Fiction

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'I am truly dazzled' TRACY CHEVALIER'A rich tapestry of African mythology and magic' CHERIE JONES'Bursting with magic, bright and visceral' JENNIFER SAINT'A feast of shimmering, beautiful prose' CHIKA UNIGWESoon you will become the thing all other...

THE FIRST ADULT NOVEL BY THE CARNEGIE PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF JUNK'A spirited retelling... witty and insightful.' i PAPER'His prose is electrical, crackling with a mischievous charge.' BUZZ MAGAZINE'Told with wit [and] verve... it's a book that exerts a...

A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.The End of Everything by Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me, is a taut and suspenseful novel of friendship, loss and the dark undercurrents of adolscence.A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992671815Author Hannah FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint London Wall PublishingPublisher London Wall PublishingWeight(grams) 472g

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple...

"The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors."--Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac GirlsA breathtaking, epic novel illuminating the hopes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478071Author Mollie Panter-DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm * 142mm...

Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and 'loveliness'. Certainly the bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promise much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known...

'The perfect read for a cosy winter's evening beside a crackling log fire' Sussex LifeDiamonds are forever.And hold a thousand secrets... When Grace Manners moves to a little cottage on the Wittering Manor estate, she hopes it will be the perfect new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981879Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'Exquisitely written and structurally bold ... a deeply impressive novel' Eva Dolan, author of This Is How It Ends Selected for TLS Summer Books 2023 Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377148Author Dino BuzzatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Hazel never set out to be a wedding planner. She was just helping her stressed sister Lila with cakes and decor for her big day. But when Lila and Ollie's summer ceremony is a runaway success, with guests raving about the food and styling at the pretty...

A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of...

Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593335574Author Amy BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999497500Author Tom MorrisseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 5th Palace PublishingPublisher 5th Palace PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa...

Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated.V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766107031Author Sean K HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 105g

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145628Format PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

'Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be' EMPIRE'Told with shimmering lyricism, this coming-of-age saga will leave readers transformed' BOOKLIST'Le Guin is a writer...

Risking everything... For love! Having struggled so hard to become a successful business owner, Jamaica-born Psyche Winthrop-Abeni has no interest in relinquishing her freedom or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107170Author Siegfried SassoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

The girls of Lamplight may have all washed out of their training at the spy academies, but under their leader, Klaus, they've managed to take on Impossible missions with resounding success. However, now another spy organization, one consisting of the...

JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.The eighth book in the exhilarating military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Angus Donald. 'Classic Jack Lark in a classic western... an exceptionally entertaining historical action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994047120Author Jia Qing Wilson-YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Metonymy PressPublisher Metonymy Press

Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC - 17/18AD), known as Ovid, was known as much for his disgrace as for his poetry. By pleasing his contemporaries, befriending patricians and subtly mocking the emperor Augustus, he was transformed from a provincial outsider to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949820Author Meg HowreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Melvin always was a creepy kid. Vicki still has nightmares about what he did with the dead body and the car battery. Now, years later, he's been released from the institution and Vicki knows...

"Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness." - Raven LeilaniReminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992955Author Haf LlewelynFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542038416Author TijanFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

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

Speak out for the fate of millions or turn a blind eye? We all have choices. 'Absolutely exceptional. So beautifully written, with precision and wisdom and real emotional acuity ... A remarkable achievement' STEPHEN KELMAN, author of Pigeon...

Roxy the Rhino doesn't mean to interrupt or cut in line or take things without asking. Sometimes her excitement just takes over. Roxy has a problem with impulse control. Thankfully Roxy meets a new friend who teaches her to stop, think and wink. Maybe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2005. Short-listed for Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2004 and National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2004 and Nebula Awards 2004.Book...

Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From such texts as the Shah Nameh (the Persian Book of Kings), Masnavi-e Ma'navi, the Anvar-i Suhayli fables and works by the great poet Nizami, come ancient tales of a civilization that once stretched across the known world...