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The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus.'A.D. O'Neill peels back the veil of time and shines a light on the intrigue and excitement of chariot racing...

The Beati Paoli’s unrelenting campaign to restore justice is compromised by an act of betrayal and a plot that threatens its very existence. Set against the backdrop of the island’s increasing disillusionment with its new rulers from Savoy and a...

Step into the thrilling world of historical crime with A Case of Desecration in the West, the sixth instalment in the gripping John MacKenzie series set in late 17th-century Scotland. Join investigative advocate John MacKenzie and his witty sidekick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184066Author Fiona DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

As the war continues, the library girls face their greatest challenge yet...With the echoes of war reverberating around London, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane are delighted to be blessed with some good news: the King and his Queen will be making a visit to...

A nineteenth-century Arctic expedition descends into a chilling nightmare in a gripping and epic historical novel of discovery, rescue, deliverance, and survival by any means. In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,...

From the author of The Light on Farallon Island comes a haunting novel about the power of science, the nature of love, and the enigma of the supernatural. Convention-flouting Nora Harris is a determined young medical student in Gilded Age Manhattan. A...

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment. London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an...

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire... **AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024** 'Couldn't put this book down. Beautiful, tender, and ruthless' ...

As the war continues, the library girls face their greatest challenge yet...With the echoes of war reverberating around London, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane are delighted to be blessed with some good news: the King and his Queen will be making a visit to...

HE YELLED. AMERICA LISTENED. Mary had seen her fill of tragedy by the time she sought refuge in the Shrine of the Little Flower and first met Father Coughlin in 1933. fie Great Depression had killed her mom and hollowed out her dad, leaving Mary to take...

'Robert Dinsdale mixes history and mythology with great panache . . . Richly textured and with an appropriately labyrinthine plot . . . Book of the Month' Sunday TimesMan or monster? Hero or villain?London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of...

A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time. Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean caves of Palermo, the Beati Paoli, masked and hooded, mete...

Two women, one community, everyone’s war…With the arrival of British prisoners of war on Marchese Ginori’s farmhouse estate, Rosa is immediately wary. Her husband was killed by the Allies and she will not trust any inglesi around her daughter.The...

Paris, 1942: Two sisters in Paris had their lives torn apart. Now they must choose – save themselves, or fight the Nazis to the very end…I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor...

Paris, 1942: Two sisters in Paris had their lives torn apart. Now they must choose – save themselves, or fight the Nazis to the very end…I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761340130Author Judy NunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors.The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the...

Paris, 1942: Two sisters in Paris had their lives torn apart. Now they must choose – save themselves, or fight the Nazis to the very end…I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor...

Pre-Order the Brand New book from bestselling author Lizzie Lane's Country Hospital seriesTimes are changing as secrets unfold…Somerset, 1931 Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital,...

'A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The Times A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux Britain, AD 72. Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful...

Pre-Order the Brand New book from bestselling author Lizzie Lane's Country Hospital seriesTimes are changing as secrets unfold…Somerset, 1931 Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital,...

'Delightful ... William Neilson continues to exhibit basically all of the virtues. He's brave, stoical, generous, truthful, constant, protective towards the weak and honourable to a fault. Yet entirely likeable. The nearest series to this I can think of...

Preorder a BRAND NEW heartbreaking historical novel from Renita D'Silva1938: Rani, the bright and spirited daughter of an Indian Crown Prince, leads a privileged if lonely life. Longing for freedom and purpose, she escapes the confines of her father’s...

Young British miner Harry Speares is no admirer of Josef Stalin. But when, in the late 1930s, his communist father Joseph is invited to work at the headquarters of Moscow’s global subversive network, the Comintern, he reluctantly accompanies him - lured...

Acclaimed author Xavier Bosch weaves an emotional tale of love and intrigue in this novel about a woman on the cusp of middle age, her beloved grandma, and a strange houseguest who changes everything. Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn’t realize one photo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905744Author Catrin KeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886330380Author Jay G. GrubbFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Bqb PublishingPublisher Bqb Publishing

From Monika Helfer’s award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time. ‘We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That’s what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He...

'What a love story' Elizabeth Buchan'Gripping and heartfelt' Elisabeth Gifford'Entirely convincing and authentic' Leonora NattrassUNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET.From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the ruins of Soviet...

London, October 1940. As German bombers increase their nightly raids on the capital, the Blitz Girls must be braver than ever to protect innocent lives and keep the fight against Hitler alive.Dot, encouraged by her friends, is finding her independence...

William Dunbar, the younger son of a Scottish nobleman, craves wealth, and marriage seems to be his simplest way to achieve it. His pursuit eventually leads him to Mercy Grundy, an old maid in the eyes of mid-1740s society who fears lifelong spinsterhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623957Author John MacLachlan GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR COMES A BRAND NEW ENTHRALLING RETELLING SET AT THE DAWN OF THE ROMAN WORLD________Aeneas, the son of Venus, is destined for greatness, prophesised to father a people who will one day rule the world.But behind...

From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women’s club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society...

Longlisted for Fiction Book of the Year for Scotland's National Book Awards 2024'An exquisitely written work of Caledonian gothic' Francine Toon, author of Pine'A darkly sparkling jewel of a book' Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is WitchEdinburgh, 1923...

In a world of gunpowder, smoke and blood, two men’s love will rise above the chaos.'An absorbing follow-up to the brilliant Leeward' The TimesIn 1802, The Treaty of Amiens brings the French Revolutionary Wars to an end. After the drama of the past few...

THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget...

From the author of stunning historical fiction books comes a Sunday Times bestselling new story of crime, deceit, and murder, set in the early 1920s… In the summer of 1914 a boy vanishes, never to be seen again. Now, in 1920, the once esteemed Stilwell...

As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian...