General Fiction

George D Shuman / Last Breath : A Sherry Moore Novel

   Following close on the heels of his celebrated debut 18 Seconds, George Shuman returns with yet another remarkable thriller featuring investigative consultant Sherry Moore -- a blind woman with an uncanny ability to view the final living...

Jenny Cruise / Welcome To Temptation

    Sophie came to Temptation, a small town in Ohio, to help her sister make a movie. Now she's making trouble for the town council, love with the mayor and lemonade for a murderer. Welcome to Temptation - population 2158. And falling. This...

Stephen Vizinczey / An Innocent Millionaire

      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 stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

James Kennedy / Armed and Dangerous

    Four convicted IRA killers break out of a top-security prison - a jailbreak that leaves a trail of corpses and speeds towards a major catastrophe in London. Can MI5 stop them and save the peace process, when those who are meant to...

T. C. Boyle / Drop City

    It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers...

Yvonne Antrobus / True to Form

    When Sukie Buckley finds the body of one of the racing fraternity in compromising circumstances, she is forced to become a participant in the race to find a killer. The lives of those linked by a valuable horse, Triumvirate, come under...

Michael Mullen / The Midnight Country

    The epic story of three sisters and their turbulent lives, tied to the destinies of Germany, Austria and Russia in the unstable years leading up to World War I.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Shari low / A Life Without You

   Touching, funny, and bittersweet, this is a story that will make you laugh, cry, and call your best friend to tell her you love her.30-year-old Dee Harper and her husband, Luke, are blissfully happy. Everyday she makes her loyal parents Val...

Siobhan Curham / Sweet FA

    A neglected woman is a dangerous thing, so when four very different ladies join together to wage war on their football obsessed partners, who knows where the game will end?     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Richard Howard / Bonaparte's Warriors

    During four years of uneasy peace, France has seen many chances. Alain Lausard and his companions have become part of Bonaparte's Grand Armee, but there are those who still oppose Bonaparte and his regime. When the leading conspirator...

Christina Jones / Going the Distance

    Chaotic, likeable Maddy Beckett lives in Milton St John, where horses, trainers and jockeys outnumber the rest of the inhabitants. Fully recovered from a disastrous love affair and running a successful small business, she is her own...

Stuart Browne / Dangerous Parking

    "The screaming ambulance slows down a fraction as it hits the junction of parkway and Camden High Street. It feels as if my bladder is in my head, and any minute now it will explode, and blast piss and blood at a million-foot-pounds...

Sarah Stovell / Mothernight

    "I was beginning to realise that time didn't move forwards here. It just spun round and round, circling an old date, endlessly."So says seventeen-year-old Olivia, who spends the summer at the home of her boarding school friend, the...

Douglas Hurd / The Shape of Ice

    Douglas Hurd's fine political novel, set in the near future, eloquently conveys the sheer anarchic pressure of political life at the top - the way problems jostle for attention in the day, with the small ones prevailing because they are...

Michael Raleigh / In the Castle of the Flynns

   This is the story of a young boy saved from unspeakable despair as he is embraced by Irish love. 'An amazing book, a troika of laughter, love and loss.' Malachy McCourtThe year is 1954, the setting a vibrant Chicago neighborhood.Daniel...

Christina Jones / Stealing the Show

    When Nell Bradley discovers a set of dilapidated gallopers - an antique roundabout with carved horses - for sale, she is delighted. She and her brothers, Danny and Sam, run a traditional fair which, so far, has afforded them a good...

Rosemary Aitken / The Girl from Penvarris

    When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher.Instead,she goes into service at the big house with her sister,Fanny.Soon,and against her will,she finds herself growing...

Jonathan Raban / Waxwings

    At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought...

Mary Hooper / Amy

    'It all started after I fell out with Louise and Bethany, really. It was falling out with them that made me try to find friends somewhere else, and the Internet seemed a good place to look...' Amy is a level-headed sort of girl,...

Romesh Gunesekera / Reef

    The story of love in a spoiled paradise is told by Triton, who at the age of 11, escapes from his family and goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing...

Amanda Smyth / Black Rock

    Celia's mother died bringing her into the world - when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi's second husband Roman, a man so sly he could crawl under a...

Davies / Nest of Vipers

    Undercover agent Sarah Jensen is sent to investigate a billion dollar conspiracywhose chief suspects are a government banker,the Mafia & a merchant bank.She is hurled into a vortex of deceit,betrayal & murder....

Jill Mansell / You And Me, Always

   Jill Mansell's YOU AND ME, ALWAYS is a deliciously romantic and poignant read about love, loss and how nothing can stay hidden for ever... If you love the novels of Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond, you won't want to miss Jill Mansell...

Wendy Robertson / My Dark-Eyed Girl

    After nursing in the Spanish Civil War, Susan is relieved to set foot on English soil again. By her side is a beautiful, young Spanish woman, Chichu, who has lost her whole family in the fight against Franco and only kept her own life...

Suzanne De Mines / Scarlet

    Intrepid girl reporter exposes secret world of sex, lust and passion. Her assignment was to investigate the world of nude modelling, which was how she found herself posing naked for the camera. She would do anything for a story - and...

Rebecca Hunt / Mr Chartwell

   Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year.July, 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasn't...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Chance

      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 stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Peter Carey / Amnesia

   A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the YearWhen Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse:...

Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Lindsay Gordon / The Bond

    For some, like Missy and Hank, the bond is an extraordinary passage from innocence to extreme passion. It is a need for sensual freedom and an ability to read the minds of the lovers they ensnare and use. For the Preacher, the bond is a...

Sanjida O'Connell / The Naked Name of Love

   In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the...

Susanne O'Leary / Diplomatic Incidents

    Anna O'Connor is a beautiful, if slightly overweight, ex-ballerina. As the wife of a successful Irish diplomat, she moves to Paris, city of her dreams. But the dream starts to turn into a bizarre nightmare when Michael, a drunken,...

Pat Booth / Sparklers

   A story that races from the Olympic ski slopes of Colorado to the inner councils of the Mafia, from the exclusive haunts of the rich and beautiful to the machinations of the international diamond business.Caroline Montgomery is fresh,...

Lindsey Piper / Hunted Warrior

   Demonic gladiators, ruthless mafia villains, and a race on the brink of distinction: What will become of them? One proud leader wields his power to unlock dark mysteries in the third book in this fierce, sensual new paranormal romance...

Damian Lanigan / The Chancers

   A failed actor has one last chance at success - in this razor-sharp satirical novel from the acclaimed author of STRETCH, 29.Hailed by the Observer as `brilliantly funny, a dazzling performance, teeming with invention, wicked humour and...

Mark Gartside / What Will Survive

   Graham Melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met Charlotte Marshall over a can of warm lager at his best-friend's party in 1985. It was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the same again.Two decades later,...

James Wilson / The Dark Clue

   'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do it. I have therefore given...

Frank Delaney / The Sins of the Mothers

    Ellen Morris is confident, beautiful, bright and educated. Early in 1925, she accepts a teaching post in a rural, misty village. There the young city girl meets two men who will radically transform her. One is the handsome and respected...

Patrick Redmond / All She Ever Wanted

    Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold,...

John Ramster / Ladies' Man

    Simon and Ruth work together. She's a partnerless mum and he's gay, fun, single and searching. Simon realizes that he wants to be more than just friends with Ruth but will he be able to cope with vomiting babies, ex-partners and a...

Anna Blundy / Only My Dreams

    Be careful what you wish for...Alice Reynolds had always dreamt of escaping her grimy corner of South London for the fairytale world of the privileged aristocratic elite. Cricket whites, Pimms and summer balls were the stuff of Alice's...

Susan Sizemore / I Burn for You

    As the dark hollows of his soul threaten to overwhelm him Alec undergoes treatments to allow him to bear daylight. Living a double life as a bodyguard, he must now battle the chemistry between him and Domini, his soulmate. When she gets...

Susan Sizemore / I Hunger for You

   In her steamy new vampire romance, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire....Mia Luchese comes from a long line of vampire hunters but has never believed in the supernatural. When she's...

Alice Taylor / The Parish

    In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...

Hisham Matar / In the Country of Men

   On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street.....

Alicia Foster / Warpaint

   Four women create propaganda in WWII's darkest hour in this gripping fact-based debut novel.Buckinghamshire, 1942: in a gothic villa deep in woods near Bletchley Park, artist Vivienne Thayer paints 'Black' propaganda to demoralise the enemy...

Dipika Rai / Someone Else's Garden

   A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story.`Will she recall that night? Or is it one of those too horrible times that her...

Debby Holt / Annie May's Black Book

    Entries from Annie May's Black Book: October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my landscape painting looked like a...

Scarlett Thomas / PopCo

   A gripping, topical novel about branding, code breaking, insidious marketing and strangely powerful toys from the acclaimed young writer Scarlett Thomas. Everyone loves working at PopCo. It's a very young, very cool company with no dress...

Jenny Eclair / Having A Lovely Time

   'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Addictive' Daily Mirror'Brutally funny' ObserverMeet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.Joe Dobson left his wife and kids when his young girlfriend Nina...

Christine Aziz / The Olive Readers

   I cannot recall the exact moment when I decided to become a Reader. This is unusual for me, as I am always precise about beginnings . . . Imagine a future without a past, a time without memory, a state in which nationality, ancestry,...