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Monument to Murder is Maria Hannah's fourth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. He selects. They die . . . When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland's rugged coastline, DCI Kate...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF 2022 In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex countryside, seven people have seen more than they should... The new chilling thriller from Lesley Thomson. In a small community James Ritchie was looking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594933011Author Gerri HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bella BooksPublisher Bella Books

Recently bereaved Jamie is staying at a rural steading in the heart of Scotland with his actor boyfriend Alex. The sudden loss of both of Jamie's parents hangs like a shadow over the trip. In his grief, Jamie finds himself sifting through bittersweet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953368256Author Aaron FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise. In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the...

THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE BESTSELLING FIREWATCHING 'Hard-hitting' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Comparable with the best of Michael Connelly's Bosch books and James Lee Burke's Robicheaux novels, and - naturally - Ian Rankin' AJ...

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal...

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...

Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher's Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years - an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem: everyone thinks he's a girl...

MAX WALKER - BLUE-EYED BOY OR GIRL NEXT DOOR?'Terrific. A poignant, brave and important book. - S J WATSON'A gripping read. Tarttelin is a natural storyteller' MATT HAIG'Tarttelin broaches the topic of intersexuality bravely, describes the crimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954857230Author Lucy LennoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lucy Lennox LLCPublisher Lucy Lennox LLCWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A CLASSIC OF GAY LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME A CULT SENSATION! San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her...

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988260730Author Keira AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Ka BooksPublisher Ka BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Prix Premiere 2017 (Belgium) and Prix Emmanuel-Robles 2017 (France) and LIRE Best Debut Novel 2016 (France) and Prix du Style 2016 (France) and Prix de la Porte...

September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of...

The Prize-winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a...

Bittersweet and startling, A SWEET OBSCURITY is a novel of childhood, love and the consequences of how lives are lived. 'Intriguing and impressive. A memorable study of a child forced cruelly, even tragically, to grow up too soon' Sunday TimesSince her...

'Hilarious, mordant, moving and rude, a yuletide delight' The Guardian'Very relatable, chaotic Christmassy rom-com' CosmopolitanWhen three very different siblings, Fern, Rowan and Willow, go home for a Christmas reunion at their family home in Edinburgh,...

Run.Moonlight slants through the trees on the ancestral Dunlow estate, where a young woman runs for her life. Gunshots break the silence.The next morning, the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found.DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594931475Author Gerri HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bella BooksPublisher Bella Books

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.An Evening Standard 'Best New Book' 'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' Brit Bennett, author...

'An emotional landslide of a novel that kept me gripped from first page to last.' Clare Lydon, best-selling author of Before You Say I Do 'A compelling story of second chances and being true to yourself.'-Harper Bliss, bestselling author of...

The road to happiness is full of surprises The last place Darcy Evans wanted to find herself was on a road trip with her estranged mother, Marja. She's busy launching her business,...

The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on...

From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will 'break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy.' Rumaan AlamGrowing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took...

Welcome one and all-to the fabulous life and times of Sasaki, Miyano, and their closest companions! Ever wondered how Kuresawa met his girlfriend? Want to find out if Miyano and Kuresawa were always friends? Or contemplated just why Miyano and Hirano are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933110301Author Ali ValiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Bold Strokes BooksPublisher Bella Books

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. ...

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives...

The emperor of China holds a competition to find out which child will be the next emperor. Can Chen win? Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at...

Killing for Keeps is Maria Hannah's fifth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. It's in the blood . . .Two brothers from the same criminal family die within hours of each other, five miles apart, one on the edge of a Newcastle industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616209360Author Silas HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377643Author Pier Paolo PasoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Pre-order the new sharp, hilarious Justin Myers novel, LEADING MAN, now!'Funny, beautifully observed and moving' Adam Kay*****Two brothers. Two different journeys. The same hope of a magnificent future.At twenty-nine, Jake D'Arcy has finally got his life...

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae BurnetAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble,...

"A work of earnest, grounded, and ultimately hopeful testimony of selfhood at the brink." -Ocean Vuong 1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988260754Author Keira AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Ka BooksPublisher Ka BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going-and...