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Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson 9781782279761
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77When Wim and Marie, a young Dutch couple, agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during the Nazi occupation, they think they are fulfilling their patriotic duty. Tension and awkwardness reign in... -
Kokoro Natsume Soseki 9781805330585
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54In this melancholy and delicately written Japanese classic, a student befriends a reclusive elder at a beach resort, who he calls Sensei. As the two grow closer, Sensei remains unwilling to share the... -
The Three-Cornered World Natsume Soseki 9781805332503
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A nameless young artist travels into the mountains, in search of the refreshments of nature. Staying at a small hot spring hotel, he soaks in the water and takes walks nearby, always with the... -
Little Novels of Sicily Giovanni Verga 9781782697077
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.77Drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood - at the time, the poorest place in Europe - the stories in Little Novels of Sicily capture life's inimitably ironic blend of beauty and sorrow. A... -
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781782278580
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.16Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental... -
The Pendragon Legend by Len Rix 9781805330660
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr... -
The Brethren: Fortunes of France 1 Robert Merle 9781782695363
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08The Perigord of sixteenth-century France is a wild region on the edge of the reaches of royal authority-its steep, forested valleys roamed by bands of brigands and gypsies, its communities divided by... -
A Tale Without a Name Penelope Delta 9781805332107
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16What can you do, when nothing can be done? What was once a glorious, thriving kingdom is now a place of despair and dereliction. An aged king and queen cling to the ghosts of memories, to the... -
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami 9781805330257
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. ... -
In the Beginning Was the Sea Tomás González 9781805332039
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54When J. and Elena swap the parties and culture of the city for a simpler life on Colombia's remote Caribbean coast, they expect to find an Eden to call their own. But in amongst the mango groves they... -
The Gate Natsume Soseki 9781805332510
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature' Haruki Murakami'A sensitive, skilfully written novel by the most widely read Japanese author of modern... -
Sleep Has His House Anna Kavan 9781805332534
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54An unhappy family returns to Britain from a hot country, filling their suburban house with the glittering hoard they brought back from their exotic sojourn. But the sadness of A, the wife, dulls the... -
Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse 9781805330578
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'This extremely beautiful novel has a ripeness and wisdom all too rare in modern literature' Telegraph'There's a certain time in life when one needs to read Hesse' Jenny ErpenbeckWith an introduction... -
The Story of a Single Woman Uno Chiyo 9781805332312
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer. Growing up in a remote mountain village, Kazue always nurtured a spirit of... -
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... -
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb 9781805330240
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absurd situations'... -
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9781805330295
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami 'The quintessential writer of his era' David Peace These are short stories... -
Her Side of the Story Alba de Céspedes 9781782278238
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante Alessandra has always wanted... -
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes 9781782278221
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant... -
A Bad Business: Essential Stories Nicolas Slater Pasternak 9781805332060
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54'Reminds us how extremely funny he could be' A.N. Wilson, TLS 'The man more than any other who has created modern prose' James Joyce A refreshingly accessible way in to this iconic Russian... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9781805330196
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' Sunday Times 'It's hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone' Guardian An... -
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter 9781805330899
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08'Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights' Sara Wheeler '[An] astonishing, haunting memoir' Isabella Tree The...