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'Christmas and a wedding equals the perfect novel! The more I read it, the more I enjoyed it - this novel was magical.' NetGalley reviewer'full of cosy Christmas feels' NetGalley reviewerWelcome to Mistletoe Island, where dreams can come true... The...

A #1 New York Times bestseller from the creator of a viral TikTok series about the sunshine assistant to the evil villain and their unexpected romance. ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, level-headed assistant for unspecified...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But...

A beautiful cookbook based on the best-selling Stick Man picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler! Children will love The Stick Man Cookbook, which features twenty-five recipes for the whole family to...

From the writer of Netflix sensation, A Christmas Prince, comes a heart-warming new holiday story showing that sometimes the detour in your journey is the path to true love... This year, Emmie can't wait to share her favourite Christmas traditions with...

These sharp, ironic and compelling stories are perfect hard gems of observation about the truths of everyday life: kindness and friendship balance precariously with obsession and desire.About the AuthorDorothy Edwards was educated at Howell's School...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR. A BOOKTOK SENSATION. A wedding in Spain. The most infuriating man. Three days to convince your family you're actually in love. . . Catalina Martin desperately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950165490Author Krista RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint K.B. Ritchie LLCPublisher K.B. Ritchie LLCWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The dead don't tell secrets... unless you listen.The girl's smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess.Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A...

Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the...

The two adorable robber dogs are back in the kitchen, but they'd better watch out when Kitty-le-Claw is about!Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have swapped a life of crime for baking cakes in their cafe. But now there's a new robber in town - the infamous...

______________'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson'Jean FullertonBlackpool's Angel - the first book in Maggie Mason's brand new Sandgronian trilogy - is OUT NOW.Maggie Mason is the pen name of bestselling...

From Richard and Judy bestselling author Saskia Sarginson, The Stranger is a devastating love story full of intrigue and dark secrets. 'Immersive, gripping, will pull at your heartstrings' Gilly Macmillan, international bestselling author We all have our...

Return to Avalon Bay in this sexy second chance story about two exes who can't stay away from each other . . . When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother's funeral, she's prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan...

*** THE SMASH HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *** *** THE GENRE-BUSTING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF YEAR *** *** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *** *** A TELEGRAPH BEST SUMMER BOOK OF THE YEAR*** 'Her best so far'...

Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years 'A beautiful, sad, utterly...

A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that...

In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses and oblique, human-made disasters and environmental losses. A big sister descends into the family basement. Another sister refuses her younger brother. A third...

A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most...

'LOVED it. Tightly-plotted elegance, 50s glamour and suspense. Put it on your lists' Jessie Burton'Excellent . . . riveting to the last page' The Times'Filled with evocative period detail and populated with an intriguing tapestry of beautifully drawn...

If you loved From Lukov with Love - the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world - then you don't want to miss any of Mariana's unique romances! No one writes slow burn like Mariana Zapata and her millions of fans...

'Chilling.' Vogue'As unusual as it is alluring.' Elle'Delightfully disturbing.' Refinery 29'Very powerful.' Sayaka Murata'Disquieting.' Paula Hawkins'You will be obsessed.' Leila SlimaniThe Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following...

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950209033Author Parker S HuntingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Psh PublishingPublisher Psh PublishingWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

**THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times), SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023** 'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES 'Absolutely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501132728Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm...

A classic science fiction tale of artifical worlds by one of the great American writers of the 20th centuryGlen Runciter is dead.Or is he?Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his...

From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. The last thing he's looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the...

'Jackson's hero is the natural heir to Bernie Gunther' Andrew Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London'One of the UK's finest crime writers' Ben Kane, Sunday Times bestselling author of Napoleon's Spy'A remarkable crime debut' Maxim...

The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant, stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton's bestselling techno-thrillers. It is AD922 and Ibn Fadlan is sent north from Baghdad as a peaceful...

Debates around restitution and decolonising museums continue to rage across the world. Artefacts, effigies and ancestral remains are finally being accurately contextualised and repatriated to their homelands. Fifteen Colonial Thefts amplifies and adds to...

The debut collection of poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo.'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls' shorts. Given the name "Adam" by police...

WHAT MAKES US HAPPY? BILL BAILEY PLAYS CRAZY GOLF AND HUGS TREES TO FIND OUT.'A warm, funny read, full of personal anecdotes and love letters to things that bring Bill Bailey pleasure' Sunday Mirror'Very thoughtful and written in a delightfully humorous...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and...

THE LANCASTER PREP SERIES IS BACK! THIS TIME FOLLOWING A NEW GENERATION OF STUDENTS IN THIS STEAMY, SWOONY, CAMPUS ROMANCEThis steamy, sizzling and beautifully romantic new adult romance will be perfect for readers who love spicy scenesWillow is...

AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4A SPECTATOR BEST OF THE YEAR - AS CHOSEN BY REVIEWERSThe year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. But when she turns sixteen, her father...

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen ... But her privileged...

London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take...

The second book in the Tom Thorne series from bestselling author Mark Billingham, Scaredy Cat is a gripping, chilling tour-de-force; a book to keep you reading until deep into the night.'Assured and shocking' GuardianIt was a vicious, calculated murder...

ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023The first epic novel in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series from the two times winner of the prestigious Prix-Goncourt'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century...