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Justice in sixteenth-century Bologna is like the fine silk which the city produces: something only the rich and powerful can afford. Elena Morandi is a supremely talented seamstress, at home among the bolts of fabric and cutting shears of her trade...

When the Saxons, invited to settle in Britannia by King Wyrtgeorn, brutally murder the father and brother of Ceredig, the second son of a fifth century Romano-British chieftain, he flees the land of his birth. While the Saxons expand their control over...

Are some patterns destined to be repeated? "Spellbinding and decadent . . . an astonishing debut" SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA___________________Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite wallpaper for the most fashionable French...

THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzLove and loss...

1814 Ashore on leave, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd learns of a dismal harvest and general hardship among the population. In Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte is celebrating victories that once again make his name feared throughout Europe. An armistice is signed and...

'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman'Thrilling, captivating... unforgettable' Kate WilliamsSunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I.A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED.Adored only child...

Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But to the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies soon led...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509841813Author Margaret PembertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pan BooksPublisher Pan Macmillan

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...

In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between themselves, oblivious to external dangers. Year in and year...

A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of courage, friendship and resistance, based on the incredible true story of ballroom dancer Florence Waren (1917 - 2012), perfect for fans of The Paris Library. In 1938, Sadie Rigal leaves South Africa with...

Fame. Fortune. Love. You can't have them all. Evra Scott is LA's style queen. By day, she’s at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the city's hottest store. By night, surrounded by a group of glamorous friends - and on the arm of Kai de la Faire, the...

Paris, 1919. As the fragile negotiations of the International Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. She will do anything to escape the...

Some things are earned. Some things are worth fighting for…  It’s 1782, Daniel and his sister Pearl arrive in London with the world at their feet and their future assured. Having escaped a Jamaican sugar plantation, Daniel fought for the British in the...

Malaysia, 1945. As WW2 rages, will a mother's choice affect her children forever?British Malaya, 1930s Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara and the glorious future he is promising for 'independent' Malaya, free from...

In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor “C. D.” Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing, is gradually losing his moral and existential compass...

Samahani, the latest work by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, winner of the 2020 Prix de la Littérture Arabe, means ‘forgive me’ in Swahili, two words that stand in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel.Set in 19th century...

Growing up together in the early 1900’s in the London Docklands, Harry and Karl forge an unbreakable friendship. With their fathers working as dockhands, both families struggle to survive on low wages and poor living conditions. Facing unemployment and...

The fiercest, most powerful novel of 2025. For what do you hunger . . .?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's...

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded and consolidated their power until their influence touched almost every aspect...

A princess enslaved becomes goddaughter to a queen. By the time she was seven years old, Aina had been born into life as an Egbado princess, witnessed the brutal killing of her entire family, and had been enslaved to a rival chieftain. With a death...

1826: Jacob Chapman stands on the beach in Lowestoft, preparing to put to sea in his own boat. Hunting herring – the silver darlings - off the east coast, just as his ancestors have done for centuries. But change is coming.Over the next century the...

1948: Eastport, a shipbuilding town in the north of England. Three years have passed since the end of WW2. Mary, a girl from the bottom of town, cuts her leg when she is picking coal from a pit heap. Teddy, a slightly built Jewish boy, comes to her aid...

Lola Jaye's The Manual for Good Wives is dual narrative historical novel about love, generational trauma, second chances from the critically acclaimed author of The Attic Child.Book InformationISBN 9781529064629Author Lola JayeFormat HardbackPage Count...

THE WORST OF ENEMIES. THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A powerful, emotional novel of peace and friendship against the greatest of odds . . .1914. A boy enrols in the army, hoping to find peace in the great adventure of war. Handed a rifle, he discovers the grim...

Cleopatra: the beguiling, legendary Pharoah and Queen of Egypt - the arch seducer who used her beauty to grasp for ever more power. But with her character only ever recorded by men who despised her, how can we be sure this was the real story? From the...

Cana, Massachusetts, 1730. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman,...

'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...

'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New StatesmanThere is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it...