General Fiction

Bell / Back to the Future

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Bear Grylls / Burning Angels

   A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood.A jungle island overrun by rabid primates - escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone.A massive seaplane hidden beneath a mountain, packed with a Nazi cargo...

Meredith Wild / Hardwired

    Determined to overcome a difficult past, Erica Hathaway learns early on how to make it on her own. Days after her college graduation she finds herself face to face with a panel of investors who will make or break her fledgling startup...

Winston Graham / Warleggan

   Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only...

Lionel Shiver / The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

   `Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMESThe brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to...

Howard Jacobson / Zoo Time

   Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than...

Kimberley Chambers / The Feud

   Two rival families. One East End.The explosive first novel in the Mitchells & O'Haras trilogyFor more than a decade, two East End families have been locked in a bitter war.On one side are the Mitchells, a notorious underworld mob from...

Julie Highmore / Beautiful Strangers

   When Cait joins a singles' week in Oxford and realises that there are far more women than men, she resigns herself to concerts, museums and punting with something of a heavy heart. But a spur-of-the-moment decision takes her and fellow...

Owen Whittaker / The Godfather

   Max Patterson is a successful novelist, living as a recluse in a Gothic Irish mansion. He likes to think he is self-sufficient, but in fact he's been in a wheelchair since a childhood trauma. So when he is told that his best friend has been...

Rachel Hore / Last Letter Home

   From the bestselling author of A Week in Paris, and A Place of Secrets, comes a timeless love story, lost in letters of the past . . .THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2018Can a chance encounter unlock one woman's past?On holiday in...

Milly Johnson / The Perfectly Imperfect Woman

   THE QUEEN OF FEEL-GOOD FICTION!`With mystery, romance and humour, every page of this enjoyable tale is glorious' heat`A lovely romantic comedy and, with its cast of colourful characters, is another masterpiece from queen of romance Milly...

Elizabeth Young / Asking for Trouble

    Sophy's single and happy about it. She likes her life. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, a little white lie whose sole purpose is to keep her mother off her back. Which is fine until his presence is demanded at a family...

Claire Dyer / The Moment

    Paddington station, nine a.m., rush hour. As the crowds ebb and flow, time suddenly stands still for two people: Fern and Elliott, ex-lovers who parted twenty-five years before and never expected to see each other again. But here they...

Emily Barr / Baggage

   At eighteen, your closest friend commits suicide.At twenty-nine, you're backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband. She has a ten-year-old son. She has a baby on the way. She claims to be someone else. But...

Dantelle Steel / The Right Time

   Filled with heartbreak, betrayal and triumph, The Right Time is an uplifting novel about pursuing one's ambition from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in...

Jane Smiley / Early Warning

   The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize1953. When a funeral brings the...

Tove Jansson / The True Deceiver

    In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who...

Liz Tuccillo / How to be Single

   Following a disastrous night out that began with steaks and martinis and ended in a trip to A&E, Julie Jenson decides that she and her four single friends are doing something wrong. Between them, there's more dysfunction and...

Deborah Rodriguez / Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

   Six women forever joined by a little cafe in KabulSunny, former proprietor of the Little Coffee Shop and new owner of the Screaming Peacock vineyard. Can she handle the challenges of life on her own?Yasmina, the young mother who now runs...

Holly McQueen / The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder

   There's an aroma of fresh coffee and warming bagels as gorgeous bestselling novelist Isabel, 27, welcomes us into her sunny apartment, light glinting off the huge Tiffany diamond studs in her ears...For Isabel Bookbinder, there's no doubt...

Carolyn Jess-Cooke / The Guardian Angel's Journal

   She thought her life was over, but it hadn't even started . . .When Margot Delacroix dies at forty-two years old, she is sent back to earth as a guardian angel - to herself. Renamed Ruth, she is forced by divine mandate to re-experience and...

Pat Conroy / South of Broad

   Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life.But...

James Franco / Actors Anonymous

   Hollywood has always been a private club. I open the gates.I say welcome. I say, look inside.Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, James Franco's Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and...

Rachel Crowther / The Things You Do for Love

   'A wonderful page-turner of a novel about the complexity of female life, by a new writer who understands it all too well. You can have it all, but only if you're prepared to pay the price.' Fay WeldonAn elite surgeon with a brilliant but...

Fiona Gibson / The Woman Who Met Her Match

   `The voice of modern woman.' Marie Claire`More than funny, it's true.' ElleThe laugh-out-loud Sunday Times bestseller is back - and funnier than ever! Perfect for fans of The Kicking the Bucket List and Carole Matthews, Fiona writes about...

Fay Weoldon / Rhode Island Blues

    Sophia is a 34-year-old film editor living in Soho. She is torn between her delight in her freedom and a nagging desire for the family ties which everyone else grumbles about: casual sex is all very well, but who do you spend Christmas...

Susanne O'Leary / European Affairs

    Eva Connolly is elegant, clever and determined to make a brilliant career in the European Commission in Brussels. When her brother offers her a month's holiday in his luxury villa in St Tropez, she thinks it will be the perfect...

Morrissey / List of the Lost

    'Beware the novelist . . . intimate and indiscreet . . . pompous, prophetic airs . . . here is the fact of fiction . . . an American tale where, naturally, evil conquers good, and none live happily ever after, for the complicated pangs...

Melissa Jones / The Hidden Heart Of Emily Hudson

   Dear Mr Cornford, It is with regret that I begin the task of writing to you about your niece, Emily. Her recent behaviour, which I have outlined to you in previous letters, compels me to request that she be formally removed from the school...

Aleksei Evdokimo / Headcrusher

   Vadim's having a tough time adjusting to capitalism. The grey, slushy Latvia he knows has not been the same since Euro-bypass surgery revived its economy. Everywhere he looks, designer-clad clones are hanging out in chic bars and driving...

Alice Munro / Too Much Happiness

   **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which...

Simon Van Booy / The Secret Lives of People in Love

    Offers a collection of stories that are set in New York City, Wales, Cornwall, Paris, Rome and Greece. This title explores love's labour and love's loss.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

James Patterson / Haunted

   You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett.Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink.He settles on an idyllic...

David Ebershoff / The Danish Girl

   The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper.Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to...

Peggy Riley / Amity & Sorrow

   AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world...

Andrei Makine / Brief Loves That Live Forever

    In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an...

Jessica Adams / Ladies' Night

   A brand new collection of specially commissioned stories from the very best names in female fiction, including Cecelia Ahern, Wendy Holden, Santa Montefiore, Freya North, Meg Cabot and many more.There are over thirty writers donating...

Claire Calman / Lessons For A Sunday Father

    It's never too late to grow up...This is the story of: Scott, who finds his belongings outside in a bin bag one day and realises he may have made a big mistake; Gail, who wishes her husband were under guarantee so she could send him...

Erwin Mortier / My Fellow Skin

   In this story about love as second skin, Mortier remains true to the perspective of his dazzling debut, Marcel, looking at the world through the eyes of an observant and impressionable young boy, Anton. As he grows up, each tentative step...

Sarah Quigley / The Conductor

   The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence......and for one moment, as the barrage of shell and artillery pauses, music washes over the city of Leningrad.The defiant symphony of Leningrad's famous son, the composer Shostakovich,...

Bernardine Bishop / The Street

    There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor...

Carol Brennan / Chill of Summer

    Emily and Dev Hannigan, the detective pair, feature in a novel of suspense and intrigue.     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...

Margaret Neylon / It All Adds Up : How Numerology Can Change Your Life

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Margaret Scott / The Fall Out

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Margaret Dolan / Wire Me to the Moon

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Robert Goolrick / A Reliable Wife : When Passion turns to Poison

   COUNTRY BUSINESSMAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE.COMPELLED BY PRACTICAL REASONS.REPLY BY LETTER.Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful industrialist, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered...

Helen Dunmore / Talking to the Dead

    Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth of Isabel's first child, tensions are...

Molly Ringwald / When It Happens to You

    Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You, the debut novel in stories from actress and author Molly Ringwald. A Hollywood icon, Ringwald defined the teenage experience in the eighties in such classic...

Michael Collins / The Life And Times Of A Tea Boy

    Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait...

Saul David / Zulu Hart

   'Gems like this are too rare. I was hooked in ten pages.' Conn IgguldenGEORGE HART just wants to serve his Queen and honour his family. It's not that simple.BASTARDHe doesn't know his father, only that he's a pillar of the Establishment...

Catherine Dunne / Another Kind of Life

    Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling...

Melissa Diem / Changeling

   My first visions of the universe are indelibly imprinted in my head . . . The sky was alive and vibrating, bringing out the explorer in me. I thought of all the answers out there waiting to meet my questions . . .' Jean is the cuckoo in her...