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Birds, Beasts and a World Made New Velimir Khlebnikov 9781782279921
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and... -
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson 9781782279761
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35When 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... -
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig 9781805331827
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. A knock on a door that... -
Sevastopol Tales Leo Tolstoy 9781805332602
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'His fiction changed the way human beings think about themselves' George Saunders'If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy' Isaac BabelCrimea, 1854: Sevastopol's inhabitants... -
Effi Briest Theodor Fontane 9781805331599
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia. He is twenty years her senior,... -
Sade's Wife: The Woman Behind the Marquis Margaret Crosland 9781805330622
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Admirable' New York Times Book Review'One of the world's most distinguished scholars of de Sade' IndependentThe Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and sexual cruelty, was... -
Kokoro Natsume Soseki 9781805330585
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70In 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 Passenger Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 9781805331940
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55'Gripping' - Telegraph 'Brilliant' - Sunday Times 'Riveting' - Guardian The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution... -
Life of a Counterfeiter Yasushi Inoue 9781805332077
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A master forger lives in obscurity and disappointment, oppressed by the shadow of the artist whose work he copies. A young man embarks on an investigation into his family's past, prompted by a... -
The Pendragon Legend by Len Rix 9781805330660
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35"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... -
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781782278580
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Rainer 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... -
Parisian Days: The Rediscovered Classic Memoir by Banine 9781782278030
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'A scintillating book' TLS 'Her company is a delight' Tatler 'Part memoir, part social history... sumptuous and unsparing' Financial Times A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story... -
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo 9781805330905
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.82'One of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors' Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream 'Diamantine, intense and violent' Times Literary Supplement Dazzling and... -
Bullfight Yasushi Inoue 9781805332022
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring... -
The Podolian Nights: Tales of Nachman of Bratslav Nachman of Bratslav 9781805331230
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Nachman of Bratslav, descended from the founder of the Hasidic movement, carved a unique path as a Jewish spiritual leader. Towards the end of his life, he lost his young son, prompting him to turn... -
Beauty is a Wound Eka Kurniawan 9781805331964
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38There's no curse more terrible than to give birth to a pretty female in a world of men as nasty as dogs in heat One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, Dewi Ayu rises from... -
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James 9781805330912
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as... -
Kappa Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9781805332480
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Enchanting and sometimes terrifying' Jorge Luis Borges'Exquisite' Sunday TimesA lone mountain hiker falls through a hole in the ground into Kappaland, inhabited by creatures that are half tiger,... -
The Brethren: Fortunes of France 1 Robert Merle 9781782695363
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The 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... -
Days in the Caucasus Banine 9781805332206
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have been... -
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami 9781805330257
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'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. ... -
Jewish Stories Stefan Zweig 9781805331834
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Thoughtful, highly observant, and humane' Guardian Two thousand years of human struggle Five tales of family breakdown, political struggle, and monomaniacal obsession from one of the defining... -
In Farthest Seas Lalla Romano 9781805332350
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A sharply beautiful and moving masterpiece about love and death by the classic Italian author of A Silence Shared Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays Michel de Montaigne 9781782278832
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Read Montaigne in order to live' - Gustave Flaubert'I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: "How did he know all that about me?"' - The TimesA... -
Love and Enchantment: Three Stories Thomas Mann 9781805332701
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35This triptych of stories represents some of the finest work by the great German master, Thomas Mann. From a classic early account of artistic formation, suffused with deep melancholy, to works that... -
Sleep Has His House Anna Kavan 9781805332534
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70An 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... -
Yevgeny Onegin Alexander Pushkin 9781805332015
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Timeless insight into the human heart' - Guardian'An immortal and unequalled poem' - Fyodor DostoyevksyThe greatest work by the founder of modern Russian literature - a timeless story of vanity and... -
The Friend of the Family: or, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781805331650
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'A magnificent comic novel' TLSAn exuberant farce from a treasure of world literature.At the country estate of kindly Colonel Rostanev, parasitic houseguest Foma Opiskin has brought everyone under... -
Wolf Moon Julio Llamazares 9781805333210
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Close to perfection' Benjamin MyersThe novel that broke Spain's pact of silence after the death of FrancoSpain, 1937. The Civil War is not yet over, but for the Republicans, it is already lost... -
Letters from a Seducer Hilda Hilst 9781805331384
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends... -
The Sea and Poison Shusaku Endo 9781805332428
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'An important book' TelegraphWinner of the Akutagawa PrizeIn 1950s Japan, Doctor Suguro practises medicine in a backwater still recovering from the war. Quiet and withdrawn, he lives tortured by his... -
The Story of a Single Woman Uno Chiyo 9781805332312
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A 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... -
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust 9781782278504
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Stunning edition of the standalone novella from Proust's great masterpiece, in a new translation When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crecy, he is indifferent to her beauty. Their paths... -
The Beauties: Essential Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781805330301
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278467
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer 'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' Financial Times ... -
Salt Water Charles Simmons 9781805332763
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70It's 1963, and fifteen-year-old Michael is spending the summer in the usual place: his family's New England beach house. This isn't a summer like the others, though. This is the summer he falls in... -
There's No Turning Back Alba de Céspedes 9781805331148
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A stunningly powerful novel of a group of young women coming of age in 1930s Rome, from the celebrated author of Forbidden NotebookThe young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life... -
Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse 9781805330578
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'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... -
Background for Love Helen Wolff 9781805330745
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France written by famed publisher Helen Wolff, based on her early life with Kurt WolffIn a giddy rush, a young woman and her older... -
Troubled Waters Ichiyo Higuchi 9781805332725
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'A pleasure to read' Mieko Kawakami'Subtle, precise and deft' Lucy Caldwell'Remarkable and devastating' Senaa AhmadIchiyo Higuchi, Japan's first professional female author, wrote about daily life...