Fiction

Michael Frayn / Spies

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the...

Dorothy Koomson / When I Was Invisible

Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. `Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the...

Johanna Moran / The Wives of Henry Oades

In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives - and many dilemmas...In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast -...

Christina Jones / Heaven Sent

Clemmie has a problem - she's had almost as many jobs as she's had birthdays and her lovelife is on the critical list. But with the big 3-0 looming she's determined to transform herself from unemployed singleton to loved-up success. Trouble is Clemmie's...

Peter Sirr / Black Wreath: The Stolen Life of James Lovett

A fictionalised account of the life of James Lovett, son of Lord Dunmain, set in 1730s Dublin and colonial America. Dublin. A city in flux, its population swelling, a place of great wealth and grinding poverty, a playground for the rich but also a...

Richard Mason / The Lighted Rooms

A stunningly incisive and poignant novel about family, duty and the challenging world of the mind.Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family...

Sadie Jones / Small Wars

Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat...

David Lodge / The Art of Fiction

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive...

Sarah Webb / Amy Green: Summer Secrets

Everyone's favourite agony aunt is back solving problems for teen girls everywhere.Teen problem-solving supremos Amy and Clover are trapped in family holiday hell - a week in rainy Ireland with a neurotic aunt, nagging mum, crazy step-dad and irritating...

Katharine McMahon / The Rose Of Sebastopol

The Ukraine, Russia and the Crimea are taking centre stage in the world today but this spellbinding story of courage and love takes us back to the original Crimean war.Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the...

Anna Godbersen / Rumours: A Luxe Novel

December 1899 - New York CityManhattan has bid farewell to its brightest star, the dazzling Miss Holland. Yet the rumours about her untimely demise continue. Meanwhile, her sister, the irrepressible Diana, has been seen in the company of not one, but...

Anna Godbersen / The Luxe

Imagine, if you will, New York City, 1899 . . .Society's elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the glittering parties, the most handsome beaus, the most beautiful debutantes . . . the rich girl, the humble boy, the forbidden love, the hushed whispers, the...

David Levien / City of the Sun

Twelve-year-old Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban neighbourhood. Somewhere en route, he vanishes without a trace. Fourteen months later, still with no sign of Jamie and having lost all faith in the police,...

Mary Morrissy / The Pretender

Berlin 1920. A young woman throws herself from a bridge into the Landwehr Canal, intent on suicide. But she is saved. She refuses to give any clue to her identity. She is literally a nobody. After two years of silence, she claims to be Anastasia, the...

Julie Otsuka / The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.Between the...

Joanna Cannon / The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

THE SUNDAY TIMES DOUBLE BESTSELLER `Part whodunnit, part coming of age, this is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door' RACHEL JOYCE `A very special book' NATHAN FILER`An utter delight' SARAH WINMAN`A delight' PAULA HAWKINS`A treasure chest...

Shalom Auslander / Hope: A Tragedy

The humour, at times can leave you gasping ...comic brilliance' Sunday Times Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened...

Santa Montefiore / Songs of Love and War

Welcome to Castle Deverill, and the incredible sweeping story of love and family from bestselling author Santa Motefiore.Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything...Castle Deverill, nestled in the rolling Irish...

Simon Mawer / Tightrope

Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to...

David Vann / Legend of a Suicide

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts...

Aidan Chambers / Postcards from No Man's Land

What happens to Jacob Todd when he visits his grandfather's grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem is paralleled in time by the events of the dramatic day in World War Two when retreating troops were sheltered by the family of Geertrui...

Will Hill / Department 19

In a secret supernatural battle that's been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised - and they're not wooden anymore. DEPARTMENT 6 IS THE ARMYDEPARTMENT 12 is MI5DEPARTMENT 19 IS THE REASON YOU'RE ALIVE When Jamie Carpenter's mother...

Sheila O'Flanagan / The Missing Wife

Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE - the riveting story of a woman determined to escape, the man who wants to find her and the friends and family...

Jennifer Burke / Levi's Gift

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 price sticker on a...

Claire Allan / Jumping in Puddles

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 price sticker on a...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Americanah

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION`A delicious, important novel' The Times`Alert, alive and gripping' Independent`Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.'...

David Lodge / Deaf Sentence

Retired Professor of Lingustics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts...

Mason Cross / The Killing Season

The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake. That name no more belongs to me than the hotel room I was occupying when the call came in.When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death row two weeks...

Nancy Carson / The Factory Girl

Henzey is no ordinary factory girlHenzey Kite can't believe it when Billy Watts walks into her life. A cut above the local boys - strong, charming and wildly ambitious - he won't settle for anything less than the wealth of high society.But with wealth...

Zizou Corder / Lee Raven Boy Thief

Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didn't mean to. Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thousands...

David Ellis / The Wrong Man

A young girl is murdered, executed with a single bullet through her skull. A homeless man, Tom Stoller, is arrested. He can't remember what happened on the night in question, but the evidence of his guilt stacks up around him. But for lawyer Jason...

Jane Urquhart / The Night Stages

After fearlessly ferrying Hurricanes and Spitfires in World War II, Tam leaves England for the most westerly tip of Ireland to begin life anew. As her relationship with Niall, a charismatic Irishman, begins to unravel, his growing despondency focuses on...

Caryl Churchill / Top Girls

Caryl Churchill: 'A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting'...

James Lever / Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood. The greatest Hollywood Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller,...

Jane Costello / All the Single Ladies

Thoroughly enjoyable and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Oh, and there's a nice twist that you so won't see coming' Heat Samantha Brooks' boyfriend has made a mistake. One his friends, family, and Sam herself know he'll live to regret. Jamie has announced he's...

Marcus Sedgwick / My Swordhand is Singing

An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.In the bitter cold of an...

Christine Hamill / The Best Medicine

Philip is twelve years old and life is pretty good. He gets on with his mum and gets by pretty well at school - in spite of girl problems, teacher problems, bully problems and - er - poetry problems. Philip's happy-go-lucky life is disrupted when his...

Richelle Mead / Vampire Academy

St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - hidden away, it's a place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi...

Anton Svensson / The Father

The emotional centre of the story is truly compelling... the sweep and scope are epic'The HeraldThe Father is an unforgettable, thrilling crime novel of how three brothers came to be Sweden's most wanted criminals, inspired by the unbelievable true story...

Sarah Dunant / The Birth Of Venus

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to...

Justin Cartwright / The Song Before it is Sung

On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von...

Shappi Khorsandi / Nina is Not OK

Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five year old Katie. And Nina's almost an adult after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with...

L.J. Smith / The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive Part 1

In this, the bind up of The Initiation and The Captive Part 1, is the start of Cassie's story. Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie is homesick - until she forms a bond with a group of teenagers at her school. This clique...

Jane Smiley / A Thousand Acres

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to...

Willy Russell / Blood Brothers ( Drama

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable...

Lisa Genova / Still Alice

A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology...

Mason Cross / The Samaritan

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SPRING 2016 *When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before.A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected for a decade, preying on lone...

Katherine Webb / A Half Forgotten Song

From the author of THE LEGACY and THE UNSEEN comes a powerful tale that explores the dark heart of love, and the shocking truths that dwell there.1937. In a village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely...

Sinead Moriarty / Me and My Sisters

Sinead Moriarty's heart-warming seventh novel, Me and My Sisters, is the story of how three sisters discover that when the chips are down, no-one will be there for you in quite the same way as a sister who knows you better than you know yourself. It...

Jodi Picoult / Small Great Things

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and...

Carole Matthews / The Sweetest Taboo

Carole Matthews' backlist is being reissued looking as fresh as ever. Falling in love isn't easy. Sadie Nelson ought to know - she's got two men to choose from and neither one is hassle-free. First there's Gill McGann, a Hollywood producer who's flown...

Graham Hurley / Turnstone

Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Now Emma Maloney's dad has gone missing. Faraday thinks he may have been murdered. But these days, a hunch is not enough...