Fiction

'Silently dipping his oars in the water he made his escape. It was a weary journey, with few spoils to show for it. Next time he would do better. He looked back over his shoulder. The bridge had disappeared,swallowed up by the darkness. From its walkway...

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast, from the award-winning author of The Silent Companions. 'Du Maurier-tastic' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously sinister' HEAT 'A clever, creepy read' SUNDAY EXPRESS Consumption has...

A humorous, big-hearted romp through the apocalypse, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero. Perfect for fans of Dawn of the Dead and Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies.'A thoroughly enjoyable account of the end of the world as we know it. The Secret Life...

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material...

September 1953, London's East End. Edie Birch, who believes herself to be a war widow, has finally allowed herself to fall in love again. Engaged to be married, she is happily planning her wedding day. But fate has a blow in store - her 15-year-old...

From the author of the 100,000+ copy-selling rom-com, Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson!'If you want a book that is TRULY "laugh out loud" start here' Goodreads reviewerIf you love Sophie Ranald, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199887Author John SaylesFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

'The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book . . . It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' Richard Ford Victor...

I want to find out how they behave when they're free. Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. ...

A brand new romcom from Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting, The Fastest Way to Fall and Do You Take This Man. Seven years ago, he fell in love with a stranger he couldn't have - today, she's back in his life and the sparks between them...

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world'A rich novel of ideas' GUARDIAN'A tasty treat' iNEWS'A genius balance of page-turning and lyrical prose' INDEPENDENT'A sharp, sensual piece of art...

'Suleiman the Artist' tells the compelling story of three terrified young people fleeing their homeland, where there is a violent civil war. But one of them, unwittingly, carries a terrible secret. Suleiman, a neglected boy who has never known love;...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD. When a trio of desperate convicts hijack a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls, everyone is braced for a terrible tragedy. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate. But he has competition: local police,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Prix Goncourt 1978 and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise 1972.Book InformationISBN 9781907970931Author Patrick ModianoFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Single mum. Awful ex-husband with his shiny new girlfriend. And now a scary, overwhelming new job.Bambino is a glossy, weekly parenting magazine aimed at 'yummy mummies'. Their ideal mother always looks immaculate, never lets her children watch TV and...

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...

Discover the magic of second chances and starting again in this tantalising story from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer'If I'm being totally honest I had fantasized about Phil dying.'When Poppy Shilling's bike-besotted, Lycra-clad husband is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662516481Author Beth MerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353573577Author Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams)...

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers...

'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn*A New York Times bestseller*Eloisa James's dazzling new Georgian-set series continues with the Wildest hero them of all . . . The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland...

Interweaving fact and fiction, Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of the most mysterious figures involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer.Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears...

A crime masterpiece brought back into print - and transformed into the major film, Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt.'Brilliant' WASHINGTON POST 'Gripping' TIMES 'Masterly' WALL STREET JOURNALJackie Cogan doesn't advertise what he does. But when...

'A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us-----"Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm"Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish' Stephanie Garber The stunning conclusion to the Celestial Kingdom Duology Those forged...

Heroin's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his...

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she...

WINNER OF THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE AT THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS AND THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'So's distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluous, streetwise and slightly brash, at once cynical and...

'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history,...

The Hidden Wife by Joanna Rees is the second novel in A Stitch in Time - a sweeping historical trilogy.Paris, 1928Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser...

Are your duas not being accepted? Unhealthy addictions and depression are widespread: some of us find the uncertainty and emotional darkness eating away at us. 700 years ago, a diligent Muslim scholar told of a cost-free universal psychotherapeutic cure,...

'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,...

Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2023Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023Longlisted for the...

The Travis series concludes with the fourth installment from award-wining author Lisa Kleypas. Wedding planner Avery Crosslin may be a rising star in Houston society, but she doesn't believe in love-at least not for herself. When she meets wealthy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889576Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSKHe is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804012263Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Swallow PressPublisher Swallow PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 127mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780307341556Author Gillian FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House...

Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449912447Author Erich Maria RemarqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...