns
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define - shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches... -
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries by Tim Parks
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.53How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to... -
Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With... -
Quest: Stories of Journeys From Around Europe by the Aarhus 39 by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Quest, a volume of seventeen stories aimed at children, will whisk you away from dark bedrooms to new dimensions and fantasy realms, via the Russian countryside and modern Rome. You'll encounter... -
Buster by Alan Burns
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.91Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns - dating from before his aleatoric style developed into "cutting up", but displaying early examples of the... -
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind 9780714550008
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Spring Awakening is set in a small German town in the 1890s, where adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the... -
The New Football Coach Dominique Demers 9781846884351
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.41Miss Charlotte - the new coach of a children's football team - has some odd methods to prepare them for the big match, including talking to the ball and drinking a special potion, smalalamiam. Also,... -
Cheese: Newly Translated and Annotated Willem Elsschot 9781846884160
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at the chance, despite his professed dislike for cheese in all its forms... -
The Blind Owl and Other Stories by Sadegh Hedayat
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations,... -
Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchi's narrator is an outsider, a drifter working... -
Odyssey: Stories of Journeys From Around Europe by the Aarhus 39 by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.84"Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, offers a variety of takes on the theme of travelling - at times funny and playful, at others dramatic and poignant - covering a wide... -
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principal preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen... -
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his... -
A Funny Sort of Minister by Dominique Demers
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.54At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it... -
The Castle of Inside Out by David Henry Wilson 9781846883965
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82Lorina, a young schoolgirl, is led by a black rabbit through a wood to a magical land. There she finds a a race of green people, who are all overworked, starving and subjected to the toxic fumes... -
The Heretic of Soana by Gerhart Hauptmann
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93When the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with bringing back into the Catholic fold a family of shepherds, the... -
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The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder 9780714543833 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.86Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his... -
The Holy Man and Other Stories by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the inhabitants, a mysterious, reclusive holy man, is the subject of much... -
Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute 9780714542546
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09A series of sketches and observations of daily life - a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to his grandchild about death, a professor lecturing about Proust and Rimbaud, a... -
Death of a Superhero by Anthony McCarten
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Now a motion picture starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster Donald Delpe is a troubled teenager. Not only is he a 'terrible teen' by default, as obsessed with sex, music, videogames and...