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The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Mr and Mrs Malgas are going quietly about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears on the vacant plot next to their home. Arriving with portmanteau in hand and a head full of extraordinary... -
The Distance by IVAN VLADISLAVIC
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.64In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks... -
The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favorite neighborhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Cafe... -
The Exploded View by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671688Author Ivan VladislavicFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint
Flashback Hotel by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.61Ivan Vladislavic's latest collection of short stories exemplifies the sly wit and formal innovation that have gained him international acclaim.Collects two volumes of short stories by one of...
101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic 9781908276568
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62'What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective.' In this new collection of...
Portrait With Keys: The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked Ivan Vladislavic 9781846270604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the wake of apartheid, the flotsam of the divided past flows over Johannesburg and settles, once the tides recede, around Ivan Vladislavic, who, patrolling his patch, surveys the changed cityscape...
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislavic 9780857425881
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary...
Delhi Thaatha: A Great Grand Story by Chitra Viraraghavan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Written for young children, Delhi Thaatha is a biography of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a much-loved teacher and world-renowned philosopher who served as the first vice president of the Republic of...
Monk's Eye Cees Nooteboom 9780857425478
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent...
The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature Graham K. Riach 9781805967040
Booksplease Price: £31.16Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in...
Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the...