New Paperback Books

Marian Pankowski / Rudolf

This novel, set in the 1970s, tells the story of the "author," a middle-aged Polish professor who lives abroad but who earlier survived the Nazi concentration camps, and Rudolf, an old man. Told in stream of consciousness as well as through a triangular...

Ivan Klíma / My First Loves

"The voice [in these stories] is clear and intelligent and brave. Mr. Klíma has climbed the mast." ― New York Times Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human...

Imre Kertész / Liquidation

Imre Kertesz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer called B. commits suicide,...

Danilo Kiš / The Encyclopedia of the Dead

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern ClassicsA counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters...

Victor Pelevin / Omon Ra

Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream...

Vladimir Makanin / The Loss

  The novella and two short stories that make up this volume were written at three different periods in Makanin's life, yet they are united by their narrative and stylistic invention, their range of human emotion, and the profound humanity of their...

Drago Jančar / Mocking Desire

Gregor Gradnik, a Slovenian writer, enters the sensual and seething life of New Orleans to teach a creative writing class at a university. In a style both serious and ironic, Jancar observes and comments on the two cultures, illuminating both American...

Otto Friedrich / The Kingdom of Auschwitz

"Otto Friedrich's powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "I know of no work which brings the...

Péter Esterházy / She Loves Me

She Loves Me is Peter Esterhazy's paean to women: beautiful and ugly, kind and nasty, fat and bony, monogamous and promiscuous, seductive, negative, rebellious, and voracious. In ninety-seven short chapters this seductive novel contemplates love and...

Charly Cox / The Hunting Grounds

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Bolesław Prus / The Sins of Childhood and Other Stories

This is the first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. This new book, containing twelve of his classic short pieces, explores the depth of...

Meša Selimović / Death and the Dervish

Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during...

Lauren St. John / Seve: the Biography

Traces Ballesteros' career in golf from Pedrena, Spain, to the 1997 Ryder Cup competition, relating his triumphs and tragedies along the way   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Dubravka Ugrešić / In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories

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Joanna Labon / Balkan Blues

This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected excellent, timely essays, stories, drama, and prose by exiled or silenced members of the Yugoslav...

Simon Parker / Riding Out

The remarkable and inspirational true story of how one man battled grief and anxiety, one pedal stroke at a time, on a 3,500-mile adventure around BritainIn March 2020, as Britain entered its first lockdown, Simon Parker’s life fell apart; his...

Paul Gilroy / There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book...

Koen De Feyter / Human Rights: Social Justice in the Age of the Market

Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights. He questions how far the...

Clare Short / An Honourable Deception?

Clare Short MP has been one of the government's most outspoken critics, despite having been a member of it for most of its two terms of office since 1997. Her resignation from the Cabinet over the war in Iraq in 2003 caused a furore -- not least because...

Martin Holsinger / Contractor Marketing Simplified

If you are a remodeler or home building contractor wanting to get found online and make more sales, you must begin with a solid online presence. Amazon best-selling author Martin Holsinger shows exactly how to apply the principles of online marketing to...

Joanna Murray-Smith / The Female of The Species

Margot Mason, a thinly veiled version of Germaine Greer, has writer’s block following publication of her groundbreaking polemic, The Cerebral Vagina , when in through the French windows steps one of her ex-students—with a gun. This play...

Al Clark / Making Priscilla

A behind-the-scenes account of the making of an Australian film about two Sydney drag queens and a transexual who take their show on the road to Alice Springs in a lavender bus. It covers the troubles with finding a cast, location shooting in the desert...

Amin Maalouf / On Identity

The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one...

Paul O'Grady / Relativism

The issue of relativism looms large in many contemporary discussions of knowledge, reality, society, religion, culture and gender. Is truth relative? To what extent is knowledge dependent on context? Are there different logics? Do different cultures and...

Neil Gaiman / The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book

'Diverting... pleasurable... entertaining' New York Times'Relevant and fresh... [ Good Omens ] still has a lot to say about the world' Empire'Even if you're very familiar with the original novel, this is a different experience... so damned charming and...

Laura Lynne Jackson / The Light Between Us

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Diane Mowat / Too Old to Rock and Roll

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short...

Damaris Young / The Switching Hour

A bewitchingly beautiful, spine-chilling story of courage, friendship and fears that come alive after dark... Never stay out after the Switching Hour... never let the outside in... Amaya lives with her grandmother, her small brother Kaleb and her pet...

Simon Fox / Deadlock

Perfect for fans of Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl, Simon Fox's latest action-packed thriller is ideal for readers too young for Jack Reacher or Line of Duty.Archie Blake thought his policeman father teaching him how to pick locks and open safes was just a...

Kelly Ngai / House on Hoarder Hill

Magical, spooky and mysterious: welcome to the House on Hoarder Hill...When Hedy and Spencer start receiving messages on dusty picture frames, Christmas at their grandfather's spooky house turns into a mission to solve the mystery of their grandmother's...

geoffrey-robertson / Crimes Against Humanity : The Struggle for Global Justice

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Peter Halstead / Key Facts: Jurisprudence

Key Facts has been specifically written for students studying Law. This essential revision guide will be suitable for all students taking Jurisprudence at Undergraduate level.Written and edited by an expert team of authors whose experience means they...

Hall Baker / Another Way of Seeing Hardcover Marilyn Baker

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Emil M. Cioran / History and Utopia

In this book, Cioran writes of politics, of history, and of the utopian dream."A small masterwork . . . a stringent examination of some persistent and murky notions in human history. . . . It is best to read Cioran while sitting. The impact upon the...

Boris Fishman / Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier

Suffering the hangover from decades of totalitarian rule, Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a crossroads of political upheaval, cowboy commerce, old hatreds, and new in other words, fertile ground for a new literature. In this unique and timely...

Victor Pelevin / 4 by Pelevin

Four stories by one of the most popularand critically controversialyoung writers to emerge from post-Glasnost Russia. "Hermit and Six Toes"; "Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream"; "The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII"; and "Tai Shou Chuan USSR" are four...

Shena Mackay / Babies in Rhinestones

A collection of stories presenting a picture of apparently ordinary events and the darker causes which may underlie them - an unsettling world of deceptive appearances, of hidden traps, subtle revenge and thinly-disguised menace. The author also wrote...

Ivan Klíma / The Spirit of Prague & Other Essays

  This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the hopes of the Prague Spring in 1968, the...

Danilo Kiš / Hourglass

Danilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is considered to be his masterpiece...

Victor Pelevin / Buddha's Little Finger

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In...

Laura Restrepo / A Tale of the Dispossessed

En medio del trafago de la guerra, los protagonistas de La multitud errante andan siempre a la busqueda: de una tierra prometida, de un destino, del rastro de una mujer desaparecida, de un amor imposible y tambien, por que no, de un amor posible. Un pais...

Penelope Lively / Making It Up

A highly original work, in Making it Up, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path.In this fascinating piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own...

Milorad Pavić / Landscape Painted with Tea

By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller Dictionary of the Khazars, this is a tale of a mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in...

John Berger / Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds—a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will...

Friedrich Dürrenmatt / The Assignment, or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

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Timothy Garton Ash / The File: A Personal History

When Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to return...

John Berger / Lilac and Flag

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger,  Lilac and Flag , wherein the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes of the Into Their Labours trilogy has been forsaken for the mythic city of Troy. Here, amidst the shantytowns, factories, and...

Colin Turner / Islam: The Basics

With nearly 1500 rich years of history and culture to its name, Islam is one of the world’s great faiths and, in modern times, the subject of increasingly passionate debate by believers and non-believers alike. The Basics is a concise and timely...

Askold Melnyczuk / What Is Told

Traces the lives of Zenon and Natalka Zabobon, who marry in the Ukraine on the day Archduke Ferdinand is shot in Sarajevo, and survive the hardships of war and emigration   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

John Berger / Pig Earth: Book One of the Into Their Labours Trilogy

With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical,...

Rita Ann Higgins / Witch in the Bushes

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Jane Kramer / Europeans

  Detailed and sensitive accounts of the people of France, Germany, Austria, England, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, and Hungary and their struggles and joys are presented in a collection of essays This book is second hand, and while you may not get...