Fiction

Kirstin Valdez Quade / The Five Wounds (Hardback)

July 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay's Book Club. It's Holy Week in the town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla is to play Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role...

Emily Itami / Fault Lines (Hardback)

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun to throw herself off the high-rise balcony...

Etgar Keret / Fly Already (Hardback)

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's...

Dean Koontz / By the Light of the Moon (Hardback)

When artist Dylan O'Connor pulls into a motel off the Arizona interstate highway, all he wants to do is relax with his autistic brother Shepherd, and get a good night's sleep. Yet within the hour he finds himself bound, gagged and being injected with...

Diane Williams / The Stupefaction : Stories and a Novella (Hardback)

Praising her ingenious subversions of the conventions of narrative. The New York Times has called Diane Williams "a master spy, a double agent in the house of fiction." In this book she broadens the riotously disruptive program of her earlier...

Sue Townsend / Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Hardback)

Mole is back. The fourth novel in the massively popular Adrian Mole series, from internationally bestselling author Sue Townsend. Once again she lets us delve into the hilarious and touching life of a character adored by millions everywhere. Adrian Mole...

Héctor Tobar / The Barbarian Nurseries (Hardback)

The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves—a twenty-first century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity. With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor...

Antony Trew / The Chalk Circle (Hardback)

South Africa-based air-charter pilot Johnnie Johnson flies Jan Wessels and Piet Pienaar into civil war-torn Mozambique for some deep-sea fishing. All are watched closely by a mysterious American and by South African Trudi Braun, anticipating a drop of...

Ben Okri / In Arcadia (Hardback)

A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos...

Martin Fletcher / Jacob's Oath (Hardback)

As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest...

Lesley Glaister / The Squeeze (Hardback)

Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceaușescu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and see this ­multi‑award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers.Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania...

Eve Ensler / The Good Body (Hardback)

Botox, bulimia, breast implants, stomach tucks - Eve Ensler is back, with another round of poignant and hilarious stories about the secret lives of women     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Beryl Matthews / Forgotten Family (Hardback)

A family saga from Beryl Matthews.  Whitechapel, London 1890. Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in the country. She is frightened and confused, begging to be taken back, but she is told...

Julian Stockwin / Artemis (Hardback) ( Thomas Kydd Novels)

'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - GuardianIn the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting.Now a true Jack...

Martin Stephen / The Galleons' Grave : Henry Gresham and the Spanish Armada (Hardback)

It is 1588 and King Philip of Spain has assembled the greatest fleet and the most powerful army in the world. It is envisaged that the Armada, commanded by the brave and chivalric Duke Medina Sidonia, will crush the English and bring an end to the reign...

Glenn Taylor / A Hanging at Cinder Bottom (Hardback)

Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both.The year is 1910. Halley’s Comet has just...

Jeremy Duns / Free Country (Hardback)

  Blackmailed into serving Moscow, double agent Paul Dark now finds himself a target for both exposure and assassination. Desperate to escape his predicament, Dark gambles everything on one last throw of the dice, exposing his Soviet handler to the...

Alice Hoffman / Skylight Confessions (Hardback)

On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later, a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John is an architectural student, serious, reserved. And, he has no inkling that the tall...

Adam Rapp / Know Your Beholder (Hardback)

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.As winter deepens in Pollard, Illinois, 30-something Francis Falbo is holed up in an attic apartment, recovering from a series of...

Mary Flanagan / The blue woman and other stories (Hardback)

A collection of short stories by the author of Bad Girls, Trust, and Rose Reason. Stories featured include a wedding day which becomes the occasion for sartorial outrage, and a soap-opera style romance which erupts at a laundrette for an...

Denise Robins / Gypsy Lover (Large Print) (Paperback)

Impoverished family of kind hearted Rina Morrison browbeat her into acceoting a proposal of marriage to Lionel Quest, heir to a fantastic castle. She resigned herself to a loveless--though wealthy-- existence in Hungary. She is on her way there when she...

I.M. Fresson / Dear Obsession (Large Print) (Paperback)

Dr. Manley's wife Kate has allowed her son Johnnie to become an obsession. However, when the doctor takes a new partner everything changes. Her husband is less willing to go along with her obsession. Kate, now realizing that she is in danger of losing...

Gerald Verner / The Seven Lamps (Large Print) (Paperback)

Jill Hartley has to take important papers to 18 Hayford Avenue, Berrydale, the home of her firm's client, Professor Locksley. But when she arrives at the neglected house she finds the front door open - the inside of the house, dark, damp and decaying...

John S. Glasby / The Savage City (Large Print) (Paperback)

She was the kind of woman a man noticed, mostly because of her eyes. Deep and dark, they had held a warmth which could easily kindle into a fire. Now they were staring sightlessly from the sidewalk. A killing without a motive, the first of a string of...

John Russell / I Spy... (Large Print) (Paperback)

Television experimenter Curtis sets out to combine the X-ray with television to aid surgery. However, he discovers invisible 'Z-rays' which have the potential to receive and record any situation - anywhere. Nothing is private any more. He becomes a...

Steve Hayes , David Whitehead / Cast A Deadly Shadow (Large Print) (Paperback)

Four men went up into the mountains in search of a lost mine. Only one came back - insane with fear. Old Colonel Fogarty wanted to know what happened. No one seemed willing to find out, except his daughter, Rachel. She was joined by the colonel's...

Mary Jane Warmington / Midsummer Madness (Large Print) (Paperback)

Deborah and Helen have been friends since childhood and each has promised to be the other's bridesmaid. But as Deborah begins to plan her wedding to Philip, Helen has disappeared and has broken her engagement to Dr. Simon Barham. Deborah and Simon travel...

Brian Ball / The Venomous Serpent (Large Print) (Paperback)

The brass in the Derbyshire village church depicts Sir Humphrey and Sybil de Latours. Strangely, despite the clear detail elsewhere, the face of Sybil is obliterated. However, Sally Fenton takes a rubbing to hang in the bedroom. The rubbing takes on a...

Norman Lazenby / Death At Duncan House (Large Print) (Paperback)

Slim Harbin's last action on earth was to try and steal the car belonging to inventor Ramsay Duncan. As soon as he pressed the self-starter, the car and its would-be thief were blown asunder by a tremendous explosion. Death had come to Duncan House - and...

Rachel Ford / The Iron Master (Large Print) (Paperback)

Carly had a quiet life. But then she met the local iron master, Nick. With Nick's power and energy, would she be able to retain her independence or would she too be molded by his fiery will?     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Suzanne Clarke / In Search Of Love (Large Print) (Paperback)

After her mother's death, Laurel Smith learned the truth about the father she had never known. In a letter left for Laurel, her mother told her that her marriage to a man in America hadn't been good. When she had fallen pregnant with Laurel she had...

Toni Anders / Never Let Me Go (Large Print) (Paperback)

It was love at first sight for Nurse Chloe Perle and ambitious Dr. Adam Raven, but their employer had plans for his daughter, Susannah, and the young doctor. When Adam informed Chloe his career would always come before romantic entanglements, she left...

Frederick Nolan / Rat Run (Large Print) (Paperback)

Her Majesty's Secret Service agent Garret discovers the parameters of a cataclysmic terrorist strike. The fanatical Andre Dur puts his unholy scenario into operation over the geological fault called the 'Rat Run'. Garrett's desperate mission is to...

Doris Rae / Duet In Low Key (Large Print) (Paperback)

In their quiet Highland village, the minister, David Sinclair, and his wife Morag, await the return of their daughter Bridget from convalescence. But a newcomer to the village causes Morag some consternation. Ledoux, big and flamboyant, is a Canadian...

Ernest Dudley / Dr. Morelle And The Drummer Girl (Large Print) (Paperback)

DEAR MR. DRUMMER, YOUR DAUGHTER IS SAFE...IF YOU WANT HER BACK ALIVE IT IS GOING TO COST YOU MONEY...DON'T CALL THE POLICE...YOU ARE UNDER OBSERVATION, SO DON'T TRY ANY TRICKS.' A note is left in the girl's flat by her kidnapper. Her father, Harvey...

James Grant / The Left-Handed Shell (Large Print) (Paperback)

When Harry, a small-time detective, agrees to look after Jenny and her friend Jacintha - the daughter of a millionaire - little does he realise that he and his giant-sized cousin Stanley are going to become involved in a kidnapping. The girls must be...

Penelope Alexander / The Turn Of The Tide (Large Print) (Paperback)

In the North Cornish village of Penarren, widow Jenny Hawke and her family struggle to keep The Chough cafe going. When Kit Venning returns, causing controversy, Jenny, unexpectedly, falls in love with him. Then Kit joins the crew of the lifeboat ETTA...

John Burke / Fear By Instalments (Large Print) (Paperback)

Mike Merriman's big band and his vocalist, Ingrid Lee, are extremely successful. However, returning from touring America, they are questioned by reporters concerning their relationship. Worse still, when Mike's wife disappears, Ingrid is subjected to a...

Joan Reeves / Love Will Find A Way (Large Print) (Paperback)

Texan Darcy Benton would give anything to be the kind of woman who could captivate her new boss Chase Whitaker. However, the sexy CEO would hardly fall for someone like Darcy, with her straight-laced office wardrobe. Enter Darcy's matchmaking pal, Janet...

Sally Quilford / An Imitation Of Love (Large Print) (Paperback)

When Catherine Willoughby's brother is killed, leaving Catherine and her younger sister, Alyssa, penniless and without a home, she wonders how they will survive.Jimmy had been working with the dashing 'Captain' helping French aristocrats escape the...

Chrissie Loveday / Conflict Of Love (Large Print) (Paperback)

Cathy enjoys her job as a nanny to Jamie Hargreaves, but she thinks that his father, David, takes her too much for granted. Then she meets Rob Tregarth and they fall in love. But when David has a car accident Cathy knows her loyalty lies with him and...

Sheila Benton / Whispers From The Past (Large Print) (Paperback)

A letter from the past reveals a shocking secret that rocks Francine's world. Her place in life and everything secure and substantial crumble away. In a desperate attempt to find where she belongs, she travels to another country and tries to build a new...

Angela Dracup / A Tender Ambition (Large Print) (Paperback)

When Kristabel takes on the job of live-in nanny to Drew Forshaw's twins, she is soon irresistibly drawn to her employer, a widower. Drew has almost hostile feelings for Gaby Preston, the wife of an old friend, but Kristabel cannot resist warming to her...

Frederick Nolan / Designated Assassin (Large Print) (Paperback)

Isolated in the mountains of Mourne, far from the lonely Ulster crossroads where it all began, a deadly final reckoning is in the making. Charles Garrett, lethal executive arm of the British government organization PACT, wants revenge on the IRA assassin...

Mills & Boon / The Half-Breed Vampire (Large Print Paperback)

Game warden Raina Ravenwing's instant attraction to half-breed vampire Slade Donovan is a distraction she can't afford while she tries to track down a pack of rare wolves that is terrorising her tribe in the Cascade Mountains.     All of our...

Mills & Boon / Redeeming Dr Riccardi. (Large Print Hardback)

Rafe Riccardi, the smouldering new Registrar, is in need of an attitude adjustment - and feisty Nurse Toni plans to teach him a lesson! But redeeming this dangerously brooding doctor is a risk, for something tells her that a reformed Rafe will be even...

Margaret P. Cunningham / Lily in Bloom (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay's divorce settlement are quirky at live in her ex-husband's ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead mother-in-law's renowned garden, and host the small Gulf Coast town's overblown annual soiree. Lily needs...

Dornford Yates / Blind Corner (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

Chandos is thrown out of Oxford for 'beating up some Communists', and on return from vacation in Biarritz he witnesses a murder. Teaming up at his London club with friend Jonathan Mansel, a stratagem is devised to catch the killer.     All of...

Maureen Peters / Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

      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...

Patricia Smiley / Short Change (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

L.A.-based Tucker Sinclair has her hands full trying to get her consulting business off the ground. But it won't be with her clients' businesses threatened-and then their lives-the stakes are deadly high.     All of our books are second hand,...

Norah Lofts / Gad's Hall (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

For the Spender family, the ancient, beautifully kept house had seemed a godsend, an incredible bargain, almost a gift from its owner - a kindly man who merely wanted someone to protect the family homestead, to make Gad's come alive again.And it did...

Madeline Hunter / Dangerous in Diamonds (Large Print) (Large Paperback)

The Duke of Castleford has been so bad for so long that scandal can't be bothered to rise up around him anymore. To alleviate the boredom of his privileged life, he occupies himself with drinking and whoring, not to mention the occasional duel. When...