Adventure

Kenneth Gregory / The Polaris Whisper : The Steel of the Norse, the Faith of the Christian White Cross Followers - a Path to War

 [This is] a consistently entertaining debut that fuses together some understated, but well crafted, fantasy elements with a compelling historical adventure. This will be a favourite winter read of...

Alexander McCall Smith / A Conspiracy Of Friends

 Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring.Barbara Ragg makes an...

S. J. Morden / One Way

 EIGHT ASTRONAUTS. ONE KILLER. NO WAY HOME.A blend of classic mystery, Orange is the New Black and Andy Weir's The Martian, One Way is a science-fiction thriller like no other. 'A rip-roaring...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Nautical Chart: A Novel of Adventure

 Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination...

Charles Brokaw / The Temple Mount Code : A Thomas Lourds Thriller

 From the author of The Atlantis Code comes a dramatic quest to locate an ancient scripture with a powerful secret . . .

Eoin McNamee / Resurrection Man (Hardback)

  This is a novel about violence taken beyond society's bounds and how that society confronts it. The novel follows the career of Dessie Kelly, the resurrection man, a violent and ruthless...

John Gilstrap / Nathan's Run (Hardback)

  A media frenzy erupts when a 12-year-old boy kills a guard at a detention centre. He calls up a radio station to give his version of events and America and the media believe his claim of...

Sara Keays / The Black Book (Hardback)

  The House of Commons holds many secrets, but the biggest secret of all is the Black Book, where scandalous information about the Members of Parliament is kept. Jo is working for the Chief Whip,...

John T Phillifent - The Man from UNCLE No 8 : The Mad Scientist Affair - Vintage PB

Cooraclare Castle, County Clare is the unusual setting for this adventure, which finds Solo and Kuryakin, UNCLE's top pair of crime busters, caught up with a crazy scientist. 'He has invented a beer...

James Patterson / The Lake House (Hardback)

  Frannie O'Neill's life turned upside down when six incredible children blew in on the wind. Rescuing them from the school that created them took all her courage and cunning, but the children...

Joan Brady / Bleedout (Hardback)

  Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from...

Wilbur Smith / The Triumph of the Sun (Hardback)

 In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Mahdi...

John Grisham / The King Of Torts (Hardback)

 Reluctantly, Clay Carter takes on what seems to be the mundane case of a young man charged with a random street killing. But when digging into his client's background, he stumbles upon a horrendous...

Dick Francis / Second Wind (Hardback)

 Meteorologist Perry Stuart's weather knowledge and accuracy has given him high status among forecasters. When he is offered a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small plane he learns more secrets...

Jeffery Deaver / The Twelfth Card : Lincoln Rhyme Book 6 (Hardback)

  Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless...

Wild Horses (Hardback)

  This thriller by the author of "Decider" concerns a case of mistaken identity set against the background of the making of a film about racing.       All of our books are second hand, and...

Dick Francis / Field of Thirteen : Short Stories (Hardback)

  This is a brilliant collection of thirteen short stories, written by the Master of Crime. Although some of the stories have been published before, all but one of them have had a very limited...

James Patterson / Judge and Jury (Large Paperback)

  It's the trial of the decade -- Dominick Cavallo, the modern-day Godfather, has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make it certain he'll be convicted. Heavy security...

John Grisham / The Summons (Large Paperback)

 Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton,...

Andy McNab / Recoil (Large Paperback)

  Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, exdeniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But when his private life starts to...

Jasper Fforde / Something Rotten : Thursday Next Book 4

 The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good...

David Donachie / The Contraband Shore

 1787. Captain Edward Brazier, recently paid off from his frigate and comfortably off with prize money, he is headed to Deal to propose marriage to the young and lovely widow Betsey Langridge. He...

Steven Galloway / Ascension

 From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novelAs a young Romany boy in Transylvania in the early years of the twentieth century,...

Emmy Laybourne / Monument 14

 Fourteen kids stranded inside a superstore. Inside they have everything they could ever need. There's junk food and clothes, computer games and books, drugs and alcohol ... and without adult...

Jason Bradbury / Dot Robot

 'Congratulations, Jackson. Welcome to MeX.' Dot.com billionaire Devlin Lear, founder of the top-secret defence f

Jon Robinson / Anywhere (Nowhere Book 2)

 'We're miles from anywhere, and we don't have a clue where we're going' Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn, Jes,

Charlotte Lamb / Deep and Silent Waters

 Laura would never have gone to Venice had she known Sebastian would be there: despite his animal magnetism, the director of the film for which she's been nominated best supporting actress - and her...

Robert Fabbri / Arminius : The Limits of Empire

 One man's greatest victory.Rome's greatest defeat.A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius...

Amanda Robson / Guilt

 'Another brilliant read from Amanda Robson. A dark, addictive and compelling page turner!' B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORSThe number 1 bestseller is back!Your sister. Her secret...

John Matthews / The Last Witness

  Elena Waldren has a secret that she's built fences around for the last twenty-nine years and kept from everyone. Through her work with an aid agency, her fears about the plight of a young girl...

John Farrow / City Of Ice

  A bomb explodes in a busy Montreal street. A mob lawyer blown apart, an innocent child murdered. Watching and powerless to provent it is Montreal's most illustrious policeman - Emile Cinq-Mars...

Gabriel Tallent / My Absolute Darling

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR'The year's must read novel' The Times'One of the most important books you'll pick up this decade' Harper's Bazaar'An...

Scott Mariani / The Babylon Idol

 FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR`Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermottTHE HUNT IS ONWhen a sniper leaves Ben Hope's...

Suzanne Glass / The Interpreter

  IT ALL STARTED WITH HER VOICE. NOT HER WORDS, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HERS. . . SO IT BEGAN NOT WITH WHAT SHE SAID OR HOW SHE SAID IT, BUT WITH SOME QUITE INTANGIBLE QUALITY IN HER VOICE. The...

Jack Higgins / The Eagle Has Flown (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...

Lindsey Davis / The Graveyard of the Hesperides

 Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem: At the Garden of the Hesperides a barmaid went missing years before;...

Wilbur Smith / Those In Peril (Hardback)

 Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel...

Matthew Reilly / The Six Sacred Stones (Hardback)

 After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's bestseller Seven Ancient Wonders, super-soldier Jack West and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but impossible...

Antonia Hodgson / The Devil in the Marshalsea : Thomas Hawkins Book 1

 WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card...

John Grisham / The Brethren (Hardback)

 In a minimum-security prison, three inmates - former judges calling themselves the Brethren - practice law, dispense jailhouse justice, and hatch money-making scams. From the author of "A Time to...

James Patterson / You've Been Warned (Hardback)

 A creepy thriller from internationally bestselling novelist James Patterson.For Karen Burns, a talented young photographer, it was only natural to go to New York to chase her dreams. And it was only...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Tower

 70 AD. A group of Roman soldiers crossing the Sahara desert is destroyed by a ferocious and mysterious presence hidden in a solitary tower at the extreme borders of the sea of sand. The sole...

Stephen Coonts / Hong Kong

 The US Consul-General in Hong Kong, Virgil 'Tiger' Cole, was Jake Grafton's bombardier-navigator during the Vietnam War, and both have come a long way since: Grafton has risen to Rear Admiral,...

Ann Carroll / Rosie's Last Adventure

      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...

Gore Vidal / The Smithsonian Institution

 Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is...

Dale Brown / Air Battle Force

 Maverick pilot Patrick McLanahan takes aerial warfare into unknown territory in an explosive new adventure from the bestselling author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG, WARRIOR CLASS and WINGS OF FIRE.On...

Peter Tremayne / Suffer Little Children (Sister Fidelma Mysteries Book 3)

 Sister Fidelma follows a trail that is as suspenseful as it is tortuous in the riveting third novel in Peter Tremayne's unputdownable series.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Tremayne's...

Evelyn Anthony / The Relic

  Yuri Varienski, a Ukrainian emigre in Jersey, bequeaths to his daughter, Lucy, a gold filigree cross, to be taken to a former dissident leader, Volkov, now exiled in Geneva. Innocently accepting...

John Nichol / Vanishing Point

  Flight lieutenant Mark Hunter, one of the RAF's most ambitious pilots, discovers that it was not the Iraqis who used the most virulent strains of chemical warfare during the Gulf War. The...

Anne Perry / Whited Sepulchres (William Monk Mystery, Book 9) : A twisting Victorian mystery of intrigue and secrets

 Young Killian Melville is arguably the most brilliant architect of the age; passionate about his art, he is liked by everyone. So when he visits Sir Oliver Rathbone, in need of a lawyer to represent...

Max Brooks / Closure Limited : And Other Zombie Tales

  A terrifying collection of short stories from the master of zombie fiction, Max Brooks. Written in his trademark style, these tales combine horror, drama, and socio-political commentary to...

Nicholas Griffin / The Requiem Shark

 Set in the 18th century's Golden Age of Piracy, THE REQUIEM SHARK is the tale of a young recruit, William Williams and his forced apprenticeship to Bartholomew Roberts, slaver turned pirate Captain...