Fiction

Create your own kawaii world with Pic Candle and Kawaii Doodle Class! The Japanese word kawaiitranslates to "cute," and this how-to book is chock-full of super-adorable images of tacos, sushi, smoothies, clouds, rainbows, cacti, doodle monsters,...

'A gripping, wonderfully understated book that oozes humanity, emotion and humour.' GuardianWinner of the 2020 Butler Literary Award Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2019Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019Longlisted for the Gordon...

'The Murderer is with us - on the train now...' It's just after midnight, and the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift, isolated by the storm. A passenger lies dead, stabbeda dozen times, his door locked...

Set in the same time-frame as Beautiful Disaster, now we hear the story from Travis' point of view. Travis lost his mother at a very young age, but before she died she taught him two important rules... Love hard. Fight harder. Growing up in a family of...

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true' Reese Witherspoon'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is a wholly a wonder' Celeste NgNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -...

Someone is always watching... Derek Flint is a loner. He lives with his mother and spends hisevenings watching his clients on the CCTV cameras he has installed inside their homes. He likes their companionship - even...

Buenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda escape the city with their daughters, sensible Julieta and wilful Graciela, who is nineteen and madly in love. On their return, the Argentine military stages a coup...

I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect...left me so fizzing with admiration' ObserverA stunning collection of short stories by the three-times Costa prizewinner Not the End of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345490193Author Robert E. HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 663gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

The Sanderson sisters return to torment the town of Salem, not once, but TWICE, in this new novel featuring the book of the film and a written sequel!Book InformationISBN 9781803684833Author Walt DisneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Autumn...

Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki...

'Astonishing' Stephen Fry'Exceptional' Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning SHUGGIE BAIN'Now is the time for this book' DBC Pierre, author of the Booker Prize-winning VERNON GOD LITTLE'Funny. Disturbing. Brilliant' Lily AllenFunny, smart,...

'Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship . . . thrilling' - The Times'A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read' - Northern EchoIt's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter...

Selected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell ______________________ 'Sprinkled with magic' - Sunday Times 'Audacious, energetic and dazzing ... There aren't many novelists whose stories one doesn't want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which...

"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about...

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES' 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is caught up in the murky world of human trafficking in Dead Tomorrow, by award-winning crime writer Peter James.'One of the best crime writers in the business' - Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty GirlsThe body of a...

'The perfect fireside read. Veronica McCreedy will capture your heart' TRISHA ASHLEY, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Christmas Invitation'This gorgeous book has everything! Mysteries, misunderstandings, arguments, reconciliations, kindness, love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451495150Author Mariana EnriquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm * 33mm

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Rush was the fastest thing on two legs. He used to rush hither and thither, and thither and hither, and back again, all the time. And because he was always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250780935Author Thomas Olde HeuveltFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Tor NightfirePublisher Tor NightfireWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The stakes are higher. The witches are deadlier. And the romance is red-hot. The eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times and Indiebound bestseller Serpent & Dove is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and is an instant New York Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784288594Author Sir Arthur Conan DoylePage Count 1952Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 2245gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm...

A world of wizards, witches and magic awaits!Meet all your favourite LEGO (R) Harry Potter (TM) minifigures and discover the secrets hidden within Hogwarts Castle. Relive memorable movie moments, including exciting Quidditch matches and spooky adventures...

'Stunningly brilliant... Full of more twists and turns than the best ever rollercoaster, with an epic ending' NetGalley review TRICK OR TREAT? When six-year-old Marcus is taken from outside his house...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - VOGUE, BuzzFeed, LitHub "A bold, promising debut." MARY GAITSKILL *** "Thoughtful, savage" RAVEN LEILANI *** "Radical, daring and bracing" SHEILA HETI If sex is a truth-teller, Eve-a young, queer woman in Brooklyn-is looking...

A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitless powers of comic invention. In the title story - one of Wodehouse's longest and...

From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes The Secret of Cold Hill. The spine-chilling follow-up to The House on Cold Hill. Now a smash-hit stage play.Cold Hill House has been razed to the ground by fire, replaced with a development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553763065Author Rex StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her...

The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been...

'You must not become too friendly with them,' she said. 'They are not the same as us.''How?' I asked. 'How are they not the same?'When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner,...

'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayToil and trouble in store for Agatha!Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly...

Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in Penguin Classics.A wildly original...

'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah.' Val McDermid'Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart.' Peter James'Thrilling, exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat.' Angela Marsons*****************'He was her child...

'One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read' The Times Acclaimed novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children in the year the volcano erupted At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss...

The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three...

Cradle of Thorns by Josephine Cox, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lonely Girl and Whistledown Woman, is a classic spell-binding tale of escape, love and family, that will appeal to fans of Catherine Cookson and Rosie Goodwin. 'One of the...