Fiction

Ha Jin / The Bridegroom

This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from...

Barbara Gowdy / Helpless

Celia is the struggling single mother of an exceptionally, angelically beautiful child: nine-year-old Rachel. All too aware of the precarious balance of the life she has built for the two of them, she worries about her daughter's longing for the...

Lisa Genova / Left Neglected

The moving second novel from the author of international hit Still Alice, which explores the life of a woman struck by a brain disorder, Left Neglect 'I think some small part of me knew I was living an unsustainable life. Every now and then, it would...

Christy Brown / Down All the Days

Part and parcel of a large and boisterous family, he is pushed around the streets of Dublin by his brothers; the small crippled occupant of a boxcar, silently witnessing the city's joys and woes. Tormented yet calm, he is the detached observer of life in...

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...

Marilynne Robinson / Gilead

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was...

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...

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...

Gregory David Roberts / Shantaram

A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian...

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...

James Joyce / The Essential James Joyce

This work includes excerpts from "A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", "Dubliners" and "Exiles", and shorter extracts from his other works.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...

Gillian Binchy / Ruby's Tuesday

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Lucy Diamond / The Secrets of Happiness

The Secrets of Happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from Lucy Diamond author of The Beach Cafe. The best things in life ...can be just around the corner Rachel and Becca aren't real sisters, or so they say. They are stepsisters, living...

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...

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...

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...

sebastien Japrisot / A Very Long Engagement

One night in 1917, five French soldiers, court-martialled for self-inflicted wounding, are pushed into no-man's-land and later found dead. The youngest of the five has a fiancee, Mathilda. This is the story of Mathilda's quest, after the war, to...

Monica Tracey / Unweaving the Thread

Unweaving the Thread is a beautifully written and absorbing account of a childhood in Ulster, filled with humour, unforgettable characters and shattering tragedy.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Prue Leith / Sisters

Her husband was sleeping with Carrie...the two people she loved most in the world were sleeping together.' Carrie is beautiful and untamed, a single girl with her own business and the pick of the men. Her older sister Poppy is an earth mother, with a...

Stephen J. Martin / Superchick

All women are bastards.' Jimmy Collins - competent middle manager by day, suburban rockstar by night - has just been dumped. And he's not taking it very well. Even a visit to his stylist can't cheer him up. He decides to take control of the...

Jennifer Burke / The Secret Son

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Deirdre Eustace / If I Trust in You

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M.M. Kaye / The Far Pavilions

This is a magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. "The Far Pavilions" is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a...

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...

Erin Kelly / The Poison Tree

By the end of that summer, two people would be dead...fantastic, twisty suspense for anyone who loved In a Dark Dark Wood and Disclaimer and a Richard & Judy summer read 2011. I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the...

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...

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...

Amelie Nothomb / Fear and Trembling

Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but working there turns into a comic nightmare of...

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...

Niall Williams / As it is in Heaven

Love is not easy, especially if you find the woman of your dreams and then lose her -- as Philip Griffin and his son Stephen each discover in turn. Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are killed in a car crash, and his father never recovers...

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...

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...

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...

Dave Eggers- Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

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...

Dick Francis / Rat Race

Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then...

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...