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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941226155Author Bz HerculesFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint R.W. PeakePublisher R.W. PeakeWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a pageant...

Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416550471Author Anne Easter SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm *...

Highgate, London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict, estranged from his friends and from his neglected wife. His grip on reality is starting to slip; his past and present mingle in laudanum-induced dreams. In a Cambridge...

This is a fascinating exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crises that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries. Dr Timothy Venning starts by showing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538700563Author Kirsten AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Miles Franklin Award 1977 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781922079510Author Ruth ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Text ClassicsPublisher Text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357730Author Donal MinihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063244344Author Caroline LeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A grand love story set in a far-flung theatre of war, from the bestselling Australian author of The War Bride, Pamela HartAmid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested...

A grand love story set in a far-flung theatre of war, from the bestselling Australian author of The War Bride, Pamela HartAmid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested...

The brilliant first outing for a new kind of hero . . .'Bernard Cornwell is good but Humphreys is better' Historical Novels ReviewIn 1777, Jack Absolute is famous ... as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety...

The brilliant first outing for a new kind of hero . . .'Bernard Cornwell is good but Humphreys is better' Historical Novels ReviewIn 1777, Jack Absolute is famous ... as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316955256Author Herman WoukFormat HardbackPage Count 685Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316955256Author Herman WoukFormat HardbackPage Count 685Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

The first part in an epic sequel to M.K. Hume's King Arthur trilogyThe legend of King Arthur lives on...King Artor lies slain and Ector, a mere boy, is acknowledged as the legitimate heir to the kingdom. But the land of the Celts is weakened and Ector...

CAN GREECE RESIST THE MIGHT OF ROME?Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestselling Ben Kane's latest historical adventure.ONE FINAL CLASHReeling from his defeat at the hands of the Macedonians, Rome's furious General...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032001Author Mark HelprinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615199Author Shahrnush ParsipurFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Get swept away by the new Regency romance from the author who Publishers Weekly calls 'irresistible.'Perhaps she could have survived the first scandal, or even the second, but when Miss Lenora Hartley finds herself left at the altar, victim to a third...

Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor (1899) is a novel by Benito Perez Galdos. Published at the height of Perez Galdos' career, Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor is the sixth in of 46 historical novels in the author's monumental, career spanning series...

Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the 30s, this has become a classic. In this autobiographical novel, Abse interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in...

CONSTANCE WILDE'S MARRIAGE HAS ENDED. Making a new life in Europe, she reflects on her marriage with Oscar Wilde. Despite her family's warnings, his affairs and his spending, she knows they loved each other in their own way.In this witty and...

The final part of the explosive Celtic Colours Trilogy When the big men get around the table on Good Friday of 1998 and sign up to peace in Northern Ireland nine year old Cian Duffy's story should have ended. Instead it is the beginning of a decade of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995545717Author Paula LoftingFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Longship PublishingPublisher Longship PublishingWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own...

'In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents' feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684837680Author Margaret MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Your son or your queen - what price can Elizabeth demand for loyalty? Young Elizabeth I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army and...

In The River of Kings, award-winning author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands - two brothers' journey, their father's past, and the dramatic history of an ancient river's earliest people - to evoke a legendary place and its powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312377625Author Steven SaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312377625Author Steven SaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393341386Author Susan FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

He's the fascinating romantic lead in what is perhaps the most enduringly popular novel in the English language. Yet Jane Austen reveals tantalizingly little about him, nor does she ever give readers insight into his take on the action of the book. And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451239259Author Simone St. JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564434Author Emma DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

In the heart of London, Ella's life turns upside down when she discovers a broken shell fragment hidden among her late uncle's possessions. This simple artefact thrusts her into a journey of heartbreaking revelations and family secrets, defying the...

"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work." -Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired GirlIt's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old...

Escaping the constraints of life as a village schoolmistress, Lilia Brooke bursts into London and into Paul Harris's orderly life, shattering his belief that women are gentle creatures who need protection. Lilia wants to change women's lives by...