Fiction

'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is...

Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity -- Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM Dolores reads the way a first...

Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real life of Britain's first woman veterinary surgeon.Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one-not her family, society, or the law-will stop her.Born in Ireland in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449300534Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 172mm * 106mm *...

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...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES'They'll follow you home... breathe down your phone at night... a prime target for every psychotic grinder of the dark satanic mills that ever sacrificed a chicken...' Diocesan Exorcist: a job...

Jody Fargo is sweet sixteen, but tougher than she looks - she has to be. She's sleeping over at her friend's when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes with twelve-year-old Andy... Simon Quirt doesn't seem like a crazed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593599952Author Lisa M. MatlinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

'A mesmerising tale of secrets and lies' - VAL MCDERMID 'As good as it gets' - DENISE MINA 'An arresting new talent' - CHRIS BROOKMYRE NOT EVERY CHILD IS A BLESSING... It was Ali who found the body of a murdered newborn baby, hidden in the garden...

A heist by the Serenity crew goes badly wrong in a captivating original Firefly tie-in novel from the award-winning series by Titan Books. City of sin Neapolis: a desert city on planet Bethel where all manner of entertainment can be found:...

'The Edge is a scathing portrait of the music industry, and a love letter to Los Angeles - but most of all it's a meditation on growing up and letting go.' Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear 'Insightful and true, The Edge is the real deal.'...

The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world - earth, sea and sky, represented by...

An array of original stories from around the world bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction: witches. Witches! Whether you know them from Shakespeare or from WICKED, there is no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542024907Author Susan StokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powersIt is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness. She...

'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman's 'strange...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954502577Author Bram StokerFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books

Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all, yet he yearns for the one thing that will always be out of his reach, the absence of which renders his life of glittering parties and bright young things ultimately hollow...

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong - a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Doctor Jennings, a noted scientist in possession of a...

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns with an all new sizzling historical romance in her Duke Hunt series about a woman determined to reclaim her family home from the dangerously handsome owner of London's most popular gaming hell.The...

The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including reading group notes.Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her...

'Extremely fast paced and completely page-turning ... will stay in my mind for a long time' Sunday Times bestseller B P Walter on The Good Neighbour The Removal Man is an utterly unputdownable suspense thriller that imagines your...

THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ELEMENTS OF CADENCE DUOLOGY The stunning sequel to A River Enchanted finds the human and faerie realms threatened by an immortal enemy whose defeat can only come through...

Yuzuru Amida is filled with regret. Although he fell in love with free-spirited Ai Mizuno in middle school, he never managed to tell her how he felt and subsequently drifted apart from her. But when Yuzuru reunites with Ai by chance in the summer of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506729510Author Mike MignolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre).Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525954972Author Ken FollettFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 165mm * 44mm

War puts their friendship to the test, but can they unite against their true enemy?It's 1942 and Gracie is eager to do her bit for the war effort. She joins the Women's Timber Corps, relieved to get away from her quarrelling, interfering parents. Her...

A collection of four spooky tales for the modern era, all tied to a certain Kyoto curioshop. A basket wriggles, a masked man lingers in the dark, and things are offered,lost, and forgotten. What mysteries lie hidden in the city's winding streets?...

A brand new detective series with a supernatural twist. The X Files meets Line of Duty in this gripping thriller! 'Eerie, original and compelling' C.L. Taylor 'Tense and twisted'...

He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506729527Author Mike MignolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

October 1493, the height of the Renaissance. In a rapidly changing world, Milan flourishes under the leadership of Ludovico il Moro. Those wandering the courtyards of the city's castle often encounter a man in his forties dressed in long pink robes, lost...

As Mahiru's shocking declaration echoes through the classroom, Shuu is awestruck.Mahiru is beautiful and smart-he couldn't imagine a better girl. And Shuu will stop atnothing to whip his body and mind into something worthy of her company and hertrust...

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig. Eight...

'The Oversight is most dangerous when most reduced. There are many dead and gone who did not remember that.'The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other. Now at its...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies Anna Karenina is a...

"Mundy writes beautifully." - The TimesIn 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers' fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Saeterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his...

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an...

Paul Shanahan - part-time surveyor, erstwhile IRA arms dealer and sometime suspected CIA agent - is a full-time scoundrel. But he's the perfect man if you need an illicit operation done - and done well.So when five million dollars' worth of gold smuggled...