Fiction

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of the world. Morale is at rock bottom. George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250785428Author Neil SharpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Tor NightfirePublisher Tor NightfireWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 147mm *...

A fantastic bathtime adventure from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and David Roberts - perfect for reading together.When everyone has left the house in the morning, the bath toys spring into action and head off on exciting...

FOR HER, I'LL CHANGE THE WORLDAfter the revolution, Rae and Claire start a new life together as teachers, mothers, and wives. But soon the political machinations of the Nur Empire threaten their peaceful days. Worse, Rae recognizes them as the inciting...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young John Huffam and his mother. A thrilling complex plot is made more intriguing by the unreliable narrator of the book - how much...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171226Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2020, meet the funny and fearless Jemima Small in this big-hearted, whip-smart story of friendship and body confidence.I'm going to tell you the word that ruins my entire life: BIG. Because my name is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922330611Author Kevin WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

'The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian RankinGIRLFRIEND. WITNESS. MURDERER? When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is thrown into a difficult situation. Glasgow...

'So vividly evoked that you are there, living the story'Alison Weir***Frances Gorges was accused of witchcraft - and she survived. But if her torturers at the court of King James discover she is pregnant with the child of Tom Wintour, her lover executed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804392225Author R. A. CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377728Author Lisa TuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

______________________A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - from the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note. Discover speeches that altered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060892999Author Walter M MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263g

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Sweeping between India and England, and between childhood and the present day, Sunjeev Sahota's unforgettable novel about illegal immigrants is - as with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance - a story of dignity in the...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...Harry 'Preacher' Powell, his...

It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth. His life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a...

The ebook bestseller 1665. Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father's apothecary shop in bustling Fleet Street. A skilled student - the resinous scents of lavender, rosemary, liquorice and turpentine run in her blood - her father...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKLila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - theonly available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate...

The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War). Venice, 1943The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion's den...

DISCOVER THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES!Two outcasts find themselves at the centre of world-altering change in Sword Catcher, the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311403Author Diana GabaldonFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

A brilliantly cheeky Christmas picture book with a shiny gold cover, from the creators of I Need a New Bum! It's Christmas Day tomorrow! Our house is filled with delight. I'm skipping and flipping,...

THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR AUTUMN 2022 Can YOU guess who killed Jamie Lawrence? ***Don't miss the new spectacularly entertaining thriller from Celia Walden - THE SQUARE is available to pre-order now***'Impossible to put down' HELEN...

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Fiendish good fun' ANTHONY HOROWITZIf you want to get away with murder, play by the rules Years ago Malcolm Kershaw wrote a list of his 'Eight Favourite Murders' for his Old Devils mystery bookshop blog. Among others, it...

April 1942. Enemy gunfire on Penzance beach brings the Cornish Girls rushing to the rescue... Yearning for adventure, Demelza dreams of one day joining the fire wardens. But before she can do so, gunfire during a trip...

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise...

It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will turn out to be a murderer in a year's time. When...

'These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.' - Lancashire Evening PostHeartfelt and moving, The Orphanage Girls Come Home is the...

The first book in the award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. In a dangerous future, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival. As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316605106Author Darren ShanFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe...

A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the...

'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn ParkhurstAfter the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal...

Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. WilsonOne of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2017"Manjunath Kumar is...

"Suspenseful...emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn't remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story."-NPRAn Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family...

**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'This is seriously good... the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it - so read it while you can!' Lee ChildA high-intensity roller-coaster...