21st Century

By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving.'The writing is near perfect. But the novel's excellence goes far beyond this . . . You read [it] . . . with...

'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,...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s.'Graceful, moving' - Daily ExpressThe late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful...

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 9780063051157Author Sj BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Scott King investigates allegations of demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered by two young children. Book six in the spine-tingling, award-winning Six Stories series.'Matt's books are fantastic' Ian Rankin'An...

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower...

Relive the magic of ITV's best loved drama series starring Martin ClunesDoc Martin arrives in the picture postcard fishing village of Portwenn, Cornwall. Once a high-flying London surgeon, his suddenly developed blood phobia means he has to take a job in...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman...

'This wove a spell on me' - Marian Keyes 'F***ing brilliant' - Daisy May Cooper ___________Meet Gosia.She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3...

After 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, 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,...

A 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...

A 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...

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...

Apologies 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

Brought 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 9781913505554Author Derek OwusuFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint And Other StoriesPublisher And Other StoriesWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915179074Author Simon Van Der VeldeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Northodox PressPublisher Northodox Press

Hotel Beresford: a grand old building, just outside the city, where any soul is welcome, and strange goings-on mask explosive, deadly secrets. A chilling, darkly funny sequel to Will Carver's bestselling The Beresford... 'Superbly paced and remarkably...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378398Author Patrick LangleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637773147Author Stephanie LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Red Penguin BooksPublisher Red Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 295g

'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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593655986Author Sunjeev SahotaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 469g