World War I

What will life bring now The Great War is over? The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and Eliot's return creates tensions both at work and...

A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war.An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805084303Author Clare FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems...

In a world destroyed by war, can hope survive?Summer 1918: Young couple Amy and Edmond Derwent, after their experiences on the front line of battle - Edmond as an officer and Amy as a VAD in France - have now settled back in England and are starting to...

New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigor.For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's masterworks,...

'The end of the old world' people said about the long hot summer of 1914. It was the last season of optimism, of certainty about the future as the sun set on the Edwardian age. That summer Aunt Tilly comes to stay with her brother the Rector and his four...

A brand new wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val Wood Shaftesbury, 1936. Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. Not only did they give her employment as a chambermaid,...

One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years in...

'Beautiful and heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it' Monica Ali, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Love Marriage 'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Tea Obreht'...

'Richly evocative' The Times'Fascinating' The Observer'Riveting ... fast-paced, brilliantly constructed' Spectator'Profound and moving... a beautifully written evocation of turbulent times' Daily ExpressIt is the early 1930s, and Europe is holding its...

It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and...

"A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape."-Elif Shafak (on book 1 of the series) "Altan uses a Tolstoyan combination of the epic and the intimate to explore questions of national identity and historical...

Bestselling author Lyn Andrews' unputdownable saga ANGELS OF MERCY is perfect for fans of Kate Thompson and Kitty Neale.Twins Kate and Evvie are navigating love and heartbreak. But their toughest challenge is yet to come . . . Blue-eyed, blond-haired,...

The bestselling author of the nostalgic classics OUR KID and KATE'S STORY has based his engaging new novel on the fascinating and inspiring life of his father Tommy, born in a Manchester slum in 1886Tommy Hopkins' early years aren't very promising. Born...

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The Call of the Wrens introduces the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe carrying secrets on their shoulders.An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Marion Hoxton found in the Great War something other than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524796372Author Martha Hall KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

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The smoke tingled in her nostrils. Acrid. Harsh. Lilli Sternberg's quickening heart sounded an alarm as she rounded the corner of the street. Lifting her gaze to the rooftops, she saw a roaring blaze of thick flames engulf the side of the building and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061713Author Marcus MalteFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Regan Arts

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It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the death of an...

A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga from the acclaimed author of The Land Girls. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Margaret DickinsonAS WAR RAGES, CAN LOVE SURVIVE?August, 1918 As the First World War is entering its final, desperate stages, Sally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739612207Author Andrew TweeddaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Andrew TweeddalePublisher Andrew Tweeddale

Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real life of Britain's first woman veterinary surgeon.Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one-not her family, society, or the law-will stop her.Born in Ireland in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492843524Author Darrell DuthieFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Esdorn EditionsPublisher Esdorn EditionsWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912968466Author C. K. HarewoodFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Blue Laurel PressPublisher Blue Laurel Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771088817Author Lesley CreweFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805089094Author Emerson FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Can life ever be the same again? The start of a fabulous new series set at Trenwith Estate from bestselling author Rosie ClarkeHampshire, 1913Amidst the glitz and glamour of England's High Society, Sarah Trenwith is more of a wallflower living in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492843029Author Darrell DuthieFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Esdorn EditionsPublisher Esdorn EditionsWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodie's world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas. Her wastrel father arranges for her sisters to be sent to their grandparents in Ireland and for her younger brother to be...

All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire,...

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .'Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a...

'Enthralling. Spring Comes to Emmerdale is beautifully written and researched' - Lancashire Evening PostA must for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during wartime. 'Amazing! All the familiar names...

The Internationally Bestselling Author of The English Wife 'Beautifully epic, romantic & rich in detail' #1 & USA Today bestseller Lorna Cook 'Sweeping and evocative' Rosanna Ley ...

A poignant family saga perfect for fans of Janet Tanner, Grace Thompson and Nadine DorriesWhen laundress Mercy Seaton's chance meeting with Peter Lisburne at the annual Torquay regatta leads to a whirlwind proposal, she's swept into her husband's...

Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in...