Fiction

Paul Dickson / The Complete Book of Toasts (Large Paperback)

  Anyone who has ever faced a sea of expectant faces will instantly recognise the value of this book of to asts. It provides the perfect phrase or sentiment for every occasion, some humorous and some grave and serious...

Robin Sloan / Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore (Large Paperback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 DEBUT CATEGORY - KITCHIES PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD FOR FIRST FICTIONA New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely...

Kelley Armstrong / Bitten : Number 1 in series (Large Paperback)

  Elena Michaels is a model woman for the 21st century: self-assured, intelligent, fit. She's also the only female werewolf in the world. Transformed against her will a decade ago, it's only a year since she decided to live as a human. Now she...

Jeffery Deaver / The Broken Window : Lincoln Rhyme Book 8 (Large Paperback)

  Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people has been wrongly convicted because the true killer knows every single...

Karin Fossum / The Water's Edge (Large Paperback)

  Walking through the woods one warm September day, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Unusually in a small town, he does not return Kristine's smile and drives off in a hurry. Near the end of their walk they...

Peter Rushforth / Pinkertons Sister (Large Paperback)

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Emma Chapman / The Last Photograph (Large Paperback)

 He walks into the living room and June is dead.He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say that he had acted without thinking, out of instinct.Rook Henderson is an...

Oscar Wilde / The Little Book of Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

  This charming anthology celebrates Oscar Wilde’s literary achievement, one hundred years after the artist’s death. A selection of quotations on love, men, women, friendship, temptation, and other tortuous preoccupations is provided, along with...

Richard Wilson / Can't Be Arsed (Hardback)

 Books, television shows and websites are forever ordering us around - 100 things to do before you're 30; 50 albums you must own; this year's must-have handbag; change your life in two weeks. Why - is this an increasingly desperate search for...

Christopher Matthew / Now We Are Sixty and a Bit (Hardback)

  Barely had the first copies of Christopher Matthew's 'Now We Are Sixty' landed in the bookshops when people started to ask when he was going to write a sequel. To his surprise the temptation to try his hand at a few more poems (particularly...

John O'Donohue / Conamara Blues (Hardback)

 In this new collection of poetry, John O'Donohue explores the natural and emotional landscape of his native Conamara, revealing a pastoral vision that is both personal and universal, mystical and of this world. O'Donohue's instinctive awareness of...

Sarah Lovett / Dangerous Attachments (Hardback)

 In her work within the justice system, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has dealt with some of the most twisted and depraved minds ever documented. Now, one of those minds wants to deal with her.Lucas Watson has escaped from prison. A...

Arthur Quiller-Couch ( Editor) - Oxford Book of English Prose - HB - 1948 ( Originally 1925)

A selection of prose in English, from Chaucer to Rupert Brooke, hardcover published by OUP/ Clarendon Press, originally published in 1925.  1092 pages, previous owners name in pencil to blank front endpaper, ( which shows moderate to heavy age...

Mohammed Hanif / A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Hardback)

 There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go...

Stella Rimington / Close Call (Hardback)

 The international arms trade is about to become a national problem...In 2012, in a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. At the time he was infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been...

Julia Gregson / Monsoon Summer (Hardback)

 Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood flees to Wickam Farm to recuperate. There she throws herself into helping Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India.Daisy's plan is fraught with danger. With...

Lynda La Plante / Buried (Hardback)

 SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN BURIED . . .The gripping first book in a brand new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.__________________DC Jack Warr and his girlfriend Maggie have just moved to London to start a new life...

Tessa Hadley / Late in the Day

 'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their...

June Francis / Many a Tear Has To Fall

 Will a new romance only lead to more heartbreak?With her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to decide what to do with the rest of her...

Grace Monroe / Dark Angels

 How far would you go to protect your past? How much further to protect someone else's?The start of a thrilling Edinburgh-based series starring rebellious young lawyer Brodie McLennan.A celebrated Edinburgh lawyer is found murdered outside an...

Michael Spring / Running for Shelter

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Frank Muir / The Walpole Orange

 William Grundwick has a problem. As secretary of the Walpole Club he's duty-bound to arrange whatever function the Events Committee decides is appropriate to celebrate the Club's 250th birthday. It's just that what they have decided upon seems to...

Owen Whittaker / A Little Trouper

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Adam Thorpe / Still

  Outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past...'...

Clare Flynn / A Greater World

 The journey is just the beginning...Elizabeth Morton, born into a prosperous family, and Michael Winterbourne, a miner, come from different worlds but when they each suffer unspeakable and life-changing tragedy they're set on a path that...

John Ironmonger / The Coincidence Authority

 For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This...

Bob Champion / Champion's Story

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Alex Gray / Only the Dead Can Tell : Book 15 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series

 ***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series***Whether you've read them all or whether this is your first Lorimer novel, ONLY THE DEAD CAN TELL is perfect if you love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and...

Caroline Tiger / The Newlywed's Instruction Manual

  "The Newlywed's Instruction Manual" is the perfect follow-up to Bride and Groom and a natural companion to "The Home Owner's Manual". And like these fun and informative guides, our latest offering covers all the touchy topics that accompany...

Dag Solstad / Professor Andersen's Night

 It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street.Professor Andersen...

Vanessa Savage / The Woods

 'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood'Tense and creepy . . . brilliant' Harriet Tyce'Hooks readers in and keeps them dangling will the very last page' Daily Mail'Without a doubt the best book I've read this year' Reader Review *****'Spine-chilling in...

Alastair Campbell / Saturday Bloody Saturday

 Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work, but tensions are running close to the surface ahead of the next round: Chelsea away.Footballers fall...

Kate Bradley / To Keep You Safe

 For fans of What You Did and The Dilemma comes a nail-biting suspense thriller that asks: how far would you go to save a child that isn't yours?You don't know who they are. You don't know why they're hunting her. But you know she's in danger.What...

Kay Langdale / The Way Back to Us

 'Kay Langdale has got the knack of writing books that you carry on sitting in an empty carriage for a few extra minutes to finish, to stay a little longer with her characters' Lucy Dillon (author of A Hundred Pieces of Me)'There's no doubt Langdale...

Rosemary Goodacre / Until We Meet Again

 The Great War drove them apart - but love kept them togetherSummer 1914: Shy young woman, Amy Fletcher, lives a quiet life in Sussex. An office worker, she lives at home, along with her parents and spirited younger brother, Bertie. But her life is...

M. C. Beaton / Death of a Macho Man

 The unconventional Hamish Macbeth finds that his own impetuousness places him at the center of a murder investigation. Everyone in the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh called Randy Duggan 'the Macho Man'. Duggan went around the village and...

Charles McCarry / The Shanghai Factor

 An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper.He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shanghai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over...

John Cheever / Falconer

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Kathleen Rooney / Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk

  In 2011, with poets Dave Landsberger and Eric Plattner, Rooney co-founded the Chicago not-for-profit poetry collective Poems While You Wait, which composes typewritten poetry on demand at local libraries, street & music festivals, museums,...

Amanda Craig / The Lie of the Land

 A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR.' A very good read indeed' Matt Haig'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years'...

Robert McLiam Wilson / Eureka Street (Hardback)

  By the author of "Ripley Bogle", this is a story of love set against the backdrop of Belfast. The mysterious letters "OTG" start appearing all over the city. The IRA and UVF issue death threats, but when Jake discovers the meaning, he too...

India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback)

  'One day someone came back from half-term with Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin...Well. Well. The book briskly did the rounds, getting tattier and tattier with each reading. Mouths dropped open in shock. Eyes popped with disbelief. Did people...

Joe Lovejoy / Sevn Goran Eriksson (Hardback)

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Josephine Hart / Sin (Hardback)

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Polly Williams / The Egg Race (Hardback)

  Stevie Jonson is thirty-four. She's broody. And she's set to marry not-quite the-man-of-her-dreams in two weeks' time. Just as the reality of her marriage sinks in, Stevie's path collides with that of Katy Norris, a thirty-six-year-old...

Julian Barnes / The Only Story (Hardback)

 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about...

Scott Turow / The Laws of Our Fathers (Hardback)

  Der Sohn eines Politikers ist des Mordes angeklagt. Im Gerichtssaal treten sich sowohl auf seiten des Gerichts, als auch der Verteidigung, der Presse und des Publikums Menschen gegenüber, die sich alle seit den wilden 68ern von einem...

Melissa Hill / Keep You Safe (Hardback)

 'If you like Jodi Picoult try Melissa Hill'Woman & Home'I was completely gripped' Sarah Morgan'Brimming with powerful issues'Evening Post'This emotive story will touch your heart'My WeeklyGood mother or bad ... who decides?Widowed nurse Kate...

Garrison Keillor / Lake Wobegon Days (Hardback)

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Charlotte Roche / Wetlands (Hardback)

 With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.Since its debut in...

Jim Maloney / The Husbands' Book : For the Husband Who's Best at Everything (Hardback)

  Marriage is one of the oldest and most respected of all our traditions. "The Husbands' Book" is a lighthearted celebration of the role of beloved husbands. From their penchant for DIY - however ill-advised - and knowledge of all things to do...

Stella Rimington / At Risk (Hardback)

  At a weekly anti-terrorist meeting, Liz Carlyle, MI5 Intelligence Officer, goes on alert when it is reported that an 'invisible', an unidentified British terrorist, has entered the country. This is the first indicator that something bad may be...