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The Artisans Madeleine Thien 9783035807943
RRP: $10.32Booksplease Price: $9.86Is there an autonomous republic of art that transcends time and place? Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting Three Uighur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves... -
Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien 9781847084910
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under... -
Granta 141: Canada by Madeleine Thien 9781909889101
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889101Author Madeleine ThienFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Simple Recipes: Stories by Madeleine Thien 9781324078678
Booksplease Price: $16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324078678Author Madeleine ThienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Book of Records: A Novel by Madeleine Thien 9781324130703
Booksplease Price: $13.09Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts... -
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien 9781783782673
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China... Compelling' Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE In Canada in 1991,... -
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien 9781783782673 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $1.42'A moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China... Compelling' Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE In Canada in 1991,... -
Little Gods by Meng Jin 9781911590453
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. So begins the slow unravelling of Su Lan: a woman determined to remake herself, an ambitious physicist... -
Brother by David Chariandy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize NOW A FILM STARRING LAMAR JOHNSON AND... -
Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok by Emma Larkin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Endearing... enlightening... an affecting and suspenseful portrait of contemporary Bangkok' Literary Review 'Emma Larkin richly and vividly brings her characters to life... a captivating tour de... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9781474624930
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie... -
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 9780571368129
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.88Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as... -
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9781857151558
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Hailed as the greatest Japanese novel of the Twentieth century, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is a subtle tale of domestic oppression worthy of Balzac or Chekhov, In this saga of the once prosperous but now... -
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 9781841593319
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative... -
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor... -
The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. So she... -
Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison 9781857152166
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease Price: $19.65Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of... -
The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil 9780141021607
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don't know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are... -
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.87Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on... -
The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit,... -
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18As the Korean independence movement gathers pace, two children meet on the streets of Seoul. Fate will bind them through decades of love and war. They just don't know it yet. 'Unforgettable'... -
Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 9781782119609
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18WINNER OF THE 9MOBILE PRIZE FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS... -
Dust Child: The International Bestseller by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 9780861547135
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'DAZZLING.' Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees 'LYRICAL AND DEEPLY EMPATHETIC.' Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Four lives, entwined forever... -
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 9781784700447
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A... -
Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women, Part I by Courtney Jacobs 9781478017554
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45In a 2000 review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth, critic James Wood dismissed the genre of "big, ambitious novels"-which he claimed were too dense with information to express any authentic feeling-as... -
Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women, Part 2 by Courtney Jacobs 9781478018049
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45In a 2000 review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth, critic James Wood dismissed the genre of "big, ambitious novels"-which he claimed were too dense with information to express any authentic feeling-as... -
This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC... -
BBC Proms 2023 9781912114146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.90The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, it is one of... -
Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Shuang Xuetao 9781250871145
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.44Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami... -
Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall by Yan Ge
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Wonderful writing.' SARAH HALL'Dazzlingly good.' DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN 'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' LUCY CALDWELL'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure... -
Hard Like Water Yan Lianke 9781529110937
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'The new masterpiece by eminent Chinese writer Yan Lianke . . . two revolutionaries take matters disastrously into their own hands while conducting a crazed affair' MARGARET ATWOOD on TwitterA... -
China Dream by Ma Jian 9781784742492 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $4.08A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn'.In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian charts the... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada 9781803511320
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.31A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school,... -
The Break by Katherena Vermette
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALISTLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018Crime Book of the Month, Sunday Times, February 2018'I loved this... very tough and very real.' - Margaret... -
Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'Te-Ping Chen's Land of Big Numbers contains 10 illuminating, sharp stories set in China, penned by a former investigative reporter who worked in Beijing for several years' The Independent'In this... -
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter by David Chariandy
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.13'There is, as you pick it up, nothing to prepare you for its power' OBSERVER 'Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read' AMINATTA FORNA How do we navigate our complex... -
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada 9781783789122
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. ... -
Spontaneous Acts Yoko Tawada 9780349704234
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.38The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though...