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System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square Gert Jonke 9781564785503
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Half philosopher and half clown-prince, Gert Jonke is Austria s comic gift to contemporary fiction.About the AuthorGert Jonke is counted among Austria's most important authors and dramatists. Among... -
Spleen by Olive Moore
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dalkey Archive Press first introduced readers to this "best-kept secret" of British literature with the hardback Collected Writings of Olive Moore in 1992. Spleen, the best of the author's three... -
Huddleston Road John Toomey 9781564787811
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When Vic meets Lali, they stumble into a dysfunctional ten-year relationship that leaves him in ruins and raising a child on his own. As Vic strives to protect their daughter from the cruel truths of... -
Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas by Yitzhak Orpaz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This volume collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest authors: "The Death of Lysanda," which tells the story of a taxidermist heading steadily into insanity, and "Ants," about an... -
Knight's Move: By Viktor Shklovsky by Viktor Shklovsky
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.60First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and theoretician of the twentieth... -
Glass Slipper and Other Stories Shotaro Yasuoka 9781564785046
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In addition to 'The Glass Slipper', this collection contains eight other stories held together by a common thread of self-perception: that the self has such depths that at times it can appear to be... -
Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde by Charles Juliet
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.31Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entertaining and insightful contribution to our... -
My Son's Girlfriend by Jung Mi-Kyung
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical... -
Innovations by Robert L. McLaughlin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This collection of stories brings together some of the most interesting and innovative American fiction writers since the 1930s. With an introduction by the editor, Innovations concludes with an... -
Time at War by Nicholas Mosley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Aged twenty, and with no war experience, Nicholas Mosley found himself in charge of a platoon of men positioned along the Italian front during the Second World War. With his father in prison on... -
Transit Bernard Share 9781564785428
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Two men meet in an airport men's room ("Excuse me. But you're pissing on my foot.") sometime in the early 1990s in the Arabian Gulf. From this meeting, they proceed to get a bit drunk on bad liquor,... -
Wasabi for Breakfast by Foumiko Kometani
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Wasabi for Breakfast" reintroduces best-selling Japanese author Foumiko Kometani's uniquely humorous voice to American readers. Kometani is rare among Japanese writers and cultural commentators in... -
Searching for Alice by Peter Arnds
Booksplease Price: £13.70Sehnsucht: the yearning for faraway people or places. When Jonathan graduates from university with a degree in literature his father hands him two gifts: an alarm clock and the chance to work in the... -
Hoppla! 1 2 3 Gerard Gavarry 9781564785367
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard... -
Agnomia by Robert Gal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.45In this miniature masterpiece, Robert Gal-whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"-conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and... -
P's Three Women by Paulo Gomes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564787385Author Paulo GomesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher... -
Origin Unknown Oliver Rohe 9781564788849
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man flying to his war-torn native country for the first time in years, "Without Origin" explores the ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a favorite... -
Too Much Flesh and Jabez by Coleman Dowell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.33Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a... -
Sleepwalker by John Toomey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Stuart Byrne is a young, beautiful, single businessman who finds his perfect life sabotaged by a growing awareness of his own superficiality. Nauseated by his own helplessness, struck by a creeping... -
Friction by Eloy Urroz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A dazzling literary card game: an investigation into how and why we fall into or out of love--with a person or a book.About the AuthorEzra E. Fitz has translated Latin American novels such as Eloy... -
Pigeon Post by Dumitru Tsepeneag
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Here is a book about a man, supposedly a writer, who tries to write a novel, because he promised his readers he would. But he doesn't have anything to say. He keeps erasing what he writes, and... -
Paradoxes of Peace: Or, the Presence of Infinity Nicholas Mosley 9781564785398
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas... -
The Dance of a Sham by Paul Emond
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references... -
Adam in Eden by Carlos Fuentes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in... -
The Book of Emotions Joao Almino 9781564786814
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." Yet, deprived of... -
Blind Man's Bluff Aidan Higgins 9781564787255
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins--one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrating his 85th year--has chosen to wait until his... -
Mayo by Karla Marrufo
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss-from a perspective belonging singularly to a... -
The Opportune Moment, 1855: A Novel by Patrik Ourednik
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.98A Voltairean attack on the political idealism that gave birth to the modern world.A Voltairean attack on the political idealism that gave birth to the modern world.About the AuthorPatrik Ou?ednik was... -
Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela 9781628975055
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of... -
Dolly City by Orly Castel-Bloom 9781564786104
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Gruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly City is widely recognized as one of the most disconcerting--and brilliant--literary works ever to come out of Israel.Gruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly... -
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz 9781564784919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.25In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so... -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between... -
Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau 9781628974614
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and... -
Cadenza by Ralph Cusack 9780916583057
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.62First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap after fifty years, also reminds the reader of... -
Three by Ann Quin 9781564782724
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.04-- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tapes, and movies, their obsession with the enigmatic... -
Romancer Erector Diane Williams 9781564783127
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.06Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life, love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection. Including... -
Joyce's Voices by Hugh Kenner 9781564784285
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94"An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book." Anthony BurgessAbout the AuthorHugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He... -
Dispatches from the District Committee Vladimir Sorokin 9781628975178
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Grotesque, deconstructive, and absolutely genius, Vladimir Sorokin's short story collection Dispatches from the District Committee is a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the ... -
Commission of Tears Antonio Lobo Antunes 9781628975079
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Antonio Lobo Antunes's twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissao das Lagrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11,... -
Sexology by Alex Kovacs 9781628975024
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growing into a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of an unconventional...