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Echoland by Per Petterson
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.98Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time.Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension... -
To Siberia by Per Petterson
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper... -
In The Wake by Per Petterson 9780099520740
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there. He does not even recognise his... -
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM**In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The... -
Men in My Situation by Per Petterson
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author.'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish TimesIn 1992 Arvid... -
I Refuse by Per Petterson 9780099584551
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing HorsesI refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget.Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night,... -
Men in My Situation by Per Petterson 9781787301658
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation is a tender, scintillating portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life nearly going to pieces... -
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 9781555978440
RRP: $32.30Booksplease Price: $24.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow... -
The Tempest by Steve Sem-Sandberg 9780571334513
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $7.62I should not have gone back to the island but did it all the same. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off the Norwegian coast. He is there to sort... -
The Unseen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 by Roy Jacobsen
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Dublin Literary Award"An absolute masterpiece. Packed with understated emotion, stunning from beginning to end" Courttia Newland, author of... -
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson 9781846553707
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Per Petterson masters the art of writing simply about big subjects, and this is the heartwarming debut that brought the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses to prominence Arvid Jansen... -
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories by Per Petterson 9781555977009
RRP: $26.60Booksplease Price: $16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977009Author Per PettersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54In 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... -
I is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Asle 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... -
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Scenes 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... -
Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Jon Fosse 9781804271216
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A 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... -
A Shining — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse 9781804270639
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89A 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... -
A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse 9781804271230
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.24'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... -
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle 9780099587477
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn't.Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she's not.She should... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.87It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the... -
Eyes of the Rigel Roy Jacobsen 9780857058898
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the... -
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad 9781784704988
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2017'He's a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that's serious literature' Haruki Murakami'An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer' James...