Fiction

Graham Hurley / Curtain Call (Large Print) (Hardback)

Two desperate journeys. One unscripted finale. A mesmerizing contemporary thriller.Thirty-nine-year-old Enora Andresson is a successful actress and a woman in her prime. But for how long? Tests have revealed an aggressive brain tumour that could kill her...

Henry Kisor / A Venture into Murder (Large Print) (Hardback)

In Porcupine County there lies a small Michigan town where the people all know one another and gossip cannot be silenced for long. But there's one secret that someone has tried to keep quiet for years...and those who try to uncover it seem to wind up...

Kay Hooper / The Haunting of Josie (Large Print) (Hardback)

Seeking refuge from the pain of her past in an isolated house, Josie Douglas finds herself haunted by a mysterious spirit and by her handsome landlord, Marc Westbrook.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Sarah Harrison / Cold Feet (Large Print) (Hardback)

A warm and wicked sequel to Hot Breath. She's free, fit and just under forty - so why does Harriet feel that life is slipping from her control? Life should be perfect, especially now that she has got rid of her staid husband. Yet complications arise on...

Norah Lofts / Crown Of Aloes (Large Print) (Hardback)

Isabella of Spain was a great woman, a great Queen. '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...

Sam Leith / The Coincidence Engine (Large Print) (Hardback)

A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational...

Alex H. George / Love You Madly (Large Print) (Hardback)

A funny, sad, truthful novel about men, women and all that jazzMatthew Moore is madly in love.He's one of the lucky after thirteen years, he still idolises Anna, his wife. What's more, his first novel is about to be published. Life could not be better...

Robin Oliveira / My Name Is Mary Sutter (Large Print) (Hardback)

Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. (Historical...

Sammi Carter / Peppermint Twisted (Large Print) (Hardback)

No one's happy when wealthy Felicity Asbury names herself director of the local arts festival. But when she's found dead, all evidence points to candy shop owner Abby Shaw, who must put aside her sweets to discover the twisted killer.     All...

Sue Moorcroft / Starting Over (Large Print) (Hardback)

Tess Riddell reckons her beloved Freelander is more reliable than any man - especially her ex-fiance, Olly Gray. She's moving on from her old life and into the perfect cottage in the country. Miles Rattenbury's passions? Old cars and new women! Romance?...

Laura Marney / No Wonder I Take a Drink (Large Print) (Hardback)

A lack of funds forces Trisha, an unsentimental lonely boozer, to return to her previous profession as a pharmaceutical rep. The only good news is that her increasingly distant teenage son is about to move back in with her. The bad news is that her...

Joan Brady / Death Comes for Peter Pan (Hardback)

Alice Kessler is a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it. Instead Alice searches relentlessly for a doctor willing to offer a better prognosis and when she fails to find one in England,...

Justina Robson / Down to the Bone (Hardback)

Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm. The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals...

David Housewright / Like to Die (Hardback)

A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an...

Georgina Harding / The Gun Room (Hardback)

A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war...

Kinley Roby / Death In a Hammock (Hardback)

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

S.L. Grey / The Mall (Hardback)

Dan is an angsty emo-kid who works in a deadly dull shopping mall. He hates his job.Rhoda is a junkie whose babysitting charge ran off while she was scoring cocaine. She hates her life. Rhoda bullies Dan into helping her search, but as they explore the...

Fiona Walker / Lucy Talk (Hardback)

'This morning, a lime-green plastic ghoul fell out of my Honey Puffs cereal packet and I had the most brilliant idea. A Halloween party at Burr Cottage - theme, Come As Your Favourite Creep "Greg won't need to dress up, then," said Jane. Jane is...

Barry Maitland / The Chalon Heads (Hardback)

When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers his beautiful young wife is missing, he calls DCI David Brock for help. Ten years ago Starling’s evidence for Brock in a case of police corruption put a couple...

Elizabeth Laird / Jake's Tower (Hardback)

Jake wishes for the protection of a castle tower and moat while having to endure the wrath of his mother's boyfriend, as well as the sadness associated with a non-existent father.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Janet Evanovich , Lee Goldberg / The Pursuit (Hardback)

  THE PURSUIT by Janet Evanovich is an action-packed adventure featuring FBI agent Kate O'Hare and her secret partner, fugitive Nicolas Fox. Janet Evanovich's novels 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' ( The Sunday Times ); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of...

Neal Griffin / By His Own Hand (Hardback)

It looks like suicide.The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range shotgun blast. The gun―his own―lies beside the body.Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope...

Alan Ford / Thin Ice (Hardback)

Charles Harwood is an out-of-work actor, but fill-in jobs aren't for him. He doesn't want to drive a minicab, deal dope or have 'another string to his bow' - he's a purist. And without any acting to do, the main event of his day is an audition for an...

John Corbett , Bill Findlay / Serving Twa Maisters: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation (Hardback)

  This collection contains five classic works translated into Scots from the heart of post-war Scottish tradition: Let Wives Tak Tent by Robert Kemp from Molière (1948); The Burdies by Douglas Young from Aristophanes...

Linda Buckley-Archer / Time Quake (Hardback)

The Tar Man's employer, Lord Luxon, steals the time machine and travels to 19th century New York - just in time to sabotage the American War of Independence...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...

Amos Oz / Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Hardback)

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange...

Carter Coleman / Cage's Bend (Hardback)

Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s American South, three archetypal sons witness the unraveling of their tight-knit family as they struggle with ambitions, tragic death, and mental illness. By the author of The Volunteer.     All of our books...

Gerald Hammond / The Dirty Dollar (Hardback)

In an attempt to break into the male-dominated world of engineering, Jill Allbright takes a cleaner's job at Oltrech, a global oil company. By chance, she finds herself thrust into the high-powered, ruthless world of the oil business, attempting to...

Sergei Lukyanenko / The Last Watch (Hardback)

When a Russian tourist is murdered while visiting the Edinburgh Dungeons, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton is detailed to the investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realise that there is...

Simon Clark / Judas Tree (Hardback)

Voros is a Greek island full of ghosts that, although unseen, make their presence felt through the minds of the inhabitants. The islanders seek to possess one another but none, at first, realize that the island itself is possessing them...

Luther Blissett / Q (Hardback)

In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary...

Thomas Dyja / Play for a Kingdom (Hardback)

When Union soldiers and Rebel troops accidentally cross paths, they decide to put aside the bloodshed and compete in their own way, breaking out the baseball and playing game after game, until the horrors of war once more overwhelm them...

Linda Grant / Upstairs at the Party (Hardback)

If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know...

Victoria Blake / Skin And Blister (Hardback)

  When a student is found dead in his rooms at St Barnabas College, Oxford, it looks nothing more than an unfortunate suicide. A week later, when Sam Falconer's brother disappears, Sam begins to see a disturbing connection between the events. Then...

Peter Heller / The River (Hardback)

      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...

Sara Sheridan / London Calling (Hardback)

1952, Brighton. When eighteen-year-old Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club, the prime suspect is a young sax player, Lindon Claremont. He hightails it to Brighton to seek the help of his childhood friend Vesta, who works with...

Robert Dickinson / The Tourist (Hardback)

Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack conspiracy plot; a seductively intriguing work of speculative fiction." ---Kirkus"A novel that's as fresh and compelling as it is high concept....Immensely enjoyable." ---SFX (four...

George Makana Clark / The Raw Man (Hardback)

  It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon's story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which was his...

David Almond / Half a Creature from the Sea : A Life in Stories (Hardback)

In fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand in hand with watery lies…May Malone is said to have a monster in her house, but what Norman finds there may just be the angel he...

Hank Early / Echoes of the Fall (Hardback)

Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets.After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst...

Kevin J. Anderson / The Last Days of Krypton (Hardback)

Before there was Superman...there was Krypton, a doomed world, and two parents who gave us their only son...Everyone knows how Kal-El--Superman--was sent to Earth just before his planet exploded. But what led to such a disaster? Now, in The Last...

Philip McCutchan / Tom Chatto - Apprentice (Hardback)

A tough and adventurous life awaits Tom Chatto as he embarks at Liverpool in the 1890s on his first voyage as an apprentice at sail. He has to learn how to handle the big square-rigged windjammer, go aloft to dizzying heights to tend the sails and cope...

Sean Black / Grid Lock (Hardback)

Set on the streets of LA, a non-stop, action-packed thriller featuring elite body-guard Ryan Lock.Adult movie actress, Raven Lane, is one of the most lusted after women in California, with millions of fans to prove it. But none seem to be more dedicated...

Joyce Carol Oates / Daddy Love (Hardback)

Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to...

Lauran Paine / Tears of the Heart (Hardback)

A runaway orphan in the old West finally finds love and support after a series of false accusations makes him a fugitive from the law     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of...

Patrick Gale / Tree Surgery for Beginners (Hardback)

Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life that he might have dropped from the sky. A true misfit, he grows up happier communing with nature than with people. While he is straightforward, honest,...

Luanne Rice / What Matters Most (Hardback)

What Matters MostSister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past--and the son--they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette's calling led...

Nick Brown / The Siege (Hardback) ( Agent of Rome - Book 1 )

270 AD. Rome has ruled Syria for more than three centuries but now the weakened empire faces a desperate threat. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra has turned her Roman-trained army against her former masters and the once invincible legions have been crushed...

Susan Elia MacNeal / The Paris Spy (Hardback)

Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes...

Theodore V. Olsen / Man Without a Past : Frontier Stories (Hardback)

Capturing the excitment of the Wild West, a collection of twelve thrilling tales, from a master of frontier fiction, includes "Man Without a Past," in which a man, suffering from amnesia, arrives on Whippletree Ranch, causing a series of events that...

Mick Twister / There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar: A History of the world in 100 limericks (Hardback)

There is a young fellow named Mick, Who's adapted the old limerick, To cover with mirth, The whole history of Earth, And what made its characters tickThese 100 lively and humorous limericks take us back to before the beginning of time...

Cara Black / Murder in the Latin Quarter (Hardback)

When a Haitian woman arrives at the Paris office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is P.I. Aimée Leduc’s sister, Aimée must dig into her father’s past to solve a murderA virtual orphan since her mother’s desertion...