Fiction

THE #2 WATERSTONES BESTSELLER 'Beautifully explored and deeply complex' Gal Gadot Joyful, devastating, and profound, Meet Me in Another Life is a story of love and...

BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018 Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts places human behaviour under the...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOST IN TIME At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery - a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever...

Since moving to Raven Creek, Phoebe Winchester has had a lot on her plate. She's renovating the Victorian manor she inherited from her Aunt Eudora, running a tea shop (and secret magical apothecary), and learning to be a witch. But when she discovers...

In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its...

Four brand-new horror novellas from "a modern-day Algernon Blackwood" all about books, stories, manuscripts - the written word has never had sharper teeth... BOOKS CAN BE DEADLY From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992671884Author Hannah FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint London Wall PublishingPublisher London Wall Publishing

There were not so much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked the moist frost from the walls...Grievously wounded - having survived the operating table and...

The supernatural tales of A M Burrage were recognised by contemporaries such as M R James and the critic E F Bleiler as some of the most imaginative and cleverly told ghost stories in the English language, and yet today his name haunts the fringes of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778310860Author Robyn CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 166mm * 104mm * 28mm

If you love Kimberley Chambers and Martina Cole don't miss out on the brand new, absolutely unputdownable series by Stephanie Harte! All debts must be paid. In blood. When underworld loan shark Davie Saunders is gunned down at his daughter's...

The incredible new novel from C.S. Green - featuring Detective Rose Gifford Something terrible happened in that house... 'An enthralling, multi-layered crime novel...

A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the 100 best Yuletide whodunnits. A Times Book of the Year 2014. This Christmas crime anthology stars Poirot, Marple, Rebus, More, Rumpole, Sherlock, Cadfael and many, many...

Cover design by Orla Kiely Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the...

'Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.' Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation...

In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming facades. From hellish visions to obsessive relationships, acclaimed author Agustina Bazterrica takes us to the dark heart...

Is the past sometimes best left alone?Fiona Norwood is happily married, with a small daughter and another baby on the way. Her life should be complete. But she has a secret in her past, and a part of her cannot forget the baby girl she was forced to give...

OH NO! There's a dragon in the hills. What will the Mr Men and Little Miss do? When Mr Tickle decides to investigate some surprising fires in the gentle hills where he lives, he meets a fire-breathing dragon who...

Ravenheart continues the tale of the Rigante. Packed with epic battles, hard, bloody steel, honour, magic and mystery, this heroic fantasy by the Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell is perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, John Gwynne and Conn...

'A superb book, illuminating a fascinating and turbulent era. It is the figure of Matilda who rightly commanded the stage in all her power and complexity' Nicola Cornick'Packed with romance, real history, a cast of superbly imagined characters . . . 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...

An exquisitely written, heart-achingly beautiful retelling of the Selkie legend ... both timeless and timely ... by award-winning debut author Su Bristow SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Sorrowful and lovely, with a well-earned,...

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery The stabbed body of a well-dressed man is found slumped on a swing in a children's playground in the heart of Detective Inspector Bill Slider's patch.From the seedy pubs of...

By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEA beautifully bizarre assortment of short stories and prose poems. Writing on an eclectic range of subjects from 'Bread' and 'Strawberries', to 'Fainting' and 'Women's Novels', Margaret Atwood brings...

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 9780062653314Author Michael MannFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

From the bestselling Sunday Times author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's gripping series that is now a major NBC TV series.'Deaver is a masterful storyteller' Daily ExpressYou've followed a killer into a swamp. Hopefully you'll find him...

When Barbara Vaughan's fiance joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy. For Barbara, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, this...

'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So...

Eleanor Trewynn, recently widowed, returns home from years of working overseas to retire to the cozy village of Port Maybn in Cornwall, England. Even in retirement though, she continues her charity work, leasing out the first floor of her house to a...

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's gripping series that is now a major NBC TV series.The seventh novel in the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series sees Rhyme attempt to catch his cleverest opponent yet . . ...

A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of Grecian tragedy. When her brothers are slain fighting...

Only Harry Keogh, prisoner of the metaphysical Mobius Continuum, can stop the vampire Yulian Bodescu. Harry Keogh is a necroscope - he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves. Unfortunately for Harry, his talent works both ways. Death is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035828258Author Standish CopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart' DAILY MAIL'Remarkable ... an extraordinary achievement' SUNDAY TIMESWhen...

She isn't looking for trouble - but trouble is coming to find her.Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages, factory worker Rose is struggling to make ends meet when she encounters middle-class Annie, a...

A festive treat from the author of the bestselling I HEART series After the crazy six months she's had, if there was a 'clear history' button for your life, Tess Brookes would be the first in line to press it. When the opportunity...

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...

From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.When the first edition...