Fiction

Barbara Erskine / Distant Voices

In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful Encounters , Barbara Erskine has created a wide and vivid range of worlds and emotions, From love, romance, loneliness, grief, to betrayal, passion, adventure and compelling...

Carrie Vaughn / Kitty and the Silver Bullet

Kitty's radio show, Kitty's Midnight Hour, is as popular as ever, and now she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life? Not if this is just the calm before the storm. When her mother falls ill,...

Carrie Vaughn / Kitty Goes to War

Three soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are in custody at Ft Carson in Colorado Springs. They're werewolves, suffering from post traumatic stress, which has left them unable to control their shapeshifting, unable to interact with...

Deborah Ellis / The Heaven Shop

Binti's father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. As Binti and her brother and sister slowly begin to understand what this means, they begin to realise too that not only is this what killed their mother,...

John MacLachlan Gray / White Stone Day

Edmund Whitty, correspondent for The Falcon, specialises in reportage from the underworld. Following his investigations into the culpability of 'Chokee Bill' in The Fiend in Human, Whitty finds himself involved with a bizarre and sinister group who...

Donna Alward / Somebody Like You

Welcome to Darling, VT, a small town with plenty of characters and a tradition of romance with Donna Alward's Somebody Like You , which Library Journal raves is "t ender, sensual, and overflowing with New England charm."A kiss to last a lifetimeAiden...

David Zindell / Black Jade

The third book in the Ea Cycle, BLACK JADE is as rich as Tolkien and as magical as the Arthurian myths Valashu Elahad rescued the Lightstone from the dark hell of the enemy's own city, only to have his triumph overturned. Once more the Lord of Lies has...

Juliette Mead / Jack Shall Have Jill

Ten years after leaving Oxford and abandoning her friends, selfish and rootless Olivia meets one of her old set, a Rhodes scholar, who is now rich and famous. Her return to London to marry the scholar will not as easy as she envisages.     All...

Juliet E. McKenna / Northern Storm

The second book in The Aldabreshin Compass following SOUTHERN FIRE - a brilliant new epic of empire and intrigue. The Aldabreshin Archipelago has been ravaged by war, its fragile alliances sundered by new enemies - enemies wielding forbidden elemental...

Anne Booth / Small Miracles

The 1990s are proving tough for the convent. The order of the Sisters of Saint Philomena is down to its three last nuns. The place that Sisters Margaret, Bridget and Cecilia call home is in dire need of repairs and, with no savings and no new recruits,...

Dan Walker / Desert Thieves

Zoya DeLarose wakes amongst the smoldering wreckage of the Dragonfly, the rest of the crew are nowhere to be seen but she doesn't have time to look for them, the Aviation Army are approaching and the only option she has as a fugitive is to run.Now Zoya...

Iris Costello / The Secrets of Rochester Place

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page. A LOST CHILD. A LONG-KEPT SECRET. THE HOUSE THAT HOLDS THE KEY Spring 1937 : Teresa is evacuated to London in the wake of the Guernica bombing. She thinks she's found safety in...

Anne Skelly / Foolish Pride

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of a certain age must be in want of a man. So when a prospective husband is sighted on the horizon, mothers, friends and the entire community rally round to be of service. As the first tentative...

Gillian Anderson / A Dream of Ice

From Gillian Anderson, star of the X-Files, and New York Times bestselling coauthor Jeff Rovin comes the second book in the thrilling paranormal series Earthend Saga that began with A Vision of Fire, which Marie Claire called...

The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a...

Jean Brashear / Sweet Child of Mine

The Proposition While seeing his town through a life-threatening crisis, Prosperino mayor Michael Longstreet faced his own crisis -- his powerful family was demanding that he produce a bride! Only Suzanne Jorgenson was desperate enough to enter into this...

Christie Barlow / The Library on Love Heart Lane

Don’t miss this very special standalone novel in the Love Heart Lane series. Previously published as Evie’s Year of Taking Chances but now rewritten and improved by the author!Love, life, and libraries. Growing up in foster care, Elle...

Andrew Kaplan / Homeland - Saul's Game

Carrie Matthison is is leading an operation to capture OR kill the Al-Qaaeda Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound that he was supposed to be, in hiding, her team finds it...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Marina J. Lostetter / Noumenon Infinity

Travel to the remotest reaches of deep space in this wondrous follow-up to the acclaimed Noumenon—a tale of exploration, adventure, science, and humanity.Generations ago, Convoy Seven and ICC left Earth on a mission that would take them far...

Amanda Hemingway / Soulfire

Micky Murphy, a muckraker with a passion for the truth, works as an investigator for a TV programme which exposes the illegal activities of tycoons. She's the perfect person to work on the case of Vincent Scarpia Savage, the aloof possessor of a...

Mark Haskell Smith / Moist

Moist' is the hilarious story of Bob's transformation into Roberto, a kingpin in the Los Angeles Mexican mafia.     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...

Tricia Wastvedt / The River

Tricia Wastvedt's debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip...

Austin Duffy / Ten Days

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth, travel to New York from London to scatter Miriam's ashes in the Hudson River. During the ten High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah...

Royce Keaveney / Free Like You : A Novel of Unabashed Queerness

A relentlessly well written love letter to the power of alternative lifestyles, positive mental health and proper pronoun use. They make me read this in hell" - Pastor Fred Phelps.Join me, precious reader, in exploring the thoughts, actions and worries...

Ruta Sepetys/ The Fountains of Silence

FROM CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNING AUTHOR RUTA SEPETYSMadrid, 1957.Daniel, young, wealthy and unsure of his place in the world, views the city through the lens of his camera.Ana, a hotel maid whose family is suffering under the fascist dictatorship of General...

Jaine Fenn / Hidden Sun

An eccentric noblewoman scientist's journey into a hostile environment will change her world forever, in this enthralling fantasy novel.Rhia Harlyn is a noble in Shen, one of the dozens of shadowlands which separate the bright, alien skyland. She has a...

Read On - The Long and Short of It: and other stories

An anthology of short stories from the UK, Portugal and Norway.     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...

Pascal Mercier / Lea

It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet's wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, right up until the day that she hears a snatch of Bach being played on a violin by a busker. Transfixed by the sweet...

Richard Blake / The Terror of Constantinople ( Death of Rome Saga - Book 2 )

The second adventure with vain, amoral, and sexually voracious seventh-century scholar Aelric  610AD. The bloodthirsty Emperor Phocas is preparing for the greatest battle of his life. Enemy armies are racing closer to attack his fortress, the golden...

Charles Stross / The Trade of Queens

A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the...

Herbjørg Wassmo / Dina's Book

  On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets. Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina's Book presents an extraordinary heroine. Beautiful,...

Tony Ballantyne / Twisted Metal

The first in a new hard science fiction series set in a futuristic world of robots and fierce conflict  Penrose is a world of intelligent robots who have forgotten their own distant past, a world where all metal, even that of their own...

A E Housman / Penguin Classics Collected Poems

      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...

Nina Malkin / 6X - The Uncensored Confessions - Loud, Fast and Out of Control

6X are still riding high in the US music charts - and struggling to cope with the trials of fame. Kendall is fast becoming America's sweetheart - a 'real' girl with the voice of an angel, but along with her anonymity, she's anxious to shed the homely...

J.J. Baloch / Whiter Than White

Written by seasoned police officer and accomplished writer, J. J. Baloch, Whiter Than White is the story of Hoor, an ordinary woman caught up in the throes of extraordinary circumstances. Hoor fosters her faith and cultivates confidence in her own...

Anna McKerrow / Crow Moon

Danny is a fun-loving 16-year-old looking for a father figure and falling in love with a different girl every day. He certainly doesn't want to follow in his mum's witchy footsteps.Just as his community is being threatened by gangs intent on finding a...

Steph Swainston / No Present Like Time

      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...

Hope Holloway / The Dressmaker on Amelia Island

A sisterhood saga with threads of drama, dreams, and danger. Life for the Wingate women of Amelia Island is never dull! While Raina balances the challenge of nurturing newborn twins and a budding romance, trouble arrives on her doorstep to threaten...

Lee Sheridan / Monuments: & Other Poems

Lee Sheridan's first collection of poems, Monuments , is concerned with one's personal connection with place and the moments of insight that can blossom from that. From the charming streets of Pembroke, to the student houses of Athlone, this collection...

Rebecca Barrow / Bad Things Happen Here

With compelling characters, broken friendships and complicated romances, BAD THINGS HAPPEN HERE is the irresistible YA murder mystery thriller: it makes your heart race, your toes curl, and your mind whirl with deadly secrets, dark truths and the innate...

Victoria Springfield / Invitation to Italy

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend to...

Fleur Jaeggy / Proleterka

A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl’s youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother, cold and unconcerned; the father who was...

Julie Burchill / Sweet

Some people tread water all their lives. Not me I'm gonna make a big splash. I could see myself living the good life, chasing the sun ...feet up, glass in hand, no worries. Sweet. After a short stay at Her Majesty's pleasure, Maria Sweet, aka Sugar, is...

Bubbles / My Secret Diary : From Swaziland to Neverland

Behind his seemingly-perfect life of gold-plated tire swings and personal chefs, there is a dark history of medical experiments, addiction, and loss. But with the help of his man-pet Michael Jackson, Bubbles has grown to become bigger than King...

Hope Holloway / The Chocolate Shop on Amelia Island

The saga continues with secrets, surprises, and sweet temptations…Sadie Wingate has been keeping secrets...from her family and from her brand new husband. But once the truth is revealed, her whole world melts like a truffle in the sunshine. Can...

Rick Gekoski / A Long Island Story

It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children – are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life on the...

Lilac Mills / The Allotment on Willow Tree Lane

When a local meadow is turned into a bee-friendly allotment, will romance also blossom? New teacher Ceri has enough on her plate trying to keep her class in line and get them excited for her Foxmore wildlife efforts. Then she meets the mysterious –...

K.J. Parker / Sharps

K.J. Parker's new novel is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception.For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things:...

Beth Reekles / The Summer Switch-Off

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might...

Elizabeth Wein / Black Dove, White Raven

A story of survival, subterfuge, espionage and identity.Rhoda and Delia are American stunt pilots who perform daring aerobatics to appreciative audiences. But while the sight of two girls wingwalking – one white, one black – is a welcome...

Wesley Chu / Time Siege

Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future.Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wasteland – the perfect hiding place for a fugitive ex-chronman to hide from the authorities.James...

Pat Cadigan / Alita : Battle Angel - Iron City

A long time ago there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the Earth, there is a metropolis that lives amidst the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome...