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Phenotypes by Paulo Scott
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Federico and Lorenco are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico - distant, angry, analytical - has light skin, which means he's... -
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of... -
Many People Die Like You by Lina Wolff
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's had... -
Sworn Virgin by Clarissa Botsford 9781908276681
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27When Hana's dying uncle calls her back from the city to the family home in the Albanian mountains, he tries to marry her to a local man who could run the household. Unable to accept the arranged... -
A Map Of Tulsa by Benjamin Lytal 9781908276308
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways in his parents' car. Finally he makes himself stop and walk into a bar. He's invited... -
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf 9781911508205
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62`She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point... -
To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal 9781911508427
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, and questions its limits, by exploring how humans relate to... -
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781911508489
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a... -
Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy 9781911508564
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the SS Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother,... -
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781913505578
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he... -
Don'T Try This at Home by Angela Readman 9781908276520
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie - into Elvis. Clary's father puts... -
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RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.23Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9781913505042
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of... -
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing... -
Medals and Prizes by John Metcalf
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Medals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man,... -
Endland by Tim Etchells 9781911508700
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to... -
Pity the Beast by Robin McLean 9781913505141
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.31Millennia ago, Ginny's family farm was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand years hence, it'll all be peacefully underwater. In the matter-of-fact here and now, though, it's a hotbed of... -
Berg Ann Quin 9781911508540
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95`A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father . . .' So begins Ann Quin's madcap frolic with sinister undertones, a debut `so staggeringly... -
The Proof by Cesar Aira 9781908276964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin... -
Petite Fleur by Iosi Havilio 9781911508045
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94When his fireworks factory job ends explosively and his wife returns to work, Jose is surprised to realise he has a talent for keeping house: childcare, tidying, cleaning, cooking, gardening, he... -
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro 9781908276087
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is... -
All Dogs are Blue by Rodrigo Souza Leao 9781908276209
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62All Dogs are Blue is a scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio insane asylum. Its raw style and comic inventiveness signal a major voice in Brazilian literature. Sadly, the author died, aged 43,... -
I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781908276742
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by... -
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose... -
Oldladyvoice by Elisa Victoria
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913505103Author Elisa VictoriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint And Other StoriesPublisher And... -
Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep... -
The Seamstress and the Wind by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband... -
Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer 9781908276827
Booksplease Price: £18.31Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English... -
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781908276223
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.65It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family is struggling to get by. The father, a school teacher, insists on... -
I am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy 9781911508021
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics,... -
Worlds from the Word's End Joanna Walsh 9781911508106
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94The much-anticipated fiction follow-up to Vertigo, this collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make... -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9781911508182
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here... -
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza 9781911508687
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.13A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief... -
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal 9781913505721
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to... -
Nowhere People: Winner of the Machado de Assis Prize Paulo Scott 9781908276384
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's roadside... -
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar 9781916751002
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated... -
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva 9781916751224
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916751224Author Johanna HedvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint And Other StoriesPublisher And... -
Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before widely available, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasia about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the... -
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.90'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing - as I... -
The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Mr and Mrs Malgas are going quietly about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears on the vacant plot next to their home. Arriving with portmanteau in hand and a head full of extraordinary...