Adventure

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

John Watson / The Iron Man

    In a stunning David v. Goliath debut thriller, John Watson pits the antiquated brute force of an old Soviet World War II battleship fresh out of mothballs against the cutting edge technology of the American war machine. A bunch of...

Keith Baker / Lunenburg

    Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of his...

Elise Title / Bleeding Hearts

    When the body of respected psychoanalyst, Melanie Rosen, is found, it seems her murderer knew of her interest in him. When Melanie's sister starts receiving extracts of Melanie's diaries, she is shocked by details of her sister's sex...

Mikkel Birkegaard / The Library of Shadows

   Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they read a book to you. They can seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, but also manipulate you into thinking...

Tom Hoyle / Thirteen

   Thirteen is the first in an exciting action series from Tom Hoyle.Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth...

Christopher Farnsworth / Killfile

     A brilliant contemporary thriller with a unique special element - for fans of Inception, Minority Report and Touch by Claire NorthWhen billionaire Everett Sloan hires John Smith to take down his biggest rival, it's not just because...

Viet Thanh Nguyen / The Sympathizer

   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will...

Josh Lacey / The One That Got Away

   Ben's family is complicated. And being stuck in a remote cottage with his irritating elder sister, his silly half-sister and his weird step-brother drives him crazy - until a night-time intruder leads the children to make a shocking and...

Steve Berry / The Third Secret

   What is the Third Secret?It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after sleepless night?When Father Colin...

Stanley Pottinger / The Last Nazi

    Lawyer Melissa Gale has dedicated her life to tracking down Nazis, in memory of her Holocaust survivor grandmother. Happily married to a Washington Post journalist, she is on the trail of a particularly elusive Nazi, Adalwolf, who...

Julian Stockwin / Mutiny

    It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home after many...

Anna Richards / Little Gods

   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it.A girl -...

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith / An American Killing

 Two years ago in the town of New Caxton, three people were stabbed to death and a black man imprisoned for the crime. According to congressman Owen Hall, the convicted man is innocent. Something sinister has been going on in New Caxton, something...

Loup Durand / Daddy

      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...

Michael Cordy / Crime Zero

 The year is 2008, and there is an epidemic of violent crime in the United States. Project Conscience promises to bring a radical solution to the crime problem, treating criminals with gene therapy. But some involved have a sinister agenda...

W.E. Johns / Biggles and Co

 Now Listen, Bigglesworth; I'll tell you what I'm prepared to do, and you can please yourself what you do about it. Run this gang of crooks to earth, or point out to me the man that is at the head of it - or the chief operator in this country - and...

Allan Mallinson / The Sabre's Edge

 1824: the SixthLight Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officer's mess is of war. Border skirmishes with the Burmese are becoming more common and across the country in Rajputana, a dispute over succession sends war fever...

Chris Fox / L.U.C.I in The Sky

 Maria Haymeyer has an I. Q. of 250, once posed for a Playboy 'Girls of Mensa' feature, and has invented a radical new design for a warplane computer game she calls 'L. U. C. I.' -- short for Light Ultra Chip Intelligence. But someone has stolen her...

Michael Kimball / Mouth to Mouth

   Following the huge international success story of UNDONE, Michael Kimball s acclaimed debut thriller, MOUTH TO MOUTH takes the reader deeper still into a world of twisted love, dark passions and ingenious scheming. When a lonely woman falls...

John Burdett / Bangkok 8

    SURREAL BANGKOK ...City of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the...

Wilbur Smith / On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

   Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction.I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot,...

Nelson Demille / The Cuban Affair

 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 decorated US...

Tony Park / The Delta

 After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run. She heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart of Botswana. She's keen to forget her warrior...

Jane Harris / Sugar Money

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITING ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARDBased on a remarkable and little-known true story.Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission. They must return to...

Frank Delaney / At Ruby's

 Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom as he looks on as the chairman ruthlessly faces down a mysterious challenge from another director. That night...

Peter Abrahams / A Perfect Crime

    Against the backdrop of an East Coast winter, menace and suspense build towards a chilling conclusion, as the lives of four people, linked by an illict love, are manipulated wth intricate and terminal precision.     All...

Paul Kilduff / Frontrunner

    The assassination of the Chinese premier during a state visit to Hong Kong sends the HK markets into freefall, triggering a global financial crisis. Various governments turn to their Central Bankers for a solution. The Bankers decide to...

Bob Judd / Formula One

    It's a case of possible murder in the fast lane when the car of skilled racing driver Michel Fabrot touches the wheel of another car during the Japanese Grand Prix. And to prove it, his friend must risk becoming the next victim. By the...

David L. Lindsey / The Colour of Night

    Harry Strand is a renowned international dealer in Old Master and Impressionist drawings. Working from a gallery in Texas, he is mourning the death of his wife, Romy. He is approached by the beautiful Mara Song needing to sell some...

M. J. Rose / The Delilah Complex

    The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose released on Dec 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.     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...

Patrick Redmond / The Wishing Game

    Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a...

Iris Johansen / The Search

   Sarah Patrick is being forced to take part in a deadly mission by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation. John Logan - a man who won't take no for an answer. As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah and...

Deanna Raybourn / Silent in the Grave

    To say I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor...For Lady Julia Grey, her husband's sudden death at a dinner party is extremely...

Elizabeth Kay / Back to the Divide

 Bake me a brazzle, Felix, you're looking good!" said Snakeweed. "Archie and I have had a Ripping time over here - but now we want to go back. And I'm afraid we need You." Snakeweed - the villainous japegrin who followed Felix home - is at large in...

Cath Weeks / Blind

   'It'll make you weep' ElleA Closer must-readFor fans of Diane Chamberlain and Jodi Picoult, this is an emotional, page-turning and high-concept debut about a mother who gives birth to a blind baby.Twyla Ridley, resourceful, optimistic, has...

Steve Alten / The Mayan Prophecy

    On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle. Archaeologist Julius Gabriel dies certain of one fact: that, on this date, the human race will cease to exist. Mankind's salvation lies in a...

George MacDonald Fraser / Flashman in the Great Game

    The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short...

Campbell Armstrong / Concert of Ghosts

    Following AGENTS OF DARKNESS, an account of a man whose past conceals a dreadful secret, the memory of which has been eradicated from his mind, until a female journalist convinces him that the only way to free himself from his past is...

Edward Rutherfurd / Russka

    In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands -...

Peter Carey / Jack Maggs

    This title is part of a series of nine plays for children aged seven to nine. It is intended for guided reading sessions and is in line with literacy guidance. Each play in the series provides: easy-to-read text; colour-coded character...

Simon Toyne / Solomon Creed

   HOW CAN HE SAVE A MAN WHO'S ALREADY DEAD?`A fast-moving thriller that makes for an exhilarating read. Perfect for any fans of Lee Child' SUN`Compelling, vivid and profound' PETER JAMES`Who is Solomon Creed? He's the hero of an epic new...

Dick Wolf / The Intercept

 Four days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower at ground zero in New York City, five passengers and a flight attendant bravely foil the hijacking of a commercial jet en route to the city. Thrust into the national spotlight, 'The Six'...

Ryan David Jahn / Acts of Violence

 Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim.This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer.It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam...

Tim Willocks / Green River Rising

 After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its...

John Lescroart / Nothing But the Truth

    Lawyer Dismas Hardy is sure his wife is the most reliable of mothers. So when she fails to pick their children up from school one Thursday afternoon he's convinced something terrible has happened. It has. His wife has been keeping a...

John Creed / The Day of the Dead

   Just when he thinks he's done with the covert life, Jack Valentine hears from his old friend Paulo Cassegrande. Embarking on a seemingly straightforward mission to return his friend's daughter from the low-life company she's fallen in with,...

Paul Kilduff / The Dealer

    When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is sensationally announced, life will never again be the same for many influential players in the City. A star equities dealer has just bought a million soaring Provident shares -...

Robert Chalmers / Who's Who in Hell

   Chalmers balances tragedy and comedy with the skill and poise of John Irving' IndependentTowards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In Hell: a mammoth compendium of the damned. Daniel is supported...

Jack Steel / The Titanic Secret

   10 April, 1912 As the RMS Titanicleaves from Southampton Docks for her maiden voyage to New York, little do her 2,223 passengers dream of the powers at play on board the ship and the terrifying fate that awaits them far out in the icy wastes...

Bear Grylls / Burning Angels

   A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood.A jungle island overrun by rabid primates - escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone.A massive seaplane hidden beneath a mountain, packed with a Nazi cargo...

Edmund Power / No Christian Grave

    A dark secret stemming from a moment of tragedy and violence haunts several lives in a gripping and highly charged psychological crime novel, in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Clare Francis It should have been the start of the...