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Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia that imagines the life of poet and philosopher Omar KhayyamAccused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar... -
Leo The African by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and... -
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to... -
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Booksplease Price: €16.13"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa,... -
The Rock Of Tanios by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us... -
Ports Of Call by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.59A graceful story of love across an insuperable gulf and a powerful allegory for the conflict that has beset the Middle East for the last half century.To call your son Ossyane is like calling him... -
The Gardens Of Light by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62Born in a Mesopotamian village in the third century, the son of a Parthian warrior, Mani grows up in a volatile and dangerous world. As battle rages for control over the Middle East between the great... -
On The Isle Of Antioch by Amin Maalouf 9781642861341
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642861341Author Amin MaaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint < -
The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf 9781566562485
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €12.24This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands... -
The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.10A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically... -
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf 9780805208986
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805208986Author Amin MaaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint < -
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf 9780863560231
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by... -
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf 9781611453249
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611453249Author Amin MaaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf 9781912987108
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912987108Author Amin MaaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal Charif Majdalani 9781914495038
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital [...] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to... -
The Gift: A Novel by Florence Noiville
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.87This moving fictional memoir begins as a woman heads home after a meeting regarding her inheritance. Rebeling against the legalese uttered by the attorney, her mind drifts back to her childhood and... -
About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781846592010
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Longlisted 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... -
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous... -
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan 9781408878842
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.47'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her ... -
The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance by Charles Rosen
RRP: €22.74Booksplease Price: €19.81Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its... -
A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year by Allie Esiri
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €14.45Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year, is a definitive collection of nursery rhymes, with enchanting illustrations by Emily Faccini. The book includes...