Fiction

'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'We defy you not to be gripped' GlamourAs police chief of a small town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his...

'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you... The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club - but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years...

Readers of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will love this wonderfully thought-provoking and moving novel of family dynamics from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. It really is Trollope at her very best. 'A gripping...

Be More Barbie! For generations, Barbie has inspired women around the world. From the first Barbie doll released in 1959 to the pop-culture moment and huge box office success of the Barbie movie in 2023. She has been...

*FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS*Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off and do...

How many lifetimes would you travel to find a love that lasts for ever?When single career girl Jo-Jo steps onto a zebra crossing and gets hit by a car, she awakes to find herself in 1963. The fashion, the music, her job, even her romantic life:...

*An International Bestseller from the author of People Like Us, shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize and the RNA Historical Romantic Novel Award 2021* From the outside, Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have the perfect life, but they're...

THE BREATHTAKING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A BRUTAL MURDER. A...

'The multiple award-winning Leon has lost none of her talent for weaving intrigue, and the atmosphere of Venice is as beguiling as ever.' Living NorthA Washington Post BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerA Seattle Times Best Mystery and Crime Novel of...

'I raced through this murder mystery' Good Housekeeping, 10 Books to Read Right Now!'Smiley is a masterful writer' Sunday Times'Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime' Roxane GayFrom a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a...

Mother of Eden has been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award, 2015.'We speak of a mother's love, but we forget her power. Power over life. Power to give and to withhold.' Generations after the breakup of the...

'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.'George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas...

'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia...

1265 England has a new master. Simon de Montfort's victory at the Battle of Lewes has made him king in all but name. He has vowed to restore the rights and liberties of the kingdom, but now even his friends grow wary of his power. As old alliances...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize'Reads as China's Midnight's Children. Utterly remarkable' INDEPENDENT'A kaleidoscopically imaginative novel' THE NEW YORKER'Mesmerising storytelling' NEW YORK TIMESI dream of us...

From Sunday Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, the final thrilling instalment in the epic Dragon Heart trilogy.'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'The GuardianIt's time for the final...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062697721Author Sarah McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Explore the past of Critical Role's daring half-elf twins, Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan, in this original prequel novel to their adventures with Vox Machina.Vex and Vax have always been outsiders. A harsh childhood in the elite elven city of Syngorn quickly...

'An enthralling page-turner' DILLY COURT'A heart-warming WW2 love story' ROSIE GOODWIN'A great new series from the queen of East End sagas' ELAINE EVEREST A brand new historical romance series from Jean Fullerton, charting the loves, hopes and heartaches...

The perfect rom-com from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestsellerEmma and Leo have been together for ever, but their relationship seems to have lost its sparkle. When Leo turns up to Emma's thirtieth birthday dinner unforgivably late and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606600337Author James GurneyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 1300gDimensions(mm) 253mm...

'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph _____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in...

Working in forensic settings with clients who have histories of damage and abuse can be a demanding, disturbing, thrilling and unique experience. It means building connections and instilling the capacity to think before acting - far more than just...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and James, and their...

THE TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD 'This is crime writing of the highest order' The TimesWhen Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her...

A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best' Mail on SundayWith the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But...

To mark the thousandth year of peace in the Empire of Concordia, the emperor's ship embarks upon a twelve-day voyage. Aboard are the heirs of the twelve provinces of Concordia, each graced with a unique magical ability known as a Blessing.Except one:...

The storm that's raging when fisherman's daughter Daisy Appleby is born in a village just north of Sunderland could be taken as a warning of a turbulent life ahead. It's during another storm fifteen years later that her father and brothers are lost and...

The bestselling masterpiece tale of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman RushdieA man and a woman meet by chance while returning to...

For fans of the Bard is a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection,...

'An ambitious, immersive novel from the author of In Her Shoes' Red Magazine 'Engrossing' Sunday Mirror'If you have time for only one book this summer, pick this one' The New York Times ____________________________From the No.1 New York Times bestselling...

'Don't you worry about a little thing like that!' cried Mr Wonka. 'My great glass elevator is ready for anything!'This beautiful edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive...

'Riotously original ... A triumph' NEW YORK TIMES 'A journey unlike any you've read before' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense' GLAMOUR The most profound book yet from the...

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action, high-octane wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland. With its authentic and vivid depiction of war, its gut-punchingly realistic battle...

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and...

The beacons are lit - the Armada is sighted off the English coast. The thrilling final instalment of the Navy Royal trilogy.1588: The greatest naval force of its age bears down upon England. As a devastating battle looms, a nation holds its breath.Jack...

Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley...

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Daily Mail ...