Fiction

Carol Smith / Double Exposure

    What you see is not quite what it seems...Jo Lydhurst is a junior doctor, newly qualified at a London hospital. Desperate for a break, she escapes to the Caribbean for a well-earned ten days of rest. On the beautiful island of Antigua,...

Jill Mansell / You And Me, Always

   Jill Mansell's YOU AND ME, ALWAYS is a deliciously romantic and poignant read about love, loss and how nothing can stay hidden for ever... If you love the novels of Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond, you won't want to miss Jill Mansell...

Kathleen McGurl / The Girl from Ballymor

   What would you sacrifice for your children?Ballymor, Ireland, 1847As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Chance

      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...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Schemes

   In 1920's inner-city Dublin tenements, Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive and thrive in the harsh poverty-stricken environment she was born into. She is trying to adapt to her new role as a married woman. There are those jealous of the...

Peter Carey / Amnesia

   A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the YearWhen Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse:...

Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Sarah Morgan / Sunset In Central Park

   `Morgan excels in balancing the sweet and sexy to create the perfect blend.'-BooklistTrue love can be hard to find. Even when it's been right under your nose all along...After witnessing the fallout of her parent's divorce, love has never...

Margaret Kaine / Ribbon of Moonlight

   When her beloved grandfather dies in 1958, Polly Merton is forced to share her home with a woman she scarcely knows: the mother who abandoned her. Sadie Merton, glamorous and selfish, has her own set of morals and Polly is appalled by her...

Sanjida O'Connell / The Naked Name of Love

   In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the...

Rob McCarthy / The Hollow Men

   A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.Dr Harry Kent: former Army medic, hospital...

Barbara Esstman / Mare's Milk

    Simon Mahler died at 17 from a fall from a mare that he and his mother loved dearly. Simon's father, unable to bear the sight of the horse, destroys the one creature that could have helped his distraught wife heal herself. Nora Mahler...

Douglas Boyd / The Fiddler and the Ferret

    Irving Bradley, international star of the concert platform, is used to having the best in life and paying for it. So when his old violin teacher is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he hires Ken Scott - the man he was brought up to hate -...

Susanne O'Leary / Diplomatic Incidents

    Anna O'Connor is a beautiful, if slightly overweight, ex-ballerina. As the wife of a successful Irish diplomat, she moves to Paris, city of her dreams. But the dream starts to turn into a bizarre nightmare when Michael, a drunken,...

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

John Watson / The Iron Man

    In a stunning David v. Goliath debut thriller, John Watson pits the antiquated brute force of an old Soviet World War II battleship fresh out of mothballs against the cutting edge technology of the American war machine. A bunch of...

Thomas H. Cook / Breakheart Hill

    'This is the darkest story that I ever heard ' It is a story that began with love and led to the destruction of a young woman's life. It is a story that has not ended, even thirty years after the afternoon Kelli Troy's battered body was...

Mark Gartside / What Will Survive

   Graham Melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met Charlotte Marshall over a can of warm lager at his best-friend's party in 1985. It was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the same again.Two decades later,...

Andy Oakes / Dragon's Eye

    Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide Squad of the PSB, has drawn the short straw . . ...

Keith Baker / Lunenburg

    Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of his...

Elise Title / Bleeding Hearts

    When the body of respected psychoanalyst, Melanie Rosen, is found, it seems her murderer knew of her interest in him. When Melanie's sister starts receiving extracts of Melanie's diaries, she is shocked by details of her sister's sex...

Diane Johnson / L'Affaire

    This is a wickedly funny and observant novel about the delicate questions of love, death and money. Amy Hawkins, Californian millionairess, is travelling in Europe, to find her culture, her roots and a cause to which she might devote...

Patrick Redmond / All She Ever Wanted

    Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold,...

John Ramster / Ladies' Man

    Simon and Ruth work together. She's a partnerless mum and he's gay, fun, single and searching. Simon realizes that he wants to be more than just friends with Ruth but will he be able to cope with vomiting babies, ex-partners and a...

Bryan Forbes / The Twisted Playground

    Departing from the spy formula of his bestselling thrillers, Bryan Forbes tells a contemporary story in which the hero is propelled into a chase of terrifying proportions. Violent death stalks his footsteps, and the image of a girl he...

MaryJanice Davidson / Undead And Unreturnable

    Just when Betsy Taylor thinks she's adjusted to her after-life as a vampire queen, fate intervenes. It's bad enough having to view your own gravestone but now Betsy's even started seeing dead people - an assortment of demanding ghosts...

Lilith Saintcrow / The Devil's Right Hand

   Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons...

Michelle Rowen / Bitten and Smitten

    Sarah Dearly has had a bad date. What else would you call being buried alive before dessert? Not to mention that bite mark on her neck, and the creepy way her date keeps saying that he's sired her. Then those guys with the stakes show...

Anna Blundy / Only My Dreams

    Be careful what you wish for...Alice Reynolds had always dreamt of escaping her grimy corner of South London for the fairytale world of the privileged aristocratic elite. Cricket whites, Pimms and summer balls were the stuff of Alice's...

Susan Sizemore / I Burn for You

    As the dark hollows of his soul threaten to overwhelm him Alec undergoes treatments to allow him to bear daylight. Living a double life as a bodyguard, he must now battle the chemistry between him and Domini, his soulmate. When she gets...

Cate Tiernan / Wicca: Blood Witch

 Morgan continues to unravel her past and the story of her birth mother as her relationship with Cal develops. She begins to understand more about her power as a blood witch when she finds her mother's tools of magic. Morgan can't quite relax into...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...

Leigh Russell / Killer Plan

  Caroline's husband is killed, but she can't turn to the police without implicating herself in his murder. When one of her 10-year-old twins is kidnapped, the desperate mother is forced to resort to drastic measures to get him back. As time runs...

Meredith Russo / If I Was Your Girl

   Selected as the launch title for the Zoella Book Club.'Important and brave. Read this wonderful book, just read it.' -- Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright PlacesMy name is Amanda. I’m 18. When you look at me, you might see that...

Hisham Matar / In the Country of Men

   On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street.....

Edward Marston / Inspector Colbeck's Casebook

   An eagerly awaited collection of brand new, specially commissioned short stories from the master of historical crime fiction Edward Marston, featuring his quick-witted Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck.In this thrilling selection...

Alicia Foster / Warpaint

   Four women create propaganda in WWII's darkest hour in this gripping fact-based debut novel.Buckinghamshire, 1942: in a gothic villa deep in woods near Bletchley Park, artist Vivienne Thayer paints 'Black' propaganda to demoralise the enemy...

Dipika Rai / Someone Else's Garden

   A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story.`Will she recall that night? Or is it one of those too horrible times that her...

Michael Frayn / The Russian Interpreter

    The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an...

Steve Dunne / The Disciple

   DI Brook thought the nightmare was over- but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy...A nail-shredding thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Thomas Harris.When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook's past...

Harry Brandt / The Whites

   NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2015 IN THE MYSTERY/THRILLER CATEGORYEvery cop has a personal 'White': a criminal who got away with murder - or worse - and was able to slip back into life, leaving the...

Rebecca Dean / Enemies of the Heart

 A sweeping epic of love, desire and betrayal. The perfect read for fans of THE CROWN.June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the first time - an evening that will alter the...

Hiromi Kawakami / Strange Weather in Tokyo

   Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial...

Pat Barker / Union Street

    Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and...

Ian McDonald / Kirinya

    The end of the universe happened at around ten o'clock at night on 22 December 2032. It's just that humanity hasn't realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into...

Lynn S. Hightower / The Debt Collector

    Home invasion - the kind of call every homicide cop dreads. Cincinnati detective Sonora Blair is called to a small house at the end of a cul-de-sac, and finds the brutal decimation of an average American family - deeply in dept. A...

Duncan Sprott / The House of the Eagle

    "The House of the Eagle" begins Duncan Sprott's "Ptolemies Quartet", an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve...

Lucy Dawson / The One That Got Away

   Would you risk your future for a night with your past?Molly Greene loves being married. Exciting adventures lie ahead for her and husband Dan that will change their lives for ever, but Molly's not sure they're making the right choices.While...

Catherine Law / Map of Stars

   'A touching tale of star-crossed lovers' New magazine Book of the Week. A tear-jerking love story for fans of Kathryn Hughes and Leah FlemingKent, 1939. Eliza is to be married to Nicholas, her companion since she was a child. But when the...

Richard Burke / Frozen

    When his childhood friend, Verity, is found at the foot of Beachy Head, barely alive, Harry's life is thrown into turmoil. He can't accept that the happy-go-lucky girl he grew up with would try to kill herself. He should know. He was...

Penny Hancock / The Darkening Hour

   Meet TheodoraAnd MonaTwo women, from completely different walks of life, forced by circumstances to live together under one roof.Both women are at their wits' end, scared of losing the one thing that's most precious to them. So when...

Alexandra Brown / Cupcakes at Carrington's

   A deliciously indulgent read from the best selling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage. Carrington's Department Store - where life is sweeter...Georgie Hart had it all - as a top personal shopper in London, the heady world of Mulberry...