Historical

A laugh-out-loud, nostalgic and heart-warming novel about the ups and downs of life at a fictional Yorkshire university, perfect for fans of James Herriot and Tom Sharpe.York, 1989.Beginning his second year as a tutor at the University of Eboracum, Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892963812Author Ellis PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation - old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a book' The Times. AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a...

With the country's men at war, it falls to the land girls to pitch in and do their bit...Stella arrives at Hallows Farm in her Rayon stockings, having just waved goodbye to the love of life - naval officer Philip. Agatha has just graduated from...

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464209673Author E. C. R LoracFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Poisoned Pen PressPublisher Poisoned Pen PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Two women, centuries apart. Linked in a place haunted by its history . . . Separated by more than six hundred years of history, two women are...

A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.Karin Muller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly...

A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera. When the British...

Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916353480Author Peter RimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Kamba LimitedPublisher Kamba LimitedWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the Burmese wilderness to safety. It is reissued by Methuen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781994542Author Anne M McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Poolbeg PressPublisher Poolbeg PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

1902-1911An age of innocence and hope.Before the storm clouds roll over Europe. As Paul Craddock recovers from his Boer War injuries, he starts to plan a new life. As soon as he is able he invests all he has in a remote but beautiful estate in Devon,...

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578337453Author Pam FlowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint A and a Johnston PublishingPublisher A and a Johnston PublishingWeight(grams)...

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the...

A heart-warming wartime story of love and friendship, from the author of the award-winning THE MOTHER'S DAY CLUBNorfolk, 1944Land Girls, Phylly and Gracie, have become the best of friends - but war work is never easy at Catchetts Farm . . .Poor Gracie...

Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis,...

At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375144Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800198692Author Ellie MidwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm

To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis.'Absorbing ... Gerlis directs his cast with verve' Financial Times Hiding in the horror of Warsaw's...

One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English aristocrat. The duke has just completed a network of tunnels beneath his estate. His health is failing, but his imagination...

From the brilliant author of the Fox Family saga comes a new spin-off novel, following Bertie's journey to become a pilot as she takes to the skies in Cornwall1930, Cornwall. Bertie Fox has had her dreams of motorcycle racing cut short by a life-changing...

Curl up with Book Four in the gorgeous Bobby Girls series now!1916. Poppy is being transferred to an enormous new munitions complex in Gretna, on the Scottish border. Even though it means moving far away from her best friends Maggie and Annie, she is...

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil WarThe Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648480501Author Penny Fields-SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Penny Fields-SchneiderPublisher Penny Fields-SchneiderWeight(grams)...

'Inventive and original' The Times'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary MantelShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionThree journeys. One road.England,...

The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife. Berlin, 1938: It's the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war...

THE SENSATIONAL ADVENTURE FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott TO POSSESS IT HE WILL PAY IN...

If you love The Island and Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop, you will love this perfect summer read from the author of Island of Secrets.Rebecca Neumanner's marriage is on the brink of collapse, as her desire to be a mother becomes an...

Discover a compelling story of loyalty, love and the strength of friendship in war-torn Britain, from the international bestselling author Lesley Pearse'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best___________Spring 1935...

The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.______________________Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905806461Author Norah LoftsFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Tree of Life PublishingPublisher Tree of Life PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This...

When a handsome man literally falls at her feet while she's walking through a moonlit convent courtyard, Helena knows he must be there for a scandalous liaison. Yet she keeps his presence a secret from the questioning nuns - and for her silence the...

1686, Iceland. A cold, windswept land where they talk of witches and fear strangers . . . 'Gripped me in a cold fist. Beautiful' Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton'A perfect, gripping winter read. I loved it' Sophie Mackintosh,...

'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday TimesDARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant...