Fiction

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society...

Heart skips a beat From Venice with Love by Alison Roberts Dr Charlotte Highton has fulfilled her grandmother’s dream of a luxury train trip to Venice. But what of her other wish to see...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!He was the most beautiful man in Olympus...and if I wasn't careful, he was going to be my death.*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Psyche and Eros that's as sinful as it is sweet.*In the ultra-modern...

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her:...

'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...

FOURTEEN DAYS, THREE SISTERS AND THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES'Radhika has the ability to create characters who make us laugh while pulling on our heartstrings. This book is a joy' Jane Fallon'A heartwarming novel' Sheila O'Flanagan'Whip-smart, laugh out loud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536454Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

'I wanted to go on reading it forever' Nigella LawsonTwo strangers. One recipe. A friendship for the ages. Creamy risotto alla Milanese. Mussels in a hot, buttery broth. Chicken spiced with cinnamon and cloves. Joan Bergstrom and Imogen Fortier...

The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.Caprice and Rondo is Book Seven in The House of Niccolo series...

Written using Donn Pearce's own experiences of working on a Florida chain gang, Cool Hand Luke is the classic tale of a quiet hero who refused to conform. Forced into a chain gang after a controversial career in the army, Lucas Jackson's outsized feats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897404Author Stacey SwannFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The brand new locked-room thriller for fans of Ruth Ware and Freida McFadden. You are cordially invited to the Beechwood Castle for a night you'll never forget... Six people...

The third novel in the bestselling Serpentwar Saga. The ultimate darkness approaches . . . As the Emerald Queen's shadow lengthens once more across the land of Midkemia, her forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524761028Author C. J. TudorFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Unsung stories from ancient Irish myths re-imagined for nine to twelve-year olds Discover the strength of a super-scholar who spoke up against her nasty foster carer and a gender-fluid spy who challenged an entire army. Root for an...

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...

The Daylight War, the eagerly anticipated third volume in Brett's internationally bestselling Demon Cycle, continues the epic tale of humanity's last stand against an army of demons. ON THE NIGHT OF A NEW MOON ALL SHADOWS DEEPEN AND THE DEMONS...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542048385Author J. B. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Thomas & MercerPublisher Amazon Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916465244Author Sarah PainterFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Siskin Press LimitedPublisher Siskin Press Limited

An Independent Best Books for Summer Pick'Powerful, lyrical, and with a central character so wracked with love when he goes to war. Deeply relatable' ANN NAPOLITANO, author of Hello Beautiful'Wholly beguiling and spirited' THE TIMES'Emotionally resonant...

An action-packed and unputdownable thriller by global sensation Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily...

'Wise, compelling and beautiful . . . by the end you feel as if you know the characters as intimately as your closest friends' CHARLIE CARROLL, author of The LipCyprus, 1954. One sultry summer night, a young woman abruptly ends a love affair. It's an...

A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEAJoe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up...When friend of the family and...

The American artist's much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as "one of the few totally original books I have ever read." Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to...

'An eerie and atmospheric mystery that kept me guessing from start to finish' Allie Reynolds, author of Shiver One year ago, Leah's twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830676Author Juan Gomez BarcenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

'Sensational storytelling' - AF Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief.The breathtakingly imaginative new fantasy novel from Branford Boase winner Struan Murray.Domino is an eleven-year-old girl with a strange affliction: if she goes anywhere...

This deluxe slipcased edition of The Hobbit, printed and bound using superior materials including a silk ribbon marker, features the definitive text, plus Tolkien's paintings and drawings in full colour, and a special fold-out version of Thror's Map. ...

The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored...

'Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.' We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was a story that unveiled reality, and for...

They were the new frontiersmen-men and women who hated life in Mega-City One so much that they were willing to travel 2000 kilometres across the radiated desert known as the 'Cursed Earth' in order to start a new life. The chances of reaching the new...

Set in the USA, a chilling modern horror story from the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series of historical thrillers.Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him...

If you delight in the suspense of Stephen King and Harlan Coben, you'll love Phantoms - a classic thriller by Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Yesterday Snowfield, California, was a charming little town basking in the...

The fourth original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The...

The fifth novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth...

'The queen of paranormal romance . . . I love everything she does' J. R. WARD Danger and passion fuse in this electrifying GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. GhostWalker Rubin Campo's rough upbringing made him...

One of Hasty Booklist's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels!USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford-one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the...

Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for...

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal...

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literatureNow a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev PatelFrom the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th...