Adventure

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 must navigate the bustle of the town'snarrow streets...

James Follett / For Those in Peril

  It's 1941 and the Royal Navy have dealt a massive blow to Hitler's campaign in the South Atlantic by sinking his U-Boat ships. For Ernst Kessler, commander of U-395, this creates a near impossible situation - he's stranded 6000 miles from home,...

Hanif Kureishi / Black Album (Faber Classics)

  Shadid, a clean-cut young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. In the capital he falls in love with Deedee Osgood, a college lecturer, and finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between...

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, Salvo Usari's mother and father are killed in a...

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 supervision they can do whatever they want. Sounds like...

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, Ryan and Elsa have escaped from prison. Now they're being hunted.They quickly realise they have a special talent - they can control...

Douglas Preston / The Book of the Dead : An Agent Pendergast Novel

 The final battle between good and evil. Only one will survive...The New York Museum of Natural History receives their stolen gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in DANCE OF DEATH, is throwing...

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 former lover - has an aura of darkness and death...

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 placed with a nearby family finally set her on a...

John Buchan / Greenmantle

  In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S...

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. Then the corpse of a young man, Artinian, is found...

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 interpreter is Dominique, a genius with language, who...

Dick Francis / Under Orders (Hardback)

 Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.'It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion...

Wilbur Smith / The Seventh Scroll (Hardback)

 The seventh scroll is nearly 4000 years old. Within it lies the clues to a treasure from an almost forgotten time. Duraid Al Simmu and his wife, Royan, were the first to discover the scrolls. When Duraid is murdered, Royan seeks refuge in England...

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 is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year...

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 Kill", "The Firm" and "The Testament", comes this...

Virginia Andrews / Into the Garden (Hardback)

 The shattering sequel to WILDFLOWERS Misty, Star, Jade and Cat first came together in Dr Marlowe's group therapy session. One by one, each of the Wildflowers told her own story and bravely unveiled the inner wounds inflicted by years of lies,...

Tim Severin / Odinn's Child ( Viking Series - Book 1)

Our story begins in the year 1001 and the toddler, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Brattahlid in Greenland to be brought up in the fostercare of a young woman - Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of...

Giles Foden / Zanzibar

 Ein packender Thriller und ein moderner historischer Roman vor der Kulisse Sansibars. Es geht um Kolonialismus, Ökologie, Politik und um eine terroristische Verschwörung.     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

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, commanding a US aircraft carrier; Cole has become an...

Chris Ryan / Alpha Force: Hunted : Book 6

 Target: Ivory Hunters Alpha Force - an elite five-member squad of highly trained young people - head to Zambia to compete in an extreme sports contest. They discover a horrifying threat to the local wildlife and immediately snap into action. But...

Ian Fleming / Quantum of Solace (B format) : The complete James Bond short stories

 To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time.From a View to a KillFor Your Eyes OnlyQuantum of SolaceRisicoThe Hildebrand...

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 America's newest combat base McLanahan and his crew...

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 super-sleuth is a vibrant creation' Morgan Llywelyn, 'A...

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 Pentagon and Whitehall will stop at nothing to ensure...

Paul Adam / Unholy Trinity

  Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigued by the brutal murder of a left wing priest, particularly when he discovers that an emissary from the Vatican had cleared his apartment of papers when his body was discovered but...

Richard Flanagan / The Unknown Terrorist

 FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Gina Davies is a 26-year-old pole dancer in Sydney. She's a flawed woman, racist and obsessed with money, who knows her role in a world built on deception: the dancers pretend to be excited, the men...

Mr. John McLaren / Black Cabs

  The big guns at Skidder Barton investment bank plot a huge take-over to revive their fortunes, but forget there is one place they can be overheard. Len and his cabbie mates embark on a dangerous attempt to profit from the next big take-over...

Al Sarrantonio / Stories

 Stories, edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman (author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and the epic American Gods) and Al Sarrantonio, is 'an unmissable collection' (Guardian), filled with distinctive, original and thrilling tales from...

Michael Dibdin / Dark Spectre

 What is it that binds together a series of violent murders across America and the long-lost Secret of the Templars? The killings always take place in the home, usually in broad daylight, in towns and cities all over America. The victims are of...

Simon Scarrow - The Legion ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 10 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

The Legion When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks and Ajax's crew have been...

Simon Scarrow - The Gladiator ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 9

The Gladiator While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete where they are stunned...

Wilbur Smith / Golden Lion (Hardback)

   Worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series.East African Coast, 1670.In a...

Stephen Frey / Shadow Account (Hardback)

   An investment banker in the maverick firm Phenix Capital, Conner Ashby is doing all right for himself. At twenty-seven, he's practically the right-hand man of the company's founder - a wealthy old pro looking to make a big comeback on The...

Natasha Ngan / The Elites

 A beautifully written futuristic romance 'There is a rumour that the Elites don't bleed.' Hundreds of years into the future, wars, riots, resource crises and rising sea-levels have destroyed the old civilisations. Only one city has survived:...

Celia Rees / The Fool's Girl

Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long and their adventures many, but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get...

C. S. Forester / The African Queen

   A classic tale of love and adventure from the author of the Captain Hornblower series. The film adaptation, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, became one of the most popular films ever made. The African Queen is an old,...

Eileen O' Hely / Pep Squad

A fantastic kids spy adventure set in a secret agent training school  Similar to the Alex Rider series Irish-based but with a host of international characters and settings Author of the Penny the Pencil series for younger readers ...

Clive Cussler / The Pharaoh's Secret ( NUMA Files - Book 13 )

A Kurt Austin NUMA files adventure, The Pharaoh's Secret is a gripping, action-packed and suspense-filled tale that delves into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and is set in and beside the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. A deadly poisonOn the Mediterranean...

Ranulph Fiennes / The Secret Hunters (Large Paperback)

    In 1997 a journal is found in an all weather shelter in Antarctica. Travelling back to England the finder reads an extraordinary story of depravation, war, survival and the thirst for revenge. It is the autobiography of Dirk, who as a...

Robert Low / The White Raven

   The epic and action packed third novel in Low's Oathsworn series charting the adventures of Orm and his band of Viking brothersThe Oathsworn have itchy feet. Battle-hungry and tired of keeping the homestead fires burning, they are restless...

Tim Severin / King's Man (Large Paperback)

    It is Constantinople in 1035, and Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard, where he witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth. He embarks on a campaign launched to recover Sicily from the Saracens. After years...

Danielle Steel / Accidental Heroes (Large Paperback)

   On a beautiful May morning at New York's JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Who left the postcard behind, which...

P. J. Callahan / First Kill (Large Paperback)

    "First Kill" is an adventure novel with a strong aviation background. Instead of being at home in Miami qualifying for her private pilot's licence - her grandfather's 17th birthday present - Linda Garcia is instead sent to 'Highlands' a...

Pascal Mercier / Perlmann's Silence (Large Paperback)

   From the internationally bestselling author of Night Train to Lisbon comes a compelling novel about one man's attempt to extricate himself from his featureless existence and find a life of passion and danger.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC...

Andrew Motion / Silver (Large Paperback)

   July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories...

Anthony Horowitz / Forever and a Day (Large Paperback)

   A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. We're just going to bring...

Faye Kellerman / Cold Case (Large Paperback)

   The seventeenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanThe savage murder of beloved teacher Bennett Little shocked a community and baffled police. That his killer...

Martin Baker / Meltdown (Large Paperback)

   Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working for...

Nelson DeMille / The Cuban Affair (Large Paperback)

   'Nelson DeMille is a true master'Dan BrownStrap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America's greatest living thriller writer, Nelson DeMille.Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five and a...

Nora Roberts / Tears Of The Moon

   Talented songwriter Shawn Gallagher works as the cook in the family pub. With no responsibilities and no ties, Shawn seems happy with his life.No one understands why he doesn't put his musical gifts to profitable use - least of all Brenna...

Rachel Vincent / Blood Bound

   They say blood is thicker than water. They have no idea.As a blood tracker, Liv is extremely powerful. And in a world where power is a commodity that can get you killed, Liv has learnt to survive by her own rules. Rule number one? Trust no...