Fiction

Kingsley Amis / Difficulties with Girls

 Set in London in the mid '60s, this novel explores the twin jungles of sexual liberation and office politics in a distinguished literary publishing house. Kingsley Amis also wrote "Lucky Jim", "Take A Girl Like You", "The Anti-Death", "The...

Dick Francis / Trial Run

 A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious 'Aloysha' has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew knows more about horses than Russians - and more about...

Marquis De Sade / Justine

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Anna Jacobs / Elm Tree Road

 After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willitt sisters, Mattie, Nell and Renie, find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from...

Bette Greene / The Summer of My German Soldier

 When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the town these prisoners are...

Elvi Rhodes / Opal

 Edgar Carson has returned from the trenches to find that the land fit for heroes didn't exist. The only nice thing that happened to him was Opal, the small, tough, Yorkshire beauty who married him. But by the time the 20s came, Edgar was on the...

Noreen Riols / To Live Again

 The war is over and Katharine, supported by her family, gradually comes to terms with the death of her husband. Through her father she meets Theo and they fall deeply in love. But considering her first husband's brutal end, could she really marry a...

Janet Laurence / Appetite for Death

 Darina Lisle's old school friend asks her to help find the father of Rory Earlham, whose mother died in childbirth. As Darina begins to dig into the murky history of the Earlham family, the killing of a security guard finds Rory's millionaire...

Katherine Applegate / Ben Takes a Chance

 Ben takes a chance when he undergoes a dangerous eye operation. Zoey is torn between Aaron and Lucas. But Claire wants Aaron too. Can she make it look as if she's helping Zoey?      All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Jack Higgins / Solo

In the depths of a cavernous of concert hall, a gifted psychopath plots and waits, his thoughts on nothing but music and murder. He kills for pleasure, constantly searching, and with a brand new target in his sights, his mind spirals once again into...

David Mace / Chasing the Sun

 A drama set in a world where money means much more than morals, and force of will is the thing a man - or woman - needs in order to succeed. The author also wrote "Fire Lance", "The Highest Ground", "Frankenstein's Children" and "Shadow Hunters"...

M. Scott Peck / A Bed By The Window : A Novel of Mystery and Redemption

 FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED - HIS FIRST NOVEL, A POWERFUL STORY OF MYSTERY AND REDEMPTIONWithin the self-contained world of the Willow Glen nursing home there are two extraordinary people. One is there to...

Tom Topor / The Codicil

 When a late businessman's will reveals the existence of a war child to whom he has bequeathed fifty million dollars, renegade private detective Adam Bruno is hired to find the missing heir and encounters a web of deception.     All of our...

Beverly Barton / Dying Game

 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...

Michael Palmer / Flashback

 Toby Nelms is an ordinary 8-year-old boy who needs a routine operation. Everything seems to go well; the surgery is a success; Toby is sent home.Months later, terror begins to take over Toby's life, and he keeps on bursting into tortured screaming...

Alastair Gunn / My Bloody Valentine

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Rachel Caine / Windfall ( Weather Warden Series - Book 4 )

 You think you're having a bad day? Joanne Baldwin has lost her job as a Weather Warden and saving the world doesn't usually come with a decent pension plan. It also doesn't come with any guarantees of landing a day job that won't suck or finding a...

Adam Baron / Shut Eye

 A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case which leads to a lonely trail through the city - until...

John Gilstrap / At All Costs

 Meet Jake and Carolyn Donovan, attractive, mid-30s, they work hard at raising their 13-year-old son, pay their taxes and obey the law. A typical American couple? Appearances are deceptive - the Donovans head the FBI's most wanted list for a crime...

Gerald Seymour / Archangel

 Michael Holly, mechanical engineer, is in Moscow to clinch a deal for his firm, and to run a small errand for the British Intelligence Service. But he is arrested. The Soviet secret police will exchange him for a key Soviet agent being held in...

Laurell K. Hamilton / Obsidian Butterfly

 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, has dealt with - and destroyed - a lot of monsters. But her old mentor, Edward - ruthless killer, bounty hunter, assassin - may be worse than any of them. But Edward's got problems. A malevolent and seemingly...

Gary Shteyngart / Super Sad True Love Story

 In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which...

Michael White / Equinox

 Oxford, 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut.Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another woman is found. The MO is identical, except that this time her...

John Barrow / Mutiny of the Bounty

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Rupert Gilchrist / Master of Dragonard Hill

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Deon Meyer / 7 Days

 I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered to...

Sherrilyn Kenyon / Born Of Fire

 Raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life, Syn tried to destroy the evidence, and has been on the run ever since. Now trained as an assassin, he allows no one to threaten him. Ever. He is the darkness...

Lolly Winston / Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted

 36-year-old Sophie Stanton loses her young husband to cancer. In an age where women are expected to be high-achievers, Sophie desperately wants to be a good widow—a graceful, composed Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, Sophie is more of a...

Amanda Cross / The James Joyce Murder

 "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWKate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of...

James Murphy / Cedar

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Sue Rann / Looking for Mr Nobody

 Wolf is a vagrant pavement artist on the streets of Amsterdam. He remembers nothing before the hospital, where he was treated for gunshot wounds. The police want to talk to him and sinister men are on his trailhe has to find a way into his...

C.W. Reed / To Reason Why AND Ties of Blood

 Two great books in one!     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...

William E. Holland / Let a Soldier Die

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Alistair MacLean / Puppet On A Chain

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Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - Part 3 - Paradise - Vintage Penguin Classics - translated Dorothy Sayers

Paradise - the final book of Dante's ( 1265-1321) masterwork, the Divine Comedy - Paradiso ( or Heaven) translated by Dorothy Sayers.  Black cover Vintage penguin, 1982 reprint of this translation, first published 1962 . Fold out map inside back...

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage - Vintage Airmont Classic Novel - US Civil War

A 1962 Airmont classics edition, complete and unabridged , a slim 160pp paperback, and a classic of US, and war literature.  Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are...

Karen Robards / Obsession

 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] creepily effective suspense novel."--The Seattle Times After surviving a horrific attack by masked gunmen, Katharine Lawrence awakens in the hospital--with an unfamiliar face staring back at her in the mirror...

Henry James / The Bostonians

Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer...

Dick Francis / Smokescreen

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Sherrilyn Kenyon / Dark Side Of The Moon

 Susan Michaels is a reporter on a mission to resurrect her professional reputation. And she only has to brave her cat allergy at a local animal shelter to follow the lead that could get her off the tabloid beat forever. But she gets more than she...

Carolyn Meyer / The Problem with Sidney

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James Clavell / Whirlwind

 A thriller revolving around three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak in Tehran in February 1979. An epic, abundant in sub-plots, characters, intrigue and atmosphere.      All of our books are second hand, and...

John Connor / Falling

 A stunning thriller that sees DC Karen Sharpe brought to the very edge of her sanity     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...

William D. Pease / Playing the Dozens

 A cop had his head blown apart in a bar. The suspect was found hanging in his cell. And Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Holden fouund himself over his head in a case involving an inexhaustible supply of drugs, money, sex, and corruption spreading...

Dominick Dunne / People Like Us

 Carmen Palma is a Homicide Detective in Houston, a strong female in a world that is still amost exclusively male. When two women are found murdered in an identical, bizarre fashion, Palma suspects the worst: a sexually motivated serial killer. When...

Olivia Goldsmith / Insiders

 Olivia Goldsmith - bestselling author of The First Wives Club - delivers her best revenge novel to date. The best way to beat the system is from the inside... Meet Jennifer - a smart, sexy woman who has broken through the glass ceiling to...

Barbara Delinsky / Cardinal Rules

 Refusing to repeat the patterns of her unhappy past, Corinne Fremont follows her strict personal policy of remaining on guard and unattached despite any temptation, but her will is challenged by enthusiastic businessman Corey Haraden.    ...

Patricia Gaffney / The Goodbye Summer

 Caddies mother died when she was nine. She is raised and lived with her grandmother until  her grandmother breaks her leg, altering caddies life dramatically at the age of 32.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

W. Michael Gear / Requiem for the Conqueror

 This rich and exciting trilogy follows the search of one man--raised to be the ultimate general, the penultimate killing machine--for his own humanity and for the son he's never known. A son who is now his sworn enemy...     All of our...

Ian Slater / Knockout: USA vs. Militia ( MILITIA BOOK 1)

 Stinging from a botched attempt to free captured militamen, the USMC (United States Militia Corps) launches a bold and deadly strike against one of the U.S. Navy's multi-billion dollar submarines.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Louise Marley / A Girl's Best Friend

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Jack Curtis / Sons of the Morning

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