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Burying the Season: Blue Drevnice Waltz by Antonin Bajaja 9780993377372
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.77Translated by David Short Foreword by Rajendra Chitins Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the early 1930s and ending in... -
Prague. I See a City... by Daniela Hodrova 9780956889065
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $13.55Prague, I see a city...is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in... -
Why I Write?: The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.82This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." Taken from the... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait Jiri Pelan 9788024639093
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $14.04Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip,... -
Complete Czech Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) by 9781444106916
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $40.88Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Czech will... -
Lilliputin – Tales from a War by Jan Nemec 9781803093017
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.16Written in the first four months of the war in Ukraine, fuelled by anger towards mindless violence, Nemec's stories tackle the present moment and confront what really matters at times of abundant... -
Tilled Fields and Battlefields by Vladislav Vancura 9788024648149
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $18.50Originally published in 1925, Plowshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vancura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the... -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024632865
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made... -
An Omelette And a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09A classic in its genre, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine compiles Elizabeth David's short pieces on food and wine. A bestseller when it was first published in 1984, much of David's finest writing... -
God's Rainbow by Jaroslav Durych
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $19.56This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to prevent. Set... -
Among the Ruins by Balla 9781914990236
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBALLA (b. 8 May 1967), who goes only by his surname, is a graduate of the Bratislava Economic University... -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024623160
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.99Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly... -
Notebooks from New Guinea: Reflections on life, nature, and science from the depths of the rainforest by Vojtech Novotny 9780199609642
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $15.20This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech... -
A Savage Generation by David Tallerman 9781787582422
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.95Sickness is ravaging America, driving the infected to savagery.Petty criminal Ben Silensky is determined to get his girlfriend Carlita and son Kyle free of the quarantined city they live in, enough... -
The Lady in the Silver Cloud David Handler 9781804548769
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97In this gripping mystery by US bestseller David Handler, sleuthing suthor Stewart Hoag investigates the murder of his wealthy neighbour, and discovers her dark past. 1990s New York. Muriel...