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The Mother by Maxim Gorky
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - the mother of the title - and her son Pavel, Gorky's masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers... -
Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54I didn't read your books. I licked them, I rubbed them all over my naked body and licked them.Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect... -
Summerfolk Maxim Gorky 9781839045493
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.10'I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.' It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and... -
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky 9781840028942
Booksplease Price: €17.78Set amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at... -
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky 9780140182859
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a... -
Three MenA Novel (Edition2024) by Maxim Gorky 9789369076628
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369076628Author Maxim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint -
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev Maxim Gorky 9781804271971
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It... -
La Madre by Maximo Gorki 9788471664174
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788471664174Author Maximo GorkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint < -
Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Various
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €7.79No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural... -
Vassa by Mike Bartlett
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28'There are no miracles in this world. Only those we make for ourselves.' It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway. The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is... -
Children of the Sun by Hilary Fannin 9781350511071
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €13.03I am attempting to colonise the last frontier. Time, Elena, time. If we could inhabit different iterations of self, we could undo all the mistakes of the past. Don't you see?Hilary Fannin's radical... -
The Russian Testament by Shumona Sinha 9781913109578
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.54Tania is a young Bengali living in Calcutta in the 1980s. Hated by her mother and shunned by her peers, she seeks solace within the pages of Russian books she reads in her mother tongue, Bengali. In... -
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelistsGarin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is... -
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the YearThe epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize... -
The Flight Gaito Gazdanov 9781805332091
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'The Gazdanov revival ... is nothing short of a literary event' TLS'Gazdanov is a modernist master' Mary O'Donoghue Irish Times'The Flight is a suave, cosmopolitan human comedy with a twist ... All... -
Madness Treads Lightly Polina Dashkova 9781477823460
Booksplease Price: €12.54Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead. As a working mother, Lena... -
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New RussiaMoscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's... -
The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86Winner of a PEN Translates Award Named a Most Anticipated Book by Literary Hub When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a... -
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers,... -
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The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh 9781800817531 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.23Winner of a PEN Translates Award Named a Most Anticipated Book by Literary Hub When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a... -
Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich 9780231187053
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich... -
Doctor Foster: The Scripts by Mike Bartlett
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.48Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South... -
The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic John E. O'Neill 9781684512546
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €18.60Communism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability... -
Darling Days: A New York City Childhood iO Tillett Wright 9780349005638
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a... -
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy Deborah McDonald 9781780747972
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.79Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure... -
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.59TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant...