Fiction

'This is a book about the untidy, complicated underbelly of love and love's end. Funny and true, wise and utterly authentic, you will recognise yourself over and over. I loved it.' Kit de Waal Did you mean to marry me? Did you understand the vows...

A heart-warming visit to the village of Burracombe where, whatever life might throw at you - strangers, surprises, love, change - you can always rely upon your neighbours and friends.Devon, 1954. The villagers of Burracombe pull together to help each...

The Forgotten Legion fought against almighty odds at the very edge of the known world - and lost.Now Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan soothsayer and Romulus, bastard son of a Roman nobleman, are prisoners of Parthia. They dream of escape, but in...

Two quirky detective stories from Britain's best sci-fi writer and author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams.Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and...

'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ...a very simple but excellent novel'. The Observer Also available in an extended edition including essays, maps and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250153968Author GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes'Spellbinding'INDEPENDENT'Exceptional'LITERARY REVIEW'Beautifully...

No. 1 bestselling author Jill Mansell writes with sensitivity and optimism about love, loss and new beginnings in TO THE MOON AND BACK. Not to be missed by readers of Jojo Moyes and Veronica Henry. When Ellie Kendall tragically loses her husband she...

After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity. But to worship the man, they need an image of him as a god, and no one has ever seen him. So the...

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD, THE MACAVITY AWARD, THE ANTHONY AWARD, AND THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOMINATED FOR THE 2015 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman,...

A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century from the International prize winning author of Death is Hard Work and In Praise of Hatred."A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer." Hisham...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542036351Author L.J. ShenFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel'Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We'd broken up after I'd seen him eat somebody.'You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it...

* Winner of the American Book Award * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 * A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * 'An absorbing story' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Rich, vivid and gripping' GUARDIAN 'Feels at once historical and contemporary'...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213145Author Chelsea G SummersFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm...

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like the...

The Green Man has many facets, many dimensions. He peers through his leaf mask in hundreds of church misericords and stone carvings. His innate link with the changing seasons and fertility is revealed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778316978Author Robyn CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 38mm

'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ***** BOOK 11 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.I would...

'A classic twisting mystery from queen of suspense Lisa Hall ... the epilogue delivers a wild twist ... the bond between Anna and Laurel the perfect anchor for the dark investigation' WOMAN'S OWN 'Brilliantly plotted...a gripping read' Alice...

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor,...

Nobody's Darling by Josephine Cox, Sunday Times bestselling author, explores worldly success and all it brings as well as all it leaves behind.'The fact that Josephine Cox brings so much freshness to the plot, and the characters, is an indication of her...

Baghdad. Billions of dollars slipping into thin air.London. A girl on the run. What was that thing she said before everything went black?Was it 'goodbye'? Or was it 'sorry'?In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection' Julian Fellowes'Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman's gentleman, not a butler,...

All's fair in love and revenge in this taut thriller from bestselling author Lisa Gray. Ex-crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers' forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries...

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material,...

Your birthday is the ultimate moment to celebrate, honour and reflect on who you truly are. This practical companion is a modern-day grimoire filled with rituals, spells and other simple practices for making the most of your solar return.Practices...

The second novel from Anna Burns, critically acclaimed author of the Man Booker winning novel, Milkman 'Brilliant ... I can't remember the last time I read prose so profound and so punchy' Daily...

'In this superb fantasy saga of tough, old martial-arts masters and inexperienced young heroes, Wesley Chu has given us a richly inventive page-turner that delights on every page.' - Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the JinniAn epic fantasy ode to...

'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding' Stephen King Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year 'Frightening' Mail on Sunday ...

With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White 'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'Brilliant' - Dazed 'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett 'Electrifying' - Colm...

Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapadeThis time Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only...

NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARDIn beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set...

'An absolutely witty, swoon worthy behind the scenes romp! Delightful from beginning to end!' Julie Murphy, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'Olivia Dade returns with another utterly charming romantic comedy about a devil-may-care actor...

At thirty-four Sara Gallagher is finally happy with her life, but there is one big question that still haunts her - who are her birth parents? Finally ready to hear the truth, Sara discovers that some questions are better left unanswered: her biological...

Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur and expert on cultivated crime, is back in Marseille, for both work and pleasure - the lure of excitement and the pleasures of the region proving too tempting to resist. But surrounded by gangsters...

THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK is an irresistible novel of love, music and comedy -'A master storyteller' Independent on Sunday'Gale's concoction is irresistible: modern relationships with period charm' Armistead MaupinSeth, a musical prodigy on the eve of his...

'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...

'[A] potent, brutal read... You won't be able to forget this story of a young boy robbed of his own childhood.' Marie Claire, best YA 2019 I tell myself I've chosen to live, but the water knows the truth. Waves brush my arms, soft as shroud linen. ...