Fiction

Christine Aziz / The Olive Readers

   I cannot recall the exact moment when I decided to become a Reader. This is unusual for me, as I am always precise about beginnings . . . Imagine a future without a past, a time without memory, a state in which nationality, ancestry,...

Paul Finch / Shadows

   `A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT`A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES'Intense action and an enthralling female lead.' L.A. LARKINThe SUNDAY TIMES bestseller returns with the second book in the PC Lucy Clayburn series - a must...

Rebecca Dean / Enemies of the Heart

 A sweeping epic of love, desire and betrayal. The perfect read for fans of THE CROWN.June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the first time - an evening that will alter the...

Ian McDonald / Kirinya

    The end of the universe happened at around ten o'clock at night on 22 December 2032. It's just that humanity hasn't realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into...

Lynn S. Hightower / The Debt Collector

    Home invasion - the kind of call every homicide cop dreads. Cincinnati detective Sonora Blair is called to a small house at the end of a cul-de-sac, and finds the brutal decimation of an average American family - deeply in dept. A...

Duncan Sprott / The House of the Eagle

    "The House of the Eagle" begins Duncan Sprott's "Ptolemies Quartet", an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve...

Ian Irvine / Alchymist : The Well of Echoes, Volume Three

    The Node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the Aachim's constructs useless. With the battle lost, hordes of alien Lyrinx are swarming from the tar pits of Snizort, intending to fall upon the survivors and destroy them...

Peter Temple / Bad Debts

    Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved...

Manda Scott / Boudica

   In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant,...

Alan Furst / A Hero in France

   Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war.Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work.The fighters of the...

Richard Burke / Frozen

    When his childhood friend, Verity, is found at the foot of Beachy Head, barely alive, Harry's life is thrown into turmoil. He can't accept that the happy-go-lucky girl he grew up with would try to kill herself. He should know. He was...

Tom Hoyle / Thirteen

   Thirteen is the first in an exciting action series from Tom Hoyle.Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth...

Tara Flynn / Giving Out Yards : The Art of Complaint, Irish Style

   In Giving Out Yards, Tara Flynn puts paid to the long-debated question of what makes us Irish, nailing it in one collective and hilarious grumble-fest. Her razor-sharp wit and keen analysis of those topics that bring us out in a rash - and...

Penny Hancock / The Darkening Hour

   Meet TheodoraAnd MonaTwo women, from completely different walks of life, forced by circumstances to live together under one roof.Both women are at their wits' end, scared of losing the one thing that's most precious to them. So when...

Alexandra Brown / Cupcakes at Carrington's

   A deliciously indulgent read from the best selling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage. Carrington's Department Store - where life is sweeter...Georgie Hart had it all - as a top personal shopper in London, the heady world of Mulberry...

Marc Acito / How I Paid for College : A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater

    It's 1983, and in a sleepy community in New Jersey seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. However, the fun comes to a halt when his father refuses to pay for Edward to...

Rob Kitchin / The Rule Book

    A young woman is found dead. Accompanying her body is Chapter One of "The Rule Book" - a self-help guide for serial killers. The case is assigned to Detective Superintendent Colm McEvoy. With the pressure from his superiors, the press,...

Daniel Cole / Ragdoll

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb thriller writing.' Peter Robinson'A brilliant, breathless thriller' M.J. Arlidge'A high concept solution to a mystery' Sophie HannahA body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched...

Kevin Kwan / Crazy Rich Asians

   The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a...

Anthony Whelan / Amy's Amazon

   In Amy's Amazon, Book Two of The Thrillosophy Trilogy, we are re-introduced to our heroine Laura, who has changed her name to Amy as she hides from the malevolent forces seeking her. As she mounts a world-wide campaign of education and...

Tama Janowitz / Area Code 212

    I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene...

Georgina Harding / Painter of Silence

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with...

Rachel Ward / Numbers

   Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret.When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head -the date on which they will die.Knowing that nothing lasts forever, Jem avoids relationships, butwhen she meets...

Kurt Vonnegut / Cat's Cradle

   With his trademark dry wit, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an inventive science fiction satire that preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon - and, worse still, surviving it. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an...

Christopher Farnsworth / Killfile

     A brilliant contemporary thriller with a unique special element - for fans of Inception, Minority Report and Touch by Claire NorthWhen billionaire Everett Sloan hires John Smith to take down his biggest rival, it's not just because...

Kathy Reichs / Exposure

   Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet.Morris Island has barely had a chance to return to normality after the high profile trial of the Gamemaster, when two local...

Philip Kerr / Gridiron

   Los Angeles, 1988Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. A.The Gridiron represents the state-of-the-art in smart buildings: every aspect of the building, from...

Barney Leason / North Rodeo Drive

      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...

Patrick Robinson / Diamondhead

   When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself...

Stephen Woodworth / From Black Rooms

   Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder...

Elizabeth Adler / The Hotel Riviera

   'Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany box, and you'll get the feel of my little hotel. It's a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for me, its creator.'Lola Laforet doesn't have...

Lucy Irvine / One is One

    Julia Barton, 27 and single, looks back over some eventful months in her life. It is apparent that she has been scarred, mentally and physically, but other than that her past is mysterious. This novel is written by the author of...

James Mitchell / Indian Summer

    The triumphant arrival of one of the richest men in England with an exquisitely beautiful woman on either arm causes a flurry of excitement. From the creator of 'When the Boat Comes In'.     All of our books are second...

Elizabeth Corley / Grave Doubts

    'He was only a pupil, learning from a master who was uncompromising about the rules of the game he had invented. Normally he obeyed them, but with her the temptation had been too strong. Otherwise he was an adept pupil, becoming more...

Andy McNab / State Of Emergency

   On a freezing winter's night, a small craft skims across the Thames towards London's most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain's most powerful new politician.In a nation threatened by extremist...

Annalena McAfee / The Spoiler

   Tamara Sim, a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist, is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait. Finally - a chance for Tamara to prove that there's more to her than forged expenses claims and the 'what's...

Kevin Powers / The Yellow Birds

   WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF...

Lisa Zeidner / Layover

   Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether - like her job...

Rex Collins / Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

    This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this...

Piers Paul Read / Monk Dawson

      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...

Simon Armitage / Kid

    Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of...

Arnaldur Indridason / The Shadow District

   OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCESTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the...

Reginald Hill / An Advancement of Learning

   All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of...

Hwee Hwee Tan / Foreign Bodies

    Mei, a young Singaporean lawyer, receives a call from Andy, her English boyfriend. He's in jail, accused of masterminding an international soccer gambling syndicate. As Mei attempts to clear Andy's name, we learn of secrets buried in...

Viet Thanh Nguyen / The Sympathizer

   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will...

Julia Llewellyn / Love Nest

   Roll the diceGrace's childhood home, Chadlicote Manor, is being sold to settle family debts. Will losing her home break her heart or is it the chance for a new life?... move two spacesKaren's husband has the Manor in his sights as a chance...

Helen Warner / Stay Close to Me

   Amy has enjoyed a charmed life, shopping and lunching while the nanny looks after her children. Until her world is thrown into disarray when husband Ben's business collapses overnight, taking their house and savings with it. Suddenly Amy...

Simonetta Agnello Hornby / The Almond Picker

    In the Sicilian village of Roccacolomba, La Mennulara ('the woman who gathers almonds') lies dead.For more than 40 years she had been at the heart of the Alfallipe family, one of the richest families in Roccacolomba first as a humble...

Terri Paddock / Come Clean

   Mesmerising, moving novel from exceptional new author about one girl's struggle to cope after being wrongly admitted to a boot-camp-style rehabilitation centre. A powerful and page-turning read.Justine is trying to cope with the desperate...

Michaels Russell / The City of Strangers ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 2 )

   The SUNDAY TIMES top 20 bestseller!Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger AwardNew York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets ...A brutal murder in an affluent suburb of Dublin and the...

Kate Lord Brown / The Taste of Summer

    Every summer, in a rambling castle in Kenmare, south west Ireland, the TV crews descend to film the nation's favourite cookery competition. For Diana, a celebrated TV chef, it's a way to keep her castle running. But this summer, it will...

Karen Rose / Edge of Darkness

   The fourth book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves...