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Author shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award 2023' for A Mother's WarNorth Yorkshire, September 1940. It's a year since war was first announced and the dangers are becoming all too real for Rosina Calvert-Lazenby...

The Hidden Wife by Joanna Rees is the second novel in A Stitch in Time - a sweeping historical trilogy.Paris, 1928Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915953025Author Catherine HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Mirador PublishingPublisher Mirador PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.' Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest...

Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones.'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come...

The Brooklands Girls is the heartfelt sequel to The Poppy Girls from Margaret Dickinson, the bestselling 'Queen of Saga' (Daily Express)It is the early 1920s and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her...

Her heart longs for peace, but peace won't keep them safe. Brielle Durand is still haunted by the massacre that killed her mother a dozen years before. Vowing to never let it happen again, she's risen to be the key defender for her people's...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of the most powerful...

A desperate act to save her family . . .Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. Heartbroken, she heads into the night to deliver her baby girl to the Farthing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837905515Author Verity BrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 17mm

Far from home, will she fight for freedom?21-year-old Alix is studying in Paris, far away from Sasha, her Serbian father and Leonora, her English mother, as World War Two breaks out. Finding hope even in troubled times, romance sparks with fellow student...

The first novel in the sensational Bow Street series from New York Times bestselling historical romance author Lisa Kleypas tells the story of a scandalous beauty with no memory of who she is and the man determined to unravel the secrets of her past . . ...

Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years -...

A Sunday Times Bestseller England's Forgotten Queens 'O'Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.'-The Times Widow Lady Katherine Swynford presents...

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From the bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910944530Format PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Derek BirksPublisher Derek BirksWeight(grams) 129g

Discover Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!September, 1940.With harvest approaching, land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she ploughs the fields and tends to the animals with her friends Sal and Charlie. All three girls enjoy the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ' This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's...

A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War Two in Spy, by the world's favourite storyteller Danielle Steel.Alexandra Wickham is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a...

'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII's much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel! Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three? 1918World War One is over. But Clara's fight for her family is only just beginning... 1947Clara's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.About the AuthorBorn in Dublin in 1856, George Bernard...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill' - Literary Review 'A Triumph of suspense' - Guardian Saltire...

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739100964Author Ann BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Andaman PressPublisher Andaman PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 20mm

The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. The Pull of the Stars is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. 'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' -...

The second novel in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy, a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. By Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living...

Living in their two-up-two-down in Rotherhithe in 1938, Eileen and Ronald Wells lead a happy and settled existence with their three daughters, all of whom have jobs, boyfriends and promising lives ahead of them. But soon the storm clouds of war engulf...

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From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England.It's mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her...

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Book threein the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy millwoner, Frederick Hallam. But not everyone is as pleased as they...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes this stunning new novel... Barbara Erskine returns with a gripping new novel in 2024... Cadi's pen was in her hand, her mind in the past with Elen... She ran her fingers...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482588Author Emma Campbell WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

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The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, has left this refuge to find his own salvation ...Flavian was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999865023Author Annemarie BrearFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Annemarie BrearPublisher Annemarie BrearWeight(grams) 245g

The brand new Railway Girls novel set in Manchester during WWII. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell, Daisy Styles and Margaret Dickinson.___________________Readers LOVE the Railway Girls: 'Gripping and intriguing''Great story lines''Exceptional story . . ...

By Royal invitation, join us to celebrate The Royal Show!Prodigal son and loyal daughter...The Forsyth Variety Company has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to entertain Her Majesty at 1962's Royal Variety Performance.Keen to rehearse, the...