Fiction

Barbara Vine / The Birthday Present

   The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine - a gripping, psychological thriller packed with menaceIntensely imagined, fearful and satisfying' Sunday TimesTory MP Ivor Tesham has unconventional tastes. And in bored housewife Hebe Furnal he finds...

Lucy Robinson / The Greatest Love Story of All Time

   'The new Marian Keyes . . . romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious' CosmopolitanIt's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend...

Thomas Keneally / Woman of the Inner Sea

    A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of a marriage that becomes a nightmare, of a distraught...

James Long / Ferney

    When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything...

Georgette Heyer / Friday's Child

   Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate.When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed - she'll escape a life as a governess and, once they wed, he can finally claim his inheritance. But as Hero attempts...

Fiona Gibson / The Woman Who Upped and Left

   A brilliantly funny and uplifting novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Perfect for anyone who's ever wanted to escape it all!Forget about having it all. Sometimes you just want to leave it all behind.Audrey is often seized by the...

Wendy Jean / Unstolen

    The thing about being the unstolen one is that you'd better be strong, you'd better stay safe, you'd better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can't take any more stress in their lives and...

Glenn Patterson / The Rest Just Follows

    Belfast, 1970s: Craig, St John and Mazine meet while at secondary school. Three very different people, they each come from testing backgrounds, and become friends just as life gets exciting and adulthood beckons. The years pass, and...

Kevin Sampson / Freshers

   Kit Hannah is about to start university. He's funny, clever and popular, but he's harbouring a dark foreboding he dare not share with anyone. And it's with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life. At the vast Halls of...

Lucy Diamond / On a Beautiful Day

   Treasure every moment. Life can change in a heartbeat.'A new Lucy Diamond book is one of the happiest highlights of my calendar' Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Country EscapeIt's a beautiful day in Manchester and four friends are...

Juliet Ashton / The Valentine's Card

   The Valentine's card was meant to be Orla's fairy tale ending, but really, it was only the beginning . . . Orla adores her actor boyfriend, Sim, who's away filming a sumptuous costume drama. Although the long-distance relationship...

Elizabeth Smart / By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

   Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as `Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece'.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop,...

Adrienne Dines / Soft Voices Whispering

    When Eleanor Morrissey leaves Kildoran on a dark September night in 1930, nobody is sorry to see her go and nobody expects to see her return. As far as the villagers are concerned, the Morrisseys have been shamed out of town forever...

Sarah May / The Rise and Fall of the Wonder Girls

   It's hard to keep a secret when the secret just keeps on getting bigger....Four teenage girls - Grace, Vicky, Ruth and Saskia - all at the same school; all with the same secret.October. Burwood. The corridors of Burwood Girls School are...

Christopher Bollen / Orient

   'A compelling novel of tragic suspense' AM Homes 'A taut and elegant suspense about strangers and strangeness, suspicion and forgiveness, reinvention and confession' Joshua Ferris At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the...

Jane Green / Summer Secrets

   Summer Secrets by number one bestselling author, Jane Green, is a gripping tale of recovery and redemption. June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. When she...

Fionnuala Kearney / The Day I Lost You

   `Incredibly moving, it's beautifully written and page-turning' Susan LewisTHE DAY I LOST YOU WAS THE DAY I DISCOVERED I NEVER REALLY KNEW YOUWhen Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes.Jess's first...

Jane Green / Falling

   Falling is an astonishingly tender love story from the internationally bestselling author, Jane Green.Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines of her upper-crust English life - and rather dull boyfriend - and moved to...

Jess Walter / The Financial Lives of the Poets

   From the author of the bestselling Beautiful Ruins comes The Financial Lives of Poets - a brilliantly funny novel about a man who, in an attempt to save himself, may destroy everything he loves.Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job,...

Tony Ballantyne / Capacity

   Society in the twenty-third century runs smoothly and peacefully with the aid of Social Care operatives such as Judy 3. Meanwhile benevolent AIs, under the control of the near mythical Watcher, seem to have solved all mankind's problems,...

Deborah Scroggins / Emma's War

   Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from...

Jim Lynch / Truth Like the Sun

   It is 1962, and the city of Seattle is about to be famous. Roger Morgan, an audacious young promoter, wants to pull off the ultimate coup de theatre: the World's Fair. Roger dazzles everyone he meets, and is still a backstage power forty...

Alice Randall / Ada's Rules

   Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care centre where she...

Helen Fitzgerald / The Cry

   Now a major BBC 1 drama starring Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Dr Who) and Ewen Leslie (Top of the Lake, Safe Harbour), The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life.Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime...

Ottessa Moshfegh / Eileen

   *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016* Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the...

Jose Saramago / Seeing

   Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension,...

Margaret Dickinson / Fairfield Hall

   A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter,...

Craig Simpson / Special Operations : Death Ray

   FRANCE, JANUARY 1941 The Second World War is raging and Britain is staring at defeat. Intelligence indicates that the Nazis have built a deadly weapon on the French coast. Could a Death Ray really exist? There's only one way to find out -...

Julia Stoneham / Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

   England, 1943. The country is at war With so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her...

Giovanna Fletch / Billy and Me

   A gloriously romantic novel about fame, friendship and falling in love, from the bestselling author of Some Kind of Wonderful - perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Sophie Kinsella & Cecelia Ahern. Sophie May has a secret.One that she's...

Louise Pentland / Wilde Like Me

   THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Warm and engaging' Sophie Kinsella'I'm smitten' Lindsey Kelk'Gorgeous, witty, reassuring' Daisy Buchanan'Funny, heartfelt, tender and empowering!' Giovanna Fletcher'Hilarious, moving and extremely well...

Andrew Rosenheim / Fear Itself

    It's the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. War is threatening in Europe, but in America, with forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure to stay out of the fight. Jimmy...

Donato Carrisi / The Lost Girls of Rome

   A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, two men, Clemente and Marcus, sit in a cafe near the Piazza Navona and pore over the details of the case. They are members of the ancient Penitenzeri - a...

Lynn York / The Piano Teacher

   Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is a town of only 2,500 inhabitants with a 1950s mindset doing its best to cope with the social upheavals of the 1970s. Miss Wilma, a widowed music teacher and organist, suddenly finds her quiet and...

Jaclyn Moriarty / Dreaming of Amelia

   Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their final year of school, and everyone is completely obsessed with them. Glamorous, talented and totally devoted to one another, the two of them drift through school in their own world. But...

Bruce Arnold / He That is Down Need Fear No Fall

      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...

Jane Adams / The Greenway

    Cassie still has nightmares about that day in 1975 when she and her cousin Suzie took a short cut through The Greenway. For somewhere along this path Suzie simply vanished. Also haunted is John Tyson, the retired detective once in...

Alice Munro / The Progress of Love

   Contains 11 short stories on the theme of love and relationships.    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...

Cara Hunter / Close to Home

   SOMEONE TOOK DAISY MASON . . . SOMEONE YOU KNOW.____________________________The RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB pick everyone is raving about, this pulse-pounding thriller about the search for a missing child is perfect for fans of THE COUPLE...

Arthur Miller / All My Sons

   Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility and the falsehood of the American Dream. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an...

Holly Smale / All That Glitters

   "My name is Harriet Manners, and I have always been a geek."The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series.Harriet Manners knows many things.She knows that toilet roll was invented by the Chinese in 600 AD.She knows that a comet's...

Christopher Castellani / A Kiss from Maddalena

    It's the spring of 1943, and the tiny village of Santa Cecilia is about to be overrun by German soldiers. But Vito Leone's campaign is to win the hand of the beautiful Maddalena Piccinelli. Maddalena's sassy, iron-willed sister Carolina...

Irene Nemirovsky / The Wine of Solitude

   From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise. Helene is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother and her adored but distant father, she longs for love and for freedom. As first the Great War and then the...

Shamini Flint / Inspector Singh Investigates

   Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears...

Deborah Cooke / Winging It

    Zoe Sorensson yearns to come into her powers as the only female dragon shifter. But being part of two worlds is more complicated than she expected. It's bad enough that she's the target of the Mages' plan to eliminate all shifters - she...

W.J. Burley / Wycliffe and the House of Fear

   A troubling disappearance. A puzzling mystery. A new investigation for Detective Wycliffe. Detective Superintendent Wycliffe is holidaying in Cornwall when he meets the intriguing Kemp family. The Kemps have lived in Kellycork, their...

Pamela Rowan / May Need Renovation

    Fast-paced and funny, this hilarious novel comments on the fashionable pursuit of property renovation. It follows the fortunes of Sullivan whose regular boyfriend has totalled her occasional boyfriend's Jag. To make matters worse he has...

Peter Robinson / The Price of Love ( Short Stories )

  When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the...

Brian Ruckley / Fall Of Thanes

   Tension between the clans of the Black Road and the True Bloods is mounting, as each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. And Aeglyss the na'kyrim continues to spread chaos in the world, exerting a...

Michael Hickey / Scarecrow in the Garden

      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...

Stuart Turton / The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

   THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT OF THE...

William Nicholson / Motherland

    In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ambulance driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer under the command of Mountbatten. Kitty falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with...