Fiction

Louise Phillips / Last Kiss

   He thought he was in control. But he was wrong. And after the final blows of the knife, she stole his last breath with a kiss...Will criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson uncover the identity of this vicious killer before it is too late?At...

Nancy Carson / Poppy's Dilemma

   A compelling tale of one girl's brave escape from a world of poverty in her search for true love.Is true love worth risking everything for?Sixteen-year-old Poppy Silk is one of the navvy community - a group of poor, rough-living men who...

Rhiannon Navin / Only Child

   A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.We all went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home.When...

Luke Jennings / Codename Villanelle

   The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh'Gloriously exciting' MetroShe is the perfect assassin.A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers...

Ali Shaw / The Girl with Glass Feet

   Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)Shortlisted Tahtifantasia Award Nominee...

Melissa Benn / One of Us

   How would Antigone fare in a New Labour milieu? One of Us is a subtle and poignant novel about the dangerous space between private and public lives, about kingmakers and power, by a writer who should know...The narrative opens in March 2003...

Kamila Shamsie / Home Fire

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A NEW...

A. O'Connor / The Footman

      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...

Isla Dewar / Two Kinds of Wonderful

   When Roz's silent, compulsive husband refused to discuss his problem, when her children seemed embroiled in their own lives, Roz did the unthinkable - she walked out. She did not know that her children would not understand, would not...

Mark Helprin / A New York Winter's Tale

   The New York Times No. 1 bestseller.One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home . . .Thus...

Michael Dobbs / Wall Games

    From the No 1 bestselling author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a new-cover reprint of a highly acclaimed thriller of international intrigue that brilliantly captures the tense atmosphere of Berlin -- just before the wall came down. The dawn of...

Edward Falco / The Family Corleone

   New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which...

Eva Ibbotson / Magic Flutes

   Spring, 1922Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing its...

Tony Parson / Catching the Sun

   Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn...

Chris Morgan Jones / The Jackal's Share

   A gripping spy thriller from a new Le CarreBoundless wealth hides the deepest secrets . . .When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn't long before the private spy is convinced that there is...

C. J. Skuse / Pretty Bad Things

   SIXTEEN-YEAR OLD TWINS IN CANDY-STORE CRIME SPREE!Twins, Paisley and Beau Argent are in the headlines again. Last time,they were the 'wonder twins', when, as six-year-olds, they werefound alive in woods after three days missing following...

Clair Allen / The Mountain of Light

    The Mountain of Light, a London Indian Restaurant, is Balu's great love, the delicious kulfis and dansaks he devises in its kitchen his sole connection to the land of his childhood. When a young woman, Sarah, rents the flat upstairs,...

Robert Allison / The Letter Bearer

   The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying - dying - in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and...

Mario Vargas Llosa / The Bad Girl

    When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her...

Martin Lukes / Who Moved My BlackBerry?

    Hi! Let me introduce myself. I'm Martin Lukes, Special Projects Director at A-B Global (UK). In your hands is a highly unique book, which pushes the envelope literature-wise. As you will see, it is a 120 per cent honest account of a...

Vikas Swarup / Six Suspects

   Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them...

David Malouf / Fly Away Peter

    For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong...

Sylvia Plath / Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams : and other prose writings

   From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.When the...

Ann Pilling / Black Harvest

    Colin and Prill were looking forward to a holiday of fun and adventure in Ireland. It would have been perfect if only they hadn't had to drag along their cousin Oliver. But Oliver, it turns out, isn't their biggest problem. Almost from...

David Gillham / City of Women

   A stunning and cinematic tale of life in Berlin at the height of the Second World War.In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved?It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by...

Louise Welsh / A Lovely Way to Burn

 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeIt doesn't look like murder in a city full of death.A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is...

Arnaldur Indridason / Outrage

 Reykjavik, Saturday nightHe offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble...48 hours laterA young man is found...

Donald James / Vadim

 In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the victory of the leading candidate is threatened by the outrageous...

Leesa Harker / Fifty Shades of Red White and Blue

 Meet Maggie Muff, Belfast's newest and most loveable heroine. On a trip to the Bru she meets Mr Red White and Blue (Belfast's answer to Christian Grey). He may look like something out of the Kays catalogue and his arse in those chinos may be...

Edward Rutherfurd / Ireland: Awakening

 Following the critically acclaimed success of Dublin, this riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards, picking up at the Reformation, and with it, the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell heralds the...

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith / An American Killing

 Two years ago in the town of New Caxton, three people were stabbed to death and a black man imprisoned for the crime. According to congressman Owen Hall, the convicted man is innocent. Something sinister has been going on in New Caxton, something...

Karin Slaughter ( Editor) / Like A Charm

 Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever.A novel in...

Evelyn Anthony / No Enemy But Time

   A thriller about a girl who returns to Ireland and is besieged by memories as she contends with the fact that her brother, her dearest and closest friend, has gone missing, possibly kidnapped and maybe even murdered. From the author of THE...

Mary Willis Walker / All the Dead Lie Down

 Tremendous new thriller from the award-winning author of UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR and THE RED SCREAM, and once again featuring indomitable Molly Cates as the feisty, funny, flawed heroine.Chilling, convincing, powerfully entertaining, this is...

Mike Bullen / Trust

 The debut novel from BAFTA Award-winning writer of TV's COLD FEET: a laugh-out-loud tale of contemporary relationships, this is perfect for anyone who has ever fallen in love. Or out of love. Or back in love again.'Trust wasn't something you could...

Sheena Kamal / Eyes Like Mine

 A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing adds up to an extraordinary debut - highly recommended' LEE CHILD'Utterly compelling, rich with voice and psychological insight, populated with heartbreakingly real characters' JEFFERY...

Nancy Werlin / The Killer's Cousin

 Guilt, murder, ghosts - will David and Lily ever escape the past?Recently acquitted of accidently killing his girlfriend but still crucified with guilt, 17-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his senior year of high school. His...

Amy Engel / The Roanoke Girls

 THE #1 EBOOK BESTSELLER**PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE HBO SERIES SHARP OBJECTS'Darkly sexy and compelling' HEAT'Fans of The Girls will love this' RED ONLINE'You'll be gripped' RICHARD MADELEY'One of the best books I've read' REBECCA DONE'This book is...

Chris Brookmyre / Black Widow

 The seventh book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing'Ian Rankin*****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year**********WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney...

Jack Deighton / Son Of The Rock

 When Alan and his girlfriend, Sile, come across a primitive hut on the Rock, they are shocked to find an old man living there. as the drug Euthuol has made old-age a thing of the past. Sonny is deeply attached to the Rock and entrusts Alan with...

Gemma O'Connor / Following the Wake

 The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leached into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune,...

Jan Mark / Hairs in the Palm of the Hand

    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 price...

Maxine Barry / Fire and Ice

      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...

Allan Mallinson / An Act of Courage

 The seventh novel in the acclaimed and bestselling Matthew Hervey series finds Hervey alone and a prisoner in the fortress of Badajos on the Spanish border.While Hervey – taken captive in the final pages of The Sabre’s Edge –...

Michael Cordy / Crime Zero

 The year is 2008, and there is an epidemic of violent crime in the United States. Project Conscience promises to bring a radical solution to the crime problem, treating criminals with gene therapy. But some involved have a sinister agenda...

Stephen and Owen King / Sleeping Beauties

 A spectacular father/son collaboration like no other, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and...

Chris Fox / L.U.C.I in The Sky

 Maria Haymeyer has an I. Q. of 250, once posed for a Playboy 'Girls of Mensa' feature, and has invented a radical new design for a warplane computer game she calls 'L. U. C. I.' -- short for Light Ultra Chip Intelligence. But someone has stolen her...

Laline Paull / The Ice

 An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees.`A memorable eco-thriller. This is a world of arms dealers, heroic arctic adventurers and power crazed captains of industry...

Susan Hill / From the Heart

 A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for...

Julie Highman / Sleeping Around

 Robin is shocked but thrilled when Hannah arrives on his Oxford doorstep with a two year old and a suitcase, and announces that Freddie is his son. Her husband Marcus was less happy to learn about Hannah's fling with Robin, but several months on...

Katherine Roberts / Song Quest

 From the Isle of Echoes the forces of good and evil are held in harmony by those who hear and sing. When a mainlander's ship is wreeked and the Merlee half creatures are heard crying across the waves the lives of three novice Singers are changed...

Andrew O'Hagan / Be Near Me

 Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now.When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends...