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The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916469464Author Downie, RuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Grampus PressPublisher Grampus PressWeight(grams) 473gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

The second book Patrick O'Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean. As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on Anson's expedition round the world - the Wager. Parted from...

The Allies have landed, the liberation of Europe has begun.In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears.In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with...

Sworn Brother by Tim Severin is the thrilling second volume in the Viking trilogy - an epic adventure in a world full of Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles.London, 1019: a few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish...

Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of...

'Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours' - Emilia Hart, author of WeywardIn deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . .London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared.Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527220386Format PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Paul HumphreysPublisher Paul Humphreys

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538721087Author Steve BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954123021Author Gary McAvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Literati EditionsPublisher Literati EditionsWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

From the battlefields of conquest to the Roman mob, Aulus Severus must use all his wits to survive in this thrilling Roman historical adventureAD 69: Aulus Caecina Severus has thrown in his lot with the hedonistic Vitellius, preparing his legions for a...

A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN'A whole lot more than just a spy thriller, wrapping together the ties of family, of love and of country' BARACK OBAMA'There...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994536433Author Johanna CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Artyficial DreamsPublisher Artyficial DreamsWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVELGeorge Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062282576Author Ariana FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2024 Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance. She will be Queen. Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king. Descendant of powerful druids. Destined to take her place in history. As a child,...

Meet Flavia: Mystery Solver. Master Poisoner. 11 Years Old.England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her older sisters.Then a dead bird is left on the doorstep,...

Chosen as one of the best books of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday'The master storyteller returns with a nail-biter every bit as good as Kane and Abel - utterly enthralling' - Joanna LumleyHeads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master...

'[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of FyneshadeLondon, 1870.Lucy Braithwhite lives a privileged existence...

Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain...'Wonderful, distinct characters' Conn IgguldenCenturion Faustus Valerianus marched with Julius Agricola on his six-year campaign to conquer the north of Britain. With Agricola now returned to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492647584Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

Can Jack West unravel the ancient secrets of the Five Greatest Warriors and save the world?With the end of the world fast approaching, Jack West must rebuild the final pieces of the fabled, ancient 'Machine' - the only thing that can prevent global...

Hamburg, 1947. Adam is a young British lawyer is posted to the destroyed city to assist in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, an exhausting, soul-destroying and demoralising task. He falls in love with a German prostitute during a time of...

The thrilling new historical adventure in the Warrior of Rome series from Sunday Times bestseller Harry Sidebottom.*** 'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman legions: unassailable' - THE TIMES...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214331Author Andrew GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803142463Author Dianne HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

For whatever we lose, it is our self we find in the sea.'The best swashbuckler of the year ... There are echoes of Horatio Hornblower in Nightingale's introspection and doubts. The gay love story is beautifully written and the evocation of life on board...

The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... 'A compelling story of divided loyalties and family betrayals. Dramatic...

In 1298, Edward I of England invaded Scotland and brutally sacked the town of Berwick, razing to the ground the Red House of the Flemings who had permission to trade there. He little knew his action would have far-reaching repercussions.A year later,...

***BEST CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES******CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMES***'Brings the obsessional dread of James Ellroy to 1940s London.' IAN RANKIN'Extraordinary...a career-defining performance.' THE SUNDAY TIMES'This is crime...

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!THE EAGLE IN THE SAND is the action-packed seventh novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell. 'Scarrow's [novels] rank with the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN'A triumph . . . leaves the reader hungry for more' Andrew TaylorAutumn, 1728. Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks in their home above the Cocked Pistol, Kitty's wickedly disreputable bookshop. But when Tom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995645639Author Suzy HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Avis PressPublisher Avis PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected . . . A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912946198Author Andrew Neil MacleodFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Burning Chair LimitedPublisher Burning Chair Publishing

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. In addition to the other...

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Wanted: a double-crossing and...

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. An international mission...