Fiction

We can't choose our weather, but we can choose what we make of it.Arwel is having a fine day. Yes, his sister has gone off to school for the first time, leaving him alone, and yes, there's a cloud above his head. But he is fine, really he is...But the...

Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a strange adventure, running into people she never expected to see again, in the unlikeliest of places...

'One of the most hypnotically gripping books I've read in a long, long time.' TESS GERRITSENYour friend's child is missing. It's your fault.No family is perfect.A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning.No wonder you...

A Times Best New Historical Fiction pick, perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Binding. 'KEEPS THE READER HOOKED TO THE END' - THE TIMES ___________Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373799Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

stolen moments ER doctor Liz Prudhomme is stunned that nomadic ex-army doc Cort Smith is her hospital's new trauma surgeon. Instantly, she's transported back to that amazing night when he showed her unimaginable...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The original text is...

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood... unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place,...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'There is no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542025133Author Vi KeelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces'Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old...

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 *...

From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivor's Club series, where the future of one man will be decided by a lost - but never forgotten - love ...For the first time...

The first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor, perfect for fans of Sarah Painter, Genevieve Cogman and Ben Aaronovitch.They say silence is golden but they're wrong. Silence is white...

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned...

'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Bronte's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our...

Hoffmann's classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalised by Tchaikovsky's ballet, is brought to life by the gorgeous contemporary artwork of Finnish illustrator, Sanna Annuka. On Christmas Eve, Fritz and Marie excitedly await the arrival of Godfather...

Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all.For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the...

The New Forest is an old, old forest. The stories, like the forest which defines them, are at once fresh and blossoming with each telling, but ever rooted in the deep, dark soil of our history and our heritage. From King Arthur and Robin Hood, to Rufus...

Extraordinary acts of faith and courage unite a family after a tragedy threatened to tear them apart. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother Ophelie into...

No.1 bestselling writer, Josephine Cox, is 'one of the country's best-loved storytellers' (Prima). More Than Riches is a heartrending novel of love, loss and redemption. A classic that will appear to fans of Catherine Cookson and Rosie Goodwin. 'Cox's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401294090Author Neil GaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint VertigoPublisher Vertigo

The final book in Dolores Redondo's atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. It...

Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two - we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than in a novel. In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition,...

'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616073Author Ann JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 455Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Lance Bradley, idling his life away in Somerset, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London where he discovers that Rupe's...

Since his first public appearance in the late 1590s, Shylock has been synonymous with antisemitism. Many of his bon mots remain common currency among Jew-haters; among them "3000 ducats" and the immortal "pound of flesh". But Shakespeare, being ...

'Inviting, stylish and candid ... Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed' The i'Clever, warm, and funny' Sarah Moss, The Guardian'This isn't the first - and most certainly won't be the last - pandemic novel, but it might be the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593087633Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

Charles Schulz's Peanuts is one of the most timeless and beloved comic strips ever. Now AMP! helps carry on that legacy with new collections of Peanuts classics focused around topics sure to resonate with middle-grade readers. Kicking off the series is...

In You Are Here, celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield gives us the really big picture: this is our home, as seen from space. The millions of us who followed Hadfield's news-making Twitter feed from the International Space Station thought we knew what we...

'Warm, delicious and so beautifully written' Beth O'Leary, author of THE FLATSHAREEscape today with this gorgeous novel that will warm your heart, tickle your tastebuds and take you on the journey of a lifetime...Addy Mayford has always struggled with...

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, with a critical introduction by Patricia Ingham in Penguin Classics.Cranford depicts the lives and...

Share in the magic with five classic stories from Judith Kerr, the creator of the iconic The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat. Judith Kerr OBE was one of the most beloved creators of children's books in the world. ...

Metro Best New Books to Read in Spring Pick Glossary Magazine Highly Anticipated Fiction Pick A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic...

***The first in a new series from America's Greatest Living Thriller Writer.***Military cop Scott Brodie is the guy you send in when the other guys can't solve a case. Now he's on the hunt for a dangerous ex-Delta Force deserter named Kyle Mercer, and...

A beloved fantasy classic and the beginning of one of the most breathtaking adventure stories of all timeOne man, Richard Cypher, holds the key to the fate of three nations and of humanity. But until he learns the Wizard's First Rule his chances of...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERA PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERA WOMAN'S WORLD BEST NEW BOOK'I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable' Debbie Macomber, New York Times bestselling author Inspired by the real team of female pilots who...