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Hedgehog's Home by Branko Copic 9781908236357
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Meet Hedgemond the Hunter - a brave and stubborn little hedgehog. Down in the wild woods he proudly tends his beloved house, but there are some animals who just can't understand what the fuss is... -
Ekaterini: One Woman's Balkan Journey Marija Knezevic 9781908236135
Booksplease Price: £13.12Ekaterini, born in Greece at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a woman who knows her own mind. Against the wishes of her family, she marries an immigrant worker and follows him from the port... -
Definitions by Octavian Paler 9781908236005
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908236005Author Octavian PalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint -
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade 9781908236210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes... -
Mission London by Alek Popov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The new Bulgarian ambassador to London is determined to satisfy the whims of his bosses at all costs. Putting himself at the mercy of a shady PR-agency, he is promised direct access to the very... -
Fairground Magician Jelena Lengold 9781908236104
Booksplease Price: £9.62The collection Fairground Magician brings together stories about love fulfilled and unfulfilled, about things that are visible in the everyday world and values that are perceptible only at... -
The End. And Again Timothy Pogacar 9781912545285
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.24A roofless library in the middle of war-torn Bosnia, staffed by a mysterious woman who leads a young solider through hidden doorways. A businessman hiding from an angry mob of unpaid workers in a... -
Fleeting Snow by Pavel Vilikovsky 9781908236371
Booksplease Price: £12.64Fleeting Snow is a novella full of gentle reminiscences about a life shared, as the narrator looks back on a long marriage and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to given names... -
Dry Season by Babnik Gabriela 9781908236265
Booksplease Price: £13.50Gabriela Babnik's novel Dry Season breaks the mold of what we usually expect from a writer from a small, Central European nation. With a global perspective, Babnik takes on the themes of racism, the... -
Byron and the Beauty Muharem Bazdulj 9781908236289
Booksplease Price: £10.42Byron and the Beauty is loosely based on Byron's biography and takes place during two weeks of October 1809, during his now famous sojourn in the Balkans. Besides being a great love story, this is... -
Quiet Flows the UNA by Faruk Sehic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Through an induced trance, the main character of the... -
False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism by Fatos Lubonja
Booksplease Price: £11.60This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania. After the world's most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and... -
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly... -
My Rivers by Faruk Sehic 9781912545353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'My Rivers' is an event in four cycles: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River. The book includes different poetic forms, from long narrative poems to free verse/flash fiction. The... -
Exile Ciler Ilhan 9781908236258
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Exile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over-riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from... -
Triumph Street, Bucharest by Dov Hoenig 9781912545872
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23ucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish... -
Snapping Point by Asli Bicen 9781912545957
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'But for that slender connection with the mainland, Andalic would have been a regular island,' says Asli Bicen in the opening chapter of this deliciously multi-layered novel. And it would have been... -
A Swarm of Dust by Evald Flisar 9781908236388
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64"A world without truth would be immensely sad," states the magistrate in the murder trial of local boy, Janek. A young man with serious mental issues, Janek's strange `chestnut crown' - woven from... -
Engagement by Ciler Ilhan 9781912545391
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A celebratory dinner and engagement ceremony is to be held at a large home in Our Village, in southeast Turkey. Halil, the cousin of the future bride, Leyla, is sent to a nearby village to buy the... -
Catherine the Great and the Small by Olya Knezevic
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Catharine's trajectory in life is accompanied by failures in love, family traumas and an incredible romance with handsome Sinisa. The novel takes us through turbulent times in the Balkan region, from... -
Doppelganger by Dasa Drndic 9781912545131
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Doppelganger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of "doubles" (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between... -
Grandma Non-Oui by Lidija Dimokovska 9781912545407
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Grandma Non-Oui is a biographical novel that tells the life story of a woman from Split, Croatia. In her youth, Grandma Nedjeljka-or Non-Oui, as she goes by the nickname given to her by her French... -
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdic
Booksplease Price: £10.19After nine months of self-imposed isolation following his wife's departure, the hero of Seven Terrors finally decides to face his loneliness and join the world once more. However, when the daughter... -
Our Daily Bread by Predrag Matvejevic 9781912545094
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient... -
The Masterpiece by Ana Schnabl 9781912545896
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The golden 1980s in the Socialist Yugoslavia were a curious time, a time when the country undoubtedly already began its descent into disintegration, but when the bloody years that would follow still... -
Dogs and Others by Biljana Jovanovic 9781912545162
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The protagonist in Dogs and Others is the first openly lesbian character in modern Serbian literature, but she is also so much more than that, as she encapsulates the zeitgeist of her generation... -
The Olcinium Trilogy Andrej Nikolaidis 9781912545995
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Olcinium, the Latin name for present-day Ulcinj, is one of the oldest settlements on the Adriatic coast and ruled in turn by the Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans, as well as being an... -
Home by Andrea Tompa 9781912545384
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Prompted by a class reunion, Home deals with the experience of homecoming after extended absence and engages with the archaeology of the self in the context of estrangement and belonging. Having... -
Let's Go Home, Son by David Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62There are three of them and they have no names: they are a family whose roles superseded by destiny. This is the story of man's struggle for dignity of a man who has only a short time left to live... -
The Masochist by Katja Perat
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Designed as a historical novel, The Masochist forges an intimate portrait of a young, tenacious woman who, in uncertain times at the end of the 19th century, chose an uncertain path - the only path... -
Time, Death and the Unspeakable Secret Mircea Eliade 9781912545513
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The Romanian writer Mircea Eliade is best known in the English-speaking world as an influential Historian of Religion, author of such works as The Sacred and the Profane and The Myth of the Eternal... -
Wild Woman by Marina Sur Puhlovski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Wild Woman is an anti-love story, set against a background of economic hardship. Told through the undiluted language of thought and mania, the twists and turns of internal dialogue are brought alive... -
The Aziz Bey Incident by Ayfer Tunc
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The writing of Ayfer Tunc is in essence urban, and yet she manages to imbue her characters with a fragile humanity and an old-fashioned sense of the melancholy of modern life. In the title story, we... -
The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnovic
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The Fig Tree is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30-something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives in order to better understand himself... -
Under Pressure by Faruk Sehic 9781912545025
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Sehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet,... -
Singer in the NIght Olja Savicevic 9781912545971
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.92Famous soap opera scriptwriter, Naranca, is slowly losing her memory and decides to embark on a road trip down memory lane (in a golden convertible) in search of her greatest love and ex-husband, an... -
The Trap by Ludovic Bruckstein 9781912545315
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Bruckstein's two novellas, published for the first time in English, offer a fascinating depiction of rural life in the Carpathians around the time of the Second World War, tracing the chilling... -
Handful of Sand by Marinko Koscec
Booksplease Price: £13.50This is a tale of life, love and loss, told through two nameless voices, a male character who is living in Canada and a female back in Croatia. Without recourse, to dialogue, the author creates two... -
Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Parvulescu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various characters unfold,... -
My Father's Dreams by Evald Flisar 9781908236227
Booksplease Price: £13.50My Father's Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused, is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia's bestselling author Evald Flisar, and is regarded by many critics as his best. The book tells the...