Fiction

It's London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange...

'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York TimesFew writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American...

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765327130Author William Peter BlattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint StarscapePublisher Starscape

" A cracking slice of Aussie Noir." - Heat magazine A murder made to look like an accident. A disgraced cop trying to forget his past. Nash Baker was once a celebrated cop, but his career was ended when he chose to take justice into his own hands. Now...

Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman worldAbout the AuthorReverend Henry Chadwick is a former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and has been a Regius...

Mrs Gentle has fooled everyone into thinking she is as sweet as she sounds - Gentle by name and gentle by nature. But local constable Hamish Macbeth isn't fooled. He believes this little old lady is actually quite sly and vicious, but he's in a minority...

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,...

The Number One bestselling, award-winning Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid delivers a searing psychological suspense thriller. A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers... A murderer is at large, hunting with...

Don't miss the brand-new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis! I can't forgive myself. Not after what I did. Could you? This is Claudia Winters's last chance for a fresh...

A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the...

'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers as Russia's greatest novel of the last century. This...

'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as...

Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and...

This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance.Reviews` ... the general introduction and...

The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Marilyn Howe's and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn't...

A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper's classic book on herbal remedies. "[An] updated and beautifully designed guide . . . " -Booklist For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper's historic guide to herbal remedies has been THE definitive book on...

_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ THE BUNNY ADVENTURES: OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! We're going on an egg hunt. We're going to find them all. We're REALLY excited. Hooray for Easter Day! Join the Easter Bunnies...

'An ingenious plot, a captivating cast of character, and twists and turns that kept me guessing to the last page, loved it!' Amanda Reynolds What happens when your worst nightmare comes true? One spring morning, a bus full of...

Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th...

Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a Highland summer, but as fast as the rain rolls in from the loch his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket.The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns to Lochdubh with a new...

If you peep into the night sky and see the Moon and twinkling stars, you're peeping right out into space! Lift the flaps and peep through the holes in the pages to discover the planets in our solar system, see astronauts on the International Space...

An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari...

A hilarious and anarchic collection of classic bedtime stories for young readers, all utterly updated for a new generation. Meet Trumplestiltskin, a vain and gold-obsessed little man who will stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There's Sleeping...

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVELStella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley is asked by an old Service friend to ...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY THRILLER PICK NO ONE HOME HE SEARCHES FOR THE DISAPPEARED.Missing persons investigator David Raker specializes in finding the lost. Whether dead or alive, he brings the truth home to the families left behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182105Author Stephen KingFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel...

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.Widely regarded as C. P. Snow's masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BESTSELLING THRILLER WRITER AND A PRIME MINISTER WRITE A MYSTERY TOGETHER? THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT . . .'A beautifully constructed mystery by two super smart partners in crime' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'Nordic noir at its most...

AS NIGHT FALLS, A KILLER COMES TO LIGHT...'An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly's very best.' THE TIMES'The Dark Hours is yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Consistently...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;' Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's...

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593098257Author Frank HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 192mm * 106mm *...

Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the...

In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance...As editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe-until the day John Anderson...

The life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from the author of Lost for Words'I read this book in one sitting, it made me smile and made me wipe a tear from my eye too' 'This book had me sitting up into the small hours. Such a lovely read,...

In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide . . .In...

The brilliantly gripping new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection).'Long before Liane Moriarty was spinning her Big Little Lies, Shreve was spicing up domestic doings..She still is, as...

THE COMPELLING NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PHILIPPA GREGORYSomewhere beyond the shores of England, a Pretender is mustering an army. He claims to be brother to the queen, and the true heir to the throne. But is he the lost boy sent into...