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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315446Author Brendan SlocumbFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 765gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Nan's mother loves to tell her daughter stories, though the details vary according to how much she has drunk. The tale she tells most often claims that Admiral Lord Nelson is Nan's father: he was her lover and she saw him die at Trafalgar. Or so she...

Nan's mother loves to tell her daughter stories, though the details vary according to how much she has drunk. The tale she tells most often claims that Admiral Lord Nelson is Nan's father: he was her lover and she saw him die at Trafalgar. Or so she...

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. "Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes..." Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his...

An unputdownable and incredibly evocative military novel full of thrilling battle scenes and flesh and blood characters from Steven Pressfield, author of The Sunday Times Bestseller Gates of Fire. "A terrific read...this is historical fiction at its very...

It's 1942 and Dorothy Taylor, now eighteen, dreams of distant lands far from the grey backstreets of Rotherhithe where she has spent all her life. As the war rages on, excitement comes in the form of the Americans posted in London. Although Dolly is...

A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778361022Author Bryn TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916398627Author Elaine CanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Aderyn PressPublisher Aderyn PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 20mm

Watson's house in South Kensington is up for sale. Miss Clytenmestra Fanning has made an appointment to view the property without realising she would be in competition with Professor Moriarty, which is also a surprise for Watson. She has travelled all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919642130Author Katherine Cecil ThurstonFormat HardbackImprint Manderley Press LtdPublisher Manderley Press LtdWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Lefty Award 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781641291057Author Sujata MasseyFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

It is 1977. A new force is terrorising Rome - a mob of reckless, ultraviolent youths known as La Banda della Magliana. As the gang ruthlessly take control of Rome's heroin trade, they begin an inexorable rise to power. Banda della Magliana intend to own...

The perfect murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood.'Spotswood understands that [...] spending time with unforgettable characters is paramount.' - New York Times'A loving, intricately plotted tribute to the great days of American...

Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021'The Blind Light reads like a British Don DeLillo, telling the social history of Britain through two generations of a family.' - Alex Preston, Observer'A powerful and affecting novel' - Jim Crace, author of...

***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2022***The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer 1578. A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed...

Behind the grimy wharves of Londons dockland lies Conner Street, home to a close-knit community where women stand gossiping in doorways, small boys play marbles on the cobbles and the dockers pop down to the Eagle for a quick pint. Corner shops nestle...

Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed-not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage...

Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of 'Somerville and Ross' fame - authors of The Irish R.M. In...

Newly-wed Harriet stands poised on the threshold of the adult world. Her husband, James, is setting off to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain and left alone in London, Harriet is taken under the wing of Lady Wellington. While Harriet plunges...

Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139559Author Antonio Lobo AntunesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar 'confirms Andrew William's place in the front ranks of English thriller writers' (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters and...

A thrilling attraction To the last woman he should want! When Lord Benedict Lambourne encounters the captivating Lady Julia, he doesn't correct her assumption that he's a simple...

An award-winning historical novel exposing the scandals of eighteenth-century Denmark, weaving a wide range of historical characters from Voltaire to Catherine the Great to George IIIIt is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553289428Author Jean M. AuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition-and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic,...

A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition-and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and...

Be careful what you wish for. Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. ...

Be careful what you wish for. Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104919Author Leslie Marmon SilkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers' and recognised as one of the 'big four' Golden Age crime authors. The unloading of a consignment of French...

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award'A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel' Independent'Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262705Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

TWO YOUNG MEN WITH EXPECTATIONS. ONE PREDICTED TO SUCCEED, THE OTHER TO FAIL... Prince Albert Victor is heir presumptive to the British throne at its late Victorian zenith. Handsome and good-hearted, he is regarded as disastrously inadequate to be...

It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store-marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so...

Following Charles Dickens's death, his friend and biographer, John Forster, discovers a 'lost' manuscript that provides a radically different view of the year the young author spent working in a blacking factory. But is the account fact or fiction? In...

Each novel in this thrilling series of historical mysteries is based on a real unsolved Tudor crime. This second instalment reunites readers with its star, London goldsmith Thomas Treviot.The Real CrimeHans Holbein, King Henry VIII's portrait painter,...

"No one writes bright, bold, bad, and beautiful women of history like C.W. Gortner, and he outdoes himself with his latest heroine: Jennie Jerome, American heiress, royal mistress, and mother of Winston Churchill. The American Adventuress shines on every...