Fiction

A. M. Homes / This Book Will Save Your Life

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done...

Sarah Dunant / Sacred Hearts

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair,...

Robert Crais / The Sentry

After the nightmare of Hurricane Katrina, Dru Rayne and her uncle relocated to Los Angeles. Five years later, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighbourhood gang, he offers his own...

Kate O'Riordan / The Angel in the House

A romantic comedy -- of sorts! Robert has taken a long time to fall in love, and finally, he does so -- with Angela. He thinks she's the angel he's been waiting for. And she certainly does have angelic qualities, but underneath she's...

Michel Houellebecq / Atomised

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more...

Lionel Shriver / The Post-birthday World

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined,...

Lisa Genova / Left Neglected

The moving second novel from the author of international hit Still Alice, which explores the life of a woman struck by a brain disorder, Left Neglect 'I think some small part of me knew I was living an unsustainable life. Every now and then, it would...

Margaret Forster / The Battle for Christabel

Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has begun...With signature skill, Margaret Forster...

Kate Furnivall / The Jewel of St Petersburg

Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg's aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. But she scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her life a...

Tim Burton / The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy And Other Stories

Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and Nightmare Before Chistmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of...

Justin Evans / A Good and Happy Child

George Davies has a problem: he can't bring himself to hold his newborn son. Desperate to save his dwindling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, George visits a therapist and begins to delve into the childhood memories that may be...

Thomas F. Walsh / More Favourite Poems We Learned in School

This companion volume to Favourite Poems we Learned in School aims to remind readers of such poems as I Remember, I Remember and The Village Blacksmith. There are over 80 poems and an index of first lines allows easy access to all those half-remembered...

Thomas F. Walsh / In Silent Moments

A collection of short reflections, some lyrical, some nostalgic, by an anthologist that vary in theme from a Roman holiday to a death in the family, and from clearing attics to memories of pupils past.All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Gillian Binchy / Ruby's Tuesday

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Susan Stairs / The Boy Between

When Orla is handed an envelope by her father, she is perplexed by what she finds - a photograph of her parents, taken the summer she was born. Her heavily expectant mother, unusually, is smiling. Between her parents stands a teenage boy, her...

Anna Quindlen / Every Last One

The Lathams seem to have it all: health, wealth and a vibrant family life. As Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home, friends and community, she has every reason to feel fulfilled and content. Then, for one of her sons, a process of...

Valerie Martin / Mary Reilly

From the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. Faithfully weaving in details from...

R.J. Ellory / Ghostheart

A brilliant novel of love and consequences from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her...

Clare Boylan / Home Rule

When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine Devlins, but in a two-roomed Dublin tenement, Elinore vents...

Imogen Parker / The Things We Do for Love

It is 1969, and in the small English town of Kingshaven, eight year old Julia Allsop wants to be a princess. But, a fairytale wedding doesn't necessarily mean happily ever after, and Julia discovers that life is more complicated than dreams of...

Patricia Duncker / Hallucinating Foucault

This is a love story, a mystery and a quest. It is the eerie tale of a mad writer, the glamorous, scandalous Paul Michel, and the reader who sets out to find him. The search begins in the archives of a university library and the pages of an old gay...

Dwayne Alexander Smith / Forty Acres

This book was the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author. "Amazing and unique." (Whoopi Goldberg). "Like Grisham's The Firm (1991), Forty Acres pits a sharp legal mind against a deadly conspiracy...

Stephen J. Martin / Superchick

All women are bastards.' Jimmy Collins - competent middle manager by day, suburban rockstar by night - has just been dumped. And he's not taking it very well. Even a visit to his stylist can't cheer him up. He decides to take control of the...

Deirdre Eustace / If I Trust in You

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Sarah Webb / Take a Chance

Abbafab', the hugely popular Abba tribute band, are in trouble. Gemma Redden has just broken her ankle and finding a new singer to fill her white platform boots at such late notice isn't going to be easy. But desperate times call for desperate...

Chris Binchy / People Like Us

So when they move to a bigger house on the outskirts of Dublin, Paul hopes that it will give his family the room they need to relieve these tensions: cleaner air; bigger gardens; and breathing space. But as his family start to settle in, doubts begin to...

Robert Bolt / A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's...

Richard C. Morais / The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame...

Jaclyn Moriarty / Becoming Bindy Mackenzie

It's not easy being Bindy Mackenzie. It's not her fault that she's the cleverest girl in school, and she's tired of having no friends - Bindy's learning the hard way that being nice doesn't equal being popular. So it's time...

Matthew Pearl / The Dante Club

Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Downturn Abbey

Since inheriting a pile in Killiney, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, lover of the ladeez and award-winning author - can add a new string to his not inconsiderable (you know what I mean) bow - lord of the manor. Downturn Abbey is the...

Barbara Vine / A Dark-Adapted Eye

AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS. Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together. What secret caused...

Jeffrey Archer / Cometh the Hour ( Clifton Chronicles 6 )

Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he...

Scott Turow / Innocent

Twenty years ago, Tommy Molto charged his colleague Rusty Sabich with the murder of a former lover; when a shocking turn of events transformed Prosecutor Rusty from the accuser into the accused. Rusty was cleared, but the seismic trial left both men...

Sarah Webb / Anything for Love

Life isn't looking too rosy for Alice Devine. She's a single mum, and needs a well-paid job fast, because as much as she loves her sister, Hilda, she hadn't planned on living with her. Added to that, her love life has been a disaster and...

Thomas Kelly / The Rackets

Endemic corruption, and the way it holds the fabric of a city together, has never been addressed so sharply. This is tough-guy prose in overdrive, which moves effortlessly from union balls to the morally ambiguous world of Irish racketeers, Italian...

Eggers Dave - Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

Sinead Moriarty / The Baby Trail

Sinead Moriarty poured all her experiences in trying to get pregnant for the first time into her debut novel The Baby Trail. Her heroine Emma Hamilton discovers that the road to conception is far from straightforward and her story is a moving and funny...

Johan Theorin / Echoes from the Dead

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent...

Colin Bateman / Murphy's Law

Detective Martin Murphy has been given one last chance. After a terrible experience working undercover in Northern Ireland, he's in London, and about to fail another psychological assessment. While his life spirals out of control, his boss sends him...

Jo Nesbo / Cockroaches (Harry Hole - Book 2 )

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Inspector Harry Hole heads to Thailand to investigate the murder of an ambassador. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, coming May 9, 2017. When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in...

Richard North Patterson / The Outside Man

Set in Alabama, society lawyer Adam Shaw is married to the beautiful Kris Ann who has bound him to a life he despises and her father, Roland Cade, his senior partner and rival. When Shaw discovers Lydia Cantwell (a prominent society woman and close...

Emma Blair / Jessie Gray

The first time Jessie laid her eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain. Then she was the sheltered, dreamy minister's daughter, determined to take a bite out...

ingrid Black / Circle of the Dead

Ex-FBI agent Saxon has dealt with many killers in her time but nothing can prepare her for the night of horror ahead...It's early evening on Halloween when the Dublin Murder squad are called out to the home of wealthy businessman Daniel Erskine...

Zoe Miller / The Compromise

A suspicious accident. A terrible secret. Do we ever really know our friends? Childhood friends Juliet, Rebecca, Rose and Matthew grew up in a small village outside Dublin. Now privileged, wealthy and powerful, they appear to have it all. But when Juliet...

Ken Follett / Code to Zero

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Ger Gallagher / Shadow Play

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Sylvia Day / Afterburn & Aftershock

Never mix business with pleasure. Never bring politics into the bedroom. I can't say I wasn't warned...Two years after I took Jackson Ruteledge as a lover, he was back. Walking into a deal I'd worked hard to close. Under the tuteledge on Lei...

Roberta Kray / Dangerous Promises

When Sadie Wise strikes up a seemingly innocent conversation with a stranger on a train, the only thing on her mind is finding her husband Eddie and making him sign their divorce papers. She tells Mona that Eddie has been avoiding her for years but now...

Erin Kelly / Broadchurch

Inspired by the first season of the BAFTA award-winning ITV series, this is the official, unmissable Broadchurch novel. Incredibly moving and containing never-before-seen material, it takes you inside the minds and motivations of the unforgettable cast...

Lynda La Plante / Wrongful Death

Duty to the job or personal ambition? Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie ...Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. His death was quickly...

Lorrie Moore / A Gate at the Stairs

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world...