Adventure

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...

Mark Daniel / Under Orders

  Georgie has always managed to charm his way out of whatever trouble is cooking. But this time there is more than money and his marriage at stake. And when the National Hunt stewards try to enlist his help on a project of their own, Georgie...

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...

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...

David L. Lindsey / Animosity

    In Paris, American sculptor Ross Marteau is renowned for his sensual depictions of women's bodies. After his latest love affair ends violently, he retreats to his home in Texas to start a new commission. In his local restaurant he meets...

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...

Philip Shelby / Last Rights

    When Mollie Smith of the Criminal Investigation Division gets murdered whilst investigating the murder of a highly-decorated black general, her protegee and friend Rachel Collins teams up with Logan, Mollie's brother, to investigate...

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...

Michael Ridpath / The Marketmaker

    Disgruntled academic Nick Elliott has reluctantly taken work with city brokers Dekker Ward. Strange things start happening to Dekker's employees, including Nick's colleague, Isabel, which is when Nick decides to take on a fixer who is...

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...

Robin Cook / Abduction

  A group of aliens builds a colony deep under the ocean, for the purpose of watching humans and human society from afar. But what happens when this watching is no longer enough?In the tradition of his highly successful, TV-adapted novel...

Kevin Crossley-Holland / Arthur: King of the Middle March

 Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties...

Philip M. Margolin / The Burning Man

 Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his mark in his father's venerable law firm. When his father is taken ill in the midst of a big money case he decides to pursue it, against his father's wishes, seeing his chance to prove he's the...

Russell Andrews / Midas

 Justin Westwood, the detective hero of APHRODITE, is mourning the death of his boss, victim of a terrorist bombing in a local restaurant, when he's called to investigate an air accident: a small plane has crashed on take-off from Hampton Airport...

Gini Hartzmark / Principal Defence

 A murder-thriller which goes behind the stately oak doors and exclusive clubs of the US legal jungle. Privileged heiress Katherine Millholland is a brilliant and ambitious lawyer who sets out to prevent the takeover of a highly-profitable...

Brad Meltzer / The Tenth Justice

 A Washington-based thriller about four ambitious twentysomething housemates, fresh out of college, eager to make their mark in their chosen careers. When one of them, Ben Addison, is tricked into leaking a Supreme Court decision on an important...

Harry Bingham / Sweet Talking Money

 In the bestselling tradition of Jeffrey Archer and Dick Francis comes a hot new commercial talent.A young scientist, Cameron, has an idea which could revolutionise medicine. She believes that, once published, her findings will change the world.A...

Carol Birch / Scapegallows

 This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she...

Robert Swindells / Ruby Tanya

 This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his...

Steve Cage / Now the Killing Starts

 You love reading violent fast-action thrillers that are so vivid they seem like movies. But imagine getting your hands on a sexy new book that ups the game with a relentless visceral energy. It\'s like your foot is stuck on the accelerator. You...

Shaun Hutson / Compulsion

 A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits' end trying to put a stop to the gang's activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life...

Sabin Willett / The Betrayal

Centres on a female government official who unearths some very shady weapons deals and is subsequently betrayed by colleagues, friends and even her husband. This tale is full of twists and turns, corrupt government staff, murder and mayhem.All of our...

M.G. Harris / Ice Shock

Though he knows about the secret Mayan prophesy that his father and grandfather were a part of, Josh still hasn't solved the mystery surrounding his father's death. But when Josh learns that a special artifact, the Bracelet of Itzamna, is the key to both...

Keith Gray / Ostrich Boys

'It's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.' Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross,...

Ben Elton / Gridlock

Deborah is a woman with personal transportation problems which she and her strange friend Geoffrey intend to solve. If they manage it, the knock-on effect could just save the cities of the world from driving themselves to their own funerals in man's...

Eric Campbell / Elephant Gold

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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...

Kate Thompson / Only Human

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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...