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Patrick Gale's THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever - perfect for any reader of Armistead Maupin, or E M Forster'Absorbing . . . deftly characterised, deeply involving...

As performed by Maxine Peake ('visionary'): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood'A masterpiece of creeping dread.'...

Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown 2022 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2022 'The exquisite story of two women trying to make a life together in wartime Austria, and all the love, friendship and danger that implies.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526529714Author J B ThwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint NapukePublisher NapukeWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

In this swoon-filled lesbian rom-com, two dating show contestants vying for the attention of the handsome, eligible 'bachelor' fall head over heels - for each other...Krystin knows exactly what she wants: a husband, a horse, and a place to hang all her...

* Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 ** One of Barack Obama's "Favourite Books of the Year" ** A New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 *'A superb book' Max Porter, author of Lanny____________________________________Stories of a young man finding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131928Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE'Superb' The Times Crime Book of the Month'A hardboiled gem' Guardian'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermidAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble,...

'Beautiful . . . a thriller, a love story and much more' Roddy Doyle'A remarkable achievement . . . [a] sheer pleasure to read' The Sunday TimesRichard Garay lives alone with his mother in Buenos Aires, hiding his sexuality from her and the world...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a special hardback edition of One Last Stop, with sprayed edges, illustrated endpapers and a bonus chapter!Moving to New York City is supposed to prove cynical...

Shizuka Satomi is a brilliant, cursed violinist who must win her soul back from damnation. To do this, she must take seven prodigies as students, then entice each to trade their soul for fame. She has already delivered six. However, rather than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906784942Author Amy DillwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 256g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999737057Author Domina AlexandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Triplicity Publishing, LLCPublisher Triplicity Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952992063Author Rachel LaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Rachel LaceyPublisher Rachel LaceyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 19mm

'Michael Donkor is a real talent' SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life'Hugely enjoyable and very moving, Donkor's frank, clear-eyed and funny prose is so refreshing - an important voice in contemporary British fiction' DIANA EVANS, author of Ordinary...

'Tender, beautiful and bold. A very special novel.' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES, author of Make You Mine This Christmas'Fun, fresh and clever . . . a huge treat for all fans of Jane Eyre.' KATIE LUMSDEN, author of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall'A sublime and...

Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer ("adventures" sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as " peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by the Sunday Times as " truly exhilarating". These huge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594936159Author Jaime ClevengerFormat PaperbackImprint Bella BooksPublisher Bella BooksWeight(grams) 363g

'So humane and funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH'The most charming, utterly lovely story I've read in ages... this is one of my books of the year' RED 'I loved this heartwarming read' PRIMAWelcome to Grand Life Apartments...Soon-to-be-retired Kamala spends her days...

'With slow, quiet intent Kate Worsley builds a tense atmosphere of looming horror. This book demands to be savoured, even as it clamours to be devoured' Times'A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to...

'Such a beautiful and gentle romance. Recommended for any lover of sweet yet spicy mm romances' Reader review Could they be a perfect pairing? Julien Boire can't wait to get out of his small town. Soon...

From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL and HUSBAND MATERIAL comes a deeply emotional romance about finding love when (and where) you least expect it.Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, and for him, the Scene is all played out. Six years...

Return to the northern town of Thorp in this moving new addition to Marion Husband's bestselling The Boy I Love series. 'You, me, Eric, Paul Harris - even Margot - even Adele. All of us so messed up by the war we couldn't tell right from wrong.' 1964...

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey...

Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016Chosen for City Reads 2016Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prizeELLE Best Books of 2015The Reading...

‘You don’t read this novel. You swan dive into it, then gasp in wonder’ Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings ‘Electrifying. A fierce, compulsively engaging and striking debut’ Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch VAGABONDS! is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787198524Author Allie RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g

The first novel in the Lindsay Gordon series - a gripping and thrilling page-turner, starring a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' - from the number one bestseller Val McDermid. Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon...

Shimmering writing depicting California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Munoz depicts the...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES**This love is all-consuming It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love...

Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief, addiction and working-class masculinity, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small salt-mining town and exploring the way identity is both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151988Author John RechyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

'We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?''People in authority are always saying you should know your rights, though I've noticed they don't much enjoy...

The brand new book in the bestselling Liverpool-set gangland crime series is OUT NOW 'If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will LOVE [Caz Finlay]' Reader Review Together they stand When Grace Carter's...

It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a young rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don't seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood - himself a former 'Dilly boy' prostitute - finds himself investigating. ...

"A love story like no other" Gay Times"The book is a sensory feast, teeming with vivid detail: the smells of rain-soaked dirt and magnolia blossoms, the flavors of blistered corn and caramelized orange peel, the chill of a walk-in refrigerator." New York...

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited...

Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.'Dazzling... a triumph' ObserverSometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their Buenos Aires prison cell, Molina re-weaves the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959470Author SJ SinduFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc

An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists 'Oozes with erotic tension from the start' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Sublime... I loved this...