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'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' KATIE FFORDE'Lesley Cookman is the Queen of Cosy Crime' PAUL MAGRS A new year dawns over the sleepy coastal town of Heronsbourne and brings with it a brand-new case for...

The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the...

The hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite bear, Paddington, now a major movie star! Paddington always finds himself in unusual situations so it is no surprise when he has a run-in with the police, appears in a TV cookery show, and gives...

Elizabeth Siddal is remembered as a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel and the muse and wife of Gabriel Rossetti. She is cast as a tragic heroine much like the Ophelia she modelled in the renowned Millais painting. But Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story overturns this...

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 continues her emotionally powerful two-part tale of forbidden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646091850Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Square EnixPublisher Square Enix

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101965412Author Michael J. SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Clandestine chemistry and the LA underworld provide the atmosphere for this kaleidoscopic tale of lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them, from the author of 'The Contortionist's Handbook'. When Eric Ashworth wakes in jail, he has no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735234680Author L. M. MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

St Austin's school (as featured in The Pothunters) is the setting for twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories. The familiar ingredients - and some of the same characters - are present: cricket and rugby loom large, school colours are gained, tricks are...

In this wonderful collection of stories by some of Ireland's finest writers, including Carleton, Yeats and Lady Wilde, a legion of fairy folk - leprechauns, giants, witches and mermaids - help, hinder, charm and terrify their mortal neighbours. The...

The sparkling new novel from Caroline Bishop, author of The Other Daughter. Perfect for fans of Tracy Rees, Elizabeth Noble and Rachel Hore. *****************1957, France. *****************Florence and Lilli meet at finishing school in Lyon. Despite...

Shortlisted for the Winston Graham Prize for Historical Fiction'This book is a rarity - a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication' HILARY...

'A perfect poolside page-turner' CLOSER'Tender, complex, complicated and passionate. Stunning.' VERONICA HENRY'So evocative. A great summer read!' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A truly beautiful story of love, desire, identity and courage - Julie Cohen is at her...

Where there's muck, there's mettle...Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman.Though Nifty...

BOOK 3 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES, BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times'No one does...

An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship. We don't exist in this world. Here, we are neither Germans nor refugees, we don't report the news and we aren't the experts. We're some sort of wildcard. Hani, Kasih, and...

'A delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel' Independent ...

From Daniel Kraus, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Shape of Water, comes Blood Sugar, the blood-curdling story of a Halloween where trick-or-treat becomes life or death... "A hard kick in the shins...

CONCRETE JUNGLE New York City's Detective Schaefer has seen it all, from domestic murders to drug-gang executions. But Schaefer's never seen the Big Apple awash in so much blood as tonight, with flayed bodies hung like meat being cured for mealtime...

Kel will not allow this first test to be her last. The adventure begins in the New York Times bestselling series from the fantasy author who is a legend herself: Tamora Pierce. A powerful classic that is more timely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640090156Author Banana YoshimotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

'Caroline Bond has a gift for weaving heart-rending tales of impossible decisions' Amanda Brooke, author of The Bad MotherHow do you protect the ones you love from the secrets that hurt them most?____________________Cassie is adopted. She's never felt...

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the...

The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family... After his father's gambling debts leave him penniless and in danger,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451188519Author Jessica FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm)...

A movie star A deadly cocktail A murder When glamorous Marina Gregg came to live in St Mary Mead, tongues were sure to wag. But, with a local gossip's sudden death, has one tongue wagged a bit too much? ...

'Immediately enticing, endlessly charming, full of wit, magic and deep, moving humanity. It transported me to a world both familiar and utterly unknown, keeping me enthralled on every page' CLAIRE NORTH, AUTHOR OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST ...

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...

After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668021590Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Risking everything... For love! Having struggled so hard to become a successful business owner, Jamaica-born Psyche Winthrop-Abeni has no interest in relinquishing her freedom or...

In America, kings are not born, they are made.Danny McCabe isn't his real name. America certainly isn't his real home.But now Danny finds himself fleeing Ireland for the bright lights of 1930s Hollywood with two virtual strangers, Nicky Mariani and his...

With a new introduction by John Gray and striking new cover from the artist Stanley Donwood, the author of 'Cocaine Nights' brings you the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic dreamworld. When a light aircraft crashes into the...

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784618674Author Mared LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The perfect summer read from the internationally bestselling author. For fans of THE 24-HOUR CAFE and THE CHILBURY LADIES CHOIR . . .Bellbird River, 1998Teacher and single mum Alex has arrived in the small town of Belllbird River after escaping the city...

'A fun, hilarious and touching modern romance' Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal 'We absolutely adored this book!' Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners It's a perfect match . . ...