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The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in... -
The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky 9780393308495
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.70This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls... -
The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky by SOLECK 9780802069474
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The noted scholar and critic George Steiner has called the Czech-Canadian author Josef Skvorecky 'one of the major literary figures of our time,' yet to date few books on him and his writing have... -
The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky 9780393332926
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Toronto, after a spectacular escape from a Czech prison which provoked an international scandal, when a young woman is murdered, perhaps in a... -
Sins for Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky 9780393307870
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.98A clergyman named Ronald A. Knox once set forth a set of rules for writing detective fiction. In ten new stories (two featuring Lieutenant Boruvka), a crime occurs that violates one of Father Knox's... -
The Fiction of Josef Skvorecky by Paul I. Trensky 9781349215331
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349215331Author Paul I TrenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint -
The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky 9780393307863
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.97A pensive, conscience-stricken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, the Czechoslovak policeman Lieutenant Boruvka is a notable new member of the brilliant-eccentric-detective... -
When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life's Journey by Josef Skvorecky 9780312421731
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421731Author Josef SkvoreckyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Dvorak in Love: A Light-Hearted Dream by Josef Skvorecky 9780393305487
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.07Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia... -
The Engineer Of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death by Josef Skvorecky 9780099386414
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85'"The Engineer Of Human Souls" spins its own story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. Yet what emerges is comedy - clack, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly middle European as the... -
Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Paul Wilson 9781883513016
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on... -
Gravelarks by Jan Kresadlo 9780993377303
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.30A noble misfit investigates a powerful party figure in 1950s Czechoslovakia. His struggle against blackmail and betrayal leaves him determined to succeed where others have failed. Set in Stalinist... -
Canadian Writers at Work by Geoff Hancock 9780195406382
Booksplease Price: £16.91Canadian Writers at Work features ten interviews from "Canadian Fiction Magazine", a unique Canadian literary quarterly devoted solely to fiction. Margaret Atwood, Clarke Blaise, Mavis Gallant, Jack... -
Investigating Women: Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler by David Skene-Melvin 9780889242692
Booksplease Price: £12.23Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world travellerNelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World Warthe 60s’ Eve Adam,... -
Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption,... -
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811216876
Booksplease Price: £12.53First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times),... -
Gerta: A Novel by Kateřina Tučková
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The award-winning novel by Czech author Katerina Tuckova-her first to be translated into English-about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world. 1945. Allied... -
Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.44Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his... -
Reflections of Prague: Journeys Through the 20th Century by Ivan Margolius 9780470022191
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Reflections of Prague is the story of how a Czech Jewish family become embroiled in the most tragic and tumultuous episodes of the twentieth century. Through their eyes we see the history of their... -
The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £31.82How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent."In some indescribable way, we are each... -
The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.97The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimir Boudnik, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet... -
The Last Goddess: A Novel by Katerina Tuckova 9781542036375
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Katerina Tuckova. Last in a... -
Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia: From the First Democratic Republic to the Fall of Communism by Martin Štoll 9781501374210
Booksplease Price: £35.46The story of Czechoslovak television is in many respects typical of the cultural and political developments in Central Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. Martin Stoll, with unprecedented access to the... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228954
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.23In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his...