Fiction

Rebecca Hunt / Mr Chartwell

   Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year.July, 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasn't...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Schemes

   In 1920's inner-city Dublin tenements, Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive and thrive in the harsh poverty-stricken environment she was born into. She is trying to adapt to her new role as a married woman. There are those jealous of the...

Peter Carey / Amnesia

   A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the YearWhen Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse:...

Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Reay Tannahill / Return Of The Stranger

    Tassie Smith's childhood is violently disrupted when a stranger appears on her mother Grace's, doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortuneIt emerges that he is Tassie's long-lost brother, and, after a tricky start,...

Lindsay Gordon / The Bond

    For some, like Missy and Hank, the bond is an extraordinary passage from innocence to extreme passion. It is a need for sensual freedom and an ability to read the minds of the lovers they ensnare and use. For the Preacher, the bond is a...

Sanjida O'Connell / The Naked Name of Love

   In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the...

Rob McCarthy / The Hollow Men

   A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.Dr Harry Kent: former Army medic, hospital...

David Hunt / The Magician's Tale

   Photographer Kay Farrow sees the world in black and white - literally: she has a rare eye condition that makes her unable to discern colours.The brutal murder of street hustler Tim, the beautiful boy who is the subject of Kay's latest book...

Kim Harrison / For a Few Demons More

    Rachel Morgan is back and there are more sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires than ever before. For a Few Demons More is the fifth instalment of Kim Harrison's New York Times bestselling series. Bargaining...

Douglas Boyd / The Fiddler and the Ferret

    Irving Bradley, international star of the concert platform, is used to having the best in life and paying for it. So when his old violin teacher is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he hires Ken Scott - the man he was brought up to hate -...

Susanne O'Leary / Diplomatic Incidents

    Anna O'Connor is a beautiful, if slightly overweight, ex-ballerina. As the wife of a successful Irish diplomat, she moves to Paris, city of her dreams. But the dream starts to turn into a bizarre nightmare when Michael, a drunken,...

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

Pat Booth / Sparklers

   A story that races from the Olympic ski slopes of Colorado to the inner councils of the Mafia, from the exclusive haunts of the rich and beautiful to the machinations of the international diamond business.Caroline Montgomery is fresh,...

John Watson / The Iron Man

    In a stunning David v. Goliath debut thriller, John Watson pits the antiquated brute force of an old Soviet World War II battleship fresh out of mothballs against the cutting edge technology of the American war machine. A bunch of...

Lindsey Piper / Hunted Warrior

   Demonic gladiators, ruthless mafia villains, and a race on the brink of distinction: What will become of them? One proud leader wields his power to unlock dark mysteries in the third book in this fierce, sensual new paranormal romance...

Thomas H. Cook / Breakheart Hill

    'This is the darkest story that I ever heard ' It is a story that began with love and led to the destruction of a young woman's life. It is a story that has not ended, even thirty years after the afternoon Kelli Troy's battered body was...

Damian Lanigan / The Chancers

   A failed actor has one last chance at success - in this razor-sharp satirical novel from the acclaimed author of STRETCH, 29.Hailed by the Observer as `brilliantly funny, a dazzling performance, teeming with invention, wicked humour and...

Mark Gartside / What Will Survive

   Graham Melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met Charlotte Marshall over a can of warm lager at his best-friend's party in 1985. It was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the same again.Two decades later,...

James Wilson / The Dark Clue

   'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do it. I have therefore given...

Cassandra Brooke / All My Worldly Goods

    Janice Blakemore has fallen in love with Tom Brand, fresh from his fifth divorce. When Prawnography, their erotic seafood cookery book, is a best-seller, they can't keep their wealth a secret. Tom's ex-wives soon descend like vultures,...

Andy Oakes / Dragon's Eye

    Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide Squad of the PSB, has drawn the short straw . . ...

Keith Baker / Lunenburg

    Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of his...

Elise Title / Bleeding Hearts

    When the body of respected psychoanalyst, Melanie Rosen, is found, it seems her murderer knew of her interest in him. When Melanie's sister starts receiving extracts of Melanie's diaries, she is shocked by details of her sister's sex...

Frank Delaney / The Sins of the Mothers

    Ellen Morris is confident, beautiful, bright and educated. Early in 1925, she accepts a teaching post in a rural, misty village. There the young city girl meets two men who will radically transform her. One is the handsome and respected...

Patrick Redmond / All She Ever Wanted

    Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold,...

John Ramster / Ladies' Man

    Simon and Ruth work together. She's a partnerless mum and he's gay, fun, single and searching. Simon realizes that he wants to be more than just friends with Ruth but will he be able to cope with vomiting babies, ex-partners and a...

Bryan Forbes / The Twisted Playground

    Departing from the spy formula of his bestselling thrillers, Bryan Forbes tells a contemporary story in which the hero is propelled into a chase of terrifying proportions. Violent death stalks his footsteps, and the image of a girl he...

MaryJanice Davidson / Undead And Unreturnable

    Just when Betsy Taylor thinks she's adjusted to her after-life as a vampire queen, fate intervenes. It's bad enough having to view your own gravestone but now Betsy's even started seeing dead people - an assortment of demanding ghosts...

Lilith Saintcrow / The Devil's Right Hand

   Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons...

Michelle Rowen / Bitten and Smitten

    Sarah Dearly has had a bad date. What else would you call being buried alive before dessert? Not to mention that bite mark on her neck, and the creepy way her date keeps saying that he's sired her. Then those guys with the stakes show...

Anna Blundy / Only My Dreams

    Be careful what you wish for...Alice Reynolds had always dreamt of escaping her grimy corner of South London for the fairytale world of the privileged aristocratic elite. Cricket whites, Pimms and summer balls were the stuff of Alice's...

John Connor / A Child's Game

    A gritty and powerful thriller featuring Detective Constable Karen Sharpe. Friday 31 December, 1999. In the early hours of the morning in a luxury central Leeds penthouse, intruders douse a terrified victim with petrol, set him alight...

Susan Sizemore / I Burn for You

    As the dark hollows of his soul threaten to overwhelm him Alec undergoes treatments to allow him to bear daylight. Living a double life as a bodyguard, he must now battle the chemistry between him and Domini, his soulmate. When she gets...

Susan Sizemore / I Hunger for You

   In her steamy new vampire romance, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire....Mia Luchese comes from a long line of vampire hunters but has never believed in the supernatural. When she's...

Nina Bawden / Walking Naked

      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...

Mikkel Birkegaard / The Library of Shadows

   Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they read a book to you. They can seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, but also manipulate you into thinking...

Alice Taylor / The Parish

    In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...

Anna Jacobs / The Honeyfield Bequest

   1901, Wiltshire. Young Kathleen Keller is being forced into marriage with a man she despises by her cruel father. In an act of desperation, she runs away in a bid for a safer life, although one she might not have otherwise have chosen. But...

M. C. Beaton / Death of a Dreamer (Hamish Macbeth Series)

   She couldn't paint to save her life - so someone's given her a lesson by taking it!Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh - usually boredom, dampness and nosy locals drive them out. But it looks as if artist Effie Garrand has...

Leigh Russell / Killer Plan

  Caroline's husband is killed, but she can't turn to the police without implicating herself in his murder. When one of her 10-year-old twins is kidnapped, the desperate mother is forced to resort to drastic measures to get him back. As time runs...

Dick Francis / Crossfire

   Crossfire is the new thriller from father son team Dick Francis and Felix Francis.Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb.Returning home, to his mother - a racehorse...

Meredith Russo / If I Was Your Girl

   Selected as the launch title for the Zoella Book Club.'Important and brave. Read this wonderful book, just read it.' -- Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright PlacesMy name is Amanda. I’m 18. When you look at me, you might see that...

Alicia Foster / Warpaint

   Four women create propaganda in WWII's darkest hour in this gripping fact-based debut novel.Buckinghamshire, 1942: in a gothic villa deep in woods near Bletchley Park, artist Vivienne Thayer paints 'Black' propaganda to demoralise the enemy...

Dipika Rai / Someone Else's Garden

   A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story.`Will she recall that night? Or is it one of those too horrible times that her...

Michael Frayn / The Russian Interpreter

    The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an...

Rachel Vincent / My Soul to Take

   Being a teenager just got much more complicated. There is something very wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh: she senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder...

Debby Holt / Annie May's Black Book

    Entries from Annie May's Black Book: October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my landscape painting looked like a...

Steve Dunne / The Disciple

   DI Brook thought the nightmare was over- but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy...A nail-shredding thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Thomas Harris.When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook's past...

Camilla Gibb / Sweetness In The Belly

   A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging.In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she...

Frank Ryan / Goodbye Baby Blue

    On a chill November day in Sheffield, Bobby Stephens, an eight-year-old boy is kidnapped. That same day, in Bolton, two men have a tense meeting in Heywood Park. In Liverpool, a woman breaks into a house to search its contents. All are...