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272 ADThe Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt.Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire, has fallen into Roman hands and is to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace...

Pentecost and Parker, the most audacious and iconic detective duo in 1940s Manhattan, are back. If you're a fan of Richard Osman, The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, Agatha Christie and M. C. Beaton you'll love this hugely entertaining murder mystery.Following on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682301043Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553583854Author James WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

'The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it.......

'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful. This Wild, Wild Country enchants as mysteries deepen and secrets echo over the harsh realities of the American Dream' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the EndThree women. An isolated town. A...

'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival...

Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English. With the post-colonial sensibilities of Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, and Jhumpa Lahiri and an ironic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312155858Author Margaret GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

"A Siberian Heart of Darkness" Julian BarnesOn the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. ...

"Charming... Four interconnected visits to a world of danger, wit, beauty and genuine romance. Treat yourself!"-ANNE PERRY, internationally bestselling authorA stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold...

The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates...

A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh.War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527875Author Elizabeth KostovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995117075Author Kirsten McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Squabbling Sparrows PressPublisher Squabbling Sparrows PressWeight(grams) 665g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913207922Author Lesley GlaisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Sandstone Press LtdPublisher Sandstone Press LtdWeight(grams) 243gDimensions(mm)...

Rosebay willowherb grew rapidly on bombsites in WWII. Often called Bombweed, its image conjured up the terror of the blitz and its aftermath; a reminder of the lifelong consequences of wartime loss and the choice to cling to, discard, or lock away the...

A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field. Anyone who's ever lost someone is haunted Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother's death and moves there with her...

A convenient marriage That could help them both! Jasper Patterdale might be an earl's estranged younger son, but his efforts to help his brother have backfired-landing him in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743456418Author Indu SundaresanFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 32mm

New York Times-bestselling author: In 19th-century Spain, the son of a vineyard owner builds a life for himself, but a dangerous plot threatens it all . . . Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa EulAlia, in northern...

After the crucifixion, Jesus's followers - now led by his brother, James the Just - remained devout Jews, vigorously opposed to the Roman occupiers. But a rival faction emerged, via the charismatic itinerant Paul of Tarsus. Some called him Saint, some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174555Author Camara LaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)...

The third in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. As the daughter of the local cinema manager, Sally Brewer has always dreamed of stardom. When she gets...

'A wonderful new talent' Nick HornbyGermany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916316737Author Pj HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Paul HumphreysPublisher Paul HumphreysWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with...

At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean...

In her heart-warming new Backshaw Moss series, Anna Jacobs takes us through the joys and the trials of life in 1930s Lancashire.1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves...

In her heart-warming new Backshaw Moss series, Anna Jacobs takes us through the joys and the trials of life in 1930s Lancashire.1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves...

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of...

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of...

A compelling novel which reimagines the early years of one of history's most notorious queens in all their passion, treachery and bloodshed.'I am Isabella, Queen of Castile . . .'Isabella was the notorious warrior-queen who, along with her husband...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472007Author Stephanie ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 416g

25 years in print! What Would You Do If a Secret Was Causing Your Family to Crumble? Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades Emma Bauer has kept...

'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty.' Naoise Dolan 'A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world.' David Nicholls'Do you know what it was like...

In this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floge, the woman who posed for Klimt's masterpiece The Kiss -- and whose name he uttered with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739214227Author Eric GautierFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint The FitzRoy PressPublisher The FitzRoy Press

1901. Night draws in.With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built of pink stone'. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire.The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061565342Author Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...