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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060599751Author Bette Bao LordFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The...

The most heartbreaking decision a mother could make... The Sunday Times bestseller is back with an emotional story that will tug on your heartstrings. Previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593537046Author Margot LiveseyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Past and present collide on a richly mysterious Nile cruise... From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes this atmospheric and gripping page-turner. Recently divorced Anna Fox decides to...

Past and present collide on a richly mysterious Nile cruise... From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes this atmospheric and gripping page-turner. Recently divorced Anna Fox decides to...

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Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left...

The past comes back to haunt our rakish captain in this swashbuckling historical naval adventureAlan Lewrie is still captain of the HMS Proteus, one of the British Navy's newest frigates. But Lewrie's amorous escapade comes back to haunt him when an...

1748, Seville: Caridad, a recently freed Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When she meets Milagro Carmona - a young, rebellious gypsy - the two women are instantly inseparable. Milagros introduces...

'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter AckroydSet against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve...

A moving Yorkshire saga, The Windfell Family Secrets is the much anticipated follow up to Diane Allen's The Mistress of Windfell Manor.Twenty-one years have passed since Charlotte Booth fought to keep Ferndale Mill and her home at Windfell Manor...

Barbara Trapido's captivating novel of coming-of-age novel about sisters, friendship and political awakening in 1950s South Africa ______________________ 'This is a gorgeous book about growing up ... it also manages to convey, with admirable...

This is a reissue of Bates's acclaimed novel of Burma. During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with him his Burmese...

Iris Bagshott strolls down the paths of her ancient garden, close to Lichfield in the heart of England, wondering if it is time to sell her house and land for development. She is unaware that around every corner myriad family secrets from the past...

The second book in R.F. Delderfield's Swann family saga. Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale. Alex, his elder son, is a professional solder; George is a pioneer of...

Only she can save herself...Maggie is sixteen years old and barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish famine. As her mother is on her deathbed, Maggie is pressed to accept a proposal from their neighbour, Jack. With few options beyond...

It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has...

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If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are...

A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's DaughterA terrible choice between her sweetheart and her reputation...Orphaned from birth, Mary Trent has always dreamed of the day she can escape from poverty, and when she...

A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's DaughterA terrible choice between her sweetheart and her reputation...Orphaned from birth, Mary Trent has always dreamed of the day she can escape from poverty, and when she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571310484Author SidhwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

***Shortlisted For Historical Writers' Association's Debut Crown For Best First Historical Novel***Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, naive and newly-ordained, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501192937Author Juliette FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553276817Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

'Original, adept and confident... What can I say, except that I wish I had written it myself?' -Hilary Mantel May 1907. Young Stalin - poet, bank-robber, spy - is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his...

'Original, adept and confident... What can I say, except that I wish I had written it myself?' -Hilary Mantel May 1907. Young Stalin - poet, bank-robber, spy - is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his...

'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.'Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the...

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention...

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention...

Mother and Child by Sunday Times bestseller Annie Murray is a moving story of loss, friendship and hope over two generations . . . Jo and Ian's marriage is hanging by a thread. One night almost two years ago, their only child, Paul, died in an accident...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780385264785Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will love this sensational swashbuckling naval adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent.'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - Sunday Times'Shipwreck, survival...a spirited battle, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553252064Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** 'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro' Guardian 'An...

A powerful and absorbing mystery from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of THE LEGACY.Bath, 1821. When Rachel Crofton marries, her new life soon takes a more unexpected turn as she is invited to become the companion to the reclusive Jonathan...

Sweeping across countries, class and music, Eva Ibboton's classic historical romance, Magic Flutes, is a richly imagined tale of intrigue and identity, with a new introduction from Harriet Evans.In the spring of 1922, young Austrian Princess...

The New York Times bestseller Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a harrowing story of a Lithuanian family who suffer unimaginable hardship and deportation during World War II, pitched perfectly for children and adults alike.That morning, my...

The international bestselling author of THE LEGACY and THE UNSEEN returns with a searing novel of secrets and feudsItaly, 1921. When Leandro Cardetta returns to Puglia from America a rich man, he is determined to make his mark. But how did he get so...