Adventure

Catherine Fisher / Sapphique

 The only one who escaped... and the one who could destroy them all. Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn's escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the...

Welford Ross / The 1,000-year-old Boy

 The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER.There are stories about people who want to live forever.This is not one of those stories.This is...

James Byron Huggins / Nightbringer (Hardback)

   An ancient evil has darkened the halls of Saint Gregory's Abbey in the Italian Alps. The monastery becomes a murderous battleground as a group of monks and tourists are forced to combat an unstoppable force. Cut off from rescue by a...

Joanne Harris / Runelight (Large Paperback)

   The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the Maggie, twin sister to Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised...

Andrew Grant / False Friend (Hardback)

 The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham,...

Paul Howarth / Only Killers and Thieves

   Book of the Year in The TimesAn Amazon.com Best Book of 2018'A gripping and vivid novel . . . remarkable' John BoyneA story of two brothers on a trail of revengeQueensland, 1885. It is a scorching day in Australia's deserted outback when...

Emily Rodda / Key to Rondo (Hardback)

 The day that Leo Zifkak became the owner of the music box, his life changed forever. Leo didn't know this at the time. His heart didn't miss a beat as he took the box calmly from his mother and put it on his desk. He had no idea what he was holding...

Paul Adam / Enemy Within (Hardback)

 A respected modern historian with a secure job at a red-brick university, father of two in a happy marriage, Tom leads a content and fulfilled life. Then he is arrested. Charged with down-loading child pornography. He is suspended from his post and...

Wilbur Smith / Elephant Song (Hardback)

 The rangers closed in, firing steadily. Within minutes all the adult animals were down. Only the calves still raced in bewildered circles, stumbling over the bodies of the dead and dying. Six minutes after the first shot, a silence fell over the...

Collins Forward Library - Danger and Pluck - Vintage Adventure Tales HB 1900'S

Undated, published as part of the Collins Forward library Series. Looks to be circa 1905-1910 - the content refers to the exploration by Nansen of Greenland in the mid 1890's among a host of other tales, many set at sea, and including a few historical...

Nelson DeMille / Wild Fire (Large Paperback)

 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an all-too-plausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major American cities. Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an...

Richard Pitman / Joseph's Mansions (Large Paperback)

 Richard Pitman introduces a wonderful new hero in Frankie Houlihan, a man who quit the priesthood for love and then lost his wife in a terrible accident. Trying to rebuild his life, Frankie accepts a job with the security team who investigate...

Andy Mcnab / Crossfire (Large Paperback)

 Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone s life is saved by a reporter s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to...

Dean Koontz / Saint Odd

 The seventh and final Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. The future is haunting Odd Thomas.The carnival has returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came to town when Odd was just sixteen. Odd is drawn to an arcade tent where he...

Bryony Pearce / Angel's Fury

   A stunning debut book for young adults, mixing mythology, fantasy and real-life terror in a paranormal story like no other. Every atrocity Every war Every act of vengeance One fallen angel walks the earth to bring mankind to its destruction...

R. M. Meluch / The Myriad : Tour of the Merrimack #1

 The U.S.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to attack and kill swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could...

Simon Berthon / A Time to Lie (Large Paperback)

 An explosive, fast-paced espionage thriller for fans of Frank Gardner and Mick Herron. 'Dark and twisted, A Time to Lie is a tense and timely novel' Adam HamdyA divisive prime minister. A long-buried body. A plot to bring him down...The bigger the...

Wayne Thomas Batson / The Final Storm (Large Paperback)

 The final installment of the thrilling The Door Within trilogy! Pure evil collides as Paragor, the betrayer of the one true King Eliam, unites with the Wyrm Lord and the mythical Seven Sleepers to launch a full-scale assault on the Kingdom of...

Humphrey Hawksley / Absolute Measures (Large Paperback)

 Samira and Yasin, orphaned when they were eight years old, were adopted by a Malaysian millionaire. They grow up in a world of wealth and privilege, but the seeds of hatred, sown when they were children, are about to reap a terrible harvest...

Conn Iggulden / Conqueror (Large Paperback)

 No.1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world's inhabited land, he changed the course of history...

Takashi Matsuoka / Cloud Of Sparrows

 Warrior clans nursing ancient grudges. Western missionaries brandishing pistols. Beautiful geishas who are deadly ninjas. 1861 - after two centuries of isolation Japan has been forced to open its doors. Now new influences are tearing apart the old...

Steve Cole / Young Bond: Strike Lightning

 BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND.BEFORE THE BOY BECAME THE MAN.James Bond is back again in Steve Cole's third thrilling Young Bond adventure.When James stumbles upon a horrific sight, he knows things are not what they seem. His school is determined...

John Gordon Davis / Seize the Reckless Wind

      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...

Mike Roarke / Thunder in the East ( First Frontier Series - Book 1 )

      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...

David Tinkler / Never Say Die

 It's 1942, and Hitler has invaded Britain. Twelve-year-old farm boy Benedict Flint has imagined standing upto the Nazis ever since his father was killed and his mother takenaway.His chance comes when he rescues top-secret information from a...

Chris Ryan / Endgame

   'Don't come after us ... remember the first thing I ever taught you - that your first duty is to stay alive' For some time now, Zack Darke has been operating solo, in total secrecy, for a shadowy government organisation.When his handlers...

Elizabeth Kay / Jinx on the Divide

   Felix is back at school and looking forward to a visit from his friend Betony. But when a bully pushes him in the corridor, all his plans are sunk. In Felix's bag, forgotten until now, is the magical lamp he's kept from last summer, and...

Chris Ryan / Special Forces Cadets 5: Hijack

   From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series. Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet...The Falkland Islands, South Atlantic...

Wilbur Smith / The New Kingdom (Hardback)

   BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are...

Lin Oliver / Alien Superstar (Hardback)

 From Emmy Award-winning actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver comes a new out-of-this-world middle-grade series Noone is shocked by the six-eyed alien strolling around the Universalback lot. The tourists just think he's part of the show. It doesn't...

Tim Severin / The Book of Dreams

   The Book of Dreams by Tim Severin is the exciting first book in Saxon, the historical adventure series full of epic battles and captivating characters. A haunting premonition . . . A deadly betrayal. Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon...

E.E. Knight / Valentine's Exile : A Novel of the Vampire Earth

   David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the...

E.E. Knight / Winter Duty : A Novel of the Vampire Earth

 Major David Valentine and his fugitive battalion are the remnants of an expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat from disaster in the Appalachians. And Valentine is losing allies fast. Some of the clans in the region have declared...

Mackenzie Crook / The Windvale Sprites (Hardback)

 When a storm sweeps through the country, Asa wakes up the next day to find that his town is almost unrecognisable - trees have fallen down, roofs have collapsed and debris lies everywhere. But amongst the debris in his back garden Asa makes an...

Sam Sykes / Black Halo (Hardback)

 Lenk and his band of fellow mismatched and grumpy adventurers are shipwrecked on an island. An island that is a graveyard for demons and dragonmen alike. An island inhabited by lizard men. An island of secrets that is about to become a battleground...

Mowll Joshua / Operation Typhoon Shore (Hardback)

 Celebes Sea, May 1920: Battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. No radio, no rescue, no escape. Doug and Becca MacKenzie's search for their missing parents must wait; but what part did the mysterious Guild play in...

Bear Grylls / Ghost Flight (Hardback)

 THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Indiana Jones - a debut thriller to take your breath away.A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.A lost warplane discovered in...

Kate Saunders / Five Children on the Western Front (Hardback)

 An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It stories. The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest.Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at...

Jason Matthews / Palace of Treason (Hardback)

 From the best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of the "terrifically good" (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash. 'Enthralling. That Matthews,...

Kate O'Hearn / Pegasus and the Fight for Olympus

 Reborn as the Flame, Emily has saved Olympus from destruction. The Olympic flame now burns strong, and peace has been restored. But not for long ... When the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the...

W.E.B. Griffin / Semper Fi

 The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of War saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps in the first Novel of the Corps. From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of...

Abi Elphinstone / Sky Song

 A magical wintry story filled with adventure, wonder and edge-of-your-seat excitement, this is the perfect read for fans of Michelle Harrison, Piers Torday and Emma Carroll. 'Once an adventure digs its claws in, there is not an awful lot you can...

Chris Ryan / Special Forces Cadets 1: Siege

 From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series.Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet...A top-secret government programme needs a...

Sharon Penman / Dragon's Lair

 In July 1193 Richard Lionheart, King of England, is prisoner in an Austrian dungeon. A ransom has been raised to pay off the Holy Roman Emperor much to the annoyance of Richard's brother who is sscheming to take his place.     All of...

Frederick Forsyth / Icon (Hardback)

   It is 1999, and in Russia Igor Komarov is set to win the next election. Komarov's secret agenda "The Black Manifesto", is smuggled into the British Embassy, and turns out to be a blueprint of "Mein Kampf". Jason Monk, ex-CIA, is called in...

Susan Cooper / Silver On The Tree

 The six servants of the Light - the Drew children, Will, Bran and the mysterious Merriman - have reached their last, desperate fight against the forces of the Dark. They face one final, daunting task: to find the crystal sword. Their search will...

James Patterson / Maximum Ride: Angel (Large Paperback)

 Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. No matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a mysterious and deadly force that's racing across the globe - and just when...

Tea Obreht / Inland (Large Paperback)

 FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 READING LIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE'SPECTACULAR' Guardian'A WONDER' Daily Mail'SPARKLING' The Times'EXQUISITE' Observer'MAGNIFICENT' TLS'EPIC' Entertainment Weekly'A TRIUMPH'...

Amy McCulloch / Breathless (Large Paperback)

 IT'S ICE COLD. YOU'RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT... When struggling journalist Cecily Wong is invited to join an expedition to climb one of the world's tallest mountains, it seems like the chance of a lifetime.She doesn't realise...

Pascal Ruter / The Last Adventure of Napoleon Sunshine (Large Paperback)

 At the age of eighty-five my grandfather Napoleon decided he needed to try something new . . .Everything starts to go south when Napoleon leaves his wife. At eighty-five, a former boxer with a restless, youthful spirit, Napoleon decides to say to...

Koethi Zan / The Never List (Large Paperback)

 There were four of us down there for the first thirty-two months and eleven days of our captivity.And then, very suddenly and without warning, there were three.Even though the fourth person hadn't made any noise at all in several months, the room...

Tui T. Sutherland / Against the Tide (Hardback)

 The story continues in this fifth book in the Spirit Animals series - an epic collection of stories that leap from thepage into a riveting online game.Your book is the key to claim your spirit animal!The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and...