Fiction

Laurell K. Hamilton / Narcissus in Chains

    Returning to St. Louis after a tough case in New Mexico, work is the last thing that Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, wants to think about. The woman the vampires call The Executioner is still no closer to choosing between her two lovers...

Janet Dailey / Legacies

   For Lije Stuart, the killing of his grandfather is an image burnt deeply into his mind - a twenty-year-old brutality that continues to divide his family in anger. Between his father, the Cherokee chief The Blade, and his uncle, Kipp Gordon,...

Susanne O'Leary / European Affairs

    Eva Connolly is elegant, clever and determined to make a brilliant career in the European Commission in Brussels. When her brother offers her a month's holiday in his luxury villa in St Tropez, she thinks it will be the perfect...

Peter F. Hamilton / The Evolutionary Void ( Void Trilogy, Book 3 )

   Peter F. Hamilton's startling perspectives on tomorrow's technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters - human,...

Rebecca Dean / Wallis

   Two lovers. Two very different lives.One future together that will change history.When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up, she devotes her teenage daydreams to one man, the future King of England, Prince Edward. But it's Pamela Holtby,...

Melissa Jones / The Hidden Heart Of Emily Hudson

   Dear Mr Cornford, It is with regret that I begin the task of writing to you about your niece, Emily. Her recent behaviour, which I have outlined to you in previous letters, compels me to request that she be formally removed from the school...

Alice Munro / Too Much Happiness

   **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which...

Eden Maguire / Dark Angel

   Tania's heart belongs to Orlando. Nothing can rip them apart.Until the seduction begins in a flurry of glamour and magic, music and parties all orchestrated by the mysterious and mesmerising Zoran, an iconic rock star who has retired to a...

Simon Van Booy / The Secret Lives of People in Love

    Offers a collection of stories that are set in New York City, Wales, Cornwall, Paris, Rome and Greece. This title explores love's labour and love's loss.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

James Patterson / Haunted

   You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett.Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink.He settles on an idyllic...

Nuala Ellwood / The Day of the Accident

   WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT DID YOU DO? 'Gripping, poignant...I read it in one sitting' ROSAMUND LUPTON'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS____________________________Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma,...

David Ebershoff / The Danish Girl

   The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper.Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to...

Peggy Riley / Amity & Sorrow

   AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world...

Nathan Englander / The Ministry of Special Cases

    Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. As...

Andrei Makine / Brief Loves That Live Forever

    In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an...

Kat French / Undertaking Love

   `Laugh-out-loud fun with a real romantic heart' MIRANDA DICKINSON"Try not to wheel any dead bodies across the pavement when the bride's outside, OK?"When Marla Jacobs discovers that the vacant shop next to her Little White Wedding Chapel is...

Jessica Adams / Ladies' Night

   A brand new collection of specially commissioned stories from the very best names in female fiction, including Cecelia Ahern, Wendy Holden, Santa Montefiore, Freya North, Meg Cabot and many more.There are over thirty writers donating...

Claire Calman / Lessons For A Sunday Father

    It's never too late to grow up...This is the story of: Scott, who finds his belongings outside in a bin bag one day and realises he may have made a big mistake; Gail, who wishes her husband were under guarantee so she could send him...

Lauren DeStefano / Perfect Ruin

   From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy: On the floating city of Internment, you can be anything you dream. Unless you approach the edge.Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment,...

Margaret Clark / A Treasury of Dragon Stories

    Comprising 15 stories, this collection of dragon stories includes contributions from writers such as Judy Corbalis, Terry Jones, Jamila Gavin and Robin Klein.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Erwin Mortier / My Fellow Skin

   In this story about love as second skin, Mortier remains true to the perspective of his dazzling debut, Marcel, looking at the world through the eyes of an observant and impressionable young boy, Anton. As he grows up, each tentative step...

Sarah Quigley / The Conductor

   The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence......and for one moment, as the barrage of shell and artillery pauses, music washes over the city of Leningrad.The defiant symphony of Leningrad's famous son, the composer Shostakovich,...

Nicci Cloke / Follow Me Back

   A thrilling read, for fans of Gone Girl and We Were Liars.There was no sign of a struggle, they whisper to each other. She took her phone but left her laptop behind.Apparently, she'd met someone online, they write to each other in class,...

Gianrico Carofiglio / Involuntary Witness

    A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime...

Kitty Sewell / Ice Trap

    "Dear Dr Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter. My name is Miranda and I have a twin brother, Mark ...' Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to be blown apart by the unexpected news that,...

Bernardine Bishop / The Street

    There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor...

Carol Brennan / Chill of Summer

    Emily and Dev Hannigan, the detective pair, feature in a novel of suspense and intrigue.     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...

Fanny Blake / With A Friend Like You

   Beth is a woman in supreme control of all aspects of her life and family, with a stellar career and her house an oasis of calm. Her closest friend, Megan, is very different; somehow she swims through the chaos of her family with ease, the...

Nikki Owen / The Killing Files

   No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you.`A gripping and tense thriller' - Heat`A must have' - Sunday ExpressDr Maria Martinez is out of prison and on the run.Her mission? To get back to the safety of her family...

Margaret Scott / The Fall Out

      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...

Jenny Erpenbeck / The End of Days

   Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeFrom one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates...

Margaret Dolan / Wire Me to the Moon

      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...

Robert Goolrick / A Reliable Wife : When Passion turns to Poison

   COUNTRY BUSINESSMAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE.COMPELLED BY PRACTICAL REASONS.REPLY BY LETTER.Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful industrialist, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered...

David Gilman / The Devil's Breath : Danger Zone

   He doesn't need Alex Rider's girly gadgets. He's much more fanciable than Andy McNab's Boy Soldier. His adventures will take you to places even Wilbur Smith hadn't thought of.Soon after escaping an assassin that bursts from the shadows to...

Helen Dunmore / Talking to the Dead

    Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth of Isabel's first child, tensions are...

Molly Ringwald / When It Happens to You

    Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You, the debut novel in stories from actress and author Molly Ringwald. A Hollywood icon, Ringwald defined the teenage experience in the eighties in such classic...

Michael Collins / The Life And Times Of A Tea Boy

    Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait...

N.M. Kelby / White Truffles in Winter

    White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier, who changed the way we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious,...

Catherine Dunne / Another Kind of Life

    Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling...

Melissa Diem / Changeling

   My first visions of the universe are indelibly imprinted in my head . . . The sky was alive and vibrating, bringing out the explorer in me. I thought of all the answers out there waiting to meet my questions . . .' Jean is the cuckoo in her...

Nicola White / In The Rosary Garden

    Ali Hogan is leaving school, all the possibilities of adult life glistening before her, when her discovery of a murdered newborn in the convent garden in Ireland shatters her world and resurrects half-formed memories of her childhood...

Peter Carey / My Life as a Fake

    Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he...

Darragh McManus / Shiver The Whole Night Through

    A small town in Ireland, a chilling mystery, a teenage detective - and a message from the deadAfter months of misery and feeling ready to end it all, Aidan Flood wakes up one morning to find that local beauty and town sweetheart Slaine...

Rachael English / The American Girl

   *No.1 bestseller*From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O'Farrell comes an unforgettable novel . . .Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited - and pregnant. She wants to marry...

Eva Rice / The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp

   Tara Jupp is living out all our dreams: a pop star in Sixties London, surrounded by the glitterati. But can she succeed while holding on to who she is?Country girl Tara is whisked off to Sixties London to become a pop star; there she is...

Martin Baker / Meltdown

    Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working...

Gerard Stembridge / According to Luke

    Now that their children are almost reared, Frank and Norma Reid can congratulate themselves on a job well done - the eldest married and settled in their second favourite city, New York; their first boy in a marvellous job in the...

Kass Morgan / The 100 : Book One

   The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. Now a major TV series on E4.No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's...

James Hawes / Dead Long Enough

    Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the...

Domnica Redulescu / Train to Trieste

   It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no one else.But life under Ceausescu's Romania...

Brunonia Barry / The Lace Reader

   Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.Would knowing the future be a gift or a burden? Or even a curse...?The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future...

John Rector / Cold Kiss

   Nate and Sara are broke -- and on the run from the past.When a shady hitchhiker offers them cold hard cash for a lift, they can't afford to say no.But very soon they'll be wishing they had. Because picking him up is about to become the...