Fiction

Richard Llewellyn- Chez Pavan - Hardcover 1st Ed- Vintage - 1959

A story of a young man going into high end hotel and restaurant world - running one of the finest Parisian Hotels in the 1920's. 1st UK hardcover edition, 1959, internally very good, in an edge worn and chipped dustjacket, which is now in a removable...

Karin Slaughter / Pretty Girls (Large Paperback)

 The compelling new standalone novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Unseen and Cop Town. With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can't help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared twenty years ago in a mystery...

James Patterson / 9th Judgement (Large Paperback) ( Women's Murder Club - Book 9 )

A young mother and her child are ruthlessly gunned down in a shopping centre car park. Lindsay Boxer has only one shred of evidence: three mysterious letters scrawled on the windscreen in blood-red lipstick. The same night, the wife of a Hollywood star...

Kathy Reichs / Mortal Remains (Large Paperback)

 When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam 40 years before. So who is...

Ian Rankin / The Impossible Dead (Large Paperback)

 Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs are back. They've been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct with his own uncle, also in...

Michael Connelly / The Fifth Witness (Large Paperback) ( Mickey Haller

 In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but if defense attorney Mickey Haller was expecting an uptick in business during the economic downturn, the reality is a different story. Even people needing legal representation to...

Olive Collins / The Memory of Music (Large Paperback)

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William Shakespeare / King Richard III

 This play charts the rise and fall of a Machiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide, claws his way to the throne of England. It contains a mixture of poetry and politics, tragedy and sardonic wit.      All of our books...

Alexandra Connor / The Lydgate Widow

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Jean M. Auel / The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children 2)

 Ayla leaves the safety of her clan and sets out on an epic journey of discovery. A hostile land awaits her, and her need for human love remains unfulfilled. But in the valley of the horses she finds refuge and contentment. Fate brings a stranger,...

Michael Jecks / A Moorland Hanging

 In fourteenth-century Devon, runaway villeins were brutally punished if apprehended by their masters. But when Peter Bruther flees the home of Sir William Beauscyr, he puts himself in the protection of the king by setting up as a tin miner on the...

Tony Strong / The Poison Tree

 In the wake of a failed marriage and a misguided love affair, feisty academic Terry Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate in detective fiction. But her new home was previously the scene of a savage sexual murder, and Terry soon...

Colin Forbes / The Greek Key

 ' He will be assassinated - the general took the decision last night.' Murder - committed over forty years ago, is the detonator which triggers off Tweed, Paula Grey and Newman in their quest for The Greek Key. On Exmoor live three former Commandos...

Emma Blair / Nellie Wildchild

 The Glasgow Nellie Thompson had been born to was a city bled colourless by poverty and despair, and divided against itself by religion and class. A city where appearances meant more than the truth that might lie in a person's heart . . ...

Alan Scholefield / The Stone Flower

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Elvi Rhodes / The Birthday Party

 Poppy's family is gathering to celebrate her eightieth birthday. Her children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild are converging on her Sussex home. As she prepares to welcome them all, her mind goes back over her life - to her tough...

David Rice / Blood Guilt

 What happens to a gunman when his killing days are over? In this gripping thriller written by the bestselling author of Shattered Vows, we meet Con Emmet, who is drawn into the Irish republican movement by fiery idealist Maeve. Soon he is carrying...

E.V. Thompson / Polrudden

 This family saga is set in Cornwall in the 1800s. Nathan has married Amy and together they rescue a drowning French boy. Events conspire to involve them in a Royalist plot and a trial of intrigue leads them to Paris. The book is in the second in...

Sue Grafton / H is for Homicide

 It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realised how happy I was. I was female, single, with money in my pocket . . . I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. As usual I'd forgotten how surges of goodwill merely presage bad news...

Andrea Camilleri / The Shape of Water

  The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local...

David Thompson / Mississippi Mayhem

 Taking a canoe down the Mississippi River had seemed like a good idea to Davy Crockett and his friend Flavius. But they hadn't counted on running into hardcases out to grab everything they had or hostile Indians who wanted their scalps. And that...

Candice Adams / Going Places

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Lew Dykes / Savannah Score

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Kingsley Amis / Difficulties with Girls

 Set in London in the mid '60s, this novel explores the twin jungles of sexual liberation and office politics in a distinguished literary publishing house. Kingsley Amis also wrote "Lucky Jim", "Take A Girl Like You", "The Anti-Death", "The...

Dick Francis / Trial Run

 A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious 'Aloysha' has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew knows more about horses than Russians - and more about...

Anna Jacobs / Elm Tree Road

 After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willitt sisters, Mattie, Nell and Renie, find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from...

Bette Greene / The Summer of My German Soldier

 When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the town these prisoners are...

Elvi Rhodes / Opal

 Edgar Carson has returned from the trenches to find that the land fit for heroes didn't exist. The only nice thing that happened to him was Opal, the small, tough, Yorkshire beauty who married him. But by the time the 20s came, Edgar was on the...

Noreen Riols / To Live Again

 The war is over and Katharine, supported by her family, gradually comes to terms with the death of her husband. Through her father she meets Theo and they fall deeply in love. But considering her first husband's brutal end, could she really marry a...

Janet Laurence / Appetite for Death

 Darina Lisle's old school friend asks her to help find the father of Rory Earlham, whose mother died in childbirth. As Darina begins to dig into the murky history of the Earlham family, the killing of a security guard finds Rory's millionaire...

Katherine Applegate / Ben Takes a Chance

 Ben takes a chance when he undergoes a dangerous eye operation. Zoey is torn between Aaron and Lucas. But Claire wants Aaron too. Can she make it look as if she's helping Zoey?      All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

David Mace / Chasing the Sun

 A drama set in a world where money means much more than morals, and force of will is the thing a man - or woman - needs in order to succeed. The author also wrote "Fire Lance", "The Highest Ground", "Frankenstein's Children" and "Shadow Hunters"...

Tom Topor / The Codicil

 When a late businessman's will reveals the existence of a war child to whom he has bequeathed fifty million dollars, renegade private detective Adam Bruno is hired to find the missing heir and encounters a web of deception.     All of our...

Alastair Gunn / My Bloody Valentine

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Peter Cheyney / They Never Say When

 This story features the further adventures of the detective Slim Callaghan. In this tale he is hired by a woman who claims that she is being blackmailed by the thief of the priceless Denys Coronet. But he soon finds out that she is not at all what...

Adam Baron / Shut Eye

 A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case which leads to a lonely trail through the city - until...

John Gilstrap / At All Costs

 Meet Jake and Carolyn Donovan, attractive, mid-30s, they work hard at raising their 13-year-old son, pay their taxes and obey the law. A typical American couple? Appearances are deceptive - the Donovans head the FBI's most wanted list for a crime...

Laurell K. Hamilton / Obsidian Butterfly

 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, has dealt with - and destroyed - a lot of monsters. But her old mentor, Edward - ruthless killer, bounty hunter, assassin - may be worse than any of them. But Edward's got problems. A malevolent and seemingly...

Gary Shteyngart / Super Sad True Love Story

 In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which...

Rupert Gilchrist / Master of Dragonard Hill

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Lolly Winston / Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted

 36-year-old Sophie Stanton loses her young husband to cancer. In an age where women are expected to be high-achievers, Sophie desperately wants to be a good widow—a graceful, composed Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, Sophie is more of a...

Amanda Cross / The James Joyce Murder

 "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWKate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of...

James Murphy / Cedar

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Sue Rann / Looking for Mr Nobody

 Wolf is a vagrant pavement artist on the streets of Amsterdam. He remembers nothing before the hospital, where he was treated for gunshot wounds. The police want to talk to him and sinister men are on his trailhe has to find a way into his...

C.W. Reed / To Reason Why AND Ties of Blood

 Two great books in one!     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...

Alistair MacLean / Puppet On A Chain

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Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - Part 3 - Paradise - Vintage Penguin Classics - translated Dorothy Sayers

Paradise - the final book of Dante's ( 1265-1321) masterwork, the Divine Comedy - Paradiso ( or Heaven) translated by Dorothy Sayers.  Black cover Vintage penguin, 1982 reprint of this translation, first published 1962 . Fold out map inside back...

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage - Vintage Airmont Classic Novel - US Civil War

A 1962 Airmont classics edition, complete and unabridged , a slim 160pp paperback, and a classic of US, and war literature.  Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are...

J.R. Ward / Lover Enshrined

 In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other--six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must...

Sherrilyn Kenyon / Dark Side Of The Moon

 Susan Michaels is a reporter on a mission to resurrect her professional reputation. And she only has to brave her cat allergy at a local animal shelter to follow the lead that could get her off the tabloid beat forever. But she gets more than she...

Carolyn Meyer / The Problem with Sidney

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John Connor / Falling

 A stunning thriller that sees DC Karen Sharpe brought to the very edge of her sanity     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...