Adventure

Oisin McGann / Strangled Silence

   When pretty, talented and very ambitious Amina Mir manages to land a newspaper work experience placement she thinks it might just be making coffee and following-up tame stories. But then, when by chance she's sent to interview Ivor...

Tom Wood / Better Off Dead

   Victor, a hitman without a conscience protects a human rights lawyer in Better Off Dead, he bestselling BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club pick.A hitman must be anonymous, amoral... and aloneVictor is the face in the crowd you don't see, a...

Catherine Sefton / The Kidnapping of Suzie Q

    A robbery at the Kute Prices supermarket goes wrong and Rachel finds herself the hostage of the would-be robbers, Dodie, Gerard and their leader Leo. Rachel regains consciousness to find herself in a pit. Hurt and terrified, she is...

Michael Weaver / The Lie

    Dunster, the secretly ailing US president, is determined to make the International Conference on Human Rights his final triumph. But there lurks in the wings a fanatic who sees no hypocrisy in taking the president hostage to further his...

Jennifer Egan / Manhattan Beach

   * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction* Named a...

Anthony Ryan / Blood Song

   Blood Song is the epic first novel in the internationally bestselling Raven's Shadow series - an enthralling tale of desperate battles, deadly politics and epic adventure.We have fought battles that left more than a hundred corpses on the...

Stephen Coonts / The Red Horseman

    As the infrastructure of the Soviet Union crumbles before the world's eyes, twenty thousand tactical nuclear weapons, once under the command of the Soviet military, are up for grabs - and US intelligence believes they may soon appear on...

David Ambrose / Coincidence

    A wrong number here, a case of mistaken identity there, a chance meeting with a stranger who knows your best friend. Most people dismiss such things as trivial, unimportant. Mere coincidence. Or could there be a hidden pattern in these...

Tim Sebastian / War Dance

    Colonel Tom Blake is a modern day hero, a man that provides unwelcome problems for his superiors along with welcome successes. To his bosses a maverick but to his colleagues and his men Blake can do no wrong. The killers in Bosnia know...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy

    A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason for which the Trojan War was fought ... The protagonist of this tale is...

Catherine Fisher / Corbenic

    Cal has struggled to cope with his mother's drinking and her psychotic episodes since he was six; cooped up in their dirty council flat he dreams of a new life. So when he leaves to live with his uncle Trevor in Chepstow he is ruthless...

Simon Mayo / Blame

   What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she's locked up in a new...

John and Carole E. Barrowman / Hollow Earh

    Lots of twins have a special connection - being able to finish each other's sentences; sensing what the other is thinking; perhaps even knowing when the other is in trouble or in pain - but for 12-year-old twins, Matt and Emily Calder,...

Chris Columbus / Battle of the Beasts

   Book two in the bestselling HOUSE OF SECRETS series. Get ready for another action-packed adventure! Just when the Walker kids thought they were safe, the Wind Witch blasts Kristoff House into a crazy world of battles, beasts and...

Elizabeth Day / The Party

   AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.`Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club. I couldn't...

Annabel Kantaria / The One That Got Away

   Everyone has one. An ex you still think about. The one who makes you ask `what if'? Fifteen years have passed since Stella and George last saw each other. But something makes Stella click `yes' to the invite to her school reunion...

David Morrell / Double Image

    Mitch Coltrane, award-winning photographer, risked his life on a harrowing mission. Opportunity for a fresh start comes after meeting Randolph Packard, but the horrors of his last assignment are set to haunt him. Somebody wants him dead...

Charlotte Lamb / In the Still of the Night

    Annie Lang is a famous TV actress and star of the police drama, "The Force". She has everything except love, which she has had to sacrifice for her career. A card from a secret admirer seems to answer her prayers, but the truth is far...

James Patterson / Zoo 2 : BookShots

   James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. James Patterson's ZOO was just the beginning. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except...

Alistair MacLean / South by Java Head

   The 50th anniversary edition of this classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia.February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the...

Greg Iles / Dark Matter

    'If you are watching this videotape then I am dead ...' Yesterday, David Tennant was a highly respected Ethicist with the ear of the President, working on a top secret Government project. Yesterday, he was a man recovering from personal...

Kenneth Oppel / The Boundless

    After a murder is committed, Will finds himself in possession of a key that has the potential to unlock the train's hidden treasures. Together with Maren, a gifted escape artist, and Mr Dorian, a circus ringmaster with amazing...

Steve Backshall / The Falcon Chronicles: Tiger Wars

   Saker is a member of the Clan. They're like brothers, but once you're a member you can never leave - ever. Each member has their own animal identity and tattoo, each is an expert in jungle law, survival and the ways of animals in order to...

Tom Clancy / Net Force: Night Moves

 When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for a nuclear weapons programme is destroyed, it's the first incident in which information is stolen and deciphered. If Net-Force don't track the perpetrator down, he could re-draw the map of the...

Chris Ryan / Vortex

 When Ben Tracey sets out with his cousin to spot hen harriers - a protected bird of prey - he doesn't expect to stumble upon a secret operation. But renegade researchers are using a military base near the birds' nest site to develop Project Vortex:...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe's Rifles

   Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain's forces are retreating towards Corunna, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit...

James Patterson / Private India

 When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is...

Morgan Llywelyn / Cave of Secrets

 Pirates and crooked rulers make seventeenth-century Ireland a dangerous place.When Tom feels rejected by his father, he finds a secret second family among the group of smugglers who trade in and around Roaringwater Bay.Though Tom doesn't know it,...

James Cobb / Choosers of the Slain

 The Argentines have launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula. The world's first stealth missile destroyer, the sleek and dangerous USS Cunningham, is no ordinary warship. Her crew are about to find out just how good she and her...

Sandrone Dazieri / Kill the Father

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe twisty and darkly compelling thriller, European bestseller and RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK that will keep you up all night.'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please...

Charlotte Lamb / Walking in Darkness

 Catherine Gowrie's father, Don, is close to his greatest ambition - nomination as Presidential candidate - and nothing must be allowed to stand in his way. But Sophie Narodni, a young journalist from Prague, carries a secret that could destroy...

Kyle Mills / Storming Heaven

 Punished for his maverick ways, FBI agent Mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C., to a sleepy Southwest office where he's got one last chance to play by the rules. But that's not going to happen, not when he's on a case that may be too...

J. Wallis Martin / The Long Close Call

   When Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional life begin to fall apart. The family of the dead man discovers McLaughlan's...

Margaret Yorke / A Case To Answer

   Jerry and Peter have been successfully conning vulnerable householders until Jerry decides to go straight and gets a job in a chip shop. There he meets Imogen, pregnant and temporarily living with her step-grandmother. His agreement to...

Wilbur Smith / Predator

 LET THE HUNT BEGIN.HECTOR CROSS, ex-SAS officer, private security expert, widower. His wife was taken much too soon, by a cruel man with evil intentions.JOHNNY CONGO, psychopath, extortionist, terrorist, the man who murdered Hector's wife. Cross...

Clare Francis / Wolf Winter

 In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind three people together in a web of treachery and passion.      All of our books are second hand, and while...

Sandra Brown / Smoke Screen

 Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thrillerFive years ago a disastrous fire gutted the police headquarters. Seven people died in the flames but thanks to four brave men, most of those inside...

Alexandra Oliva / The Last One

 A clever, well-executed, high-concept, high-octane affair. What makes The Last One such a page-turner is Zoo herself: practical, tough-minded and appealing' GuardianShe wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.TWELVE...

Melvin Burgess / The Baby and Fly Pie

 We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans ...For Sham and Fly Pie, there's no escape from the grim reality of their lives - every day they sort rubbish on the tip for Mother Shelly. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip...

Jeffery Deaver / Speaking In Tongues

 Words are the most dangerous weapons on earth - and Tate Collier, who has a consummate skill with them, can talk his way into anyone's heart, and get them to do whatever he wants. Tate is a lawyer who used to defend death penalty cases in...

Julia Golding / The Diamond of Drury Lane

 Julia Golding's award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens. This Modern Classics edition features special bonus material.Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and...

Eoin McNamee / Twelve Twenty Three

 August 1997 and Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the Princess. Former Special Branch man John Harper is recruited as part of the team. Ritz hotel Deputy Director of...

Kim Harrington / Clarity

   When you can see things others can't, where do you look for the truth? This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats! Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen...

Tom Wood / The Darkest Day

 He is darkness. She wants him dead.In a city starved of light, she might just succeed.She moves like a shadow; she kills silently: Raven. This elegant assassin has been on the run for years. This time though, she has picked the wrong target...

Simon Scarrow / Fire and Sword ( Revolution Series - Book 3 )

 FIRE AND SWORD is the unputdownable third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. A must read for fans of Robert Harris.1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France, his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at...

Clive Cussler / Spartan Gold ( Fargo Series - Book 1 )

 Clive Cussler introduces Sam and Remi Fargo in Spartan Gold. An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . .Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam...

Catherine Coulter / Point Blank

 FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a very long memory.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Bill Napier / Revelation

 When British scientist, Dr Fred Findhorn, is offered a king's ransom by a Japanese corporation to retrieve a briefcase from a Russian military aircraft that crashed fifty years ago, he's naturally intrigued. But finding the briefcase is the start...

Dale Brown / Act of War

 The new thrill a minute blockbuster from bestselling author Dale Brown.International terrorists, funded by a corrupt petroleum company, are attempting to destabilise the Global economy and profit from rocketing oil prices. Responsibility for...

Richard Aellen / The Cain Conversion

   Bill Sullivan has a psychiatrically-engineered dual personality. He is a secret-service agent assigned to protect the US President, but is also, unwittingly, a foreign agent; his mission - assassinate the President. By the author of...

Philip Kerr / The Shot

 As President Jack Kennedy takes power, the mob decide to succeed where the CIA has failed and take out Fidel Castro. They despatch a hit man, but it soon turns out that he has his own agenda and target - the President. But is the hitman operating...

Steve Martini / Undue Influence

 Recently widowed attorney Paul Madriani is struggling to hold on to what is left of his family when he and his young daughter are caught up in yet another family tragedy. Paul's sister-in-law, Laurel Vega, is involved in a bitter custody battle...