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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043498Author Peter TaitFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveWeight(grams) 156g

In this collection of stories, Bill Naughton portrays a selection of characters, including truck drivers, Irish itinerants and lamp lighters, in his inimitable pithy style. While each tale can be enjoyed on its own, together they provide a wonderful...

Apologies 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

Winner 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...

Discover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through the eyes of those who knew them best. From familiar faces like Mrs Hudson to minor characters like Lomax the sub-librarian, Observations by Gaslight - told through diaries, telegrams, and even grocery...

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative...

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas...

A 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...

James 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...

Down 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...

When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths ... The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed cult author Will Carver.'Totally insane, and I mean that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805081531Author Irina ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420155051Author Mary Jo PutneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Zebra BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

The evil dummy comes to life to tell his own twisted tales and scary stories! Luke Harrison's dad makes horror movies. It's very fun to be around such scary stuff - especially when you have your own monster museum at home...

Can 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...

Carpenter 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199887Author John SaylesFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805081555Author Irina ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Betsy 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...

All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner, an intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own, and, as he begins to find happiness, he commits an act of violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412595383Author Toni MountFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal Publishing

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha - a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners,...

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and...

In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park-an ancient estate that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future.Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and she had...

An aspiring TV journalist faces a shattering moral dilemma and the prospect of losing her career and her life, when she joins an impetuous photographer in the Middle East. A shocking, searingly authentic thriller by award-winning ex-CNN news executive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602184Author Agatha ChristieFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838226664Author William PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Editiones RarioresPublisher Editiones Rariores

'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony BurgessBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975763643Author Meryl Dunton-RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North BankPublisher North BankWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 12mm

'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. BallardNo one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this...

Winner 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...

'Frightening and timely, Bradley's The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again . . .' CHRISTINA DALCHERVox meets The Handmaid's Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984 In Oceania,...

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery...

THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S LewisIn this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915568274Author Robert IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician,...

Longlisted 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063051157Author Sj BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156907392Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 227g