Fiction

STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!Some comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPRAH DAILY'S #1 Book of 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKFINALIST FOR THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARDAMAZON EDITOR'S CHOICE & TOP TWENTY NOVEL OF THE YEAR'A Brilliant, satisfying,...

Celebrated as the man who wrote an entire novel without using the letter 'e', and another in the form of a vast jigsaw puzzle, Georges Perec found humour - and pathos - in the human need for arrangement and classification. The essays in Thoughts of Sorts...

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle'Beautifully gripping' Heat'A joy to read' Christina Baker Kline, author of The Exiles Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh,...

The novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia made Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are now studied together as Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy. These three novels, set in Nebraska and Colorado, cemented...

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali SmithThe concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork Jacques Deza is back in...

INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves between them ... A wonderful writer' SARAH WATERS'Her...

A string of murders. A killer in the shadows. Only one man who can stop them...Dr Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor and former FBI agent, is settling into life away from the heat of the action. He hopes the days putting his extraordinary...

I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ...Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a lot more complicated than I expected. My wife was pregnant with a baby that possibly wasn't mine. My old man was engaged in a war with the...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author J. S. Scott. Dante Sinclair never cared about his family's money. All the young billionaire ever wanted was to be a cop; and now that he's a homicide detective in Los Angeles, he's a damn good one. But when...

The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 - about a man who succumbs to the violence within - is now available as a stand-alone publication.I believe there is a man inside every man, a strangerSo...

After two years, Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker have made her enough to buy the bakery she loves and she's planning a wedding to her fiance. But Frankie hasn't been entirely honest and both the bakery...

The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves...'Excellent . . . A gripping debut.' Sunday Times'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute.' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainDr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of race, identity and family, of capitalism's false...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250843135Author Jenny Fran DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2016 ***'Beautifully written and plotted, cementing the author's place as one of the finest contemporary British crime writers' Daily Express'Brilliant' MetroSalt water lifts blood. Only salt water.Loch Lomond is a...

'Leather's latest full-throttle thriller could hardly be more topical . . . it hurtles off the page, grabbing the reader by the throat' Daily Mail'This cracking Spider Shepherd thriller zips along like a sniper's bullet' The SunShould we bring them...

'Beautifully written, intelligent and gripping' Daily Mail. From the Richard and Judy bestselling author of The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets. Every ending is a new beginning . . .No one expected Marnie Fitzpatrick to be expelled from school . . . but the...

The exiled family of King AEthelfrith of Northumbria arrive, after much hardship, on the island of Iona, where the monastery founded by St Columba has become a centre of worship and learning. Young Oswald becomes firm friends with a novice, Aidan. When...

FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'The first book by a black woman to sell more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578656069Author Dr HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Dr. Harper TherapyPublisher Dr. Harper TherapyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his first adventure - The Bourne Identity'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesHe...

'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology ...' It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of...

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally on the money - and ripe for this republication' i Newspaper * * * * *It always starts with a small lie...

'Perfect poolside reading' PAIGE TOON'Enchanting, engaging and utterly romantic' MIKE GAYLE'No one does romance and travel like Lorraine Brown' ZOE FOLBIGGA fiance. An old flame. And five days in Florence...Maddie is over the moon when her boyfriend Nick...

'Tense, elegant, sensuous.' Niamh Campbell, author of WE WERE YOUNG'In The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop expertly and mercilessly builds an atmosphere of intense uncertainty and threat. You won't want to put it down.' Chris Power, author of MOTHERS'The...

'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMESIn a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres...

**SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**'Captivating' Irish Times'Revealing and elegant' Financial Times'Masterful.' Sunday TribuneEva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut...

Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding-planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Chef...

New York Times bestselling author Annie F. Downs knows from personal experience that when you start to read the Gospels, they start to change your life. As an experiment, she read all four Gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John--in 30 days. When she...

No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's...

Twenty-five years after running away from her family's farm in Idaho, Yumi Fuller returns home to care for her ailing parents and to confront her best friend and her conflicted past. She finds a world changed beyond recognition; and with the arrival of a...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe fantastic fourth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last . . . Two and a...

It's been several months since the events of Earthfall, yet Sam's attempts to rouse the enslaved people of London from their trance-like state have frustratingly failed. Worse still, the enormous Voidborn drilling device which Sam and his friends...

The critically acclaimed show, Californication, is one of Showtime's highest rated programs. Averaging about two million viewers an episode, it is the most successfully rated freshman series in Showtime history. A Golden Globe nominee for Best Television...

Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will love this action-packed, all-guns-blazing, non-stop story from multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan, the established master of the military thriller.'Heart-in-mouth action' --...

'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily Telegraph'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer'One of the world's finest living writers.' Independent'Essential reading for our times.' Margaret Atwood'Everyone should read...

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of...

When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets...

This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed.For 45 years after...