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T Singer by Dag Solstad
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35The new novel in English from one of Norway's most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad's classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style. 'A kind of surrealistic... -
Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad 9780811228305
Booksplease Price: £12.02In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out the... -
A Shining — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804271032
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but... -
I is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in... -
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In... -
Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804271025
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late... -
Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Jon Fosse 9781804271216
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's... -
A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse 9781804271230
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in... -
The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A novel of courage, hope and love...From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old Gabriella watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan home. The click, click click... -
Setting Free The Bears by John Irving
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'It... -
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only... -
Educating Jack by Jack Sheffield
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42As the 1982 school year begins, Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his sixth year as headteacher. Nora Pratt celebrates twenty-five years in her coffee shop, Ronnie Smith finally... -
A Stranger at My Table: The postcolonial story of a family caught in the half-life of empires by Ivo de Figueiredo 9780999754474
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53"A touching, contemplative chronicle of loss and self-discovery."- Publishers WeeklyFrom the acclaimed biographer of Norway's most treasured cultural icons, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch, comes a...