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Phenotypes by Paulo Scott
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00Federico 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39A 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00An 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17When 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00The 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00`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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57To 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80'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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57A 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00Shortlisted 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00A 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... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9781913505042
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57Shortlisted 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... -
Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.95Completed 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.99'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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00Mr 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... -
Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold 9781911508526
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a... -
Love by Hanne Orstavik 9781911508724
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00As clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter's evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will... -
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas 9781908276865
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked... -
Black Vodka by Deborah Levy 9781911508090
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57'Elisa said Yes and I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes, yes to vague but powerful things, we said yes to hope which has to be vague, we said yes to... -
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane 9781911508380
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a... -
The Polyglot Lovers: Winner of the 2016 August Prize Lina Wolff 9781911508441
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.25`Do you have to stare like that?' I asked. `Think about the actors in porn. They've got no problem showing themselves off.' `Think about when I broke your nose,'I replied.Ellinor is thirty-six. She... -
The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron by Carlos Gamerro 9781908276506
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.001975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlan, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Peron in... -
People in the Room by Norah Lange 9781911508229
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled... -
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt 9781911508243
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57With Pure Hollywood, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career. In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of... -
Paradises by Beth Fowler 9781908276247
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus' Outsider - but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of death and chance encounters to lead her through... -
Trysting by Emmanuelle Pagano 9781908276766
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.25It s as though you had to know the password for our relationship . . . What is love? Why do some people make our hearts flutter, while others leave us cold? A seductive blend of Maggie Nelson and... -
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera 9781908276926
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and... -
Swimmming home by Deborah Levy 9781911508083
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is... -
Empty Words by Annie McDermott 9781911508502
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to... -
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.85On 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913505103Author Elisa VictoriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80Shortlisted 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39In 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: $38.45Award-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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $13.97It'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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57A 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57The 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57Set 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: $21.00Booksplease Price: $17.35A 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.20When 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...