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The extraordinary and enchanting novel tracing a centuries-old curse back to its beginning from the author of PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE DOVEKEEPERS For centuries, the women of the Owens family have been cursed: any man who loves an Owens woman will die. It...

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an...

DISCOVER THE BOOK THAT LAUNCHED THE EIGHTEEN-MILLION-COPY-BESTSELLING CROSSFIRE SERIESBared to You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget . . ._________Our journey began in fire . . .Gideon Cross...

From the Laugh Out Loud Book award-winning creators!One day Izzy and her friends are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Jones, is actually being nice to them. This is the woman who was caught secretly smiling when Maisie Miller fell off her chair...

'Short but very special. ... funny, touching and quite beautiful.' Matt Cain'A powerful finale to her classic trilogy of heartbreak and healing.' Clare Chambers'An unforgettable story. It's beautiful all through, but the closing chapters are just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975368531Author Hamuo,Format PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Yen PressPublisher Little, Brown & Company

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Gods of Guilt. When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church - the 'Dollmaker' - the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial...

* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. *They got her man. Now she's going to get even...GET EVEN, by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688092344Author Pat HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91g

An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023 and finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2023. From the multi-award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and...

An utterly defeated Cassie must overcome the death of her father if she's gong to escape a run-in with the police, a host of vengeance-seeking enemies, and a whole bunch of new slashers! Will Vlad be enough back up, or will the slasher hunting duo...

At the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, which aims to produce the country's future leaders, students are given remarkable freedom. However, they also have to deal with a point system that decides one's place in the school's...

"The Golden Brat" Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire's enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute-yet...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more...

Kirby and friends get up to yummy hijinks in this delightful manga collection.Join Kirby and his Dream Land friends as they go on zany adventures in manga form!Kirby and friends cook up more fun in another batch of cute comics! King Dedede discovers a...

NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel, an explosive...

***Pre-order David Nicholls' new novel YOU ARE HERE now - Coming April 2024***THE DEBUT NOVEL BY BELOVED BESTSELLER DAVID NICHOLLSA comedy about love, class, growing up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom'Painfully...

THE BESTSELLING STORY OF TWO GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE CHANGED FOREVER BY THE VIET NAM WAR 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving and riveting.' Viet Thanh...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School - a potential...

One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a...

A gripping high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, from Number One Bestselling author Kathy Reichs. EVEN ON AN ISLAND PARADISE, DANGER STILL LURKS Called in to examine what is left of a body struck by lightning, Tempe...

A nerve-shredding story of obsession and destruction, I Follow You is a standalone thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Roy Grace series, Peter James.To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all...

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin Robin Hobb returns to her best loved characters with the second volume in a brand new series. Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers on Aslevjal. Then they parted, the...

New York City, New York.Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps.That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather...

The Stoker Award-winning, taut and propulsive twist on home invasion horror, packed psychological suspense. Soon to be a major film, Knock At the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are...

Unlock the secrets of LEGO (R) building and create new worlds with your imagination.Your guide to becoming a LEGO master builder. LEGO (R) Awesome Ideas is for LEGO (R) fans, no matter their age, wanting to test and challenge their creative building...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always...

A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains Sing Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is...

‘Race to Imagination Island will suck you in!’ Chris Smith, author of Kid Normal ‘You’ll LOVE racing to Imagination Island!’ Maz Evans, author of Who Let The Gods Out? ‘One of the most joyful books I have read — you never want to leave!’ Jenny...

'Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other' Leigh BardugoThe limited 5th Anniversary edition of the magical Sunday Times bestseller, by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy.The dream chooses the dreamer.Since he was five...

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling series The second book in S. J. Parris's bestselling, critically acclaimed series following Giordano Bruno, set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I Autumn, 1583. Under Elizabeth's rule,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451648218Author Rupert HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943720965Author Laurel HightowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ghoulish BooksPublisher Ghoulish BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From the queen of feelgood fiction, an uplifting new novel of friendship, families and finding love . . .'What a gorgeous book! Jill has a great gift for characterisation - nuanced, interesting, believable people but created with a charming lightness of...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.When a young woman's body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help...

The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll,...

**A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK!****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Littlewood writes with ferocity and compassion. Read it and weep (then cheer)' THE TIMES'I just adored this . . . An unforgettable read' LIANE MORIARTY'Compelling, funny and poignant...