Fiction

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a...

Dead in the Water by Ann Granger is set in the Cotswold village of Weston Saint Ambrose and features Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter in their fourth murder mystery.It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the...

A totally gripping twisty psychological thriller from the amazing author of Behind Her Eyes, now a major Netflix series I was dead for 13 minutes.I don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't an accident and I wasn't...

BOOK 1 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times'No one does...

Meet Odo and all his friends at Forest Camp in this exciting picture book adventure, based on the animated TV series, now showing on Milkshake!Odo loves going to Forest Camp to play with all his friends, and today Camp Leader has brought some rock eggs...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and a BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!'Outstanding' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Gripping, intriguing and unique' - Kate Mosse, author of The Burning ChambersNorthern Iceland, 1829. A woman...

Her family's cottage was a place of innocence for Julie Bauer - until hersister was murdered. It's been many years since that August night, but Julie's memories of Izzy's death still haunt her. Now someone...

Fans of Bernard Cornwell will love this action-packed page-turner set during England's bloody and brutal Civil War, written by THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LANCELOT, Giles Kristian. "Fantastic, powerful, blood-stirring...it's done with such...

Zack Walker Mystery #1Zack Walker is a writer with an overactive imagination and two teenage children. After a murder on their street, he uproots his family from the city - insisting it's for their own good - and heads for the security of the suburbs...

Follows thirty years of joy, sorrow, triumph, and tragedy in the changing and enduring relationship of two very different women - the conventional Bertie and Cee Cee, a flamboyant actress. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061452888Author Clive BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Stevenson's classic story of split personalities lurking beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society. Now available in an accessible format for all readers.An eerily superb story of murder and monstrosity on the streets of Victorian London...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious.' ELIZABETH DAY'One of our culture's greatest humorists is back.' Glamour'SO funny.' SARA PASCOEThis is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't...

Perfect for fans of Stephen King and the 1980s nostalgia of Stranger Things. A gripping suburban nightmare from the New York Times-bestselling, Bram-Stoker Award-winning master of horror fiction. It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts,...

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes the next installment in a steamy new polyamorous romance trilogy with a dash of politics and a pinch of magic.His name is Embry Moore, and he serves at the pleasure of the...

For Lev Prakenskii, the last thing he remembers is being lost in the swirling currents of the ocean and sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven. Just as quickly, just as miraculously, he was saved -...

'An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment ... It continues to haunt me' NATASHA BROWN, I PAPER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON 'A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered,...

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173046Author Henry De MontherlantFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the...

'Marvellously entertaining. A cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who' Look MagazineConsidered one of the great dystopian thrillers - alongside A Clockwork Orange and Brave New World- Ira Levin's terrifying glimpse into the future continues to...

'Smart, funny and beautifully written. Brodeur is a brilliant dissector of family relationships, a lyricist of the natural world, and an astute observer of our inner turmoils' MONICA ALI'Gorgeous, gripping, I couldn't put it down' RUTH OZEKI'Beautiful,...

For better. For worse. Forget him. Over You is a compelling story of friendship pushed to its limits by bestselling author Lucy Diamond. What the fans say: 'Full of friendship, family and how when life throws something at you, you have to fight back!'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732181Author William FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780374110031Author Maria Dahvana HeadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MCD X Fsg OriginalsPublisher...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her...

In love and war, who can you trust? 1944, Hampshire. Her face still bearing the scars from the explosion at the factory, Rita Brown is nonetheless back on her feet. She's caught the eye of local wide boy Blackie Bristow, who's sweeping her around the...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change 'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times 'His most visionary,...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsene Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes himself too seriously...

***Previously published as BURNT PAPER SKY*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skilful as The Girl on the Train...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642633009Author Helen HardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Waterhouse PressPublisher Waterhouse PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

From the Emmy Award-winning writer of Avenue 5, Veep and The Thick of It comes a funny, violent and thought-provoking horror story like nothing you've seen before. Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs...

Styrkar the warrior sails to dangerous lands in this thrilling new historical adventure from Richard Cullen. The sequel to Oath Bound, longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2022. England, 1068: a land gripped in the iron fist of...

The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many...

With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective...

Pre-order Victory for Ambridge, the brilliant new novel in The Archers series, coming in paperback in Spring 2025. 'Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar' Katie Fforde'The BBC's most downloaded radio show' The Guardian'Incredible legacy' The...

LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE meets THE STEPFORD WIVES in the spectacular new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker.***SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM*** Behind every successful woman . . . there's a secret worth KILLING for 'A howl of...

A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery. Sherlock Holmes's discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by...

A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist...

At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' - he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early...