Fiction

Tom Bradby / Yesterday's Spy (Hardback)

Praise for Tom Bradby's 'Gripping ' Sunday Times'Enthralling and fast-moving' Daily Mail'Teems with twists ... imaginative and unexpected' The Times'Cracking' Financial Times'All-too-plausible ' Observer     All of our books are second hand,...

Luther Blissett / Q (Hardback)

In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary...

Thomas Dyja / Play for a Kingdom (Hardback)

When Union soldiers and Rebel troops accidentally cross paths, they decide to put aside the bloodshed and compete in their own way, breaking out the baseball and playing game after game, until the horrors of war once more overwhelm them...

Carrie Bushnell / The Carrie Diaries (Hardback)

'Meet Carrie before the events of Sex In the City'     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Linda Grant / Upstairs at the Party (Hardback)

If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know...

Victoria Blake / Skin And Blister (Hardback)

  When a student is found dead in his rooms at St Barnabas College, Oxford, it looks nothing more than an unfortunate suicide. A week later, when Sam Falconer's brother disappears, Sam begins to see a disturbing connection between the events. Then...

Peter Heller / The River (Hardback)

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Sara Sheridan / London Calling (Hardback)

1952, Brighton. When eighteen-year-old Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club, the prime suspect is a young sax player, Lindon Claremont. He hightails it to Brighton to seek the help of his childhood friend Vesta, who works with...

Robert Dickinson / The Tourist (Hardback)

Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack conspiracy plot; a seductively intriguing work of speculative fiction." ---Kirkus"A novel that's as fresh and compelling as it is high concept....Immensely enjoyable." ---SFX (four...

George Makana Clark / The Raw Man (Hardback)

  It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon's story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which was his...

David Almond / Half a Creature from the Sea : A Life in Stories (Hardback)

In fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand in hand with watery lies…May Malone is said to have a monster in her house, but what Norman finds there may just be the angel he...

Hank Early / Echoes of the Fall (Hardback)

Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets.After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst...

Kevin J. Anderson / The Last Days of Krypton (Hardback)

Before there was Superman...there was Krypton, a doomed world, and two parents who gave us their only son...Everyone knows how Kal-El--Superman--was sent to Earth just before his planet exploded. But what led to such a disaster? Now, in The Last...

Philip McCutchan / Tom Chatto - Apprentice (Hardback)

A tough and adventurous life awaits Tom Chatto as he embarks at Liverpool in the 1890s on his first voyage as an apprentice at sail. He has to learn how to handle the big square-rigged windjammer, go aloft to dizzying heights to tend the sails and cope...

Sean Black / Grid Lock (Hardback)

Set on the streets of LA, a non-stop, action-packed thriller featuring elite body-guard Ryan Lock.Adult movie actress, Raven Lane, is one of the most lusted after women in California, with millions of fans to prove it. But none seem to be more dedicated...

Joyce Carol Oates / Daddy Love (Hardback)

Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to...

Lauran Paine / Tears of the Heart (Hardback)

A runaway orphan in the old West finally finds love and support after a series of false accusations makes him a fugitive from the law     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of...

Patrick Gale / Tree Surgery for Beginners (Hardback)

Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life that he might have dropped from the sky. A true misfit, he grows up happier communing with nature than with people. While he is straightforward, honest,...

Len Deighton / Charity (Hardback)

Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski’s death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was...

Luanne Rice / What Matters Most (Hardback)

What Matters MostSister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past--and the son--they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette's calling led...

Pat Conroy / South of Broad (Hardback)

With over a million hardcovers of this novel sold in the US, Pat Conroy triumphantly returns with his first novel in fourteen years - an irresistible family saga that will reduce readers to tears.     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Nick Brown / The Siege (Hardback) ( Agent of Rome - Book 1 )

270 AD. Rome has ruled Syria for more than three centuries but now the weakened empire faces a desperate threat. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra has turned her Roman-trained army against her former masters and the once invincible legions have been crushed...

Susan Elia MacNeal / The Paris Spy (Hardback)

Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes...

Theodore V. Olsen / Man Without a Past : Frontier Stories (Hardback)

Capturing the excitment of the Wild West, a collection of twelve thrilling tales, from a master of frontier fiction, includes "Man Without a Past," in which a man, suffering from amnesia, arrives on Whippletree Ranch, causing a series of events that...

Mick Twister / There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar: A History of the world in 100 limericks (Hardback)

There is a young fellow named Mick, Who's adapted the old limerick, To cover with mirth, The whole history of Earth, And what made its characters tickThese 100 lively and humorous limericks take us back to before the beginning of time...

Cara Black / Murder in the Latin Quarter (Hardback)

When a Haitian woman arrives at the Paris office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is P.I. Aimée Leduc’s sister, Aimée must dig into her father’s past to solve a murderA virtual orphan since her mother’s desertion...

Roy Lewis / Cardinal Obsession (Hardback)

D.C.I. Cardinal’s plans to smash the gang of his old adversary Gus Clifford are thwarted by the discovery of a dead man in Northumberland. He assigns D.S. Grout to investigate the murder while he continues to lead the hunt for Clifford...

Jane Borodale / The Knot (Hardback)

When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden—a refuge of fruit trees and flower beds, with a knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a scholar, and his life’s...

Steven Brust / Hawk (Vlad Taltos Series - Book 14 ) (Hardback)

Years ago, Vlad Taltos came to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices:...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / Love in Another Town (Hardback)

A young man leaves a broken marriage and his home to find love and fulfillment.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers...

Kevin MacNeil / A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde (Hardback)

After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. He's still a deceitful egoist but now life seems to be deceiving and manipulating him. Everything that can go...

Afsaneh Knight / The Sunshine Years (Hardback)

Do you ever wonder where your life is going?Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning and suddenly be old?You are not alone.Story (that's his name) can feel a middle-youth -- or is that middle-age? -- crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a...

Harlan Coben ( Editor) / The Best American Mystery Stories (Hardback)

HARLAN COBEN PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME WRITINGHand-picked by number one bestselling author Harlan Coben, this definitive anthology showcases the best of this year's crime-writing, from the masters of modern suspense and the stars of the future alike...

Daryl Gregory / Spoonbenders (Hardback)

Meet Matthias Telemachus, Teddy Telemachus, Maureen Telemachus, Irene Telemachus, Frankie Telemachus and Buddy Telemachus! They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

Chris Cavender / Killer Crust (Hardback)

Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi - the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron - walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina pizzeria. But his pizza-making contest seems on the up and up, and sprucing up her beloved pizzeria, A Slice of Delight,...

Danielle Steel / The Ring / Changes / Full Circle (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Michael Sims / The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (Hardback)

The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead...

Olen Steinhauer / All the Old Knives (Hardback)

'This is one of the sparest, most elegant spy novels I have come across in a long time ...Written in glistening prose - with not a word wasted - it proves Steinhauer truly is John le Carre's rightful heir.' Daily Mail Celia used to lie for a living...

Denise Hamilton / Savage Garden (Hardback)

Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a date at the theatre with her new man, Silvio Aguilar. But when the play's beautiful leading lady fails to appear, she learns of the missing woman's complicated past - and of her relationship to Silvio...

Martin Waddell / Tango's Baby (Hardback)

This is a raw, bleak love story that confronts such major issues as urban poverty, teenage pregnancy and the bureaucratic inadequacies of the Welfare State.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Patrick Hoffman / Clean Hands (Hardback)

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on their most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank that's been accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one...

Robert Mawson / The Lazarus Child (Hardback)

It takes just an instant for a family's life to be changed forever. Now seven-year-old Frankie Heywood lies in a coma. The experts are telling her parents there is no hope. Their son is slipping away emotionally. And the Heywoods--their marriage already...

Jonathan Gash / The Judas Pair (Hardback) ( A Lovejoy Novel)

Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series...

Frank Kippax / Other People's Blood (Hardback)

To people like Jessica Roberts and Rory Collins, the bloody, unfolding story of their native Northern Ireland is no more than a somber background to their day-to-day existence.They are young, well-to-do, and attractive. When they fall in love the fact...

Maggie Ross / The Villa Rouge (Hardback)

Morgan Perincall's marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France. Dazed by his desertion, she sends their children west to safety, and leaves London for the dubious sanctuary of her childhood home, the Villa Rouge...

Diana Palmer / Fearless (Hardback)

As Gloryanne's bittersweet miracle and Rodrigo's double life collide, two people learning just what it means to trust must face the truth about each other, and decide if there's a chance for the future they both secretly desire.     All of our...

Jonathan Lynn / Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker: Volume II (Hardback)

This second volume, which as always includes material not in the TV programmes, takes us even deeper into the labyrinth, with behind-the-scenes looks at city scandals, ministerial resignations, arts funding and 'working funerals'. Many literary classics...

Kathy Lette / To Love, Honour and Betray (Hardback)

Another brilliantly funny new work from the Queen of the Quip; the author of the Sunday Times bestseller How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) .Lucy’s been married for so long, her wedding certificate should be in hieroglyphics...

Paul D. Staudohar / Boxing's Best Short Stories (Hardback)

A collection of twenty-two short stories evoking the slap of boxing gloves on sweaty flesh and the fierce shouts from ringside includes the work of Ring Lardner, Nelson Algren, Jack London, Paul Gallico, Ellery Queen, and John O'Hara.     All...

Jane Feaver / An Inventory of Heaven (Hardback)

The few years Mavis Gaunt spent in the village of Shipleigh, Devon, as a wartime evacuee - away from London and her parents' loveless marriage - were sufficient for her to conceive of the place as a heavenly retreat. But it is not until her twenties,...

Sarah Matthias / Tom Fletcher and the Angel of Death (Hardback)

When Brother Benedict is found dead in Saint Wilfred's beast House, eaten by Delilah, the lion he kept to terrorise the people of St Agnes-next-the-Sea, there is no shortage of suspects. Young novice Tom Fletcher has no choice but to investigate...

Penelope Lively / How It All Began (Hardback)

When . . .Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which...