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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... -
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... -
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
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...
At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City Gerald Gaylard 9781032332925
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a...
The Worlding of the South African Novel: Spaces of Transition by Jane Poyner 9783030419363
Booksplease Price: £46.88The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa's socio-economic reality...
The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature by Graham K. Riach 9781837644704
Booksplease Price: £109.14Honourable 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...
South African Writing in Transition by Rita Barnard 9781350178809
Booksplease Price: £35.46Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition...
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...
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...
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...
Civilising Grass: The art of the lawn on the South African Highveld by Jonathan Cane 9781776143108
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What does the lawn want? To be watered, fertilised, mowed, admired, fretted over, ignored? This unusual question serves as a starting point for Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South...
The relatively public life of Jules Browde by Daniel Browde 9781868427208
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £15.24I sat there divided. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, and I knew I was seeing him more vulnerable than I had ever seen him, I felt a bubbly thrill because this...
Sham Ruins: A User's Guide Brian Willems 9781032081311
Booksplease Price: £60.08In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were...
Sham Ruins: A User's Guide by Brian Willems 9781032081359
Booksplease Price: £20.99In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were...
Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital Hilton Judin 9780367519445
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on...
Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing by Andrew van der Vlies 9780198793762
Booksplease Price: £89.86Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that...
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...