Historical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789590098Author Katharine TiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.' ...

"I haven't even heard of Edward the Elder." "Few people have. Edward is a forgotten King of England and deserves much more credit than he has received. Let me tell you about him." History is Leo's favourite subject in school, and when he learns of...

Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.A Man with No MemoryA man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway...

'Vivid and beautiful . . . Astonishing' - Guardian'A thrilling journey through an age of ice and stone - one of Kim Stanley Robinson's best!' - Greg BearAn award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647780005Author Jan MoranFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Sunny Palms PressPublisher Sunny Palms PressWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few would confess to liking the man - a wife-beater and distinctly unsavoury character - so when some hungry pigs disinter his corpse in a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. However, this...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river...

A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. 'A heartwarming historical novel' Rosie Goodwin'A gripping historical saga' Daisy StylesRoll out the red carpet. The...

The Welsh rebellion spreads like wildfire...1294 AD. Caernarfon Castle, a fortress in Edward Longshanks' chain of fortifications around Wales known as the Ring of Steel, has fallen to Madog and the rebellion.In the south, Garyn languishes in a dungeon...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle...

From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295916Author Paul DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 155mm *...

The Stars Look Down was A.J. Cronin's fourth novel, published in 1935, and this tale of a North country mining family was a great favourite with his readers. Robert Fenwick is a miner, and so are his three sons. His wife is proud that all her four men go...

As the war rages on around her, one girl in blue's life is about to change forever... Even in wartime, East End girl Nancy Evans has reason to hope. She's a rising star in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and she'll be walking down the aisle any day now...

Pre-order UNSINKABLE, the astonishing new novel by Frances Quinn, coming February 2025. 'What a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating - if bumpy - ride through a man's world. I...

From the author of Toward the Sea of Freedom comes a novel of the triumphs, tragedies, and courage of two women bravely changing the tide of history... As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women's suffrage has finally reached...

This superb and stirring naval adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent is an absolute must for fans of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. You'll feel like you are there on the quarterdeck!'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' --...

The start of a brand new series from Sheila Riley, bestselling author of the Reckoner's Row saga series!Liverpool 1921 Pregnant, Mary Jane Starlings secret wedding to Paddy Redfern ends in disaster when her fiancé is murdered on the way to the church...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902756731Author John FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Esperanto-Asocio de BritioPublisher Esperanto-Asocio de BritioWeight(grams)...

Edwardian England is a country at the peak of its power; a kingdom of peace, prosperity and progress. As Jessie and Violet enjoy their coming-out in the glittering Season of 1908, their thoughts are of pleasure, dancing and falling in love.For the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838880101Author Daniela SacerdotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint BookouturePublisher Bookouture

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837901296Author Angela PetchFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 23mm

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any...

A return to Woodicombe House...Kate Channer thought married life was going to be a grand adventure. But when Luke must go off to war before the echoes of their vows have ended, she's left behind, desperate to do something to make a difference and help...

Two women disturb the dark history of a deceptively quiet postwar Cornwall village in a haunting novel by the bestselling author of A Feather on the Water and The Woman on the Orient Express. It’s winter 1947 when newlyweds Ellen and Tony Wylde move into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732322417Author Patrick E CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint P&j PublishingPublisher P&j PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

To live among wolves, first you must become one... An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis.War is coming to Europe.British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic...

For one to rule, the other must die. AD 312: A year of horrific and brutal warfare. Although outnumbered, Constantine's legions seem unstoppable as they surge through Maxentius' Italian heartlands. Constantine is determined to reach and seize the...

A compelling story of love, adventure, and the secrets that follow us, wherever we go...I adored this wonderful story...Astonishingly good' Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the RainsOxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged...

Failed Hollywood actress. Keeper of Hollywood's secrets. Edie's a Hollywood actress who is falling out of favour with major studios. When an explosive letter lands in her hands, it couldn't have come at a better time. The letter, written by a young...

From the author of The Gustav SonataAt the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' So begins a heroic struggle to change gender, while around...

Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his icily...

'Hawker is a terrific creation' Bernard CornwellAre they saving a prince, or unchaining a monster?December 1476. The infamous Vlad the Impaler - Dracula - is reported killed in a Turkish ambush: the brutal scourge of the Ottomans is no more...November...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923020313Author Jonathan RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint The Book Reality ExperiencePublisher Leschenault PressWeight(grams) 345g

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever faces her in war-torn London can't be any worse than staying at home with her abusive father... The city is nothing like she could have imagined, but...

It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination. Both now turn to Egypt, Pompey planning a last stand on the banks of the Nile, while Caesar's legendary encounter with the Egyptian queen...

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric. Beneath the mask, there is a man. And in his heart burns the fire of injustice ... Duels at dawn, fierce...

Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation... Alice Hartley can no longer arouse the interest of her pompous husband, the...