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Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned... -
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the... -
Mokusei!: A Love Story by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and... -
In the Dutch Mountains Cees Nooteboom 9781782067191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous... -
Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom 9780802143884
Booksplease Price: £11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143884Author Cees NooteboomFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
533: A Book of Days by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"A lyrical 'book of days' . . . A bejewelled mosaic" Financial Times"Humane, insightful and deeply cultured" Times Literary SupplementThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than... -
Roads To Santiago Cees Nooteboom 9781860464195
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an... -
Monk's Eye Cees Nooteboom 9780857425478
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent... -
The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their... -
All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95"An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past... -
Perdido El Paraiso by Cees Nooteboom 9788478449781
Booksplease Price: £22.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788478449781Author Cees NooteboomFormat PaperbackImprint -
Leaving: A Poem from the Time of the Virus by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.75An exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europe's greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times: the coronavirus pandemic. One of the leading living European... -
Light Everywhere: Selected Poems Cees Nooteboom 9781803094465
Booksplease Price: £15.29A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books. Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel... -
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom 9780156035354
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035354Author Cees NooteboomFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint -
Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today. Self-Portrait of an Other is one of the most... -
Nomadic Literature: Cees Nooteboom and his Writing by Professor Jane Fenoulhet 9783034307291
RRP: £55.20Booksplease Price: £49.54Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel literature. Translated into at least thirty-four languages, his work raises important questions about the mobility of literary... -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... -
Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of... -
Turner: The Sea and the Alps by Kunstmuseum Luzern 9783777432663
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.65Extensive journeys in Britain and continental Europe provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the visionary colour composi-tions of J. M. William Turner. In Switzerland he experienced the... -
Pen Meets Paint: 200 Years Mauritshuis, 200 Writers, 200 Paintings 9789462623811
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £39.80What happens when two art forms - the literary and the visual arts - come together? For its bicentenary, the Mauritshuis asked 200 writers to draw inspiration from the museum's collection. The creme... -
Poetry and Time by Joachim Sartorius
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.54For nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone, and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive, and forceful. A lifelong collaborator, Neumann's paintings... -
Daniel Ost: Floral Art and the Beauty of Impermanence by Paul Geerts 9780714870526
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £41.79The most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost.Daniel Ost's work in floral design gores far beyond table arrangements to... -
After Cinema: Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art Heinz Peter Schwerfel 9783775757843
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.56Discovering the potential of video and film artAn informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit... -
Ice Memory: Selected Poems by Joachim Sartorius 9781857548327
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60"Ice Memory" is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose... -
News from Berlin by Otto de Kat 9781848662346
Booksplease Price: £15.23June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in... -
Freetown by Otto de Kat
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64"He was a Fula. I say 'was', because I haven't seen him for a long time. I don't know if he's still alive or where he might be. He just disappeared."Maria is independent, unconventional and unafraid... -
Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present by Rick Honings 9789087284022
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £89.13Apart from humans, animals play a pivotal role in travel literature. However, the way they are represented in texts can vary from living companions to metaphorical entities. Existing studies mainly... -
Julia Otto de Kat 9780857051110
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the moment he meets Julia, Christiaan Dudok is dangerously close to love. But their first date is interrupted by S.A. Brownshirts storming into the cafe. It is 1937, and Germany is heading for... -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout... -
A Guardian Angel Recalls by Willem Frederik Hermans 9781782276289
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31On the eve of the Second World War a public attorney, devastated because his Jewish lover has fled without him, runs over a young girl. He is torn by grief at the loss of his girlfriend and guilt... -
The Longest Night by Otto de Kat
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which... -
The Longest Night by Laura Watkinson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which... -
The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Péju 9781784705626
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The owner of the bookshop THE VERB TO BE, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, EtienneVollard... -
Berlin: The Passenger by 9781787702820
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and... -
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by... -
The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora 9780143106722
Booksplease Price: £12.54An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic... -
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past by Douwe Draaisma
Booksplease Price: £87.92Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive Philippe Sands, QC 9781474608145
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF...