Fiction

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...

Elizabeth Haynes / Revenge of the Tide

    Elizabeth Haynes' second novel is a taut and gripping murder mystery introducing a compelling new heroine, Genevieve - office worker by day and pole dancer by night - who finds herself implicated in a mob underworld of murder,...

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...

Neil Gaiman / Norse Mythology

   THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF GOOD OMENS, NOW A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME SERIES`With the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life' JOANNE HARRIS`The halls of Valhalla have been...

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...

Saul David / Zulu Hart

   'Gems like this are too rare. I was hooked in ten pages.' Conn IgguldenGEORGE HART just wants to serve his Queen and honour his family. It's not that simple.BASTARDHe doesn't know his father, only that he's a pillar of the Establishment...

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...

Paula Daly / Open Your Eyes

   'An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last' Fiona Barton'Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer' Jill Mansell'Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining. I couldn't turn the pages fast...

Joanna Cannon / Three Things About Elsie

   The Sunday Times Bestseller`Lovely, lovely, lovely... Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe' MARIAN KEYES`Powerful and profound' Guardian`Another sure-fire hit' Daily Mail`Funny, melancholy, acutely observant' Sunday...

Jack Kerouac / Visions of Cody

    Kerouac's classic fictional tribute to Neal Cassady. Many years before its first unabridged publication, 'Visions of Cody' became an underground classic. Written by Kerouac at his creative zenith, the book is a celebration of the life...

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...

Danny Wallace / Charlotte Street

   A heartwarming everyday tale of boy stalks girl...My name is Jason - and I have just met the most incredible woman, on Charlotte Street. Well, I say 'met'. I sort of held her bags for a second. But she smiled at me! And it was this amazing...

Barbara Dimmick / In the Presence of Horses

    Emotionally impactful, beautifully written, IN THE PRESENCE OF HORSES is an entrancing novel of the almost mystical healing power of horses over emotionally damaged people, as well as a compelling portrayal of commitment and betrayal...

Frank Kippax / The Scar

    In HM Prison Bowscar, there have already been disturbing rumblings of unrest. Political bungling brings mass murderer Angus McGregor and crooked financier Michael Masters together under one roof with a group of dangerous men with deadly...

Reginald Hill / Death's Jest-Book

   Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' -- Independent In T.L...

Greg Keyes / The Briar King

   In the kingdom of Crotheny, two young girls play in the tangled gardens of the sacred city of the dead where, fleeing an imaginary attacker, they discover the unknown crypt of a legendary, ancestral queen. In the wilds of the forest, while...

Iain Johnstone / Cannes : The Novel

    It is May 1997, the eve of Hong Kong's return to mainland China, and the film world is converging for the 50th Cannes Film Festival. Against a backdrop of celebrity premieres, power breakfasts and self-indulgence, a megastar is...

Mark Burnell / Chameleon

   They are chameleons. Beyond the law, beyond morality, they've survived by adapting, whatever the circumstances. And by trusting nobody but themselves.IT'S A QUESTION OF IDENTITY.Stephanie Patrick, a woman who was more comfortable under an...

John Harvey / Off Minor

   Little Gloria Summers' body has been found, hidden inside two plastic bin bags in a disused warehouse. Somewhere in the city, a child killer is on the loose, free to strike again. Then Emily Morrison vanishes on a sunny Sunday afternoon. A...