Fiction

Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch of Strange - Vintage Hardcover Short Stories - PB Science Fiction 1958

Nine SF stories, more long than short, have an added ingredient of philosophy, of the theory that ""never can a sole unit exist alone and unsupplied"", and of the necessity of communication. The title piece tells of the meeting of a couple who have been...

Derek Landy / Demon Road ( Demon Road - Book 1 )

 THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS.The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves... and the monsters that await her.For anyone who ever thought their parents...

Paul Finch / Strangers

 A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT`A born storyteller.' PETER JAMESA stranger is just a killer you haven't met yet... The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller returns with the next big thing to hit the shelves. If you haven't discovered Paul Finch...

Patricia Elliott / Pimpernelles

 Eugenie de Boncoeur is growing up in Paris, unaware that her guardian has contracted her to marry the sinister spymaster known as 'le Fantome' when she turns sixteen. She finds herself falling for the handsome lawyer, Guy Deschamps, but there is...

Yeats is Dead!

   In aid of Amnesty International, this is a brilliant 'serial' novel by fifteen of the very brightest talents in Irish writing. It begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between thirteen other Irish writers spin an...

Kyril Bonfiglioli / Don't Point That Thing at Me

 Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Johnny DeppIntroducing the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai, art dealer, aristocrat and assassin, in the first of the Mortdecai...

Joseph Wambaugh / Hollywood Station

 While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far...

Lynn Erickson / Aspen

 A charismatic senator and his scandal-ridden family ruthlessly pursue their ambitions in the face of painful memories, alcoholism, and Case McCandless, a solid and incorruptible town sheriff. Original.      All of our books are...

Juiet Marillier / The Dark Mirror

 In the mid 6th century the Pictish kingdom in northern Britain is under threat from the Gaels and the Christian faith, which leaves the leaders of the northern realm struggling to maintain their ancient traditions.All hope rests on the shoulders of...

Paul Johnston / The Bone Yard

 It is New Year's Eve 2021 - the one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant. It is the perfect time for murder. Welcome to 21st century Edinburgh - an oppressive, almost crime-free independent city state, run by the Council of City...

James Cobb / Choosers of the Slain

 The Argentines have launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula. The world's first stealth missile destroyer, the sleek and dangerous USS Cunningham, is no ordinary warship. Her crew are about to find out just how good she and her...

Jonathan Safran Foer / The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning

 The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning is Jonathan Safran Foer on top form inventive, funny and full of surprises.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Greg Baxter / The Apartment

 The Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has come here from far away, hoping to forget. Instead, he remembers:...

Lauren Oliver / Delirium

 A dystopian Romeo and Juliet story that deserves to be as massive as Twilight' StylistThey say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. Until now.There was a time when love was the most important...

Herman Koch / Summer House with Swimming Pool

 Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can't refuse. But by the time the suntans fade, Ralph Meier is dead. The...

Katherine Farmar / Wormwood Gate

 Imagine a world as fantastic as Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, and characters curiouser than Alice. Imagine a place where three castles burn and no one is seen on the streets after curfew. Imagine three queens, warring pigeons and seagulls, a merhorse...

Nancy Horan / Loving Frank

 In the internationally bestselling vein of The Paris Wife and Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald this biographical novel is set in the early 1900s when polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible scandal when renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright,...

Adam Hamdy / Pendulum

   ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' - JAMES PATTERSON, bestselling author.A photographer is mysteriously targeted for death in this white-knuckle ride deep into a terrifying conspiracy. If you love Lee Child's JACK REACHER and Terry...

Eve Edwards / The Other Countess

 England, 1582 ELLIE - Lady Eleanor Rodriguez of San Jaime - is in possession of a gold-seeking father, a worthless title and a feisty spirit that captivates the elite of the Queen's court, and none other than the handsome new Earl of Dorset . ...

Holly Hepburn / The Picture House by the Sea

 The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of A Year at the Star and Sixpence. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley. All four Picture House novellas in one book!The picture house by the sea is the Palace at Polwhipple - a lovely art deco...

Jo Spain / With Our Blessing

 THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD AND JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION'After a dramatic and brutal opening, Jo Spain's amazing debut, With Our Blessing, settles into a very satisfying murder mystery steeped in recent Irish...

Norah Lofts / Crown of Aloes

 Crown of Aloes" is presented as a personal chronicle. Within the framework of known fact and detail drawn from hitherto unexploited contemporary Spanish sources, a novelist's imagination and understanding have provided motives, thoughts, and...

Wendy Cope / Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

   Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.    All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Reina James / This Time Of Dying

 It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing...

Steve Martin / An Object of Beauty

 An irresistible look at the glamour and subterfuge of New York's art world, from bestselling author and Hollywood star Steve Martin. Lacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm. She...

Olivia Kiernan / Too Close to Breathe

   Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn'Truly first class. Just knock-out' C. J Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'Fantastic . . . Compelling, chilling and brilliant' Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect...

Pat Barker / Border Crossing

   An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls'Rich, surprising, breathtaking' The Times'A tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps...

Stella Rimington / Rip Tide

 To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters.When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames...

Stefan Ahnhem / The Ninth Grave

 The stunning prequel to Victim Without a Face. TWO COUNTRIES IN THE GRIP OF WINTER. On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister for Justice steps into a blizzard - and disappears. Who has taken him? That same night, across the Baltic...

Norah Lofts / The Concubine

 All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired, black-eyed, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more...

Sandrone Dazieri / Kill the Father

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe twisty and darkly compelling thriller, European bestseller and RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK that will keep you up all night.'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please...

Richard Castle / Wild Storm

 Derrick Storm has never faced anything like this before. Airliners are dropping from the sky, shot down by a terrifying futuristic weapon. The intelligence community is blindsided and scrambling for answers. The media is calling it another 9/11...

Nina George / The Little Breton Bistro

 From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings. 'A life-affirming novel' Sunday Express 'An enchanting, uplifting...

Lucy Dillon / Where The Light Gets In

 You know those cracks in your heart, Lorna, where things didn't work out, but you picked yourself up and carried on? That's where the fear gets out. And where the light gets in.'It was Betty, defiant to the end, who sent Lorna back to Longhampton...

Todd Hasak-Lowy / Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You

 John Greenmeets 500 Days of SummermeetsNick Hornby.Darren hasn't had an easy year. His parents divorced, his brother left for college, and his best friend moved state. Also, he still doesn't have a girlfriend. Then his dad shows up at 6am with...

Anne Fine / All Bones And Lies

   Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged...

Suzy Cox / The Dead Girls Detective Agency

 Solving the mystery behind your death can be murder. Charlotte wakes up at Hotel Atessa, home to murdered New York teenagers and HQ of The Dead Girls Detective Agency. Before she has time to adjust to her new, erm, dead self, she's thrust into...

Alex Lake / Copycat

 The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of After Anna and Killing Kate.Imitation is the most terrifying form of flattery...Which Sarah Havenant is you?When an old friend gets in touch, Sarah Havenant discovers that there...

Elizabeth Walker / The Court

      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...

Charlotte Lamb / Walking in Darkness

 Catherine Gowrie's father, Don, is close to his greatest ambition - nomination as Presidential candidate - and nothing must be allowed to stand in his way. But Sophie Narodni, a young journalist from Prague, carries a secret that could destroy...

Kyle Mills / Storming Heaven

 Punished for his maverick ways, FBI agent Mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C., to a sleepy Southwest office where he's got one last chance to play by the rules. But that's not going to happen, not when he's on a case that may be too...

J. Wallis Martin / The Long Close Call

   When Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional life begin to fall apart. The family of the dead man discovers McLaughlan's...

Keith Baker / Reckoning

 Tom Gallagher is traumatized by the past, an FBI agent in control of a disastrous operation, haunted by the guilt of innocent deaths. Back in Ireland, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to re-establish his relationship with his daughter, he is...

Sabin Willett / The Mortgage

      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...

James Mills / Haywire

      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...

Jonathan Dee / A Thousand Pardons

 Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together. Helen and her...

Harriet Evans / The Wildflowers

    adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read' Marian KeyesRICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK 2018The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans is the PERFECT summer holiday read. Turn the page and find yourself...

Alvin Rakoff / And Gillian

 Gillian, a Birmingham girl, meets Robin, the only son of a New England family and although the relationship is fragile at first, they both learn to love. Back in England, Gillian is blissfully happy with Robin, but then she falls ill and Robin...

E.L. Doctorow / The March : A Novel

 Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE...

Athol Fugard / Tsotsi

   Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoe box into...

Olivia Darling / Vintage

   They were three women who dared to make it in a man's world.Madeleine Arsenault has prepared for this moment all her life. Grief for her father is second only to her determination to rescue the beloved family Chateau, and prove to her sworn...

Antonio Manzini / Black Run

 He'd almost walked right over it when he finally saw it for what it was: a stain of red blood, churned into the white blanket of snow...'After getting on the wrong side of the wrong people in Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone is exiled to...