Fiction

A novel about General Maximus, one of the inspirations behind Ridley Scott's massively successful film GLADIATOR.'Behind me I left my youth, my middle age, my wife and my happiness. I was a general now and I had only defeat or victory to look forward to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861504Author Maylis De KerangalFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Country Living's 20 New Books You Don't Want to Miss This Spring One of Bookstr's 8 Most Anticipated Reads of 2021 One of Frolic's 12 Most Anticipated Books of 2021 One of BookTrib's Most-Anticipated Reads of...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The...

'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the...

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of...

'MASTERFUL' Guardian'IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT' Erin Kelly'UTTERLY COMPELLING'Crime Monthly'5*'Heat'WELL-CRAFTED AND CHILLING' Woman'MCGRATH IS A DIAMOND-HARD TALENT'Financial Times On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in...

An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some...

Winner of the 2016 Romantic Novel of the Year Award in the Epic category, The Secrets We Share is a heart-tugging treat of a novel from the No. 1 bestselling Irish author Emma Hannigan. Fans of Patricia Scanlan and Cathy Kelly will adore it.'A writer who...

Now a Major Netflix Series Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911710028Author Tova ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UK

***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon***'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly' Stylist_______________________________________________As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a...

'A troubling, hammering and glorious novel' DAVID MITCHELL On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to...

Lyn Andrews' heart-warming and dramatic story of early twentieth-century Liverpool is essential reading for fans of Kate Thompson and Maureen Lee.For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a roof over their heads are luxuries...

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...

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...

Perfect for readers of Colleen Hoover, Jay Crownover, and K. A. Tucker, the first novel in this darkly sexy New Adult contemporary series from New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy kicks off an emotionally powerful two-part tale of forbidden...

In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth's core in the steps of a medieval explorer beneath an Icelandic volcano where they discover a lost world. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea...

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.A MAN OF PASSION.A MAN OF THE FUTURE.Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women...

When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it...

From the author of FOE, now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of...

Florrie Buckley is an orphan, living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the mysterious landscape. She thinks her destiny is set in stone. But when Florrie is fourteen, she inherits a...

When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire ton by offering his hand in marriage. No one had dreamed this scandalous rake would so...

ALL THEY NEED IS EACH OTHERThe Cambridge Fens, 1938. Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect. But things are not...

The secretary's secret... Faced with a hostile takeover, tycoon Gio must strengthen his claim on the Casella family company with a fake engagement. He'll never commit to a real one again. Despite his forbidden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593099209Author Laurell K. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593550243Author Sofie RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs...

Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke's daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather...

She can't see what she fears the most.As far as the police are concerned, Terence Bailey is a killer. Imprisoned for breaking and entering, he has long been the key suspect in the murders of six women but they have never been able to make the charges...

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN FELLOWESAfter graduating from Oxford, Daniel Martin moved to America and successfully pursued the dreams of many: he became a Hollywood...

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of...

"Excellent and splendidly written [...] the characters fully grown and demanding the reader's attention and involvement. I wait for more." - Winston Graham, author of the Poldark novels Let the truth be told... Scotland, July 1746: an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131427Author M.L. LongworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593546031Author Ruby DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Stunning, not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity' New York Times Book ReviewA spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic late '60s - a multi-layered tale of family, identity and...

'My life is a tight knot I would like to undo. And, yes, there's no use crying over spilt milk but, the truth is, I'd rather die than spill any more...' Bea has a husband and daughter. Bea also has an appointment for...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the...

One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers since 1945When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged...