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Harriet Sherwood has always adored her grandmother. But when Harriet decides to follow her footsteps to fight for social justice, she certainly never expected her efforts to land her in jail. Nor did she expect her childhood enemy and notorious school...

A gritty and compelling family drama from the author of The Street. Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale. The toughest street in London, Campbell Road, is due for demolition. One of the last residents remaining, Matilda Kiever, born and bred on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783013739Author J H WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aurora Polruan BooksPublisher Aurora Polruan BooksWeight(grams) 133g

*** FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN AND JANICE HALLETT, WE INVITE YOU TO MEET A NEW LITERARY SLEUTH - JANE AUSTEN . . . ***'Richly imagined and wonderfully plotted - a great read' S.J. BENNETT'Sharp and energetic whilst simultaneously warm and heartfelt. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307474650Author Thomas MallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 392g

Spithead, 1784. His Majesty's Frigate, Undine, sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace-but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy still goes on.About the AuthorAlexander...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451239174Author John ShorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312361792Author Emma TennantFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780709098430Author E. V. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Robert Hale LtdPublisher Joffe Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786047987Author William W. JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pinnacle Books,U.S.Publisher Kensington Publishing

The Edwardian era is coming to an end and in Chester a young maid, Emma, strives to keep her family from poverty. Driven by a desire to avenge the death of her sister, who had committed suicide after falling pregnant and being abandoned by the father,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Alex Award 2020 and Kirkus Prize for Fiction 2019 and Orwell Prize 2020 and Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2020. Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373348Author Kurt TucholskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The historical fiction debut from former soldier, BBC defence correspondent and MP, Patrick Mercer, is a thrilling military action set during the Crimean War. 1854. War is imminent as the Western powers quarrel with Russia over fragments of...

The historical fiction debut from former soldier, BBC defence correspondent and MP, Patrick Mercer, is a thrilling military action set during the Crimean War. 1854. War is imminent as the Western powers quarrel with Russia over fragments of...

A stirring and romantic historical novel about nineteenth-century Vienna and the tragedy and dynamic passion that inspired Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Vienna, 1800. Countess Julie Guicciardi's life is about to change forever. The spirited...

When journalist Jake Wolsey stumbles upon a declassified file showing Winston Churchill's interest in the ancient Etruscan civilisation his curiosity brings peril in its wake. He soon attracts the unlikely attention of alluring archaeologist Florence...

In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which...

A ship adrift, all hands dead. A lighthouse keeper murdered in the night. The Crown needs man to find the truth. Doctor Mungo Lyon, his reputation tarnished by the Burke & Hare scandal, and forbidden to practise as a surgeon, is the wrong man. ...

For fans of The Greatest Showman and Water for Elephants, The Candlelit Menagerie grabs hold and pulls readers into the dim halls of the exotic animal emporiums of London, over two centuries ago. Set in late eighteenth-century London, this haunting...

Tall, dark, and handsome, the heir to the Earl of Hargate, Benedict Carsington, is known for his impeccable manners and good breeding. Benedict knows all the rules and has no trouble following them - until Bathsheba Wingate enters his life. Bathsheba...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of THE HINDU PRIZE 2018 and THE SHAKTI BHATT PRIZE 2022.Book InformationISBN 9789395767095Author Manoranjan ByapariFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint EkaPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786048823Author William W. JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pinnacle Books,U.S.Publisher Kensington Publishing

Warlord's Gold, the fifth novel in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero, Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War' on a quest to recover lost treasure.Autumn,1643. As an...

An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .Can you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it?A Sin Eater's duty is a...

An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .Can you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it?A Sin Eater's duty is a...

Another riveting Matthew Hervey adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, combining hero, history and drama to perfection. If you like Patrick O'Brian and Sharpe, you'll love this!"A marvellous read, paced like a well-balanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499474Author Melanie BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2017.A brilliantly distinctive debut set in China in the Second World War, IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS by Rebecca Mackenzie will appeal to readers who loved Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit or The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398408654Author George FarendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...' For fans of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell, this pulse-racing and dramatic new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author James Jackson sheds new light on one of the most dramatic events in British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876756383Author Unity DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 169g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974225Author Emile ZolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

This story has entranced readers of all ages since it was first published twenty-five years ago. The tale tells the story of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250074973Author Elsa HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

Has this dissolute rogue... Finally met his match? About the AuthorAfter graduating with degrees in history and political science, Eva Shepherd worked in journalism and as an advertising...

'One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction' The TimesIn the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity.Jerusalem 1947. British...

'One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction' The TimesIn the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity.Jerusalem 1947. British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847514981Author Alys ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 137mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2015 and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2015 and ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2015 and Alex Awards 2015...