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Septology by Jon Fosse
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only... -
Vaim by Jon Fosse 9798893380217
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893380217Author Jon FosseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late... -
Septology by Jon Fosse 9781945492754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492754Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint -
Boathouse by Jon Fosse 9781628971828
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood... -
Vaim Jon Fosse 9781804271827
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjorgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is... -
A Shining by Jon Fosse 9781945492778
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492778Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse 9781564785732
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late... -
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In... -
I am the Wind by Jon Fosse
Booksplease Price: £14.24The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among... -
Fosse: Plays Two by Jon Fosse 9781350514393
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and WinterThese three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an old... -
Melancholy I & II Jon Fosse 9781628976571
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976571Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint -
Fosse: Plays Four by Jon Fosse 9781350514416
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black In And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique... -
Fosse: Plays Five by Jon Fosse 9781350514270
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and SleepIn their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a... -
I is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in... -
A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse 9781945492983
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492983Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is... -
I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse 9781945492457
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492457Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint -
The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse 9781945492402
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781945492402Author Jon FosseForm -
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse 9781913097721
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjorgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and... -
A Shining — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804270639
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but... -
Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Jon Fosse 9781804271216
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's... -
Melancholy I-II — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804271018
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild,... -
A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse 9781804271230
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in... -
Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones 9780571245376
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer ("adventures" sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as " peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by... -
Fosse: Plays One: Someone is Going to Come Home; The Name; The Guitar Man; The Child by Jon Fosse 9781350514331
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city... -
Fosse: Plays Three: Mother and Child; Sleep My Baby Sleep; Afternoon; Beautiful; Death Variations by Jon Fosse 9781350514409
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first... -
Fosse: Plays Six: Rambuku; Freedom; Over There, These Eyes; Girl in Yellow Raincoat; Christmas Tree Song; Sea by Jon Fosse 9781350514423
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays - and... -
On the Calculation of Volume III Solvej Balle 9780571383429
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Tara Selter is no longer alone.Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern: a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale, and he... -
Habitat by Catriona Shine 9781843518877
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.96Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by... -
Afterlives: Scandinavian classics as comic art adaptations by Camilla Storskog 9789189361126
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £36.41In Afterlives, the literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian orgin have been reinterpreted as comics. She sets out how literary works, plays, and films have... -
Overstaying by Ariane Koch 9781805330165
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about integration, difference and hospitality An isolated young woman living in a small Swiss town decides to take... -
Morning Sun by Simon Stephens
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a... -
Tools for Extinction by Denise Rose Hansen
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £6.62Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection... -
Knives in Hens by David Harrower
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens is a brutal fable... -
I Run by Line Morkeby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A new Danish play by Line Morkeby shining a light on how we talk about death. A dad loses his six-year-old daughter to cancer, and his world falls apart. He doesn't know how to process the... -
Ibsen on Theatre by Frode Helland
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.23A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the theatre. Three new productions of plays by Henrik Ibsen open somewhere in the world every week. Moreover, they are adapted into... -
The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof 9781529934557
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' GUARDIAN'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVNA woman meets a... -
The Sphere of Light: Secrets of the Boleyn Women by Ann Henning Jocelyn 9780953903368
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69This captivating novel evolves like a detective story, as a family member airbrushed out of history sets out to uncover the well-kept secrets of the three Boleyn women: Why was Mary, King Henry... -
The Philosophy of Translation Damion Searls 9780300247374
Booksplease Price: £21.00A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a...