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Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: €19.03€13.82After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press... -
Day's End and Other Stories by H. E. Bates 9781448215546
RRP: €15.46€12.89Day's End and Other Stories, H. E. Bates's first short story collection published in 1928 when he was just 23, depicts the rural lives of quirky characters cast in his distinctive, beautifully drawn style. Each story has a youthful quality,... -
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
RRP: €13.08€9.25An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A... -
Vets Might Fly by James Herriot 9780330443586
RRP: €13.08€9.17A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, Vets Might Fly,... -
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes 9780099540090
RRP: €11.89€9.03Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising... -
Adam Bede by George Eliot 9781857150599
RRP: €14.27€10.51Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to... -
Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley
RRP: €11.89€8.46Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. He escapes to Florence in order to learn about life. His education there, thanks to the contradictory influences of... -
The Moonstone by William Wilkie Collins
RRP: €23.80€17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602177Author William Wilkie CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89€8.46Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married... -
Ginger, You're Barmy by David Lodge
RRP: €13.08€9.25When 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... -
The Heiress Bride by Madeline Hunter
RRP: €9.51€6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420150018Author Madeline HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Zebra BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing -
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €13.08€9.25At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He... -
Starlight by Stella Gibbons
RRP: €11.89€9.13Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown... -
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89€8.46The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate... -
The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: €11.89€8.46On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured... -
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley
RRP: €9.51€7.52The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its... -
So Pretty by Ronnie Turner
RRP: €11.89€8.29A young man arrives in a small town, hoping to leave his past behind him, but when he takes a job in a peculiar old shop, and meets a lonely single mother, everything changes ... with devastating consequences. A chillingly hypnotic gothic thriller and a... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: €13.08€9.17'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the... -
Parables, Fables, Nightmares: 2023 by Malachi McIntosh 9781915628190
RRP: €10.70€7.54A man jumps, the platform empties, then the stories begin. Filled with tales of tragedy, love, hope and frustration, Malachi McIntosh's debut collection of short stories offers surreal and satirical accounts of the many perils of contemporary life... -
The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
RRP: €11.89€8.46Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is... -
Liza Of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: €11.89€8.46Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the... -
Suicide Thursday by Will Carver
RRP: €11.89€7.63A disenchanted man struggles to get beyond the first chapter of the books he's writing, and to separate fact from fiction in his own life. His friend's suicide changes everything ... The mind-blowing, heart-rending new thriller from cult bestselling... -
Making Happy by Sheetal Sheth 9781646866236
RRP: €9.51€6.89When Leila's mother gets sick, lots of things change for her family. But one important thing stays the same: they still have each other, and they know how to find joy and laughter when they need it most! The poetic, uplifting story and hopeful ending are... -
The Gull Yettin by Joe Kessler
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377391Author Joe KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Landed by Tim Pears
RRP: €19.03€13.82Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. As an adult he moves to an English city where he... -
The The Mayor of Casterbridge. by Thomas Hardy 9781912714957
RRP: €23.80€17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912714957Author Thomas HardyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Evangelista's Fan by Rose Tremain
RRP: €11.89€8.46'A master class in the art of storytelling' ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain's talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title story, Evangelista's Fan, is set in a disturbing dreamlike version of... -
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
RRP: €11.89€8.46Classic 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... -
A Room With a View by E M Forster
RRP: €22.60€16.20Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Italy for the first time, dependent on a Baedeker travel guide and her stern chaperone, Miss Bartlett. As she explores Florence, Lucy realises the constraints of her middle-class upbringing and finds herself attracted to... -
The Shadow Child by Rachel Hancox 9781529157321
RRP: €10.70€7.68Can you ever escape from the shadows of your past?'I couldn't put it down!' Sam Blake'The narrative is multi-layered and bound by emotional integrity.' Candis'A compelling story of love, relationships, and the grief of two families suffering traumatic... -
A Cupboard Full of Coats: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Yvvette Edwards 9781851688388
RRP: €10.70€7.68Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year He just knocked, that was all, knocked at the front door and waited, like the fourteen years since the night I'd killed my mother hadn't... -
The Pothunters by P.G. Wodehouse
RRP: €15.46€10.82Celebrating 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse with his very first novel.'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.'Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson, a... -
The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
RRP: €10.70€7.68It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair... -
Spring by David Szalay
RRP: €10.70€7.68James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in... -
British Weird by James Machin
RRP: €15.46€10.98Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Womens Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the 1890s and the 1930s. Embracing the famous and the... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781914602245
RRP: €23.80€17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602245Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
RRP: €19.03€13.82Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to... -
Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough 9781496746368
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496746368Author Patrice McDonoughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing -
The Poacher's Daughter: The Heartwarming Page-turner From One of the UK's Favourite Saga Writers by Margaret Dickinson
RRP: €23.80€17.01'I'm going to live in that house, Dad. One day I'll be mistress of Thornsby Manor . . .'It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Young Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby estate. The... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Marta Maszkiewicz) by Lewis Carroll 9781950321407
RRP: €11.89€9.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.