Fiction

Chris Manby / Girl Meets Ape (Large Print) (Hardback)

He's the King of the swingers... Uptight young zoologist Dr Jennifer Niederhauser is looking forward to making her mark in the conservation world as head of the chimpanzee project at Prowdes Animal Sanctuary. Prowdes seems even more determined to make...

Meg Elizabeth Atkins / Private View (Large Print) (Hardback)

The murder of a local art gallery owner and the theft of the painting he had just privately shown had stumped DCI Sheldon Hunter, and remained unsolved. Four years later, Hunter receives a series of anonymous letters and phone calls implicating a family...

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...

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...

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...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - Book 5 (1976) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of  books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essys for the Irish Times.  Moderate edgewear only, paperback, internally unmarked. 128 pages, composed of essays and weekly...

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...

Santa Montefiore / Last Voyage of the Valentina (Hardback)

  In a barge on the Thames he calls home, Alba lives a wild but empty youth. Throughout her life, the figure of her unknown mother had tortured her. Now it's time to face the past: the truth about what happened in a small Italian town, nearly thirty...

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...

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...

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...

Charlaine Harris / Dead Reckoning (Hardback)

With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects...

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...

Siobhan Dowd / Solace of the Road (Hardback)

Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and...

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...

Carrie Bushnell / The Carrie Diaries (Hardback)

'Meet Carrie before the events of Sex In the City'     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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Roy Lewis / Cardinal Obsession (Hardback)

D.C.I. Cardinal’s plans to smash the gang of his old adversary Gus Clifford are thwarted by the discovery of a dead man in Northumberland. He assigns D.S. Grout to investigate the murder while he continues to lead the hunt for Clifford...

Steven Brust / Hawk (Vlad Taltos Series - Book 14 ) (Hardback)

Years ago, Vlad Taltos came to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices:...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / Love in Another Town (Hardback)

A young man leaves a broken marriage and his home to find love and fulfillment.     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...

Afsaneh Knight / The Sunshine Years (Hardback)

Do you ever wonder where your life is going?Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning and suddenly be old?You are not alone.Story (that's his name) can feel a middle-youth -- or is that middle-age? -- crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a...

Daryl Gregory / Spoonbenders (Hardback)

Meet Matthias Telemachus, Teddy Telemachus, Maureen Telemachus, Irene Telemachus, Frankie Telemachus and Buddy Telemachus! They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

Chris Cavender / Killer Crust (Hardback)

Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi - the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron - walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina pizzeria. But his pizza-making contest seems on the up and up, and sprucing up her beloved pizzeria, A Slice of Delight,...

Danielle Steel / The Ring / Changes / Full Circle (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...

Denise Hamilton / Savage Garden (Hardback)

Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a date at the theatre with her new man, Silvio Aguilar. But when the play's beautiful leading lady fails to appear, she learns of the missing woman's complicated past - and of her relationship to Silvio...

Martin Waddell / Tango's Baby (Hardback)

This is a raw, bleak love story that confronts such major issues as urban poverty, teenage pregnancy and the bureaucratic inadequacies of the Welfare State.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Patrick Hoffman / Clean Hands (Hardback)

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on their most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank that's been accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one...

Frank Kippax / Other People's Blood (Hardback)

To people like Jessica Roberts and Rory Collins, the bloody, unfolding story of their native Northern Ireland is no more than a somber background to their day-to-day existence.They are young, well-to-do, and attractive. When they fall in love the fact...

Maggie Ross / The Villa Rouge (Hardback)

Morgan Perincall's marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France. Dazed by his desertion, she sends their children west to safety, and leaves London for the dubious sanctuary of her childhood home, the Villa Rouge...

Paul D. Staudohar / Boxing's Best Short Stories (Hardback)

A collection of twenty-two short stories evoking the slap of boxing gloves on sweaty flesh and the fierce shouts from ringside includes the work of Ring Lardner, Nelson Algren, Jack London, Paul Gallico, Ellery Queen, and John O'Hara.     All...

Jane Feaver / An Inventory of Heaven (Hardback)

The few years Mavis Gaunt spent in the village of Shipleigh, Devon, as a wartime evacuee - away from London and her parents' loveless marriage - were sufficient for her to conceive of the place as a heavenly retreat. But it is not until her twenties,...

Nikki Gemmell / Cleave (Hardback)

Novel set in the Australian outback, about a woman artist who sets out on a journey to re-discover her father, who had abandoned her. Epic Odyssean style, and good story telling.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Emma Richler / Sister Crazy (Hardback)

The sprawling Weiss family--as recalled by Jemima, the middle child in Emma Richler’s amazing debut--live an almost idyllic existence. The feeling among the siblings is so palpable that we cannot help but share the acute nostalgia Jem experiences...