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The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's Sunday Times Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593311318Author P. J. VernonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD'Habib's debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush' Clive BarkerThirty-three-year-old Todd is playing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of an approaching figure. Instantly, he recognizes...

The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced' Salon____________________A touching portrait of friendship,...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but...

As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity. Frustrated and unfulfilled, a product of the bourgeoisie he will grow to despise, he has...

The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places. 'It's as fun as it is thoughtful: a tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy - big or small...

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and...

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...

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush,It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't stop thinking about the time we almost...Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on...

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Four devastating tales from a master of...

'Exceptional' Sarah Hilary 'Don't be ordinary, Leo. Passion has its price.' 1883. Two young people have been killed near Portsmouth's docks. When journalist and amateur detective Leo Stanhope arrives, the police have already dismissed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739463410Author Ross J KinnairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Power of Love SeriesPublisher Power of Love SeriesWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Meet Gilbert and Moira - the strangest couple to ever marry for each other's money. Living in New York in 1991 is Gilbert Selwyn, a young man possessed of boundless charm and an allergy to employment, who has devised a plan to wring a nice pile of loot...

'Full of warmth, humour and courage and I absolutely loved it!' RUTH HOGANA charming, joyful and surprising story about love, friendship and learning to be true to yourself, Becoming Ted will steal your heart.Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his...

It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, and at...

Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.Book...

A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Bad Dirt' is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each...

Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of his...

WINNER OF THE 2016 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZEAn Elle Book of the YearAn Independent Book of the YearOne to Watch Independent on SundayA Bookseller Best Debut of 2015One to Watch 2015 Huffington PostAn...

An introverted English professor's quiet life gets turned upside down when he falls for a dangerous, enigmatic sophomore. Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his second...

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.'A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly' Edmund...

Fergusson has already won two awards for this gripping and atmospheric debut, a thriller set amid the rubble of a defeated Berlin in 1945...Original and highly accomplished' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022'Remarkable' - Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn'Like Finnegans Wake, only readable' - The TimesIn A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are...

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...

** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached...

'Funny, touching and fabulous... a little slice of queer joy' Julie Cohen, author of Together'Hilarious, tender, raw, and heart-stoppingly moving' Amanda Eyre Ward, author of The Jetsetters'Properly laugh-out-loud, bitingly funny' Laura Kay, author of...

'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching, honest and riveting. A book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break one Iranian-American familyThree young brothers leave Los...

Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic' by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing...

The first openly nonbinary contestant on America's favourite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this delicious romantic comedy debut!'Sweet and sexy and wholly delicious. I'm head over heels for these two delightful disasters . . . Anita...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732037113Author Delphia BaisdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Delphia BaisdenPublisher Delphia BaisdenWeight(grams) 299g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496750457Author Bart YatesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the...

'A thrilling, heart-stealing historic romp and achingly romantic.' M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood 'A heartwarming tale of forbidden love that captured my heart from its opening...

Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice,...

An entertaining, warm and quirky novel of families, secrets and the truth of love - 'A powerful and moving novel' Independent on SundayJudith shares her life with her partner Joanna on the lonely wilds of Bodmin Moor, far from the memories and trauma of...

'A beautiful book so filled with sharp longing and perfectly phrased vulnerability that I read it in a reverent hush' Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby'Exceptional . . . has flashes of Sally Rooney's CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS, or Halle...

One of the Today Show’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 A timeless, epic novel about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond.Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861207Author Caio Fernando AbreuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books