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When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody...

The second novel of the visceral Divided Kingdom series sees the action turn westwards to Bristol, where a Royalist army is determined to wrest the city from the forces of Parliament.Once again, the story revolves around the vicious enmity of the Reeve...

Classic crime, at its very best.With a new introduction by Gyles Brandreth.The Red House is a country residence far removed from the world of the Hundred Acre Wood but its story has much of the same charm and wit. There is, of course, a murder, and when...

The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet. While the...

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. During his decades spent as a country vet in Yorkshire, James Herriot has seen huge advances in medical science, technological leaps, and...

The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Winner of the Booker PrizeShe will change the way you see the world . . . 'I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded' The TimesElizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618391110Author J R R TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1474gDimensions(mm)...

Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success...

The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places. PAPERBACK EDITION CONTAINS EXCLUSIVE BONUS CHAPTER, 'MUDDY DOES THE FULL MONTY'. 'It's as fun as it is thoughtful: a tender and generous novel about...

The start of a new historical 4-part series from MJ Porter focusing on events around the great battle of Brunanburh** In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.**AD925 Athelstan is the king of the English, uniting the petty kingdoms of Wessex,...

*** PRE-ORDER ZERO DAYS, COMING IN PAPERBACK SPRING 2024 *** 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' Lucy FoleyEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah...

Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684129058Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 1318gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602269Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles...

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces,...

Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool... Shockingly candid and brutally poetic, Helen Walsh has created a portrait of a...

**AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**Discover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The...

'So pacy and addictive. Just brilliant!' - Claire Douglas, author of The Couple at No.9The House Hunt is a heart-pounding, claustrophobic thriller from C. M. Ewan, acclaimed author of The Interview, A Window Breaks and the half-a-million-copy bestseller...

When it isn't prison, it's hell.Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES**This love is all-consumingIt 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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD 2023'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book...

A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career.Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying...

'A perfect detective for our time' Stephen Fry No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses. Can DS Cross prove it was murder? THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross doesn't rely on guesswork and he has no time for false assumptions. He is a detective who...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder. For even on the day when she has promised to forsake...

'One of my favourite writers' Nina StibbeDetermined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s LondonHow do you find the courage to make your own life?Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his...

'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' ObserverA wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures...

How can you find your soul mate, when you don't have a soul? Iris lives in a world ruled by The Order. Inspectors police the population by keeping careful watch over people's souls. If they shine their...

Uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman through the history of Britain's World War II spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris to save her family's reputation.Caroline Payne thinks it's just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913419554Author Patricia DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Bloodhound BooksPublisher Bloodhound Books

A Blandings novelWhen the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684129065Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 1232Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 1433gDimensions(mm)...

A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its many aspects, as embodied in a...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and...

Pre-order HOLMES & MORIARTY - the clever and intriguing new crime mystery from Sunday Times bestselling author Gareth Rubin, out in hardback Autumn 2024. 'The Turnglass is a bold, breathtaking piece of writing that absolutely nails its two books in one...

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them - from a Balkan exile to Ken's old flame and the siblings' own raffish...

Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story...

The gripping and dark book club debut with a compelling voice at its centre.*THE GUARDIAN 2021 BEST CRIME AND THRILLER PICK*'Gorgeously written' PANDORA SYKES'I loved this book' CLARE MACKINTOSH'A darkly dazzling debut . . . gripping' LISA...