Fiction

June Francis / Mersey Girl

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Meg Rosoff / Jonathan Unleashed

 Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. At least his two...

David Hosp / The Betrayed

  Washington D.C. A woman is found murdered in her own home; her throat slit, her corpse brutalised, subjected to the most appalling torture before she died. A piece of incriminating evidence leads to the swift arrest of a local drug dealer. Case...

Marilyn Duckworth / The Matchbox House

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David Abbott / The Upright Piano Player

  Henry Cage seemed to have it all. A successful business career, considerable wealth, and a reputation for being a just and principled man. But public virtues can conceal private failings, and as Henry faces retirement, his well-ordered life...

Alison Wong / As the Earth Turns Silver

 It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and,...

AKIDWA / Her Story: Migration Stories of African Women

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Gerard Murphy / Death without Trace

  It is a dark December evening and Michael A. Madigan, brewery foreman and part-time private investigator, is raging at the world. Recently separated he desperately needs to brighten up the mid-winter days. So when the sexy wife of a professor...

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum / Ms Hempel Chronicles

 Ms Beatrice Hempel, English teacher, is new - new to teaching, new to her school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it...

Rachel Billington / The Garish Day

  Born to a diplomat father and a mystically inclined mother, Henry glides through public school, Oxford and the Foreign Office with the same ease and elegance that characterise his numerous love affairs and, at first, his marriage to...

Katherine V. Forrest / An Emergence of Green

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Gary William Murning / If I Never

  Price is used to living within the shadow of threatening friend George - forever in the fear that not to follow his lead with will end with a beating. However, new developments mean his life finally seems to be moving from the dormant and...

Paul Watkins / Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn

  This novel describes the adventures that befall a high school boy who takes a summer job on an in-shore boat in Newport, Rhode Island. The author has also written "Night Over Day Over Night".       All of our books are...

MacKenzie Bezos / The Testing of Luther Albright

 A mercilessly gripping and remarkable debut novel about a man determined not to repeat his father's mistakes.Luther Albright is a builder of dams, a man whose greatest pride - besides his family - is the house he built himself and the knowledge...

David Bezmozgis / Natasha and Other Stories

  Meet the Bermans - Bella, Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of...

Neil Cross / Mr. In-between

  Jon Bennet works for the Tattooed Man. He's an ideal employee: efficient, conscientious, and utterly loyal to the man for whom he kills. It is an existence that encourages solitariness, which Jon has cultivated, until he encounters Andy and...

Hesse, Hermann - Steppenwolf - Vintage Penguin PB -1977

A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin edition of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf was translated by Basil Creighton from the origianl German. At...

Rosie Dastgir / A Small Fortune

  Harris Anwar is a British Pakistani who longs to do well by those closest to him. Yet his Muslim sense of responsibility and obligation seems increasingly incompatible with the modern British way of life they have chosen. As a consequence, his...

Gretta Curran Browne / Relative Strangers

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Madge Swindells / Hot Ice

  When Sienna Sheik is brutally kidnapped on her wedding day, Christine Winters does everything in her power to save her. And when she is headhunted by an agency that specialises in criminal investigations and terrorism, she is given the perfect...

Brock Clarke / An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

 Sam Pulsifer has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house - and unwittingly killing two people in the process. He emerged aged twenty-eight and set...

Alison Dye / Memories of Snow

  Raymond Smith returns to the farming community where he grew up after serving in World War II. But the war has irrevocably changed him and the people he left at home, and further tragedy is to occur.       All of our books...

Mark O'Sullivan / Enright

  It is 1921, and the Irish War of Independence is drawing to a close. In a small Tipperary town, RIC Sergeant, Tom Enright fights the rebels - and his own demons. Traumatised at an early age, Enright is destined to constantly re-enact the roles...

John McNamee / A Man with a Hat: collected stories and prose

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H.S. Bhabra / Gestures

  This novel moves from Venice in the twenties to post-World War II Amsterdam as it explores the themes of fascism, brutality, death, sex, vengeance, and moral action       All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Mask Noir Series / Is Beauty Good

  This unique novel contains many voices. Each self-contained chapter reveals a different kind of voice and so a certain kind of personality which makes its presence felt, in a manner both witty and innocent, mournful and ironic...

Tom Henry / Three and Out by Paul Callow

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Alan Bissett / Boyracers

  Since its first publication in 1999, "Boyracers" has established itself as a contemporary Scottish cult classic. It is a totally fresh, savvy and supremely honest take on being young, naive and hopeful, and the pains of living life at...

Fay Weldon / Habits of the House

 A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines - what else can you want from a novel? - unless perhaps a soupcon of Weldon perception...

Rachel Billington / Maria and the Admiral

 A sweeping historical drama, based on the true and enduring love of Thomas Cochrane and Maria Graham.Chile, June 1822. Maria Graham, a young British widow, watches as her compatriot Admiral Lord Cochrane sails triumphantly into the Valparaiso Bay,...

Helen Ellis / Eating the Cheshire Cat

  In a world of perfectly planned parties and steep social ladders, traditional rites of passage take unexpected turns when three girls and their overbearing mothers collide. In the astonishing opening scene, Sarina Summers's mom smashes her...

Andrew Greig / In Another Light

  A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s 'Two small, confined communities in which established connections are cut across by shifting allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate...

Elsie Burch Donald / A Rope Of Sand

  A chance encounter in a French town brings dark memories flooding back to fifty-five-year-old Kate. As a student at Sweet Briar College, Virginia in the 1950s, she joined a grand tour of Europe along with three classmates and their chaperone,...

Chrissie Manby / Kate's Wedding : The perfect read for the 2018 Royal Wedding season!

 'Laugh-out-loud funny . . . Unputdownable' - HeatA tongue-in-cheek comedy, perfect if you're missing the buzz of the 2018 royal wedding!Thirty-nine-year-old Kate had almost given up on love when she met her fiance. Now she's planning for the...

Roger McDonald / When Colts Ran

 Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Prime Minister's Prize for LiteratureIn this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-winning author Roger McDonald follows the story of Kingsley Colts as he chases the...

Janet MacLeod Trotter / A Crimson Dawn

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Connie Griffith / Child of Destiny

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Monica Byrne / The Girl in the Road

 A young woman called Meena wakes up one morning covered in blood. There are mysterious snakebites across her chest. She knows she's in danger but something has happened to her memory. All she can do is run - but why? And from whom?As Meena plots...

James A. Michener / The Fires of Spring

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Angela Douglas / Swings and Roundabouts

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Chris Mullin / A Very British Coup

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Anne Weale / All My Worldly Goods

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William Kinsolving / Raven

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Margaret Drabble / The Gates of Ivory

  In this sequel to The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiosity, the author extends her viewpoint to embrace the suffering of Cambodia and the moral nightmare of uncounted deaths. One day Liz receives a parcel from Cambodia which contains, together...

Nick Hornby / Not a Star

  Ein 16-Jähriger erfährt durch einen besonderen Fernseher, dass die Welt in eine Katastrophe schlittern wird und will vorher unbedingt noch sein erstes Mal erleben. Und einer Mutter wird klar, warum ihr Sohn ausgerechnet als...

Mark Chadbourn / Darkest Hour : Book 2 Of The World's End Trilogy

  The Eternal Conflict between the Light and the Dark once again blackens the skies and blights the land. On one side: the Tuatha De Danaan, golden-skinned and beautiful, filled with the might of the angels. On the other: the Fomorii, monstrous...

Mark Chadbourn / Always Forever : Book Three of the Age of Misrule

  The Eternal Conflict between the Light and Dark once again blackens the skies and blights the land. On one side stand the Tuatha de Danaan, golden-skinned and beautiful, filled with all the might of angels. On the other are the Fomorii,...

Mario Vargas Llosa / In Praise of the Stepmother

 In Praise of the Stepmother is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife...

Will Self / Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

  A new novella and four new short stories from Will Self (his first since 1999's Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys), which see him return to the disturbing and ruckled terrain of his bestselling first collection. Dr Mukti and Other Tales...

Ray Mouton / In God's House : A Novel About the Greatest Scandal of Our Time

 This book is more than a novel. It's a testament to one of the most harrowing problems of our time. It's the story of one man's crusade to bring justice to the victims of child abuse. And it's a journey through the dark corridors of the oldest,...

Antonia White / The Sugar House

  The year is 1920, Clara Batchelor, the heroine of Frost in May and The Lost Traveller, is an actress touring with a repertory company. Now of age, she has forgotten the benevolent tyranny with which her Catholic parents treated her relationship...

Christopher Hope / Black Swan

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