Adventure

Joan Brady / Bleedout (Hardback)

  Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from prison Freyl has orchestrated. He now stands...

John Grisham / The King Of Torts (Hardback)

 Reluctantly, Clay Carter takes on what seems to be the mundane case of a young man charged with a random street killing. But when digging into his client's background, he stumbles upon a horrendous conspiracy and finds himself in a situation that...

John Grisham / The Rainmaker (Hardback)

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Dick Francis / Second Wind (Hardback)

 Meteorologist Perry Stuart's weather knowledge and accuracy has given him high status among forecasters. When he is offered a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small plane he learns more secrets from the flight than windspeeds, and back home in...

James Patterson / Judge and Jury (Large Paperback)

  It's the trial of the decade -- Dominick Cavallo, the modern-day Godfather, has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make it certain he'll be convicted. Heavy security surrounds the courtroom, and Nick Pellisante, the...

John Grisham / The Summons (Large Paperback)

 Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official...

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...

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...

Alistair MacLean / The Golden Gate

 A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.A ROLLING FOR KNOXis how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI...

James Dwyer / Cult Fiction

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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 Creed / Black Cat, Black Dog : A Jack Valentine Thriller

 When a set of dog tags, supposedly belonging to a seaman missing since the early 1950s, is washed up on a beach in modern day Co. Antrim, Jack Valentine 'deadbeat ex-spook' finds himself being pulled back toward his previous life once more. But...

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...

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...

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...

Tom Clancy / Executive Orders (Hardback)

 The President is dead--and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel."I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this job? Whom do I ask? Where...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Rita Monaldi / Imprimatur

 11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna, as the Islamic forces of the Ottoman Empire lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile a suspected...

George Hagen / Tom Bedlam

  Growing up fatherless in Vauxhall in the 1860s and working in a porcelain factory, young Tom Bedlam doesn't have it easy. Yet he is a positive spirit, cunning in his pursuit of love and a steadfast friend. Everything changes when his perfidious...

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 - BRAND NEW

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...

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 ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore / Red Sky at Noon (Large Paperback)

   'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire ...'Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal...

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,...

Andrew Greig / Romanno Bridge (Large Paperback)

   Where are you heading?' Leo replied 'Where do you need to go?' He got in, wondering how she knew about the loss, then they drove into the night and whatever was waiting there. A motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into Rothiemurchus...

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...

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...

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...

Mary Wolfman / Superman Returns

   Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure SUPERMAN RETURNS, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes.While an old enemy plots...

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...

Peter James / Absolute Proof (Large Paperback)

   'Sensational - the best what-if thriller since The Da Vinci Code'Lee ChildFrom the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes an explosive standalone thriller for fans of Dan Brown that will grip you and won't let go until the very...

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...