Adventure

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...

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 outstanding book that could be this year's A Little...

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 friend fighting for his life, the former SAS major...

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...

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...

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 challenge. For a mysterious ceremony in an unknown...

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...

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 normal - just to pay the rent while she waited...

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,...

John Le Carre / The Mission Song (Hardback)

 Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese...

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 survivor, the Etruscan seer Avile Vipinas, is...

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...

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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

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 expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around,...

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...

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 her father's trust, Lucy doesn't know she will be...

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...

Pip Vaughan-Hughes / Relics

 'Pip Vaughan-Hughes has given us a monk, a corpse, a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure that romps across mediaeval Christendom. A great read!' Bernard CornwellEngland, 1235, and Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk...

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. Enlisted first as a musician, then as the...

David Jackson / Don't Make a Sound : Can you keep quiet about the bestselling thriller everyone's talking about?

 'Incredibly chilling. A contender for THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of Rattle 'A FAST-PACED and DARKLY DISTURBING thriller' Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of Let Me Lie and I See YouYou can't choose your family. Or...

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...

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...

Wilbur Smith / The Tiger's Prey (Hardback)

   The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family...Francis Courtney flees the comfort of his Devonshire estate when his...

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...

James Rollins / The Last Oracle

 Can the past save the future? asks the latest SIGMA Force thriller from the king of the genre. In Washington DC, a homeless man dies in the arms of Commander Gray Pierce clutching a bloody coin in his hand - an ancient artefact that could unlock a...

Ruth Rendell / The Best Man To Die : (A Wexford Case)

The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Nothing is ever quite what it seems... A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident. Strangely, no other car was involved and no cause has been found...

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 ...

Ciara Geraghty / Rules of the Road (Large Paperback)

   Gripping, emotional and uplifting - a novel about the true power of friendship.'A superb writer - the Irish Jojo Moyes' Irish ExaminerThe simple fact of the matter is that Iris loves life. Maybe she's forgotten that. Sometimes that happens,...

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...

Matthew Reilly / Area 7 (Large Paperback)

   The hero of Ice Station is sent to a US Air Force installation in the Utah desert. Schofield will be escorting the President on an inspection tour of the base itself. But, there are certain people who don't plan on the head of state leaving...

Nelson DeMille / The Panther (Large Paperback)

   It's one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption and insurgency and the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists.When FBI agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield are assigned...

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...

Reginald Hill / The Woodcutter (Large Paperback)

   A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller - from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe seriesWolf Hadda has lead a charmed life. From humble origins as a woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely...

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...

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...

Greg Iles / Third Degree

    Laurel Fields, perfect wife of Dr Warren Fields, living in a perfect house in a beautiful town, is pregnant. But is the baby her husband's - or her lover's? One morning she returns home and finds Warren waiting for her. When she looks...

Jodi Compton / Sympathy Between Humans

    On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now, a zealous...

Mark T. Sullivan / The Purification Ceremony

    Whilst on a deer-hunting trip in the wild landscape of British Columbia, Diana Jackman and her party find themselves the prey of a diabolical killer. Trapped deep in the snow and completely cut off from the outside world, they set out...

John Ramsey Miller / The Last Family

    Paul Masterson is the DEA's most successful agent, but one of his busts goes wrong, leaving agents and drug runners dead. The leader of the drug runners escapes, only to find his wife and baby dead. He swears to kill the families of all...

Paul Eddy / Flint

    Undercover cop Grace Flint is cool, quick-thinking and fearless under pressure. Until an operation to trap international money-launderer Frank Harling goes wrong - and Grace is almost beaten to death. After reconstructive surgery, Grace...