Fiction

"Masterfully written and pitch perfect, Black Girls Must Be Magic is, simply, magic."-Good Morning AmericaIn this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life's challenges and...

'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a...

One winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby.Without thinking much about it, she walks out the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061120053Author John CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

'Extraordinary.' Marina Hyde'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali'Majestic.' Independent'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester 'Addictively enjoyable.' Guardian'Sensational.' Irish Independent'Pitch-perfect.' ObserverFrom the author of Mayflies, an irresistible,...

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFIN 'Du Maurier is a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile' NEW YORK TIMES'Du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH' One of her best novels, ingeniously contrived as to plot, successfully...

In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593101544Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

'Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous LightAn intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the...

"Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory." - C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer -...

'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - VogueFor fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire - alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters - that asks: who...

'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act' - GuardianAlicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago. And a paranoid schizophrenic who does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby.Told...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn comes a captivating new novel of enduring love and devastating secrets, based on a true story.'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYESRupert promised he was going...

Keeping secrets is a dangerous game. From Lucinda Riley, the beloved author of the Seven Sisters series, The Love Letter is a thrilling novel full of secrets, lies and unforgettable twists.'Perfect summer escapism' - Best Magazine1995, London. Sir James...

'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday TelegraphSet in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a...

The much-anticipated final instalment in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling phenomenon, The Atlas Six.Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive.In this stunning finale, it's a race to survive as the...

'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself...Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her...

'Intense, complex and unforgettable' James Patterson'Fast and furious' Sun'High-wire suspense that keeps you riveted' Lisa GardnerThe addictive new thriller in the San Diego Case Files series, from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose.Homicide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370088Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Longlisted for the William Hill Award 2023Selected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year''A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up,...

'A perfect detective for our time' Stephen Fry No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses. Can DS Cross prove it was murder? THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross doesn't rely on guesswork and he has no time for false assumptions. He is a detective who...

In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself...

For fans of I MAY DESTROY YOU and FLEABAG and for readers who want to laugh and cry: the brave, beautiful, sometimes brutal story of a young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.'I loved Tennis Lessons so much...

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin AmisPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first...

What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price? High school sweethearts, Sarah and Warren, have grand plans for an adventurous future together, but when a misunderstanding causes them to part ways, they end up marrying other people. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751590Author Thrity UmrigarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press

Now a hit TV series, Instinct__________________________A serial killer is loose on the streets of Manhattan.His victims appear to be total strangers. The only clue that links the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that hints at the next...

Part of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every known tale written by the famous gothic American writer. Poe's often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include...

THE FIRST NEW SERIES FROM #1 BESTSELLER MARK BILLINGHAM IN 20 YEARS.'Readers rejoice! A captivating new series from Mark Billingham, the very best in the business' --- RICHARD OSMANMeet Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally...

'This compulsive thriller reads like true crime and had me guessing until the very end.' Reese Witherspoon Three friends went on holiday. Only two came back. Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared...

WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2023WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF...

THE TIKTOK SENSATION'The perfect beach read: chaotic, darkly funny and keeps you on your toes' Liv Little for Elle UK'A bold, daring take on the wild, unconventional world of sugar babies' Harper's Bazaar'I'm going to be recommending this brilliant book...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finlay Donovan is irresistible!' JANET EVANOVICH'I adore everything about it . . . the perfect blend of mystery and romcom' ALI HAZELWOODFinlay Donovan is ready to bite the bullet. She's done with her accidental...

Julia Chapman's fifth Dales Detectives Agency novel, Date With Danger, sees our intrepid leads Samson and Delilah on the trail of a sheep rustler turned killer. A heartwarming cosy crime caper, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club...

'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West,...

'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' - M John Harrison, GuardianIn her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones...

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIESThere is a world hidden underneath this great city...The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has...

'Wonderful on characterisation and family dynamics, and done very deftly, with that wry humour of hers. I was very entertained by her clever, tongue-in-cheek plotting.' Marian Keyes The uplifting new story of fresh starts and...