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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448313389Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate Books

A dazzling debut historical novel exploring the occult underbelly of 19th century Paris. It is Paris in the 1880s and the century is in its final decadent throes as it moves towards the fin de siecle. New scientific ideas are countered by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475992Author Susan MeissnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 309g

Roland Merullo, bestselling author of Once Night Falls, returns with a galvanizing historical novel of Nazi-occupied Naples and the rage and resistance of a people under siege. Italy, 1943. The Nazi occupation has cemented its grip on the devastated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616206956Author Larry WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995504028Author John WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Stout House PublishingPublisher Stout House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544800830Author Amy StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 30mm

In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography within a gruesome murder mystery. Murder in Byzantium deftly moves from eleventh-century Europe, wracked by...

Jacob's Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590950937Author Eric SturdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Mousegate PressPublisher Mousegate PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

'Moving, heart-warming and beautifully woven' Kate FurnivallFrom the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter comes a beautifully evocative, family drama set at the turn of the century and perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593129623Author Jeff ShaaraFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933372877Author Linda FerriFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Money, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance. He arrives at two o'clock. Two hours later,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476758770Author Philippa GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101991558Author Ken FollettFormat PaperbackPage Count 3100Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 3980gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm...

Rule 1: When you're dancing, shoulders back and point your toes. Rule 2: Keep your thumbs clear when you're chopping vegetables. Rule 3: Don't go wandering through the house without permission. Ten-year-old Brede understands these household...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062698629Author Hazel GaynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In Boston's North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind-but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy. But at least they have one another and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614752813Author Allen DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Wordfire PressPublisher Wordfire PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson is now king of Sogn, but fighting battles for King Harald keeps him away from home, as he confronts treachery and navigates a political landscape that grows more dangerous the higher he rises...

Brendan O'Carroll is an ex-Indian Army RSM and now the well-respected City of London Town Crier. The beginning of the Edwardian era is full of promise and hope for many, but Brendan, dismissed after twenty-five years' service, finds his life spiralling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451237897Author Diane HaegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578964065Author Ann LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Darking BooksPublisher Darking BooksWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912299Author Lauren WilligFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755531Author Sigrid UndsetFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Temples of Gold offers a fresh perspective on God's people from the time of King Solomon to their return from exile. By using Old Testament narratives and imagined scenes, this novel follows four lesser-known Biblical characters and their experiences...

In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward's extraordinary wife, the...

Like nothing you've read before, this exhilarating narrative follows the storyline of Alban Berg's famously unfinished opera Lulu and explores the history of the commedia, particularly the Pierrot figure from its first inception through its final...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451467003Author Juliet MarillierFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 106mm...

Julian Kunstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758271389Author D. L. BogdanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719515Author Jean PlaidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719515Author Jean PlaidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060554798Author James Carlos BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably - thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing - and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one woman destined to...

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably - thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing - and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one woman destined to...