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Tales from the Secret Annexe: Short stories and essays from the young girl whose courage has touched millions Anne Frank 9781905559206
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24Anne Frank is known worldwide for her moving and powerful Diary written whilst hiding from the Nazis. Less well known are these stories, fables, personal reminiscences and an unfinished novel - now... -
Forbidden Love in St Petersburg Mishka Ben-David 9781905559770
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.97Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St Petersburg by the Mossad - ostensibly to set up business links. His life is solitary, ordered and lonely, until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be,... -
The Second Son Jonathan Rabb 9781905559220
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92On the Eve of Hitler's Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is forced out of the Kriminalpolizei because he is a half Jew. Hoffner is not surprised given the rise of Nazism, and anyway his focus... -
A Visit from Voltaire by Dinah Lee Kung 9781870015844 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870015844Author Dinah Lee KungFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint -
Duet in Beirut Mishka Ben-David 9781905559589
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Expelled Mossad agent, Ronen, has disappeared following a failed assassination attempt on the life of the Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel. Feared to be on an... -
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $8.56This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so... -
Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew Dan Vittorio Segre 9781870015691
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.93"Taut and illuminating? memorable? written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness." ... -
Rosa Jonathan Rabb 9781905559046
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In November 1918, socialist revolution sweeps across Germany, transforming Berlin, already ravaged by war, into a political battleground. Four women from the slums are discovered dead, all with... -
Final Stop, Algiers Mishka Ben-David 9781905559848
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58When a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv violently disrupts his life, Mickey Simhoni abandons his plans to become an artist and instead allows himself to be recruited into the Mossad. Slowly, he learns... -
Conversations With Isaiah Berlin Ramin Jahanbegloo 9781905559039
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time An interview with the noted British philosopher and historian of ideas,... -
A Woman in Jerusalem A.B. Yehoshua 9781905559244
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies... -
The Continuing Silence Of A Poet A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015721
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.98Brings together all the novellas and short stories including two sories not previously published in English.A.B. Yehoshua was the recipient of the 1993 Jewish Quarterly prize for fiction and the... -
Drawn to the Promised Land: A Cartoon History of Britain, Palestine and the Jews: 1917-1949 Tim Benson 9781912600151
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.33Drawn to the Promised Land charts the dramatic history of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to the creation of the state of Israel. Through the acerbic wit of leading political cartoonists from... -
A Journey to The End of The Millennium A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015714
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.98Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a... -
Hope is a Woman's Name by Amal Elsana Alh'jooj
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The ... -
Sylvia Garland's Broken Heart Helen Harris 9781905559701
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92When Sylvia Garland returns to England, after the death of her husband and half a lifetime lived abroad, the last thing she expects is to find love again. But when her daughter-in-law Smita announces... -
A Treaty of Love Samir El-Youssef 9781905559091
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In London a couple meet at a party. She is Israeli and he Palestinian. Both are here to escape the politics of their countries and both want to be alone.Despite that, their relationship develops and... -
Five Seasons A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015943
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is uneasy, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who... -
A Late Divorce A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015950
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Yehuda Kaminka, a retired teacher, returns to Israel from the U.S. to divorce his estranged wife who is in a mental asylum, having tried to kill him a few years earlier. The impending divorce of... -
Yitzak Rabin: Soldier of Peace David Horovitz 9781870015622
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $5.33This incisive biography traces Rabin's lifelong impact on the shaping of Israel, examining his remarkable dual career - as the soldier who oversaw Israel's greatest military victory, the Six Day War,... -
When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad Mona Yahia 9781870015851
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is not easy as politics keep intruding. Violent government coups are almost annual events and it's... -
The Extra A.B. Yehoshua 9781905559794
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41An experiment is under way in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a woman, recently widowed, is starting a trial period in assisted living, mainly to placate her over-anxious son, whilst in Jerusalem her... -
The Book of Q Jonathan Rabb 9781905559022
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75After the mysterious death of one Vatican priest and the disappearance ofanother, Father Ian Pearse, an American working on early Christian textsin the Vatican, comes into possession of a mysterious... -
The Brondesbury Tapestry by Helen Harris
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.98Six women and one man gather in a community centre in North London for a life writing class run by Dorothy, their uniquely unqualified teacher. They have urgent stories to tell and, as they recount... -
The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Rachele Luzzato is 12 years old when she learns her father is seriously ill. While her family are looking forward to her Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele's teachers happen to cast her as the Madonna in the... -
Herzl Steven Beller 9781870015905
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92At the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the... -
The Illusion of Return Samir El-Youssef 9781905559077
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09After 17 years, the narrator and his friend, Ali, meet at Heathrow andslowly remember their past in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon. Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they were... -
The Reluctant Mullah Sagheer Afzal 9781905559169
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Alone in his room in a London madrasah, Musah tries on an abaya, a hijab and a shawl: he has crossed over - to outsiders he has become a Muslim woman. In a Pakistani haveli, his cousin, the nubile... -
Shattered Dreams Judah Passow 9781905559060
RRP: $16.75Booksplease Price: $14.15These photographs are more than simply a journalistic record of conflict and turmoil. They are the product of a very personal journey in a place full of shattered dreams brought about by an endless... -
Friendly Fire A.B. Yehoshua 9781905559190
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A husband and wife spend a week apart over the Hanukkah holiday: Daniela visits her widowed brother-in-law in Africa to revive memories of her sister with him but, in ways she cannot begin to... -
Ashes and Other Stories by Naomi Shepherd
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Naomi Shepherd is a prize-winning historian and biographer; here she turns her hand to fiction, revealing a razor-sharp eye, a finely attuned ear, and a keen sense of cultural dissonance. In each of... -
The Overseer Jonathan Rabb 9781905559008
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75It has long been rumoured that a sixteenth-century monk called Eisenreich out-Machiavellied Machiavelli, writing a masterplan for the Church to achieve world domination. So dangerous was the text... -
The Retrospective: Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman A.B. Yehoshua 9781905559565
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92An ageing film director named Yair Moses has been invited to the Spanish pilgrim city of Santiago de Campostela for a retrospective of his early work. As he and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime... -
Shylock Must Die Clive Sinclair 9781905559947
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Since his first public appearance in the late 1590s, Shylock has been synonymous with antisemitism. Many of his bon mots remain common currency among Jew-haters; among them "3000 ducats" and... -
Never a Native Alice Shalvi 9781905559985
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Shalvi has been a pioneer in advancing the status of women in Israel and in religious girls' education. She has been an active participant in peace dialogues and inter-religious initiatives and... -
Baghdad Fixer Ilene Prusher 9781905559473
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.32Nabil al-Amari is an English teacher in Baghdad, in Saddam's Iraq, when a chance encounter with Samara Katchens, an American journalist covering the war, changes his life forever. It is April 2003... -
Mr Mani A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015776
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Six generations of the Sephardi Mani family are chronicled in thisprofound and passionate Mediterranean epic, which moves backwardsfrom the 1980s to the mid-nineteenth century. The story comprises... -
The Journals of Josef Herman by Josef Herman
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66These journals provide great insight into the mind and art of one of the great 20th century artists. Though born in Poland, he is best known for his paintings of Welsh miners, for it was workers... -
The Liberated Bride A.B. Yehoshua 9781870015868
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with... -
Madame Du Deffand And Her World Benedetta Craveri 9781870015790
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.98Madame du Deffand (1696-1780) was a minor French aristocrat who, bored by her marriage, threw herself into scandalous relationships with leading noblemen, including the French Regent. She later...