Fiction

Henrik Ibsen / A Doll's House ( Drama)

Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the...

Patrick Robinson / The Shark Mutiny

 It is 2007, and three supertankers are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. World oil prices skyrocket. US Military Intelligence concludes that behind this catastrophe at the gateway to the Persian Gulf stands Iran, assisted by an expansionist China...

Nadeem Aslam / Maps for Lost Lovers

 In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months,...

Stephen Lawhead / Grail

 Following Arthur's miraculous healing by Christ's cup from an apparently fatal wound, Arthur sets his heart upon establishing a shrine to the Grail as a symbol of the Summer Realm he has introduced to Britain. But in this account by Gwalchavad...

C.E. Murphy / Thunderbird Falls

 It's the end of the world... Again. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago--surely she deserves more of a...

Dennis Lehane / Coronado

 Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story 'Running out of Dog' which was featured in THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY...

Valdamir Volkoff / The Turn Around

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Bali Rai / (Un)arranged Marriage

 MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED... 'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I...

Robertson Davies / The Cunning Man

 This novel tells the story of "the cunning man", from boyhood to old age, who is a doctor but also possibly a shaman. In it the author explores religion, psychosymatic illness, love and death.      All of our books are second hand,...

Deborah Lawrenson / The Art Of Falling

 In 1944 Tom Wainwright, a British soldier, arrives in the small Italian town of Petriano. The war is nearly over, and in the lull before the Allied troops move further north to capture Florence Tom forges a friendship with the Parini family - and...

Margaret Pemberton / Magnolia Square

 1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal.But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry...

Rebecca Tope / Death in the Cotswolds

 Thea Osborne is thanking her lucky stars. After two disastrous housesitting incidents in which she unwittingly became embroiled in murder and mayhem, she is only too happy to have a bit of time to concentrate on her blossoming relationship with DI...

Arthur Miller / A View from the Bridge and All My Sons : 2 Plays

 Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of 'social' realism and tragedy. "All My Sons" (1947), which brought Miller his first major success, is a merciless exposure of wartime...

Catherine Forde / Skarrs

 Grampa Dan has just died. Danny notices the smell of his bedroom and the banging of his stick have gone, but gradually notices what else is missing. It was his forgotten Richard who uncovered Grampa Dan's secret, while Danny was out with the...

Ken Bruen / London Boulevard

 When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans. Attempting to stay out of Gant's way,...

John Francome / Dark Horse

 Ten years ago, a car crash left a girl dead and four friends from racing school with a dark secret. Since then they have gone their separate ways and have managed to put the memory of that day to the backs of their minds. But when a hit-and-run...

David Rain / The Heat of the Sun

 When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton - known to all as 'Trouble' - for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are polar opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish...

Kader Abdolah / The House of the Mosque

 Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on the...

Susan R. Sloan / Behind Closed Doors

 Valerie O'Connor comes from a large, close- knit, working class family in Vermont. At the age of eighteen, she marries twenty-five-year-old Jack Marsh. He is a handsome, dashing Korean War veteran, but he is also a damaged man who cannot keep...

William Shakespeare / Measure for Measure

 The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of...

Jack Higgins / Bloody Passage

 A classic thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed.Oliver Grant is a decorated soldier, Military Intelligence Major and a case-hardened mercenary. So when the stepson of a Mafia boss is kidnapped and taken to a...

Steven Bochco / Death by Hollywood

 One evening, spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbours through his $4,000 electronic telescope, Bobby witnesses a beautiful woman making love to a handsome Latin actor called Ramon. As their pillow talk turns ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the...

Vickie Taylor / Flesh and Stone

 Ancient gargoyles take wing--and human form--in this second in the series. In the dazzling novel, Carved in Stone, an extraordinary ancient race of immortals was introduced. Now, a woman used to protecting others finds sanctuary in the arms of...

John Burns / Hack

 There were two splashes in London that night: the first was a body dropping into the Thames with a bullet hole in its head; and the second was tabloid crime hack Max Chard's exclusive story on the killing. But murder is only half the yarn. Meet the...

Anne Tyler / Digging To America

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Dean Koontz / Intensity

 Edgler Vess is a sociopath intent on murder. He lives for one purpose only: to satisfy all appetites as they arise, seeking ever more outrageous experience. To live with intensity. When he attacks her friend, Laura, Chyna Shepherd is saved by the...

Tad Williams / Otherland 3: Mountain Of Black Glass

 Bestselling author Tad Williams broke new ground in 1996 with his wonderfully imaginative novel OTHERLAND. The place is an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and creators...

D.D. Barant / Killing Rocks

 FBI profiler Jace Valchek's ticket home from the twisted parallel universe where she's been called to duty hinges on the capture of series killer Aristotle Stoker - and an alliance with a sorcerer known as Asher. The problem: Asher has joined...

Valerie Wood / Emily

 Betrayed, imprisoned, tried and transported to Australia, Emily's life seems finished until she is reunited with the one man who can save her from her misery and bring her wealth and happiness.      All of our books are second hand,...

Bernard Cornwell / The Bloody Ground

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David Lodge / The British Museum is Falling Down

 The Rhythm Method is the curse of young Adam Appleby's life and the cause of his children's. While Adam gestates his thesis in the British Museum, his wife worries at home because her period is late and a fourth little bundle of (expensive) joy...

Jason Mordaunt / Welcome To Coolsville

 Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the...

Kate Thompson / The Beguilers

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Richard Crompton / The Honey Guide

 'A compulsive whodunnit set in Kenya, where tribal politics can get you killed' Ian Rankin Death is a fact of life in Africa's sprawling megacity - and life is cheap. Power and wealth are in the hands of a small elite. Riven by ethnic tension,...

Valerie Martin / The Confessions of Edward Day

 Orange-Prize winner Valerie Martin returns with a powerful novel about love, sex and the perils of playing a role too well.In the seamy theatre world of 1970s New York, where rents are cheap and love is free, aspiring actor Edward Day joins his...

Sarah Singleton / Century

 Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one...

Alison Pearson / I Think I Love You

 1974. Thirteen-year-old Petra and her best friend Sharon are desperate to win a competition to meet their teen idol. Meanwhile Bill is unhappy in his job, ghostwriting the fanzine of the man so adored by the girls - and slightly unnerved by...

Jill Rowan / The Legacy

 When Fallady Galbraith accepts the legacy of an isolated house on the Welsh borders as a means of escaping London, she soon discovers that the house conceals a number of secrets including two ghosts who act as cook and gardener. Her search for...

Anna Godbersen / Beautiful Days

 The fabulous sequel to Bright Young Things. Scandal, intrigue, and romance follow three beautiful young women, Letty, Cordelia and Astrid, as they each try to find love and fortune in glamorous Jazz Age New York.      All of our...

Anna Godbersen / Splendour : A Luxe novel

 It's a brand-new year and in this dramatic conclusion to the Luxe saga, the future of Manhattan's favourite socialites is looking decidedly different from the ones they had imagined for themselves. With old ties being broken and new ones...

Lesley Pearse / Dead to Me

 **'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine****'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best**Two very different women, one unlikely friendship. In the chaos of war-torn Britain, can any relationship survive? Dead to Me is a story...

Sophie Hannah / The Monogram Murders ( New Hercule Poirot Mysteries - Book 1 )

   The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells'.Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two...

Richard Montanari / The Stolen Ones

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Twenty Major / Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

 It's just days after the Folkapalooza concert and having saved the world, Twenty Major is looking forward to some R&R but little does he know that his murky past is about to catch up with him ... Notorious Dublin gangster Tony Furriskey is...

Willy Vlautin / Lean on Pete

 Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's...

Noah Hawley / Before the Fall

 Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best NovelSelected by The Sunday Times as one of the top page-turners of summer 2017FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD WINNING FARGO AND LEGION TV SERIES'Hawley's sublime prose glows on every page in this literary...

Nigel McDowell / The House of Mountfathom

 'THE HOUSE OF MOUNTFATHOM is the kind of book that turned me into a reader in the first place. It has the same clever interweaving of history and fantasy that I so admired in Nigel McDowell's previous books but is also filled with an utterly...

Helene Gremillon / The Confidant

 'I got a letter one day, a long letter that wasn't signed.' Camille reads this narration of events from pre-war France, certain that it has been sent to her by mistake. Then more letters start to arrive - They tell of a friendship struck up between...

Michael Frayn / Skios

 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.'On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is...

Rebecca Hill / Blue Rise

 Back in the land of Oz, the adolescent boy Liir was last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead, Liir is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by a silent novice called...

Rula Jabreal / Miral

 In 1948, as violence erupts in Jerusalem, a young Arab woman, Hind Husseini, finds fifty-five abandoned children in the streets and faces the biggest challenge of her life. Hind establishes the Dar El-Tifel orphanage, dedicating her life to...

David Leavitt / The Indian Clerk

 January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed...