General Fiction

J. Robert Lennon / Funnies

  Carl Mix's comic strip immortalised his family as a loving group of wisecracking imps. When he dies, his estate is divided between four of his children - in reality a dysfunctional brood. The fifth, Tim, a struggling artist, is given three...

Richard Smitten / Capital Crimes

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Lara Harte / First Time

  Pretty, middle-class Cassandra is a bit of a misfit in her respectable Dublin girls' school, until she meets Emma, from the wrong side of the tracks, who intoduces her to a life on the wild side, 'dossing' and drinking..."First Time is a...

Nicola Doherty / If I Could Turn Back Time: the laugh-out-loud love story of the year!

 If you love Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane's YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, you'll love this book...What if you found The One, then lost him again?Or not so much lost him as became the neurotic, needy girlfriend from hell. The girl who tried to make him...

Gill Schierhout / The Shape of Him

 Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house in early 1900s South Africa. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert.One day a young child arrives at Sara's door...

Nicholas Christopher / The Soloist

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Joan Cambridge / Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home

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Gert Hofmann / Luck

  A child's-eye view of a family in decline, Gert Hofmann's Luck mixes humour and suspense with a heartbreaking pathos. This is the story of a nuclear family: father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as it seems, for the mother is in love...

Mark Wernham / Martin Martin's On the Other Side

 The future ain't what it used to be...Jensen interceptor is a man on a mission. Promoted to the lofty ranks of government spy - though he's not quite sure why - his first assignment is to monitor the Martin Martinists, a suspected terrorist cult...

Carey Harrison / Justice

  In Justice, Carey Harrison turns for the first time to a region of Italy he knew from childhood onwards, as a setting for this story of a profound love between a mother and her child, a tale of vendetta and devastation, against a backdrop of...

Tara Heavey / Where the Love Gets In

 In any normal situation Fiona and Sarah would be friends. They are both smart and loving, great mothers, brilliant at life.But when Sarah arrives in Fiona's small seaside town, it's not a normal situation. Sarah is on a mission and before either...

Joe Buckley / Firebolt

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Richard Rive / Emergency Continued

  The oppressive nature of life under South Africa's state of emergency is revealed in a novel relating the conflict between a father and his politically-involved son, who is determined to overthrow the apartheid system at any...

Lorraine Adams / Harbor

  A young stowaway, Aziz, jumps into the icy waters of Boston Harbor and swims ashore. He scrabbles to find shelter with fellow immigrants, tries to live right, but quickly learns that the normal rules don't apply to those who have no legal...

Jane Rogers / Mr. Wroe's Virgins

  When God told prophet John Wroe to comfort himself with seven virgins, his Lancashire congregation gave him their daughters. This is the story of the nine months of their life together, until accusations of indecency, and the trial that...

Elaine Proctor / Rhumba

 Ten-year-old Flambeau waits for his young mother to arrive from the Congo, along the same dangerous route that the human traffickers smuggled him. Homesick and pining for love, he sees a glimpse of life in his young neighbor, Eleanor, and her...

Sahar Delijani / Children of the Jacaranda Tree

 Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its walls three women dare to dream of a life beyond tyranny.Azar gives birth to her daughter in captivity. One day the...

Vincent McDonnell / The Broken Commandment

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Gil McNeil / In the Wee Small Hours

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Michel Faber / The Courage Consort

 The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Partitum Mutante.But can the piece be performed?...

Akhil Sharma / Obedient Father

  Internationally acclaimed on publication, An Obedient Daughter takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.When Rajiv Gandhi,...

James Canon / Tales from the Town of Widows

  From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita -- made widows when...

Cintra Wilson / Colors Insulting to Nature

 A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity.Liza Normal, like a million teenagers before her, wants desperately to be famous. If she can't be famous, she'll settle for infamy. But no Pop Idol contest on earth will ever...

Mark Cheverton / Battle for the Nether: A Gameknight999 Adventure

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Rick Reilly / Shanks for Nothing

 The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel Missing LinksLife is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker...

Tanya Ravenswater / Jacques

 For fans of Boyhood, Jacques is Tanya Ravenswater's beautiful and touching coming-of-age novel of what makes an ordinary life extraordinary.This is the story of Jacques Lafitte, a young French boy who is orphaned and torn away from everything he...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Paul Torday / More Than You Can Say

 The bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchan-esque thriller.Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into...

Doreen Davy / A Dandelion by Any Other Name

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Jane Stevenson / Several Deceptions

  These four novellas are narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice telling the stories of an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics undone by his own cleverness; an Irish woman who joins a Tibetan nunnery in India; the old university friends...

Nick Fisher / Inside Men's Minds

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Bill Dare / Natural Selection

  James has lived in the shadow of his best friend Stefan since school. Now, Stefan has it all - looks, money and a cool job. And James has a half share in a slew of naff game show ideas that have yet to see the light of day (Shark Survivor,...

June Francis / Mersey Girl

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Marilyn Duckworth / The Matchbox House

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David Abbott / The Upright Piano Player

  Henry Cage seemed to have it all. A successful business career, considerable wealth, and a reputation for being a just and principled man. But public virtues can conceal private failings, and as Henry faces retirement, his well-ordered life...

Dr. Michael Curtin / The Cove Shivering Club

  If you swam naked across the Cove and back on any of the chill Good Fridays from 1950-57, you were entitled to be a member of the Cove Shivering Club. This farcical novel involves several characters at the club such as Dunstan, who is...

AKIDWA / Her Story: Migration Stories of African Women

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Rudolph Delson / Maynard and Jennica

 A comic love-story, set in and around New York at the beginning of the 21st century. Maynard Gogarty is bored, with what he's not quite sure, but he's definitely bored. He's a tweed-suit-wearing, perennially glum thirty something living in a...

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum / Ms Hempel Chronicles

 Ms Beatrice Hempel, English teacher, is new - new to teaching, new to her school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it...

Rachel Billington / The Garish Day

  Born to a diplomat father and a mystically inclined mother, Henry glides through public school, Oxford and the Foreign Office with the same ease and elegance that characterise his numerous love affairs and, at first, his marriage to...

Alicia Appleman-Jurman / Alicia

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Paul Watkins / Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn

  This novel describes the adventures that befall a high school boy who takes a summer job on an in-shore boat in Newport, Rhode Island. The author has also written "Night Over Day Over Night".       All of our books are...

MacKenzie Bezos / The Testing of Luther Albright

 A mercilessly gripping and remarkable debut novel about a man determined not to repeat his father's mistakes.Luther Albright is a builder of dams, a man whose greatest pride - besides his family - is the house he built himself and the knowledge...

David Bezmozgis / Natasha and Other Stories

  Meet the Bermans - Bella, Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of...

Rosie Dastgir / A Small Fortune

  Harris Anwar is a British Pakistani who longs to do well by those closest to him. Yet his Muslim sense of responsibility and obligation seems increasingly incompatible with the modern British way of life they have chosen. As a consequence, his...

Gretta Curran Browne / Relative Strangers

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Alison Dye / Memories of Snow

  Raymond Smith returns to the farming community where he grew up after serving in World War II. But the war has irrevocably changed him and the people he left at home, and further tragedy is to occur.       All of our books...

John McNamee / A Man with a Hat: collected stories and prose

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H.S. Bhabra / Gestures

  This novel moves from Venice in the twenties to post-World War II Amsterdam as it explores the themes of fascism, brutality, death, sex, vengeance, and moral action       All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Mask Noir Series / Is Beauty Good

  This unique novel contains many voices. Each self-contained chapter reveals a different kind of voice and so a certain kind of personality which makes its presence felt, in a manner both witty and innocent, mournful and ironic...

Tom Henry / Three and Out by Paul Callow

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Gavin Corbett / Innocence

  A young boy's compelling search for his identity Jerome has the love, support and friendship of his half-brother, Gary, his girlfriend and his friends and teachers at school. But on the death of his father he feels completely alone, unable to...