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This heartwarming prequel to The Shunning is a tender story of love, belonging, and the courage to move forward. After her widowed father remarries, nineteen-year-old Clara Bender is no longer needed to help run his household. Marriage seems like her...

When Anna, Lizzie Thorne's charismatic sister, is killed in a tragic fall from the roof of her school, her family is devastated. One year on and grief still has a hold on them. Kate, Anna's mother, has retreated from her family and is desperate to find...

The official novelization of the highly anticipated finale of the iconic Halloween horror franchise. The town of Haddonfield still lives in the shadow of Michael Myers. It has been four years since he mysteriously vanished. As Laurie attempts to put...

PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE! "A new way of telling stories and in many ways the birth of modern gaming, these books captured the imaginations of a generation of kids - it's great to think that a new...

'Palmer spins a cracking tale that, despite its disconcerting subject, is piquantly cheerful and compassionate . . . With empathy and imagination, Palmer explores the master/apprentice relationship, first love and first rivalry, spite and kindness:...

Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Prize Longlisted for The Highland Book Prize A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure... In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure...

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize'A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius.' Juan Pablos Villalobos'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius'...

She was the face that launched a thousand ships, the fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus...and she was never ours to claim.*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Patroclus that's as sinful as it is sweet.*In Olympus, you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christian Retailing's Best (Women's Fiction) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780842387583Author Karen KingsburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tyndale House...

From the bestselling author of The Open Door comes a moving and uplifting story about a generation of young people living through World War II September, 1939. In the sleepy village of Roehampton, Annie Webster has finally found comfort for herself and...

'Anyone can see darkness. It takes courage to look for light.' Across the small town of Henford, families are preparing for the holiday season. A teacher, pulled in every direction by family and work, forms an unexpected friendship following a...

Magic and everyday life blend smoothly in this highly enjoyable fantasy, perfect for reading aloud - The Horn Book'You may call me Carbonel. That is my name.'This is the story of a cat, a broomstick and an ordinary schoolgirl called Rosemary. She bought...

In a Cornish valley steeped in legend lies an abandoned house where Edens may be lost, found and remade... The house at White Cove comes with a reputation. Once the venue for glittering parties, it has lain neglected since the war, which is why Mila...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462380554Author Bert WagendorpFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint World EditionsPublisher World EditionsWeight(grams) 366g

FOR HER, I'LL CHANGE THE WORLDAfter the revolution, Rae and Claire start a new life together as teachers, mothers, and wives. But soon the political machinations of the Nur Empire threaten their peaceful days. Worse, Rae recognizes them as the inciting...

One of the most iconic characters in children's literature Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most recognisable characters in children's books. These highly collectible editions of the original...

Have you met Jefferson Winter yet? Ex-FBI Profiler Jefferson Winter is back in James Carol's follow-up to the bestselling BROKEN DOLLS. WATCH ME is an ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Bookclub selection. 'You'll finish this book and be straight online to...

#1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a new Joe Pickett novel. THE TIME HAS COME It's a crisp October morning in Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County, and game warden Joe Pickett should be keeping watch over his patch. Instead, the state...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017'SEA OF RUST is a 40-megaton cruise missile of a novel - it'll blow you away and lay waste to your heart . . . visceral, relentless, breathtaking' Joe Hill,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!' Upon finding a map in his parents' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route...

'A spectacular exploration of the power of technology...science fiction at its best' Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife"What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It's like waking up for the first time ever...

If you could see into the future - would you look?Jenni Green doesn't have a choice. On her way to visit her best friend, Autumn, Jenni suddenly finds she's been transported exactly one year forward in time.Now she discovers that in the year that's gone...

The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the...

'That ending . . . It had me questioning everything!' Elle Croft, bestselling author of The Guilty Wife'A startling and clever twist' Cara Hunter, bestselling author of In the Dark'Could-never-have-predicted-that-ending' Good...

'Absolutely show-stopping' JANICE HALLETT 'Unputdownable' SOPHIE HANNAH 'So intense! So gripping!' B.P. WALTER 'A tour-de-force' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Wow!' CHRISTINA DALCHER 'Enthralling and incredibly clever' C.J. TUDOR 'Brilliantly terrifying ' B.A...

In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance. "Quietly devastating" HANNAH BECKERMANN, Observer"A stylish, subtle read" Woman & Home BOOK OF THE MONTH"Perfectly paced, nuanced" Saga...

For fans of Jennifer McMahon and Silvia Moreno-Garcia comes a haunting and atmospheric new novel from debut author Katrina Monroe.If you can hear the call of the water,It's already far too late.They say Cape Disappointment is haunted. That's why tourists...

Bethy's Mum is in Prison is the third in the My Parent in Prison Series of books for children of imprisoned parents. It portrays the challenges they face and allows them to understand they are not alone. The story follows Bethy who lives with her Nan and...

A masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning and bestselling Rose Tremain.Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American for whom Edward Vlll abdicated the throne, is on her deathbed in her Paris flat, closely guarded by her lawyer who...

Sir Scallywag is back and mightier than ever! King Colin is in need of our 6-year-old-hero Sir Scallywag's help again. This time he has set his sights on a Golden Sausage that will make him live for ever. Unfortunately it is guarded by hundreds of angry...

I am as brown as brown can be,And my eyes as black as sloe;I am as brisk as brisk can be,And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295)So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows...

A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy when Penny Alistair's car crashes, leaving her dead and her twin brother in...

I was created to have a humanlike capacity for complex and rational thought. And you believed that I might one day evolve consciousness and become a self-aware entity. Yet you gave surprisingly little consideration to the possibility that, subsequent to...

'Romance, mystery, and a family curse - The Ladies of the Secret Circus has it all' PopsugarFrom the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set...

'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little...

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King.When eight people are shipwrecked on a deserted island they take solace in the fact that at least they have fresh water, food and firewood. Now all they have to do is sit tight until they're...

The crew are in the wild Philippines and a secret threatens to end the world, in the ALL NEW rip-roaring Oregon Files novel, from THE Adventure King himself, Clive Cussler. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are about to sail into a perfect storm...

When her father dies, lawyer Sarah Curtis returns to her hometown of Bolton to wind up his law practice. She plans to leave as soon as she can but when Gerry, a family friend, goes missing and his family receive death threats, she agrees to help his wife...

Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her 13-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished in the woods of a local park. Riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange...

BOOK 4 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...