Fiction

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the...

Headless bodies have started appearing across town in Trenton, New Jersey... Mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey in Hardcore Twenty-Four, the thrilling twenty-fourth adventure in the laugh-out-loud Stephanie Plum series by No. 1...

A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods - with an arrow in his chest and his trousers round his ankles.At first her old...

THE TRUTH HURTSBeneath the Brainstorm, Shii meets a strange boy who claims to be the heir to the throne. Big Basilta protects her from the boy's unabashed violence, but can the golem protect her from the truth? A mysterious project, a princess, a secret...

The truth was dead and buried . . . until now.When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone.As the bones are sorted, it becomes...

Two trains Side by side for a brief moment In that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a man strangling a woman to death. But it was only the merest glimpse through a carriage window...

Six survived to tell the story, but who knows the truth? An addictive page-turner from bestselling US sensation Kody Keplinger, author of THE DUFF.It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend,...

Despite the catastrophic outcomes of her previous house-sitting commissions, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her trusty spaniel, Hepzie, is truly convinced nothing can go wrong on her next assignment in the charming village of Blockley. The Montgomerys...

"This book is about humanity. Life. Beauty. Family. The heart of the home. The kitchen and The mother; whom ever she may be. Passing on a legacy of a place that was the hub of the gastronomic world. May she return once again from dark times. But until...

From the Sunday Times bestseller, comes a story of hope, love and finding your forever home... 'A delight from start to finish' Jill MansellHunter's Moon is the ultimate 'forever' house. Nestled by a river in the Peasebrook valley, it has been the...

Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2019, Diary of a Somebody is a unique mix of poetry and diary by the unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter, the enigmatic Brian Bilston.'If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will...

In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES'[Has] a visionary quality' OBSERVERA profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to surviveA servant girl...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that love is never smooth sailing. Captain William Hawksmoor of the Royal Navy never expected to inherit Kingscastle, his family's estate, and finds himself all at sea when he does so. Especially when he learns...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345538994Author Michael CrichtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The uplifting festive read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas for BeginnersCan the imperfect family really have the perfect Christmas?Juliet Joyce adores Christmas. She loves the presents, the tree, the turkey, the tinsel, everything...

'The ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY on To Italy, with Love'Deliciously romantic' ERICA JAMES on P.S. Come to ItalyWish you were here?When Belle's quiet, idyllic life on the coast starts to crumble, it's a stranger - thousands of miles away in...

One of Us is Lying meets This Lie Will Kill You but with a chilling supernatural twist that will keep you guessing until the very end . . . 'Chilling, funny and gripping' Emily Barr, author of The Truth and Lies of Ella...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to understand characters who had suddenly materialized from another century?'Maigret is...

From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.'A fairy tale of a novel' New York Times'A multi-generational epic of fate, war and enduring love' Harper's Bazaar'A poetic and profound...

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.The year is 1736 and five travellers are journeying across Exmoor on horseback, their purpose unknown. One evening they stop at a village inn for some rest and, soon...

When Esme's past as a secret operative comes calling, she must choose - her husband or her job?After a bomb destroys Esme's London home, killing her son instantly, she moves to her old country house in Devon to begin the impossible task of recuperating...

Follow the ingenious mysteries of the 'Tuesday Night Club' with this hardback special edition of Agatha Christie's beloved classic. THE ORIGINAL WEEKDAY MURDER CLUB 'Well,' said...

Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss.In the...

On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for...

Clare Cherrell has come home, fleeing the clutches of her violent, abusive husband. When he pursues her she vows she will never return and sets about fighting him in bitter divorce proceedings. Dinny supports her sister all the way, but she has her own...

'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' STORMZY'I grew up reading her. It was one of the few books about black people, so I felt seen.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'The most...

It's Sarah and her brother against the world... When Sarah Jepson's mother Annie dies, Sarah is left with her little brother Tommy to care for. Alone in the world, the two of them must make a life for themselves in...

The tenth book in the brilliant Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning BARRY LOSER series. Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Dennis the Menace and...

JOIN JUAN CABRILLO AND THE OREGON CREW IN THE LATEST EXPLOSIVE THRILL-RIDE FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLERA hypersonic missile. A genetically engineered army. A worldwide plot of destruction . . .__________When Juan Cabrillo, captain of...

A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened, The New York Times Book Review, and New York Magazine)A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAgatha Award Winner for Best First NovelMacavity Award Winner for Best First...

From the author of The Jigsaw Man comes the next book in Nadine Matheson's DI Henley series 'Nadine Matheson writes sentences like roses, lovely and bristling with thorns . . . Matheson's voice is exciting, urgent.....

Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, Rannulf is simply a dream come true, a heroic stranger with whom she will allow herself one night of reckless passion before she must settle for the dreary life of companion to her wealthy aunt...

'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric...

Fairytales can come true . . . Camille Lammenais had a perfect childhood growing up in California's beautiful Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her beloved parents have built a renowned winery inspired by her father's native...

Escape with Jenny Colgan this Christmas . . .'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes'This sweet romance will lift your spirits' Sunday Mirror'Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting'...

Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.This beautiful edition of The Twits, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is...

The king is dead. The fight to replace him begins...1066 dawns on a fractious England. The death of Edward the Confessor has set in motion a chain of events that can no longer be stopped.In London, Harold Godwinson, anointed king by Edward on his...