World War II

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960044504Author Eleri GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Bugle Call BooksPublisher Bugle Call BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of...

'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real parents in Germany' Mail on Sunday Best New FictionFrom childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that...

A top ten Red Magazine book . . .____________Cornwall, 1940. In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks. Was it a tragic accident? Or should the residents of Penhallow have been more careful about whom they invited...

With 'tension [that] grips like a vice' [The Independent], The Last Pier is a gripping drama of dark family secrets in rural England from the author of Brixton Beach, Bone China and Mosquito. 'Tearne charts the patterns of love and loss with beautiful...

As a young woman, Else made two promises to herself: to live life to the fullest and to have a child with every man she loves. You Are Not Like Other Mothers tells the stories of the men in her life-husbands, companions, lovers and emissaries of a world...

The USA Today and Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller is back with a brand new gripping and heartfelt historical novel! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but does nothing to heal the pain of spending every minute waiting to hear...

Wild, beautiful and spellbinding, this is the compelling wartime story of freedom and love on the windswept islands of Orkney'Powerful . . . Lea writes beautifully of island life and love, and the sacrifices that both demand' THE TIMES'Deeply evocative...

She's out of retirement - and out for revenge When Georgina Garrett wakes in the night to find intruders in her house, she knows she must do everything she can to keep her children safe. But just when she thinks the ordeal is over, she realises...

Its 1943 and the war continues on in Ambridge. But the minds of the villagers are focused a little closer to home... For many centuries, a local tradition has told of a mystic living in a hermit's cave just outside the village. Legend tells that she has...

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786819796Author Sharon MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786819796Author Sharon MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 372g

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE AUTHORONE BILLION COPIES SOLDThree sisters, bonded by blood, separated by fate . . . Can they ever find each other again?When Sam Walker returned from the front lines of World War II, bringing with him his exquisite French bride, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990742036Author Margaret PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Gallica PressPublisher Gallica Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593102145Author Erika RobuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641291293Author David DowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641291293Author David DowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

'They beat me,' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me. They want me to confess to something I never did.'Sven Hassel and his comrades are fighting on the Finnish front, facing an arctic winter more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062940513Author Viola ArdoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia

The fifth novel in Anne Perry's breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series, featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish, set in the 1930s when the world was a place of increasing fear and uncertainty...As Hitler's...

An epic story of changing times, courage and a love story only made possible by war. 'A rich and skilful novel dramatizing how the war changed so many lives' Elizabeth Buchan For Jack, orphaned and...

In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914958748Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a...

From the international bestselling author of The Secret Orphan When all seems lost... As Hitler's bombs rain down on a battered and beleaguered Britain, Ruby Shadwell is dealt the...

Unexploded is Alison MacLeod's heartrending novel of love and prejudice in wartime Brighton.LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013May, 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip,...

Unexploded is Alison MacLeod's heartrending novel of love and prejudice in wartime Brighton.LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013May, 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip,...

A STORY OF SABOTAGE, BETRAYAL AND THE TERRIBLE SADNESS OF EXILE. 'Remarkable'The Times. 'A magnificent novel'The Times. 'Gripping'The Spectator. Scotland, 1940: The Fronsac, a French warship, blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is...

Amid the chaos of the Second World War comes a charming story of courage and friendship, from the author of Green Dolphin Country and A City of Bells.In the summer of 1940, as the darkest days of the Second World War approach, a chance encounter on a...

At thirty-four, H.E. Bates was deemed too old for active service in WWII. But as a successful author, was commissioned by the nascent RAP Public Relations unit to publicise the bravery of the fighter pilots. Bates was posted to Oakington and Tangmere air...

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope-lost and found-in this powerful novel by the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express. Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive...

In March 1940 Laura boards a ship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with. He was out in Uganda, but has joined up to fight with the King's African Rifles. Will she succeed in...

In March 1940 Laura boards a ship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with. He was out in Uganda, but has joined up to fight with the King's African Rifles. Will she succeed in...

THE BLOODY ROAD TO DEATH depicts all the savagery of war punctuated with black humour, as Tiny, Porta and the rest of the men advance across Europe.The Russian Officer falls forward and I sink my teeth into his throat. Blood runs down over my face but I...

This is a story of silenced histories, of dark secrets in a land of midnight sun. Finnish Lapland, 1947: Inkeri arrives in remote Enontekioe on a journalistic assignment, but her real motivation is more personal - this is where her husband was last...

'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place between Churchill and Adolf Hitler. All records of it...

One mother's desperate hope for survival. 1943: In occupied Paris, Celine creates bespoke bouquets at her father's flower shop on rue Cler, whilst trying to shield her young daughter from the brutal reality of war. But when an SS officer takes an...

One mother's desperate hope for survival. 1943: In occupied Paris, Celine creates bespoke bouquets at her father's flower shop on rue Cler, whilst trying to shield her young daughter from the brutal reality of war. But when an SS officer takes an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593861752Author Danielle SteelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 382g