General Fiction

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking

 A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent...

Marika Cobbold / Purveyor of Enchantment

 'A life lived in fear is a life half lived,' Clementine Hope's sister, Ophelia, is fond of quoting to her.Clementine, thirty-something and newly divorced, lives in a small Hampshire town, teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales...

Jonathan Coe / The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim

 The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's latest heart-breaking and hilarious novelMaxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you.He's about to have a mid-life crisis (though eh doesn't know it yet). He'll be found in his car in the...

A.M. Homes / May We Be Forgiven

 Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he...

Andrea Camilleri / August Heat

 August Heat by Andrea Camilleri, is the tenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series.Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on...

Margaret Forster / Shadow Baby

 Evie and Shona, born almost 70 years apart, are women of very different personalities. But as their stories unfold, it becomes apparent that they share much more than their yearning to find the mothers they never knew.      All of...

Leo Cullen / Clocking Ninety on the Road to Cloughjordan : And Other Stories

 A boy discovers Santa can't bring the present he wants due to the Suez blockade; a one-armed village idiot defeats a circus boxing champion; a funeral cortege disintegrates into a farcical race; and a married man discovers he enjoys the company of...

Justin Somper / Vampirates: Tide of Terror

 Connor Tempest may only be fourteen but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided between his shipmates and his sister. Grace isn't finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that...

Sarah Harte / Thick and Thin

 Thick and Thick is the follow-up to Sarah Harte's hit debut, The Better Half, and it is a gripping story of what happens between life-long friends when their world is hit by a bomshell. It's combines the compulsive 'what would you do' appeal of a...

Joanne Harris / Peaches for Monsieur le Cure

 It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she allows the wind to blow her back to the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But...

James Ryan / Seeds of Doubt

   Set in the rural Ireland that James Ryan portrays so evocatively, Seeds of Doubt is the story of five women, looking back to their girlhoods in the faraway world of the 30s, and coming slowly to terms in their own ways with the single...

Denise Deegan / Do You Want What I Want?

 Rory and Louise seem to have the perfect relationship - a no fuss, no muss kind of set-up with lots of lovely times and no silly dramas. But when Rory realizes that he really wants to be a Dad, and Louise can't think of anything she wants less than...

Patrick Gale / Rough Music

 A subtle and entertaining tragicomic love story. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control. Though...

Edmund White / The Farewell Symphony

 Named after Haydn's work, in which the players leave the stage one by one, this completes the story of a gay man in his adult years, through Stonewall riots, the hedonism of the 70s and the ravages of AIDS in the 80s and 90s. It follows A Boy's Own...

Jay McInerney / Story of My Life

 The author homes in on one section of late 1980s Manhattan culture which is burning itself out even as it ignites. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and twenty, Alison guides us to the group-indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against...

Catherine Donnelly / The State of Grace

 Grace has always held it together - just - her career in advertising, her two wayward children, and her foreign-correspondent ex, who turns up in his flak jacket at unwelcome moments. But all that is set to change, as her boss unhelpfully reminds...

Clare Morrall / Astonishing Splashes of Colour

 When is the right time to tell someone they're not who they think they are?Caught in an over-vivid world, Kitty is tipped off-centre by the loss of her 'child that never was'. And as children all around become emblems of hope and longing and grief,...

Elizabeth North / Ancient Enemies

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Ron McLarty / The Memory Of Running

 Smithson Ide's life so far has led him nowhere. He's 43 years old, weighs 279 pounds, and keeps himself numb with food and alcohol. His only emotional ties are to his parents and to the memory of his older sister, Bethany, who has been missing for...

Oscar Hijuelos / Mr. Ives' Christmas

   This title tells the story of Mr Ives, who was adopted from a foundling home as a child. He is first seen in his 50s, very much a product of his times. He has a successful career, a wife and two children. But his dreams are shattered after...

Marisa Mackle / Along Came a Stork

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Matthew Thomas / We Are Not Ourselves

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZENAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA stunning, heartbreaking debut - `We Are Not Ourselves' is both the...

Susan Howatch / The Wonder Worker

 Originally published as A Question of Integrity, this novel tells the story of Alice, Shy, dumpy and unhappy with herself, she wanders the City of London one lunch hour and stumbles without warning into a situation which will revolutionise her life...

Adrian White / An Accident Waiting to Happen

   Gregory, Caitlin and Tomas are just your average dysfunctional family. Tomas is Caitlin's little boy from a previous - and abusive - relationship, and since Gregory found out he can't have kids, he's thinking that this is what he wants. And...

Celia Walden / Harm's Way

 I always think that if you walk around thinking you can have anything you want, you usually can.For confident nineteen-year-old Anna, finding men is easy, holding on to them unnecessary. Moving to Paris brings her a new job, a new life and a new...

Helen Seymour / Beautiful Noise

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Robert W. Chambers / The King in Yellow

 With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert...

Kate Long / Bad Mothers United

   Before Yummy Mummies and Slummy Mummies, before the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, before we wondered How She Does It, there was The Bad Mother's Handbook. Hundreds of thousands of readers lived a year in the life of Charlotte, Karen and...

Chad Kultgen / The Average American Male

 The controversial bestseller that sparked a Youtube frenzyWhat is the average male really thinking?Open the pages of Chad Kultgen's novel and you'll get a glimpse at the shocking truth.Taking us on a whirlwind journey through the controversial and...

Paulo Coelho / The Winner Stands Alone

 The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa...

Aidan Mathews / Lipstick on the Host

 All of Aiden Mathews's stories take their frail and passionately wrong-headed narrators over the edge into the obscene and the sacrilegous. They circle dangerously around the secret places where incest, religion and poetry meet. The language is...

Kate Glanville / Stargazing

 Secrets can drag anyone back to earth...Three women, connected by one man.Daniel is father to Seren, husband to Nesta and lover to Frankie. When he leaves Nesta and their beautiful home in the middle of the party to celebrate their fortieth wedding...

Monika Fagerholm / Wonderful Women by the Water

 he wonderful women are Bella, married, mother of seven-year-old Thomas, and Rosa, married, mother of two daughters, including the enterprising Renee. The story opens in the summer of 1961, and covers the years in which their children grow into...

Gigi Levangie / The Starter Wife

 There are starter jobs. Starter cars. Starter houses. And then there are starter wives... When her husband dumps her (by cell phone) just months before their ten-year wedding anniversary, Gracie Pollock is left reeling. Though her role as the...

Madeleine Wickham / The Wedding Girl

   At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything. Rupert and his American lover Allan were all part of her new, exciting life, and when Rupert suggested to her that she and Allan should get married, just...

Richard Kearney / Walking at Sea Level

 Twelve years after the death of his twin brother, Jack Toland's youthful dazzle has dimmed. Drinking heavily and estranged from his wife, he is unable to make progress on his book. Out of the blue, she summons him to Geneva to look after their...

Peter Hoeg / Borderliners

 A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Kate Cann / Possessing Rayne

   Rayne couldn't wait to get away from everything: her mum, her boyfriend, the estate. But the solitude of Morton's Keep isn't all she thought it would be. It's eerie and more than a little creepy. When she meets St John, Rayne forgets her...

Saphire / Precious : Based on the Novel Push

 This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an...

Pat Conroy / Beach Music

 With the spectacular worldwide success of his unforgettable novel The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy established himself as a major international writer. He is known for his anguished and painfully honest insights into families and the human heart. He...

Virginia Baily / Early One Morning

 A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment.One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the safety of her grandparents' house in the hills...

Jackson Pearce / Cold Spell

 Ginny and Kai are in love. Or so Ginny thought. But Kai is being enchanted by a mysterious girl, beautiful and flawless as ice. When he's swept away by this snow maiden, Ginny knows she has to cast aside her fears and pursue him. In the face of...

Sarah Mason / The Party Season

   Respected entrepreneur Simon Monkwell and party planner Isabel Serranti have known each other since childhood. He was a thirteen-year-old bully and she was the eleven-year-old whose life he made a misery. Now she's twenty-six, everything...

P.R. Prendergast / Dancing in the Dark

 Things haven't been easy for Jessie since her brother James - sports star and popular kid - died. Her mum and dad are lost in grief and she's feeling isolated at school; when the popular girls on her dance team give her a hard time, she just can't...

Jesse May / Shut Up And Deal

   This truly great novel about the gambling life is awild, stormy trip into the booming casino industry of the 1990s, told by Mickey, an obsessed young poker pro. He's the Cincinnati Kid tricked out for the 90s and his story is poker, brought...

Paul Warren / Things That Go Bump in the Night

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Sara Hylton / The Carradice Chain

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Brendan Landers / Milo Devine

 Milo Devine is a Dublin gumshoe, an ex-cop driven off the force for exposing police corruption. A general election looms. Archie Cooley is The Gaffer - the brilliant, conniving leader of the opposition - and future Taoiseach if the polls are right...

Emma Cooke / Wedlocked

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Vikram Seth / The Golden Gate

 Written in verse, The Golden Gate was Vikram Seth's first novel, before the epic A Suitable Boy. Set in the eighties in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for...

Faith Hunter / Bloodring

 In a novel filled with lush imagery and exhilarating action, Faith Hunter creates a near-future world caught in the throes of an ambiguous apocalypse - where a woman with everything to hide finds her true destiny revealed. As humanity struggles...

Amanda Quick / Dangerous

 At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well the risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother...