Fiction

Murderers

  Compton Minster is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary in the year 1901 - a thousand years of Christian worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies, a high official of the cathedral, the chancellor, dies in mysterious...

Jane Fallon / Faking Friends : THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

 'A deftly plotted, witty tale of revenge. It's a romcom with attitude' Mail on SundayTHE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE----------------Best friend, soulmate,...

Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration...

Louise Jensen / The Sister : A psychological thriller with a brilliant twist you won't see coming

 'I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me . . .'Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's words the last time she saw her, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box...

Maj Sjowall / The Fire Engine That Disappeared

 The fifth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the...

Wells Tower / Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

  A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the...

Walter Kempowski / All for Nothing

 In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family seals...

June Barraclough / Portrait of Maud

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Roger Vann / Secrets of a Growing Marriage

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Carol Clewclow / A Woman's Guide to Adultery

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Susan Griffith / Work Your Way Around the World

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Laura Marshall / Friend Request : The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year

 'A read-it-in-one-sitting thriller . . . Twisty and gripping but always relatable, Friend Request is the ultimate it-could-happen-to-you read' Erin Kelly When Louise Williams receives a message from someone left long in the past she feels sick...

Margaret James / Golden Chain: Book 2

 Can first love last forever? 1931 is the year that changes everything for Daisy Denham. Her family has not long swapped life in India for Dorset, England when she uncovers an old secret. At the same time, she meets Ewan Fraser - a handsome dreamer...

Glen David Gold / Carter Beats the Devil

 Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as...

David Fiddimore / The Forgotten War

 The third book in the wartime series continuing from Tuesday's War and Charlie's War. The war's over. Charlie Bassett is one of England's brave young survivors. Haunted by one woman's smile and by his wartime adventures, he finally returns back...

Breaking News

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Janice Stevens / Test of Love

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Morgan Llywelyn / Pride of Lions

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Lyn Andrews / Sunlight on the Mersey

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Tom O'Connor / One Flew Over The Clubhouse

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Elisabeth De Mariaffi / I Remember You

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Clodagh Corcoran / Baker's Dozen

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Margaret Graham / After the Storm

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Allen Parton / Endal: How One Extraordinary Dog Brought a Family Back From the Brink

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Leah Fleming / The Captain's Daughter

 FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LAST PEARL AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about family secrets, betrayals and redemption.The secrets in a woman's heart are deeper than the ocean...For May Smith, travelling with her...

Amanda Robson / Guilt

 'Another brilliant read from Amanda Robson. A dark, addictive and compelling page turner!' B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORSThe number 1 bestseller is back!Your sister. Her secret. The betrayal.There is no bond greater than blood...

Adam Sternbergh / The Blinds

 This may not be a prison, and it may not purgatory, but it's sure as hell not a paradise either...Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second...

Jonathan Clements / A Brief History of the Vikings

 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from...

John Matthews / The Last Witness

  Elena Waldren has a secret that she's built fences around for the last twenty-nine years and kept from everyone. Through her work with an aid agency, her fears about the plight of a young girl placed with a nearby family finally set her on a...

John Connolly / he : A Novel

 An extraordinary recreation of one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy.Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards.John Connolly recreates the golden age of...

John Buchan / Greenmantle

  In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S...

Danielle Steel / In His Father's Footsteps

 In His Father's Footsteps is a sweeping story of courage, ambition and the love between three generations of family.April, 1945. As the Americans liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp, among the survivors are Jakob and Emmanuelle, barely more...

Jennie Melamed / Gather the Daughters : Shortlisted for The Arthur C Clarke Award

 'An exceptional debut' Sunday Telegraph'Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one for you' Stylist'An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart' Kate HamerOn a small...

Ó Coigligh, Ciarán - Doineann & Uair Bhreá - Filíocht - As Gaeilge PB - 1985

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 1985, cnuasach filíochta. 58 leathnach, clúdach bog Beagáinín salach ar na clúdaigh , glan istigh gan aon mharc ná aon scríobh. 

Siobhan Parkinson / Miraculous Miranda

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The ZOO Rude Jokes Book

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Cass Green / Don't You Cry

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Sarah Delamere Hurding / StarScope

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Cynthia Ozick / Foreign Bodies

 The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving...

Fern Britton / The Newcomer

Cornwall is only a page away in this gorgeous, heartwarming novel - a wonderful read for the summer holidays!*Preorder now!*'A warm, easy read that depicts the joys of rural Cornwall' Daily Mail'A charming story that is full of hope...will help put a...

Giorgio Faletti / I Am God

 A serial killer holds New York in his grip.He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that.The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead...

Gabriel Tallent / My Absolute Darling

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR'The year's must read novel' The Times'One of the most important books you'll pick up this decade' Harper's Bazaar'An outstanding book that could be this year's A Little...

Peter Temple / Truth : a blazing thriller in the dry Australian heat

 THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE BROKEN SHORE, AND WINNER OF THE 2010 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD.'This year's best thriller' Sunday Times'A thriller of dazzling richness' Guardian'Temple's award-winning The Broken Shore was good; this is...

Karen Maitland / The Gallows Curse

 The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin.In the village of...

Daniel Woodrell / The Outlaw Album

 Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of...

Rebecca Tyrrel / Days Like These : Scenes from an Ordinary Life

 Bright, funny and utterly compelling, Rebecca Tyrrel's voice is both refreshingly honest and deliciously self-deprecating.Taken from her popular column in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, this series of previously published pieces is at once funny,...

Gregory Benford - Across the Sea of Suns - HB 1st Edition SF - 1984

Published by Macdonald UK, 1984, hardcover. This is the second  volume in the loose Galactic Center series ( after In the Ocean of Night) Galactic Center series is a classic tale of man's future and fate--and the greatest mystery from outer...

Michele Roberts / Playing Sardines

 Playing Sardines - a game in the dark, a game about desire, about wanting, all whipped up in a tale about the erotic allure of recipes: a cook whose obsessive love turns hungry and dangerous; a fan who tries to get into a celebrity novelist's...

Suzanne Glass / The Interpreter

  IT ALL STARTED WITH HER VOICE. NOT HER WORDS, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HERS. . . SO IT BEGAN NOT WITH WHAT SHE SAID OR HOW SHE SAID IT, BUT WITH SOME QUITE INTANGIBLE QUALITY IN HER VOICE. The interpreter is Dominique, a genius with language, who...

Paraic O'Donnell / The Maker of Swans : 'A deeply pleasurable gothic fantasy'

'Compulsive reading . . . rich, strange, beautiful' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'A strange, new and captivating look at a magical realm . . . Lavishly entertaining' Independent'Enthralling . . . a literary feast' StylistThe world had...

Gerard Donovan / Schopenhauer's Telescope

  In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Gradually, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truck-loads of villagers are corralled in the next...

Helen Lederer / Losing It : From the Star of Celebrity Big Brother 2017

Losing It has been shortlisted for the PG Woodhouse Comedy Literary Prize as well as The Edinburgh First Book Award 2015.Millie was at one time quite well known for various TV and radio appearances. However, she now has no money, a best friend with a...