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Scapegallows by Carol Birch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.66This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life... -
Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.84Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester,... -
Little Sister by Carol Birch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.39She's come to steal my thunder again, hasn't she? Dying, my foot. She's probably just being dramatic. Dying for dramatic effect. She would.' Cathy Wren, aged 37, lives alone in a small... -
Orphans of the Carnival Carol Birch 9781782116561
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden.Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico. She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her... -
Life In The Palace Carol Birch 9781844088003
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Kinnaird Buildings, a tenement block in Waterloo, was once quality. Now ancient and blackened, it houses a fringe community of the feckless, the light-fingered, the addicted, who ignore the thuds and... -
Cold Boy's Wood by Carol Birch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author... -
Jamrach's Menagerie Carol Birch 9781847676573
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.05SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And... -
Shadow Girls by Carol Birch 9781838939472
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester,... -
Turn Again Home by Carol Birch 9781860499784
Booksplease Price: £21.69Gorton, Manchester. 1930. Greyhound racing at Belle Vue, the buses going up and down Hyde Road, the siren of Peacock's foundry going off every night at six. This is Bessie and Sam Holloway's place,... -
The Naming Of Eliza Quinn Carol Birch 9781844081462
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This is an extraordinarily haunting novel, inspired by a true story. In the late 1960s, in the hollow of an ancient oak tree beyond a derelict cottage in Cork, were found the bones of a... -
Cold Boy's Wood by Carol Birch 9781838939427
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £5.93Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author... -
Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel by Carol Birch 9780307743176
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults 2011. Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2011.Book... -
Come Back, Paddy Riley by Carol Birch 9781844087983
Booksplease Price: £18.18Anita's mother was the mermaid in the Belle Vue Fair Freak Show. Into their lives came Paddy Riley, a young Irish lad whose motto was 'the only crime in life is not to take up a good opportunity'... -
The Whole Story Handbook: Using Imagery to Complete the Story Experience by Carol Birch 9780874835663
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874835663Author Carol BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint August House PublishersPublisher... -
Remember, Mr Sharma by A. P. Firdaus
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.62'Charming and endearing . . . a moving story about the past and the shadow it forever leaves on the present'Huma Qureshi, author of Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love'Sublime . . . A fantastic... -
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She Rises by Kate Worsley 9781408835920 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.59_______________'A rollicking story of love and adventure ... This is a fresh take on historical fiction; enjoyably witty and playful' - The Times'The compelling story centres on a dairymaid starting... -
The Cardinal's Man by M. G. Sinclair
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Gritty and lively... a colourful depiction of 17th century France'- CAROL BIRCH, author of Jamrach's MenagerieA SPELLBINDING TALE SET IN CARDINAL RICHELIEU'S FRANCEWith enemies advancing on all... -
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of... -
Dubliners James Joyce 9781786896162
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In 'Araby' a young boy struggles with everyday tasks in the face of a... -
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan Labyrinth, the Minotaur - or M as he is known to his colleagues - is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping his horns down, trying in... -
Dot by Araminta Hall 9780007487813
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The remarkable new novel from the bestselling author of Everything and Nothing 'An emotionally compelling and deeply moving novel - I loved it' Daisy Goodwin ... -
An Ordinary Youth: A Novel by Walter Kempowski 9781783788842
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.23A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel is a sensorial coming of age story during the years of World War II and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life... -
The Last Banquet Jonathan Grimwood 9780857868817
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Jean-Marie Charles d'Aumout is many things. Orphan, soldier, diplomat, spy, lover. And chef.This is his story.We meet Jean-Marie d'Aumout as a penniless orphan eating beetles by the side of a road... -
An Ordinary Youth: A Novel Walter Kempowski 9781783788866
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings... -
The Best British Short Stories 2012 by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These stories first...