Fiction

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401461Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)...

A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the...

Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023 Eyes down to find a killer who's playing to win... An irresistible slice of murder and mystery - there's a...

*The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller*Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography. Bet you wouldn't have put money on that three years ago, eh?! Please don't stress yourself out too much, though, it's actually socially acceptable nowadays that...

**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceThe sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The...

Ginny is devastated by the death of her mother, her two little brothers and her sister - but her father is destroyed by the loss. After a series of drunken mistakes, her father is imprisoned for murder, and Ginny and her little brother Charlie lose the...

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDostoevsky's beautiful writing style and universal themes make this epic 19th century novel unmissable. ...

The third book in the multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe one with the boy who might have been raised by lionsFacing financial trouble, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is obliged to move into the same premises as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134839Author Joyce DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Horsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: 'Horsemen of the Sands' and 'The Storm.' The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg, also known as the 'Mad Baltic Baron,' a military adventurer whose intense fascination...

___________________Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them.When Bennett arrested Manuel Perrine, he thought he had...

'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room'...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon learns that the true magic of the theatre lies in its cast of characters -...

'A chiller with a puzzling mystery that manages to be a tearjerker too. Prepare for sleepless nights' GraziaEven the deepest-buried secrets can find their way to the surface...Moments before she dies, Nicola's grandmother Betty whispers to her that there...

Two passionate musicians, Nick and Dom, have grappled for years to become the chart-busting, hard-gigging success story their band is today. They've slogged it out on the European gig circuit and fought their demons in the process, realising there's much...

Sunday Times bestselling author Rosie Goodwins brings us a heartbreaking saga of one woman's struggle to escape her past and find happiness.Life has been cruel to Grace Collins...Orphaned as a child, she is raised by her severely religious aunt, Emily...

'Fun, festive and fabulous. A story that sparkles like Christmas snow.' MILLY JOHNSON 'A page-turner' - Woman's Weekly When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet...

Perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Glass House, this is the intoxicating story of one woman's fight for freedom in Victorian England. 'Outstanding gothic psychological thriller!' 'Fantastic character and fantastic story. Buy this book'...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of...

Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline,...

Third volume in the bestselling Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862. Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win...

Tender, magical and captivating - a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances from the No. 1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern. What if love was right there in front of you - you just couldn't see it? Elizabeth Egan...

One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that...

'The Christian faith is new every morning, and that's a wonderful reason to read the scriptures each day . . . Let us seek to be encouragers to one another as we journey on together. My prayer is that God will give you faith, hope and love for whatever...

Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them...Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps in them.A...

The first book in the heartwarming Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs.In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of the first to...

The case was closed. Until people started dying...DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he's recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being...

Inspired by the true events of the most notorious evictions in Irish history... 1861, Donegal, Ireland Ten years ago Declan Conaghan's father died in the Great Famine, and since then, Declan has kept his...

The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the...

ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE NATURE BOOKS AS FEATURED ON BBC's WINTERWATCHSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 'Bold and beautiful.' Robert Macfarlane'Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic ... leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world'...

The Library of Wales' Story anthologies feature the very best of Welsh short fiction, written amid the political, social and economic turbulence of twentieth century Wales and beyond. More than eighty outstanding works from the classics of Dylan Thomas,...

'A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader's appetite' Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie 'Nosey'...

Sherlock Holmes and Mrs Hudson are faced with a new challenge...Dangerous magicians! Precious gems! Dastardly Plans! Sherlock Holmes is just the man... But what if Holmes isn't the only brains at Baker Street?As snow falls on Baker Street, the wintry...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREKatharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a...

This gorgeous, limited edition boxed set of all of her classic romantic novels includes Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, and each individual volume is beautifully designed and features a...

**BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime** ________________________ A JOYFUL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC ________________________ 'There are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as thoroughly realised, as...

'Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre' Daily Telegraph Two: 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The Guardian Bed: 'It's insights into the twilight world of old...

Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet.With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightingale Hospital is...

She has a way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives - but it might just destroy her to take it... DESPERATELeft to raise eight siblings after her mother's death, 17-year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle...