Fiction

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 9781939941725Author J G LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Stoneheart PressPublisher Stoneheart PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

The wife everybody wants Will choose the husband nobody expects! Widowed duchess Isabelle Sherborne's wealth has made her the talk of the ton-and also the target of...

The Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian badjohn who in the 1940s and 1950s was a much reported celebrity of the criminal and legal world...

This handy cookbook teaches new-to-intermediate Linux users the essential skills necessary to manage a Linux system, using both graphical and command-line tools. Whether you run Linux in embedded, desktop, server, or cloud or virtual environments, the...

Marshal on a Mission by Ryshia Kennie She witnessed a robbery. Now she's a killer's target. Hiding from a ruthless gang in Mexico, Tara Munroe thinks she's safe. She is not!...

In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes,...

"AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER"The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become legend. Inspired by true stories of survival and resilience, Unsinkable entwines the lives of two women, one from World War 1 and another from World War 2,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174951Author Dorothy B. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535372Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 1921Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Even though her big sister's against it, Nadeshiko really wants to go camping all by herself! How will her first solo camping adventure go...?Book InformationISBN 9781975358129Author AfroFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Yen PressPublisher Little,...

A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times Bulgakov paints a powerful picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical classic. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including...

One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. When Bly returned home...

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...

An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too-she is a mass of confusion. She's...

Shido was going to save Kurumi and Mana. He had to. And yet in this critical moment,he finds himself immobilized, unable to follow through on his promise. If Kotori Itsukahadn't shown up at the last second, everything would have fallen to ruin...but...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745570Author Truman CapoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476759586Author McguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 134mm * 22mm

Writing seems to be a problem of some kind. It isn't as if most people can just sit down and start to write brilliantly, get up from the desk, so something else all day, and then, next morning start again without any conflict or anxiety. To begin to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902592Author Terry McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory "Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date." -Malcolm Forbes, The National The celebrated author Sinan Antoon's...

Hot on the heels of the "superb" (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow. ...

Inspired by real-life illusionists and early film pioneers, this astonishing, captivating story of women and talent, magic and power, sweeps you into a world where anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems . . .'Sparkling with magic'...

An enchanting fantasy classic by the author of The King of the Copper Mountains Dorr was once a city of merriment, music and dancing. Now it lies grey and silent under the spell of the witch Sirdis. When a young princess arrives on a secret quest,...

The fate of a new global terror lies in an ancient biblical mystery from the Book of Genesis... A breathtaking thriller from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of MAP OF BONES and THE DOOMSDAY KEY.Louisiana veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a...

The Green Man has many facets, many dimensions. He peers through his leaf mask in hundreds of church misericords and stone carvings. His innate link with the changing seasons and fertility is revealed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...

The prince no longer kisses the princess, Cinderella helps her new husband to pick a new dress and the relationship between Mr Wolf and the three little pigs is a bit more complicated than you might have thought. In this collection of delightful,...

Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loved passionately, she was building the life she always wanted. But when enormous stress threatened her marriage, Emily made some rash decisions. That's when...

'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIANBefore she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the king.She thought she was doing what was right.She couldn't...

The 'hypnotic...addictive' (New York Times) debut novel narrated by a young woman meditating on the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart.There's a superstition in our family about falling...Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri...

Jim Heron, disgruntled fallen angel, thinks that he finally has a leg up against Devinia, a devil's minion, in their fight over seven souls to end the war against good and evil. This is because Jim knows exactly which earthly soul he needs to save: a...

The final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of unassuming objects Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of the unassuming...

From the extraordinary mind of debut writer Ben Pester comes a book of stories in which the everyday - work, parents, friends - is not quite what it should be. Taken together, it forms a collection of things we are doing right now, in this lost and...

'Vintage Emma: Wise, funny, full of wit and sparkle. Read and be uplifted' Cathy Kelly 'A beautiful story about fractured families, unconditional love and the importance of friendship. I read it in one sitting' Sinead Moriarty'Brimming with warmth, love...

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights - or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you're Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker - Notes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm

Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310032Author NJ CrosskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. 'Rare and wonderful' The Times 'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts 'Fizzes with great ideas and...