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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727892775Author Paul DohertyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739771409Author Juan MinanaFormat PaperbackImprint Jack and Mare PublishingPublisher Jack and Mare Publishing

This searing third novel in the critically acclaimed Small Worlds series records the cruel fate of the villagers of Krimsk as they encounter the twentieth century's greatest agents of evil: Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler. In Moscow at the height of the...

Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged 1860s, known as the "era of great reforms," and marked by Alexander II's emancipation of the serfs and the relaxation lifting of censorship. Popular in his day,...

In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies -- a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children-have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia. Originally published in London in 1857, and never before available in paperback, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743265232Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727895592Author M.J. TrowFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 143mm * 23mm

In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her same-age sweetheart Thom. But when Thom dies suddenly of ship fever on their ocean crossing, Bridey finds herself alone and pregnant in a strange new world. Forced by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316154871Author Luis Alberto UrreaFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 476g

The year is 1955. The H. H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer - and, possibly, their land. Andy Meyer, the...

On a street in Dorchester, England, there is a gateway between real and imagined lives. A plaque on a Barclays Bank identifies the building as "lived in by the Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's story of that name written in 1885." Floyd,...

The Edge of the Crowd is the gripping story of early days of photography and the search for lost love in Victorian London . RUNNER UP OF THE 2002 ENCORE PRIZE. London, 1851. Among the teeming crowds visiting the Great Exhibition is the...

The year is 499. The place is Gea - a largely ethnic, linguistic and cultural unity, though not a political one. Its history has been one of intermittent warfare between its fifteen independent states and with surrounding countries. However, for the last...

A beautiful historical mystery for fans of Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh's The Sea of Poppies, and Jamaica Inn.London in the 1770s is bursting with opportunity. It's a city fuelled by new ideas and new money, where everything is for sale - including entree...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771335096Author Valerie Mills-MildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Inanna Poetry and Fiction SeriesPublisher Inanna Poetry and Fiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681774268Author Damian McNichollFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 486g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592122875Author L Ron HubbardFormat PaperbackImprint Galaxy Press (CA)Publisher Galaxy Press (CA)Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596528581Author Barbara WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590518038Author Jonathan RabbFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178146Author Isabel AllendeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496710079Author Mandy MikulencakFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476758817Author Philippa GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm *...

Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the...

Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838) is a novel by Edward Lanzer Joseph. Published in the last year of Joseph’s life, the novel claims to be an edited version of the memoirs of Warner Arundell, a Creole lawyer and doctor from Grenada. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398473058Author Mike WalshamFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398405493Author Colin CossorFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Robert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. At the Edge of Honor is the first in the series and winner of the Patrick D. Smith Literary Award as...

Will she be able to keep her family together?Wolsingham, 1900After the death of their parents, Connie, Dom, Leo, and Pearl find themselves all alone in the world. They return to England and the only family they have left, their grandparents, Joshua and...

Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege-based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines-in which the marriage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771339186Author Marie-Celie AgnantFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inanna Publications & EducationPublisher Inanna Publications & Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398404854Author Henry Mill PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 580Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398461659Author Philip PhotiouFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Diary of a Jewish Girl tells the story of Esther Levinsonaite, a Jewish girl in occupied Lithuania during World War Two and the immediate post-war years. Naked and bloody, having dug herself from a mass grave, Esther drags herself to the house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990460800Author William PeakFormat HardbackImprint Secant Publishing LLCPublisher Secant Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 794g

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648-1695) was a self-taught scholar, poet, and author from San Miguel de Nepantla, Mexico. Often referred to as the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana held discussions about natural science with intellectuals in her...

Lucca, City State for hundreds of years, keeper of secrets and relics, possessor of the Holy Face of Christ, has Napoleon's army at its gates, the emperor having declared himself King of All Italy.A continent away in Bexleyheath, Mabel Flinchurst gazes...

Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while...

A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780060930868Author Russell BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins...