Fiction

Mills & Boon / Modern / His Very Personal Assistant

      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...

Douglas Preston / The Wheel of Darkness : An Agent Pendergast Novel

  Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from...

Josiah Bancroft / Arm of the Sphinx : Book Two of the Books of Babel

 'Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy: gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action-packed, warm, witty and thought-provoking' Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Like its predecessor, it is a brilliant piece of work ...

Cole / Dark Desires After Dusk

  Nothing will stop Cadeon of the Rage Demons from finding the means to atone for the one wrong that haunts him. But once he captures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, he finds that the woman he thought he could use for his...

Virginia Andrews / Child of Darkness

  She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light . . . As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is...

Bernard Cornwell / Warriors of the Storm (Last Kingdom Series - Book 9 )

 The ninth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.A fragile peace is about to be broken...King Alfred's son Edward and formidable...

Charlaine Harris / Dead Ever After ( Sookie Stackhouse Series - Book 13 )

 Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store.Life has taken her from a waitress in Merlotte's Bar, Bon Temps, to part owner; from social outcast to the heart of her community; from a vampire's girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful...

Belinda Bauer / Snap - PB

 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year (Specsavers National Book Awards)Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMIDSNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . .On a stifling summer's day,...

Don DeLillo / Americana

 David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall...

Sarah Bilston / Bed Rest

 Quinn 'Q' Boothroyd is a successful young English lawyer married to the gorgeous Tom and living in New York. She's ticked off most of the boxes on her list of Things To Do Before Hitting Thirty and her life so far has been relatively painless. But...

Katherine Applegate / Nina Won't Tell

  The third story featuring Zoey, Lucas, Jake, Nina, Benjamin, Claire, Christopher and Aisha. In this story, first Zoey fools around and Jake's found out. Then Claire breaks up with Ben to be with Jake, and ends up alone. And now Nina is...

Kader Abdolah / My Father's Notebook

 On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his...

Judy Astley / In the Summertime

 It's twenty years since Miranda, then sixteen, holidayed in Cornwall and her life changed forever. Now she's back again - with her mother Clare and the ashes of her stepfather Jack, whose wish was to be scattered on the sea overlooked by their...

Barry Walsh / The Pimlico Kid

 One boy. One street. One summer he will never forget.A powerful and poignant debut from a compelling and authentic voice in commercial fiction.It's 1963. Billy Driscoll and his best mate, Peter `Rooksy' Rooker, have the run of their street. Whether...

Ruth Hamilton / Daughters of Penny Lane

 In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost three sisters and her house in Bootle to the bombs that fell over Liverpool. Estranged from her husband Dan, who suffered from two strokes triggered during the Blitz,...

Melvyn Bragg / The Silken Net

  Half-French with an agile, inquiring mind, Rosemary Lewis cannot help being out of the ordinary in Thurston, the Cumbrian market town where she grows up between the wars. An early, bruising failure in love drives her inwards to the solace of...

W. J. Burley / Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

      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...

Elizabeth Jeffrey / Cast A Long Shadow

 The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts...

Richard House / The Kill : The Kills Part 3

 Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo.A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects.The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired by an old crime...

Rosie Rowell / Leopold Blue

 A tense and moving South African coming-of-age story about family, friendship and first romanceMeg Bergman is fifteen and fed up. She lives in a tiny town in rural 1990s South Africa - a hot-bed of traditionalism, racial tension and (in Meg's eyes)...

Caroline Smailes / Black Boxes

 Julie Myerson meets Ian McEwan in this gripping novel of family breakdown.Ana Lewis is trapped by her own expectations. Her intense relationship with fellow student Alex begins to crack beyond repair when she falls pregnant, and his subsequent...

Pauline Francis / The Raven Queen

  This is a powerful historical novel that brings to life an unforgettable story of love, hope and royal duty, from a hugely talented new author. The life of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, is all too often remembered as just a line in a...

Lisa Jackson / Malice : New Orleans series, book 6

 'Shiveringly good suspense!' Lisa GardnerTHE SIXTH BOOK IN A GRIPPING CRIME SERIES FROM 30 MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR.HOW WELL DO YOU REALLY KNOW SOMEONE?Detective Rick Bentz wakes in hospital to see his wife Jennifer standing in the doorway. But...

Eddy Brimson / Hooligan

  The highly acclaimed author of Everywhere We Go makes his fiction debut with this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account of football violence. Hooligan shoots down the myths behind those involved and exposes the lengths they will go to to...

Brona Mills / A Time for Everything

  Twenty-year-old Michael is visited by time-traveller Audrey, who has information that can improve his life. In this time-travel dilemma, relationship influences are the centre of Audrey's conflict: what things in life should be left to fate?...

Andy Remic / Quake

  A world where nuclear warheads can be hidden in a briefcase ...A world where bio-plagues are held suspended in a teardrop ...On an Earth where conventional armies are powerless to defend against the devastation wrought by single assassins, the...

Marcus Sakey / No Turning Back

 They thought it would be easy. They were dead wrong...Alex is failing as a father.Ian keeps dangerous secrets.Jenn wants adventure.Mitch wants Jenn.Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get...

Jim Crace / Arcadia

  For Victor's 80th birthday his right-hand man Rook prepares a country feast in the heart of the city. But Victor is making preparations of his own: to dismiss Rook and to leave an indelible mark on the city before he dies...

Melissa Bank / The Wonder Spot

  Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules, simply because she does not fit into any neat description of who she might be: she's Jewish, but...

Alex Chance / Savage Blood

 In Atlanta, Charlie Cortez MD diagnoses his mistress with an unknown neurodegenerative disease that is inducing violent and bloody psychosis. The apparent cause? Consumption of infected human flesh...In Vienna, Dr. Reeta Kapoor, eminent...

Alan Hunter / Gently By The Shore

 You'll find plenty of bodies stretched out on a summer beach - but they're not usually dead...In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and a pier, maybe some donkeys, 'Kiss-Me-Quick'...

Jessica Fellowes / The Mitford Murders : Nancy Mitford and the murder of Florence Nightgale Shore

 'A lively, well-written, entertaining whodunit' THE TIMESLose yourself in the sumptuous first novel in a new series of Golden Age mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters.It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life...

E. V. Thompson / Seek A New Dawn

  When the copper mines of Cornwall began to close down at the end of the 1870s, many men left for the golden land of Australia, intending to earn enough money to bring their families out. Sam Hooper was one such emigrant, but he had to leave his...

Kenneth Gregory / The Polaris Whisper : The Steel of the Norse, the Faith of the Christian White Cross Followers - a Path to War

 [This is] a consistently entertaining debut that fuses together some understated, but well crafted, fantasy elements with a compelling historical adventure. This will be a favourite winter read of mine for some time. this is a book that whips along...

Sascha Arango / The Truth and Other Lies

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL CRIME DAGGER AWARDPage-turning, dark and with an anti-hero to rival Highsmith's Tom Ripley, international bestseller The Truth and Other Lieswill have you gripped, second-guessing the line between truth and...

Sheila O'Flanagan / Her Husband's Mistake: A marriage, a secret, and a wife's choice...

 THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERSHEILA'S FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL 'THE WOMEN WHO RAN AWAY' IS PUBLISHING IN MAY 2020 - AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER NOW!The page-turning new novel about a marriage, a secret, and a wife's choice, from the bestselling author of The Missing...

Aine McCarthy / A Dance in Time

  Lover. Mother. Writer. Each of these roles has meant the world to Izzy Mulcahy. But now, as she stands accused of killing her elderly father, Izzy sets out on a journey of self-discovery and finds the three roles colliding in ways that both...

Jane Bailey / Mad Joy

  In the beginning a small girl runs into a wood, and two years later walks out of it and into the nearest house. Gracie, the childless spinster who finds her curled up on her armchair, takes her on as her own, seeing her as a feral gift of fate...

Nicholas Searle / The Good Liar - PB

 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELEN MIRREN AND IAN MCKELLENThis is a life told back to front.This is a man who has lied all his life.Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his...

David Eddings / Enchanters' End Game ( Belgariad - Book 5 )

  THE DRIVE OF PROPHECYThe quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.But the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the...

E. F. Benson / Mapp and Lucia

 Meet Mapp and Lucia--two of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social rankingEmmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) is emerging from...

Kitty Neale / A Fathers Revenge

 A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear...A bad man can never come good...Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence.In the meantime, his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him and remarried,...

Travis Mulhauser / Sweetgirl

 A cat-and-mouse survival story featuring a baby, a young girl and a criminalA LIFE IS IN HER HANDSThe last thing Percy expected to find in the local drug den was a baby girl. Now she needs to get the baby to a hospital, and fast. But there's a...

Hanif Kureishi / The Body and Other Stories

 The centrepiece of Hanif Kureishi's brilliant new collection of fiction delves into the fascinating concept of personal identity, and the extent to which this is rooted in our physical being.Middle-aged playwright Adam is amazed to be approached by...

David Eddings / The Seeress of Kell ( Malloreon - Book 5 )

  Now in the final stages of their quest for his son, Garion and his companions travel to Kell to consult the only undamaged copy of the Malloreon Gospels. For centuries the Seers have guarded this book from the Grolims and even had their wizards...

Jens Lapidus / Top Dog

  For decades, a secret network in Stockholm has been exploiting young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who threatens to reveal their secret. As oddly paired duo Teddy and Emelie - the thug and the lawyer - investigate, the terrifying noose...

David Eddings / Magician's Gambit ( Belgariad - Book 3 )

  Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, had joined a dangerous mission to recover the stolen Orb that supposedly protected the West from the evil God Torak. And somehow, she found herself feeling quite tender for Garion, the innocent farm boy,...

Elizabeth Wrenn / Second Chance

 Every woman needs a best friend...And Deena Munger needs one more than most. Faced with an almost empty nest, a marriage that's as stale as week-old bread, and hot flushes that are driving her mad, no wonder she feels running away. Despite her...

Kate Muir / Left Bank

  Enter the world of Olivier and Madison Malin, glittering inhabitants of Paris's exclusive Left Bank. The Malins' life together with their daughter is the stuff of dreams -- and carefully-selected celebrity magazines. Madison is a film star: her...

Ben Lerner / Leaving the Atocha Station

  Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers,...

Adam Foulds / The Broken Word

 Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.The combination here of language and imagery that feel utterly contemporary, and subject...

Lisi Harrison / Invasion of the Boy Snatchers

  Alicia knows her Spanish cousin, NIna, is the hottest thing to come from Europe since Versace and Prada. But when Nina arrives from Spain and starts flirting with all the Briarwood boys, including Massie's crush, the Clique decides that foreign...