General Fiction

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,...

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...

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...

Mikkel Birkegaard / The Library of Shadows

   Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they read a book to you. They can seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, but also manipulate you into thinking...

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...

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...

Camilla Gibb / Sweetness In The Belly

   A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging.In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she...

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...

Hendrick Groen / The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1

   The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old . . .'Terrific. This...

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,...

Marc Acito / How I Paid for College : A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater

    It's 1983, and in a sleepy community in New Jersey seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. However, the fun comes to a halt when his father refuses to pay for Edward to...

Daniel Cole / Ragdoll

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb thriller writing.' Peter Robinson'A brilliant, breathless thriller' M.J. Arlidge'A high concept solution to a mystery' Sophie HannahA body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched...

Kevin Kwan / Crazy Rich Asians

   The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a...

Anthony Whelan / Amy's Amazon

   In Amy's Amazon, Book Two of The Thrillosophy Trilogy, we are re-introduced to our heroine Laura, who has changed her name to Amy as she hides from the malevolent forces seeking her. As she mounts a world-wide campaign of education and...

Georgina Harding / Painter of Silence

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with...

Rachel Ward / Numbers

   Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret.When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head -the date on which they will die.Knowing that nothing lasts forever, Jem avoids relationships, butwhen she meets...

Christopher Farnsworth / Killfile

     A brilliant contemporary thriller with a unique special element - for fans of Inception, Minority Report and Touch by Claire NorthWhen billionaire Everett Sloan hires John Smith to take down his biggest rival, it's not just because...

Philip Kerr / Gridiron

   Los Angeles, 1988Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. A.The Gridiron represents the state-of-the-art in smart buildings: every aspect of the building, from...

Barney Leason / North Rodeo Drive

      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...

Patrick Robinson / Diamondhead

   When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself...

Elizabeth Adler / The Hotel Riviera

   'Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany box, and you'll get the feel of my little hotel. It's a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for me, its creator.'Lola Laforet doesn't have...

Lucy Irvine / One is One

    Julia Barton, 27 and single, looks back over some eventful months in her life. It is apparent that she has been scarred, mentally and physically, but other than that her past is mysterious. This novel is written by the author of...

James Mitchell / Indian Summer

    The triumphant arrival of one of the richest men in England with an exquisitely beautiful woman on either arm causes a flurry of excitement. From the creator of 'When the Boat Comes In'.     All of our books are second...

Annalena McAfee / The Spoiler

   Tamara Sim, a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist, is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait. Finally - a chance for Tamara to prove that there's more to her than forged expenses claims and the 'what's...

Kevin Powers / The Yellow Birds

   WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF...

Lisa Zeidner / Layover

   Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether - like her job...