Fiction

WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your...

'Clever and astute ... a cracking read' The Belfast Telegraph 'One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways' Hello Magazine * * * From the author of The Change, comes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780345539809Author Pierce BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Del Rey...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple,...

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'A true delight: I...

The iconic first novel in the bestselling Outlander series, as seen on Amazon Prime.'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones' Herald'So intricately plotted and peopled that one is amazed she could conceive and write it in only seven years'...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The arrival of two rich bachelors stirs Mrs Bennet to hope that wedding bells will soon be in the air. Jane, the eldest of Mrs Bennet's daughters, forms an early attachment to Mr Bingley, but her spirited sister...

The savvy, sharp and steamy rom-com inspired by Pretty Woman from bestselling author Meghan Quinn that you won't want to miss!'PERFECT ROMCOM' 5* Reader Review'THE BOOK THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH READING' 5* Reader Review'ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS' 5*...

'A heartwarming story about the power of community and human connection. Hubert Bird stole my heart' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flat-Share and The Switch Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone. He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL. A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK.'If you love The Kite Runner you'll love The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul' Look magazineIn a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous...

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a...

*** As heard on BBC Radio Four's Book Club with James Naughtie***'Honest, wonderful and smart as hell' Guardian'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' ObserverAll I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power.Quiet, bookish Alice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803146270Author Rebecca AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm

In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had...

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself...

'Glorious' - Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Rivers of London seriesSet in the world of BookTok sensation Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust is a cosy fantasy about the power of good bookshops, great friends and the unexpected choices...

With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy,...

***THE No.1 BESTSELLING SENSATION!***'Activate your '"do not disturb" because you will NOT be able to stop reading until you turn the last page' Tammy CohenThree women. Three secrets.Claudia's life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the...

Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym'Life-affirming and funny' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Anne Youngson's witty and elegant novel is a celebration of friendship and a...

A heartwarming saga about war, love and duty by the bestselling author of The Street and East End Angel.North London, 1916. When Olivia Bone and Lieutenant Lucas Black shared a passionate kiss one summer's evening, it seemed as if their love might...

Foxmore's inaugural Christmas fayre will be the toast of the town - or the downfall of their relationship...Harriet is facing her second Christmas on her own since her husband walked out. With little child support, she's struggling to manage financially...

THE TANTALISING AND UNPUTDOWNABLE NO. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF TELL ME A SECRETI want to make my husband fall back in love with me - so I can shatter his heart.I want it to hurt.Paula has had Robert's back since they got together as drama students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547846Author Barbara ComynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRebecca Netley grew up as part of an eccentric family in a house full of books and music, and these things have fed her passions.Family and writing remain at the...

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.' Shipwrecked in...

Searching for perfect book lovers gifts? Rejoice! Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, is a love letter to all things bookish. Author Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. It's a...

It's Christmas on the nation's favourite street in this heartwarming and gripping family drama. 'Wonderfully nostalgic' Choice Magazine ___________________________________ Peggy Brown is an aspiring actress...

THE HILARIOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA big-hearted story of a family on the brink from the marvellous, much-loved Mel Giedroyc.'Properly funny with a brilliant cast of characters' GRAHAM NORTON'A real treat. I enjoyed it HUGELY' MARIAN KEYES'Funny and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388810449Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time.Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916428294Author Kay SeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Enterprise BooksPublisher Enterprise BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

**Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2021****Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2021****An Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021**'An extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency.' Guardian'Startlingly original.' VOGUE'Extraordinary.'...

Romance! A crazy, overprotective brother! And...spies?!Taiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his parents died and the only one who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret-she is the...

From the author of When Franny Stands Up comes a genre-bending story told in linked obituaries and newsfeeds over three hundred years about one AI woman grappling with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, and wondering what it...

*Pre-order THE FIGURINE, the brand-new novel from Victoria Hislop. Coming September 2023.*'Lyrical, twisty short stories' Evening StandardA collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** 'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' RACHEL RHYS 'Impressive... worthy of Sarah Waters' THE TIMES THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954...

"Lara" is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her...

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an...