Fiction

Adele Geras / Out of the Dark

A special story for the literacy charity Quick Reads, about the healing power of love. Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the...

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...

A. B. Daniel / Incas: The Puma's Shadow

A sweeping tale of splendor and savagery unfolds as an ancient Incan civilization is haunted by omens, shaken by civil war, shattered by European conquest...and transformed through the power of destined love. Since childhood Anamaya has lived as a...

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...

Jennifer Burke / The Secret Son

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Deirdre Eustace / If I Trust in You

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Kathy Rodgers / When the Light Fades

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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...

Jane Fallon / My Sweet Revenge

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and Strictly Between Us tells a bitter-sweet tale of high passions, infidelity and revenge. Watch your back ...I want to make my husband fall back in love with me. Let me explain. This isn't an...

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...

Sara Baume / Spill Simmer Falter Wither

This book was shortlisted for the shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2015. It is longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015. It is longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2016. It is the winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer Of The...

Tom Franklin / Crooked Letter Crooked Letter

The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling....A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind." -- David Wroblewski "A new Tom Franklin novel...

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...

Katrina Kittle / Travelling Light

When Summer's future as a ballet dancer collapses due to injury, doubts about her long term relationship surface. Going back to her home town, she takes a job as a high school teacher and moves in with her brother who is dying of AIDS. In witnessing...

Ruth Frances Long / A Crack in Everything: Welcome to the Other Side

Welcome to The Other Side ...Chasing a thief, Izzy Gregory takes a wrong turn down a Dublin alley and finds the ashes of a fallen angel splashed across the dirty bricks like graffiti. She stumbles into Dubh Linn, the shadowy world inhabited by the Sidhe,...

Tim Bowler / Frozen Fire

It starts with the phone call, late at night. The mysterious boy says he is dying. Dusty doesn't want to get involved - but the boy seems to have a link to the one person who's most important to her. Soon she has been drawn in - and now she has...

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...

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...

Niamh Greene / A Message to Your Heart

Niamh Greene's delightful fifth novel "A Message to Your Heart" is an intriguing and heart-warming story for fans of the wise humour of Catherine Alliott and the modern day fairytales of Cecelia Ahern. Throw in Niamh's unique brand of...

Mary Stanley / The Lost Garden

A moving tale of survival and self-discovery The face Esme Waters presents to the world is not the face she sees in the mirror. Even her three daughters don't know the truth behind her careful smile. But a chance meeting with a fascinating...

Nuala Woulfe / Two to Tango

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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...

John Kennedy Toole / A Confederacy of Dunces

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in...

Giselle Green / A Sister's Gift

Two sisters. Best of friends. Worst of enemies. The stunning new novel from the English Jodi Picoult. Hollie Hudson and her husband Richard are fast losing hope of ever having their own child. But Hollie is unable to give up her dream of having her own...

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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...

David Gemmell / Echoes of the Great Song

The Great Bear will descend from the skies, and with his paw, lash at the ocean. He will devour all the works of Man. Then he will sleep for ten thousand years, and the breath of his sleep will be death. The prophecy had come true. The world spun. Tidal...

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...