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'A thrilling debut . . . It's very smart; it's very silly; and the obvious fun never obscures completely the sheer, gorgeous, wild stretch of her ideas'Guardian'Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder'OBSERVER, 10...

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. *****This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and...

'One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn't bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears' STACEY HALLS 'Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven' MIRANDA HART ...

*The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World** One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593802373Author Rachel KhongFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and...

THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUGELY ANTICIPATED SONGBIRDS. INCLUDES A FREE CHAPTER.A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE 2020 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE 2019 WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE THE READING AGENCY'S PICK FOR...

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. *****This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781455563937Author Min Jin LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Malaparte Prize 2017. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781101906743Author Han KangFormat PaperbackPage...

Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as...

A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. 'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a...

*Discover the magic of The Twilight Garden, the brand new novel from Sara Nisha Adams - available to buy now* *A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction, discover this year's most uplifting and heart-warming debut* ...

The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell...

* NOW A MAJOR NEW FILM *FIVE KILLERS. ONE JOURNEY. BUT WHO WILL SURVIVE?Discover the original and propulsive thriller from the massive Japanese bestselling author.Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath...

Two surgeon brothers begin life in Ethiopia and face forbidden love, betrayal and murder in this enthralling saga that spans five decades and three continents.'A huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel...tremendous' The Times'My brother, Shiva, and I...

'No one writes about food like Ruth Reichl... I consider her essential nourishment.' NIGELLA LAWSON Ripping open the envelope, she read Celia's last words to her. There was just one line written on the paper: 'Go to Paris.' The last word...

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over...

A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic' MAX PORTER'Thought-provoking and...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024**Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.'I absolutely loved it'MONICA ALI'Remarkable.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593802366Author Tommy OrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm...

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle WalkerHere John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he...

The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to the 1940s.Book InformationISBN 9780712353304Author John MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint British Library...

PRE-ORDER ETAF RUM'S NEW NOVEL, EVIL EYE, NOW - COMING SEPTEMBER 2023. A New York Times bestseller * A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March * One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books by POC for 2019 * A Refinery 29 Best...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON'Exhilarating, timely and emotive' GUARDIAN'I devoured it. So enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH'Love, friendship and betrayal...gorgeous' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH------------------------------------This is the story of Sam and Sadie...

A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldOne rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2016. Short-listed for PEN Translation Prize 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781101906118Author Han KangFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across the Levant and North Africa in search of safety. 800 years before, Rawiya, disguised as a boy and apprenticed to a famous...

Told in a charming and original voice, "Good Morning Comrades" is the story of a group of friends who create a perfect childhood in a revolutionary socialist country fighting a bitter war. An internationally acclaimed novel, already published in half a...

Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees the recording...

WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION, THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING 2018 & FRANCE'S PRIX LITTERATURE MONDE (2019) Winter is closing in and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501132728Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm...

'An ode to love, to the families we build when our own families fail us. It broke my heart' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainJuno loves Legs. She always has, ever since she fought the bullies for him in their first encounter at school. Growing up on...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKAS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME, READ BY MEERA SYAL A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, RED MAGAZINE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Absolutely terrific' JENNY COLGAN'An utterly...

Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award 2020. Commended for PEN/Faulkner Award 2020 and Kirkus Prize (Fiction) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525562047Author...

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba-the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419754319Author Laura Imai MessinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...