Fiction

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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Lily Tuck / The News from Paraguay

 A rich historical novel - part love story and part tragedy - about the Irish courtesan Eliza Lynch, and how she became mistress to one of South America's first, and most extravagant, dictators.1854. In Paris, Francisco Solano - the future dictator...

Rudolph Delson / Maynard and Jennica

 A comic love-story, set in and around New York at the beginning of the 21st century. Maynard Gogarty is bored, with what he's not quite sure, but he's definitely bored. He's a tweed-suit-wearing, perennially glum thirty something living in a...

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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Alicia Appleman-Jurman / Alicia

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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...

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...

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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Gavin Corbett / Innocence

  A young boy's compelling search for his identity Jerome has the love, support and friendship of his half-brother, Gary, his girlfriend and his friends and teachers at school. But on the death of his father he feels completely alone, unable to...

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...

Mackenzie Ford / The Kissing Gates

When English soldier Hal strikes up a conversation with German Lieutenant Wilhelm during the ceasefire in no-man's-land on Christmas Day 1914, he has no idea the impact this chance meeting will have. Wilhelm is in love with an English woman, Sam, and...

Frank Barnard / Blue Man Falling : A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

 Capturing the startling contradictions of a time when people were at their best and their worst, Blue Man Falling brings to life the exhilaration and fear of aerial warfare with astonishing power and narrative skill. Above all, Frank Barnard lays...

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...

Cath Staincliffe / Half the World Away : a chilling evocation of a mother's worst nightmare

 'Stunning' - Ann CleevesEvery parent's worst gap year nightmare...After graduating, Lori Maddox heads off travelling and arrives in China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom follow her...

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...

Jane Feaver / According to Ruth

  It is 1979 and in a ramshackle cottage in Northumberland fifteen-year-old Ruth is desperate to leave behind the gradual implosion of her parents' marriage as she pursues her own quest for love and excitement. Fantasies about the son of 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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John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973

A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork.  Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight...

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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Stirling Jessica / Spoiled Earth

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William Kinsolving / Raven

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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...

Helen Dunmore / Rose, 1944 : Pocket Penguins

 In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen...

Lynne Reid Banks / Casualties

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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,...

Christopher Koch / Highways To A War

  'A quite outstanding novel about the Indochina war, the best I have read since Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN.' Richard West, LITERARY REVIEW When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears...

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...

V. S. Naipaul / The Enigma of Arrival

  Naipaul, 1932 als Sohn indischer Eltern in Trinidad geboren, legt ein sehr persönliches Buch vor, erzählt seine eigene Geschichte. Im Alter von 18 Jahren kommt er nach England, um zu studieren. Die bitteren Erfahrungen, die er als...

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...