General Fiction

Elizabeth Strout / My Name Is Lucy Barton

 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is...

Isabel Allende / The Infinite Plan

  Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...

Rosie Goodwin / The Mill Girl

   Love, family and survival . . .Life is tough on the cobbled backstreet courtyards of Abbey Street, Warwickshire, in the 1840s: boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, clever, feisty Maryann is happy there - until...

Diana Evans / 26a

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARDIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such...

Jane Urquhart / The Underpainter

 Austin Fraser's painting teacher had indoctrinated him with the view that unless something could be turned into art, it simply was not worth his time. And in this he included people. Austin certainly applied the principle to Sara Pengelly, who...

Shona Maclean / A Game of Sorrows

 It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton's happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander's dead mother's family in Ireland...

Lynda Neilands / 50 Life-building Stories

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Ed O' Loughlin / Not Untrue and Not Unkind

 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to...

Doris Lessing / The Golden Notebook

 The Golden Notebook', the landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, is a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity amid the trauma of emotional rejection and sexual betrayal. In 1950s...

Wally Lamb / We Are Water

 From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy.As Annie Oh's wedding day approaches, she finds herself at the mercy of hopes...

Lucy Clare / Breaking the Trust

 Jack Palmer appears to be the archetypal patriarch, but when he dies his three middle-aged children learn that he has an older, illegitimate son, Titus, conceived in his first year of marriage to their mother Clattie. Of his legitimate children,...

Eugen Ruge / In Times of Fading Light

 Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller...

Philippa Gregory / Alice Hartley`s Happiness

   Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation...Alice Hartley can no longer arouse the interest of her pompous husband, the...

Tom Perrotta / Little Children

 A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways...There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one the other mothers admire in a silent look-but-do-not-touch...

Martha Moody / The Office of Desire

 From the nationally bestselling author of the novel Best Friends a touching novel about five very different people navigating work--and life. Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs--three close friends who have been brought together while working...

Pat Booth / Temptation

 Kate, determined to make something of herself, pays for a course at design school by waitressing. But she meets Peter, falls in love and has a child, Samantha, putting her career on hold. When Samantha is a teenager, Kate returns to work and...

Cristina Pisco / Only a Paper Moon

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Charlotte Bingham / Distant Music

   In the 1950s, when Britain was still recovering from the effects of the war, the only people in society who could be said to have a glamorous lifestyle were the very wealthy, the aristocracy, and people who worked in the theatre. Elsie...

Alice Walker / The Temple of My Familiar

   Walker's first novel since "The Colour Purple" again features Celie and Shug. Transcending the conventions of time and place, it moves from contemporary America, England and Africa to unfamiliar primal worlds where men, women and animals...

John King / The Football Factory

 Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like Fever Pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe - the white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap. It is the...

Michael Korda / The Fortune

 A novel of love and intrigue focusing on a fascinating young woman and an American Rockefeller-style family. Korda is also the author of "Charmed Lives", "Queenie" and "Worldly Goods".      All of our books are second hand, and while...

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer / The Madness of a Seduced Woman

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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...

Meryl Sawyer / Chance

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Elleston Trevor / The Penthouse

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Martina Devlin / Three Wise Men

 A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties.Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as the Three Wise Men in the nativity play.Twenty-five years on, they've left...

Janie Bolitho / Betrayed in Cornwall

 Rose Trevelyan is not concerned when her friend Etta does not turn up at the opening of her exhibition. When she hears the following day that a young man fell of a cliff in suspicious circumstances, Rose starts to makes connections and things start...

Joseph Kanon / Istanbul Passage

 How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul survived WW2 as a magnet for refugees and spies, trafficking in secrets and lies rather than soldiers. Expatriate...

McGarry Morris, Mary / Vanished

 The story of Aubrey Wallace, and his trip on the road with Dotty, a mysterious girl who appears from nowhere. This book was nominated for the 1988 National Book Awards and the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award.      All of our books are second...

Amber Dermont / The Starboard Sea

 It is the summer of 1987. Jason Prosper is eighteen and on his way to Bellingham Academy, a school known for offering wayward privileged students a second chance - and Jason needs a second chance: ever since his best friend's suicide, his life has...

Anna McPartlin / The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

 Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia `Rabbit' Hayes, life is coming to an end . . .Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it.She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family;...

Sagarika Ghose / Blind Faith

 A stunning and sumptuous tale of the boundaries between love and hate, truth and deception, set against the anticipation for the Kumbh Mela: the biggest festival in India.When Mia, acutely depressed by the suicide of her artist father, meets Karna,...

Peter Carey / Parrot and Olivier in America

 Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be...

Barbara Mutch / The Housemaid's Daughter

 Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she...

Christine Lincoln / Sap Rising

 In this spare and mesmerizing debut, Christine Lincoln takes us inside the hearts and minds of African Americans whose lives unfold against a vividly evoked Southern rural landscape. As they navigate between the old and the new, between youth and...

James Crumley / The Last Good Kiss

 'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George PelecanosMeet Private Detective...

Breyten Breytenbach / Memory of Snow & of Dust

 A South African novel about three main characters - Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, Mano, an actor of mixed blood, and Barnum, an exiled writer. Part one describes their interacting lives; part two is set in a near future and tells the story of...

Abby Clements / Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop

 'Deliciously romantic. A perfect summer read!' Miranda Dickinson. Discover this feel-good bestseller set by the sea, perfect for fans of Jo Thomas and Cathy Bramley. When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien's ice...

Sarah-Kate Lynch / Blessed are the Cheesemakers

 Blessed are Corrie and Fee, for theirs is the kingdom of the world's tastiest farmhouse cheese. Tucked away in a corner of Ireland, the lifelong friends turn out batch after batch of perfect Coolarney Blues and Golds, thanks to co-operative cows,...

Kate Long / Before She Was Mine

 Freya is torn between her two mothers. Liv, her adoptive mother who nurtured and raised her, is earthy, no-nonsense. The total opposite to Melody: with her vibrant, explosive personality and extensive, brightly coloured wardrobe, Freya's birth...

Lulu Taylor / The Winter Children

 The Winter Children is a haunting mystery from Lulu Taylor, author of The Snow Angel. Behind a selfless act of kindness lies dark intentions . . . Olivia and Dan Felbeck are blissfully happy when their longed-for twins arrive after years...

Domenica De Rosa / The Eternal City

 A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise and tender in its depiction of family at their worst, and at their best from Domenica de Rosa, author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series...

David Mitchell / number9dream

 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001 The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS. As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never...

Patrick Gale / The Whole Day Through

 A woman has a second chance at love in this novel from the author of Richard & Judy bestsellers `Notes from an Exhibition' and `A Perfectly Good Man'.When forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life of stylish independence in Paris...

Linda Taylor / Falling Into Place

 When Ginny became pregnant as an undergraduate years ago she never regretted her decision to leave university and raise her daughter as a single mum. Now, though, with nineteen-year-old Marie off travelling in her gap year, a blast from the past...

Iain Banks / Transition

 Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding...

Wally Lamb / The Hour I First Believed

 From the author of the international number one bestseller I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy - and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath.Caelum Quirk is a middle-aged...

Timur Vermes / Look Who's Back

 The smash-hit satirical bestseller, more than 3 million copies sold worldwideFilm a box-office hit in Germany, now available on NETFLIXA two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring David Threlfall (Shameless)Berlin, Summer 2011...

Lauren Oliver / Panic

 An utterly gripping thriller from bestselling author Lauren Oliver. Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.Heather never...

Christos Tsiolkas / Barracuda

 From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardYou lose everything. In front of everyone. Where do you go from here?Daniel...

Sujit Saraf / The Peacock Throne

 October 31, 1984 begins like any other day for Gopal Pandey as he sets up his tea stall in a lane off Chandni Chowk the most magnificent and crowded street in all Delhi. At its head lies Red Fort, once the home of the gem-encrusted Peacock Throne,...

Richard Price / Lush Life

 'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving...