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Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the... -
Season of the Swamp Yuri Herrera 9781916751101
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Juarez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he... -
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera 9781644453070
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644453070Author Yuri HerreraFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf... -
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera 9781908276926
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and... -
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera 9781644453568
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644453568Author Yuri HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf... -
Ten Planets: Stories by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452233Author Yuri HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf... -
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the... -
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have... -
Shooting Down Heaven Jorge Franco 9781787702158
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46"Supremely well-crafted" - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"A lively story of how children are affected by their parents, emphasised by a third narrative strand where Larry and a daughter of Escobar's... -
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize'A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius.' Juan Pablos Villalobos'How often, honestly, does... -
Untamed Shore: by the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9781529425802
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC, comes UNTAMED SHORE, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-age story with a classical noir. 'Brutality takes... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this... -
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49It's November 2020 and the world is freezing over. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, and vast swathes of people make for the warmer south, Dylan is heading to Scotland, once the home of his late... -
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the... -
The Kingdom, the Sun and Death: Three Novels by 9781913505240
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The Mexico we hear of in the news - the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence - is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless... -
Hangman by Maya Binyam 9781911590774
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A gripping tale of homecoming and loss... ruthlessly honest and startlingly beautiful... profound and unforgettable' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King 'Daring, intellectually rich, and... -
Velvet was the Night: President Obama's Summer Reading List 2022 pick Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9781529417982
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When... -
The Right Intention by Andres Barba 9781945492068
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andres Barba's stories. As they go about... -
The Magician of Vienna by Sergio Pitol 9781941920480
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96"We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity's imaginary." -- Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty Salon The... -
A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal, unwashed and hungry. No one knows where they have come from or where they disappear to each night. And then they rob a... -
Postcolonialism After World Literature: Relation, Equality, Dissent by Dr Lorna Burns 9781350211483
Booksplease Price: £35.83Postcolonial studies took shape in response to the nationalist and decolonization movements of the twentieth century. Today, a resurgent interest in world literature reflects an increased awareness... -
The Iliac Crest Cristina Rivera-Garza 9781911508267
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.99On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he... -
We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century by Mabel Moraña 9780826506696
Booksplease Price: £35.69We the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli... -
Mass Mothering Sarah Bruni 9781787706439
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the virtue of testimony A. is an amateur translator. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, her nights are spent on... -
A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas 9780811223379
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.05An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short "history" of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of "portable literature." The society is entirely imagined,... -
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales 9780268200763
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence... -
The Dissenters Youssef Rakha 9781913512675
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Amna, Nimo, Mouna - these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, climbs to the attic of their house where he... -
This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West by Vanessa Hua
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West is the second entry in the Divide anthology series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality, and sense of transience alive in... -
Petite Fleur by Iosi Havilio 9781911508045
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94When his fireworks factory job ends explosively and his wife returns to work, Jose is surprised to realise he has a talent for keeping house: childcare, tidying, cleaning, cooking, gardening, he... -
Eating Ashes: A Novel by Brenda Navarro 9781324096085
Booksplease Price: £18.20Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by the death of her teenage brother, Diego. Diego, the little boy she helped raise in Mexico while their mother struggled to make a... -
The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda La Tierra Es Un Jardín De Monstruos Manuel Iris 9780816556038
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of the 2025 Ambroggio Prize This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on art and... -
Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico by John Gibler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw... -
The Touch System by Alejandra Costamagna 9781945492501
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.91"Readers will find themselves hoping for more of this bold writer's work."-Publishers Weekly Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant," a substitute in... -
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor 9780811230735
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on... -
Smoke by Gabriela Alemn 9780872869172
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family saga."Gabriela Aleman has... -
Eating Ashes Brenda Navarro 9781836430193
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23'Stunning... An energetic and harrowing new voice.' Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking Winner of the Calamo Award for the best book published in Spain in 2022 Winner of the Madrid... -
City Like Water Dorothy Tse 9781804272282
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though so much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the... -
Divided Island by Daniela Tarazona 9781646053148
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time. Divided Island is the story of a woman with a... -
Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep... -
Made in Saturn by Rita Indiana 9781911508601
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62These are the children of revolutions, and this is their story. This is the Caribbean. This is Argenis Luna: an artist who no longer paints, a heroin addict who no longer uses, and an overgrown child...