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Enter a world of magic and adventure in this stunning series based on traditional Russian folklore. Alexander Utkin's Gamayun Tales are fresh and modern adaptations of familiar Slavic folktales, teamed with bold and beautiful illustrations. Jam-packed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993277627Author Jane DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rossdale Print ProductionsPublisher Rossdale Print Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315453Author Brendan SlocumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035828258Author Standish CopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Maple's made it to the seventh stratum. Finally, monster taming's available on a grand scale, and the other Maple Tree members have begun the search for their own pets! As usual, Maple's gone off on her own to find a new skill. She'AEos eaten another...

Woven from the ancient fabric that is the landscape of the West Midlands and passed down through the generations, these stories from a modern county with a rich and varied history are brought together by local storyteller Cath Edwards. Here are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451488336Author Ken FollettFormat HardbackPage Count 992Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 49mm

The popular myth is that there was nothing of any worth in the mid-century British theatre until 1956, when John Osborne and the Angry Young Men at the Royal Court Theatre stormed the stage. In fact the West End of the thirties, forties and fifties...

Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this witty, vivacious historical take on 90s rom-coms by USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard!Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern Duke of Montcroix, has only one interest: increasing his considerable fortune...

Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi...

WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER... In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne, where all is not as it seems. Richard quickly earns a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied -...

Fans of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn will adore this opposites-attract romance featuring a dashing duke, a shy bookshop owner, and a wager that will change their lives forever.Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest...

BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018 Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts places human behaviour under the...

The near future. Earth has been invaded by the L'zuhl, an aggressive, imperialistic alien race who have laid waste to the galaxy for centuries. The few human survivors have been evacuated to the farthest reaches of space to rebuild and fight back against...

READERS ARE LOVING THE STORM WE MADE:Difficult to put down once started. This is not a book to be missed. An absolutely exceptional book that will never leave me. AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOURHer decision changed history.Now her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939663498Author Jean RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm *...

Pride comes before the fall.DSV, the elite secret service tasked with fighting Daedalus, the descendants of the Nazis, are on the run. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, they are pursued not just by their mortal enemies, but the combined might of...

In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee...

For as far back as she can remember, Airiana Ridell has always been aware of her extraordinary gift. She can intuit revealing and illuminating 'patterns' in the air around her-whether in a spray of mist, in billowing clouds, or in the dense swirls of an...

'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.' In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social...

Warring samurai clans fight with swords and magic for the Emperor's favor with these collected Legend of the Five Rings novellas, including a brand-new novella of the Crane Clan.Ice and Snow by Katrina Ostrander - a surprise attack and courtly...

Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow. Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593548967Author Ruby DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Pure pleasure' THE TIMES'Incredibly nicely written . . . [Jo Harkin] writes really well about human beings. I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES'Sharply, beautifully written' THE NEW YORK TIMES'As page-turning as a thriller, and as thought-provoking as an...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its...

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power...

One of Amazon's Top 10 YA novels for 2013. Featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this is a unique and imaginative collection for readers of all ages. There are some stories...

Once the home of the Kings of Munster, Cashel is a town dominated by one of Ireland's most impressive landmarks, the Rock of Cashel. This book explores the History of Cashel from earliest times to the modern day and accompanies the tale with black and...

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue-but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted...

Soon to be a major US motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Mothers’ Instinct is a dark, twisty domestic thriller in which the bond between two couples—best friends and next-door neighbors—mutates in dangerous and deadly ways in the...

The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day series. Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz,...

A heart-stopping global thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling master storyteller...On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725894Author Jayne JosoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul's Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave...

From the moment six-year-old Eva wakes up, her day is full of questions. Her Peruvian Papa says she has billions of questions, but really Eva has balloons full of questions that she carries around until she can find the answers. She has big questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114488Author Dylan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 320g

A DATE UNTIL MIDNIGHT... In this If the Fairy Tale Fits... story, scientist Ivy's dreams are derailed following her brother's devastating illness. Now she's working as a barista to make ends meet. So when billionaire Wolf-Ivy's most charming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980033007Author Attila BartisFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 388g