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In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.91With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of... -
The Disappearing Act Maria Stepanova 9781804272329
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A haunting novel on identity, exile and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia’s greatest living writers. -
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova 9780811239400
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.01The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M... -
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova 9781804270585
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century... -
The Voice Over: Poems and Essays by Maria Stepanova
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for... -
War of the Beasts and the Animals Maria Stepanova 9781780375342
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova's first full English-language collection. Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers, and founding... -
The Voice Over: Poems and Essays Maria Stepanova 9780231196161
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for... -
Holy Winter 20/21 Maria Stepanova 9781780376950
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor - the world had withdrawn from her, time had 'gone numb'... -
Displacement and (Post)memory in Contemporary Russian Women's Writing by Marja Sorvari 9783030958367
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £41.36The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya,... -
PN Review 252 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £8.84The March-April 2020 issue New sequence of poems about climate change from New Zealand’s greatest living poet, Bill Manhire Frederic Raphael, (Eyes Wide Shut, screenwriter) discusses being a Jewish... -
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets 9781782278726
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to... -
Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature Emma Bond 9780810147959
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past? To answer this question, Emma Bond sifts through collections of objects... -
T The Illuminated Path: MPT No.2 2019 by Clare Pollard 9781910485248
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.98MPT's summer issue 'The Illuminated Paths' focuses on emerging poets of the Maghreb, with poems written in Arabic, Arabic dialect and Tamazight, and translated as part of the British Council's Majaaz... -
Poetry's Geographies by Zoe Skoulding 9781848618510
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Poets from Mexico, Korea, Galicia (Spain), Palestine, Russia, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, India and France, translated by anglophone poets from the USA, the UK, Canada and India. Kareem James Abu-Zeid,... -
All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry by Andrew Kahn 9780691207162
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition... -
Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing by Marja Sorvari 9783030958398
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £41.36The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla... -
The Strongbox by Sasha Dugdale 9781800174085
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and recent history, this protean work... -
PN Review 276 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive Larissa Muraveva 9783112228517
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £59.18Challenging the view of autofiction as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel, this book redefines it as a mode of representing sensitive experience. The sensitive refers to ethically and... -
The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022 Stephanie Sandler 9780691261904
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £89.80The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom—formally, thematically, and spirituallySince 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded... -
The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022 Stephanie Sandler 9780691169965
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom-formally, thematically, and spirituallySince 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded... -
Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts by Sibelan E. S. Forrester 9781618113528
RRP: £105.99Booksplease Price: £74.51Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known... -
Joy by Sasha Dugdale
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award. Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection, Joy,... -
Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts by Sibelan E. S. Forrester 9781618113702
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.24Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational... -
Seeing Further Esther Kinsky 9781804271162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While travelling through the Great Alfoeld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, 'mozi' in... -
The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan by Liu Zongyuan
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Liu Zongyuan's remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye. The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan... -
Rombo by Esther Kinsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In May and September 1976, two earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population. About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of... -
The White Mosque: A Silk Road Memoir by Sofia Samatar
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A...