Fiction

"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to...

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD "Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this is truly a novel not to be missed." - Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil and The Hate Race"Chandran is an...

***Thrillers that race from the very first page***'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday TimesIt is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they...

'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red *One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the...

"The Agency for Scandal is glorious! Clever, funny, charming, and achingly romantic, it is a delight from start to finish. Laura Wood always writes about love and friendship with a deft hand, and this is her best work yet" ...

What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid? Most importantly, how is our treatment of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865621794Author Bruce ColeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780804173568Author Alice MunroFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Alaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa's neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...

Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever struck first, trying to take each other's lives is simply what they do. Until one day a...

Mishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel that is a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449148389Author Kristin HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 107mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063411524Author Taichi YamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR (DISCOVER) 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF...

The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451477101Author Penelope DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062379085Author Meg CabotFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063346543Author Paulo CoelhoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2018. Long-listed for National Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525541332Author Olga TokarczukFormat HardbackPage Count...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913785416Author Phong NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Moon City PressPublisher Moon City PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

'A gorgeous treat of a book...the very best uplifting read you'll get your hands on this summer!' Faith Hogan #1 Bestselling author of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club Love Heart Lane - where friends are there for you no matter...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes a highly designed, colourful collection of quotes, wit, and wisdom from Lady Whistledown and the most memorable characters of the beloved Bridgerton books, now a series created by Shondaland for...

'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu longs for adventure, freedom and love, believing that only by truly living can she ever escape the stalking crow of Death...An...

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril.Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way.For Imperial...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari...

From the author of STILL LIFE, TIN MAN and WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT.'Will stand the test of time' Irish Examiner'Beautiful prose that ebbs and flows' Independent'A Year of Marvellous Ways is like Dylan Thomas given a sexy rewrite by Angela Carter'Patrick...

We Aim to Live is a collection of fourteen short stories about ordinary people at moments of crisis, crossroads or revelation. The stories look unflinchingly at moments when men's behaviour is on the edge of turning dangerous, alongside issues of class...

A TELEGRAPH AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHRoss Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk...

'A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story' New York Times, Notable Book of the Year 'A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre's most promising voices'BuzzfeedAbby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great...

A New York Times Notable Book 2018'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate...

Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy?'A brilliantly realised world of Imperial ambition and native resistance' Simon Scarrow'Wonderful, distinct characters' Conn IgguldenFaustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British...

From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes two spicy romances in the Billionaire Bachelors Club series-in one volume! CraveHe's an arrogant billionaire who always gets what he wants, but what if his best friend's sister is the one...

A CELEBRATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING EXPLORER' PRAISE FOR SIR RANULPH FIENNES:'Always that little bit further and always the best. It is why, even to this day, I remain in awe at all he has accomplished...

'Tender and devastating.' Guardian 'A book to cancel plans for.' Grazia 'A classic coming-of-age love story.' VogueConnell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular...

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818362Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated

Tommo has just started at a new school – a training ground for the Scottish elite – when his friend Johnnie’s brother is found dead in a Land Rover on a Highland farm. There’s a shotgun at his feet. Nobody seems clear about what has happened, least of...

The first in a super (like, actually, with powers and stuff) NEW series for 7+ readers from the amazingly talented illustrator and author Sophy Henn! Brimming with Sophy's hilarious signature illustrations, this is the perfect read for fans of Dork...

"To be blunt: I must escape." 1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she'll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn't as simple as she thought. Ambushed, robbed, and then saved by a mysterious organisation -...