Fiction

Angus Wilson / Late Call (Large Paperback)

A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living. Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster in Carshall New Town. At first, Sylvia cannot adjust...

Larry D. Sweazy / See Also Murder (Large Paperback)

1964: Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed...

Patricia A. Smith / The Year of Needy Girls (Large Paperback)

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction! "Recalls both Hellman's The Children's Hour and Lehane's Mystic River in a story about murder and false accusations."-- Bay Area Reporter "A tense story about a small town swept up in bigotry and...

Romy Ash / Floundering (Large Paperback)

Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared.Now Loretta’s returned, and she wants her boys back.Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. The family...

Anne Donovan / Hieroglyphics and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

This collection offers portraits of lives lived with barely contained compassion. The author moves between narrators and genres, exploring her central theme of language and voicelessness.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Perri O'Shaughnessy / Unlucky in Law (Large Paperback)

Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy’s latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits...

D.J. Connell / Sherry Cracker Gets Normal (Large Paperback)

Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life?Meet Sherry Cracker: loner, obsessive note-taker and lover of tartan trousers. She works for thrifty, straight-talking Mr. Chin who runs a business buying used gold from dentists. One Friday afternoon,...

Julie Coffin / Lost Memories (Large Paperback)

Elissa had no idea who she was or why she had been found wandering the Cornish coast. But Daniel Brett seemed determined to find the truth behind her past. . . . What was the key to unlocking Elissa's memory, and was it possible that Dr. Daniel Brett...

M.J. Edmonds / A Righteous Man: In the Dragon's Realm (Large Paperback)

Is the life of a stranger worth risking your own life and the lives of your family? As a troubled child raised on the rough side of Baltimore, Joshua Broady thought he'd never need ponder such a question. Yet twice Joshua is forced to determine another's...

Barry Gornell / The Wrong Child (Large Paperback)

Twenty-two of the 23 children in a rural village die in a disaster. By chance, the 'wrong' child, Dog Evans, lives. Crippled with survivor's guilt, his parents abandon Evans to a feral life at the margins. He is shunned by those left behind, for whom his...

Eleanor Gray / Don't Tell Anyone (Large Paperback)

Nearly lost in a fog of grief over the fatal stabbing of her daughter, art historian Grace Neville feels only sorrow as Jordan Dukes is found guilty of murder. Days after the sentencing, Grace receives a visit from Jordan’s father, who claims that...

Ann Brashares / Sisterhood Everlasting (Large Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four friendsOne sisterhoodTen years later, the story continuesOn the cusp of turning thirty, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget are now living separate lives, out on their own. Yet despite having jobs and men that they love,...

Henry Baum / The Golden Calf (Large Paperback)

Ray Tompkins is the kind of person you never get to know. He's the security guard, the factory worker, the man working the midnight shift. Nobody really understands Ray - not his coworkers, not his family, and certainly not the women in his life. There...

Susan Coll / Beach Week (Large Paperback)

Ah, Beach Week: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' high school grads flock to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauchery. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have...

Aysegül Savas / Walking on the Ceiling (Large Paperback)

After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris...

Ben Okri / The Freedom Artist (Large Paperback)

In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a...

Luís de Camões / Lisbon Poets (Large Paperback)

This book is a bilingual anthology (English & Portuguese ) of Fernando Pessoa, Luís de Camoes, Cesário Verde, Florbela Espanca, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. All five authors are among the greatest Portuguese poets ever, but...

Mel Gussow / Conversations With Miller (Large Paperback)

Offers a personal and revealing account of one of the major playwrights of our time. Arthur Miller is revealed in deep and candid conversation with the highly regarded dramatic critic, Mel Gussow. In this series of interviews, which took place over 40...

Anita Shreve / The Pilot's Wife (Large Paperback)

A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at...

Rebecca Wells / Ya Yas In Bloom (Large Paperback)

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Brian Kimberling / Snapper (Large Paperback)

A great, hilarious new voice in the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.Nathan Lochmueller studies birds,...

Lian Hearn / Across the Nightingale Floor (Large Paperback)

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the treat of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.The youth Takeo has been brought up in a...

Brian Hart / Then Came the Evening (Large Paperback)

Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his home reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in the road. Nearly two decades later, Bandy is released...

Michael Jecks / No Law in the Land (Large Paperback)

A Knights Templar Mystery When King Edward II is told that his wife has defied him & remained in France with their son, the king flies into a rage. It is Sir Baldwin de Furnshill & his friend Simon Puttock, who have broken the news to him &...

Alison Habens / Lifestory (Large Paperback)

  Beck is an anxious single mother of one small son, plagued by a sore throat and an irrational dislike of white lilac. Dr. Jonathan Comfort treats her first for the throat and then tends to her heart. Beck had forgotten what it was like to fall in...

Sharon Owens / Ballroom on Magnolia Street (Large Paperback)

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David Means / Assorted Fire Events (Large Paperback)

In his award-winning second collection, David Means explores the fragility of those things that we cherish most. His incomparable, distinct voice—often wildly humorous, always engaging—has led the New York Times to call Means "one of our most...

Clare Clark / The Nature Of Monsters (Large Paperback)

1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark.1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St...

Alison Entrekin / Perfect Days (Large Paperback)

Teo, a medical student, meets Clarice at a party. Teo doesn’t really like people, they're too messy, but he immediately realises that he and Clarice are meant to be together. And if Clarice doesn’t accept that? Well, they just need to spend...

Wendy Holden / Beautiful People (Large Paperback)

A witty, utterly addictive novel from bestselling author Wendy Holden, Beautiful People is a tale wicked in its observations yet buoyant at its an irresistible confection you'll want to devour immediately. Darcy-a struggling English rose actress when The...

Robert Harrell / The Retirement of Daniel Fairfax (Large Paperback)

For many, the transition from work to retirement is easy but not so for Daniel Fairfax.After a lifetime as a professional criminal, Daniel resigns himself to a retirement at Her Majesty's pleasure. That is until Lady Luck hands him a get out of jail free...

David Baddiel / The Secret Purposes (Large Paperback)

The subject is a hidden part of British history, treated with the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man in the 1940s. June Murray is a translator who doesn't share the unsympathetic incomprehension of her colleagues at the Ministry of...

Nicole Richie / The Truth About Diamonds (Large Paperback)

In her electrifying first novel, Nicole Richie tells the sensational story of Chloe Parker, a rock royalty princess and a card-carrying member of Hollywood's inner circle. At the age of seven, Chloe was adopted by a music superstar and his wife,...

Jack Clyde / Glasgow Taxi (Large Paperback)

This is Glasgow, rich in variety, seen through the twinkling eyes of a likeable cab-driver whose humanity shines through.     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...

Carrie Bebris / The Suspicion at Sanditon (Or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham): A Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery (Large Paperback)

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Michiel Heyns / The Reluctant Passenger (Large Paperback)

Nicholas Morris is a fundamentally decent chap who likes order, and isn’t given to messy emotions. He and his ‘sort-of’ girlfriend Leonora share a relationship that is comforting in its sameness, and he is ensconced in a well-paid...

Clare Dowling / Just the Three of Us (Large Paperback)

Debs is having an affair with a married man. Not that she meant to or anything. But while she was miserably hanging around waiting for Mr Right - if only she could lose that stubborn half stone - Bob just kind of happened. Lovely, kind, sexy Bob. OK,...

Sarah Webb / When the Boys are Away...the Girls Will Play (Large Paperback)

When Meg returns to Dublin after three years trailing Simon around the globe with their toddler, Lily, and Dan, her 11 year old son from a previous relationship in tow, she realises that all her friends have moved on. And now she only has her kooky...

Penelope Fitzgerald / At Freddie's (Large Paperback)

A novel centered around the Temple Stage School and its matriarch, Freddie Wentworth, focuses on the lives of child actors trained and represented by the school     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Stewart Parker / Paddy Dies (Large Paperback)

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Esther Verhoef / Rendezvous (Large Paperback)

How could this happen to me?Simone is a wife and a mother. She’s 34 years old, and together with her husband Eric and their two small children, she has left the hustle and bustle of Holland for a remote village in the south of France. They have...

Alexandra L Yates / HUMANS: Volume 1: The Mark (Large Paperback)

In 2125, Cathy and the other seven Elite students are training in Kantas City to become the future leaders of the Red World Government. Cathy, Tabitha, Stephanie, Leah, James, Jesse, Chris and Max are all descendants of the few humans left after the...

Alexandra L. Yates / Humans Volume 2: Those Who Have the Mark (Large Paperback)

Cathy and her Elite friends are back from their 10-day shuttle trip outside the Red World. They have successfully passed their test and can start the next phase of their training to become the Red World’s leaders. They return with the intention to...

Mícheál Ó Siadhail / Hail Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems (Large Paperback)

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Tony O'Reilly / Death In The Liberties (Large Paperback)

During the Irish War of Independence, a young Dublin couple, Nell and Christopher Flinter, are recruited by the IRA. Nell is planted in Dublin Castle where she becomes the eyes and ears of Michael Collins, Director of Intelligence. Christopher, an...

Deepa Anappara / Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Large Paperback)

Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India’ ObserverWe children are not just stories. We live. Come and see.Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks...

Robert White / The Fall (Large Paperback)

When ex SAS hero, Rick Fuller first arrived in Manchester, he was a man devastated by grief, and drinking straight from the bottle.Rick needed to get back to work, and to do that, he required a new identity.Fuller gave the last of his cash, to expert...

Rachel Ryan / Someone You Trust (Large Paperback)

Amy jumps at the opportunity when she’s offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. The assignment is for the friendly and welcoming Carroll family, whose stunning house is situated on a stretch of remote and rugged coastline overlooking the...

Rachael Alonzo / Diary of a Fat Jack Russell Aged 11 3/4 (Large Paperback)

Rupert who is named after a bear, isn't actually a bear but is an old fat dog, a Jack Russell in fact and his life has just taken on new meaning as he's found Twitter! He has a weight problem, and he moans a lot and sometimes uses obscenities. His life...

The Fish Anthology 2008 / Harlem River Blues & Other Stories (Large Paperback)

A collection of short fiction from the Fish Short Story Prize 2008.      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...

Danielle Steel / Without a Trace (Large Paperback)

Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever as he...

Geraldine O'Neill / Tara's Destiny (Large Paperback)

It's the start of the 1960s, and the world is changing. But for one woman, it seems things have changed too much already. From the bright-eyed girl growing up in a small Irish village, to the confident young woman running a fine English hotel, Tara's...