General Fiction

Tim Lebbon / Fallen

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Tom Hanks / Uncommon Type : Some Stories

   _________________________A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best...

Mary Ryan / Mask of the Night

    Jenny never knew her mother and is a child when her father is killed. But Jenny discovers an old mask in the attic, a sinister stranger who whispers dreams of the impossible. On her visits home to Kilashane from the city, Dee is...

Sally Mandel / Portrait of a Married Woman

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Alice Kuipers / Life on the Refrigerator Door

    Beautifully told through notes left on their kitchen fridge, this is an intimate portrait of the relationship between a hard-working mother and her teenage daughter. Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting, it is about being a 'good...

Andrew Taylor / Call The Dying

   'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the seventh instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesLove and need make unexpected bedfellows, and...

Emma Hannigan / The Gift of Friends

   'Vintage Emma: Wise, funny, full of wit and sparkle. Read and be uplifted' Cathy Kelly'A beautiful story about fractured families, unconditional love and the importance of friendship. I read it in one sitting' Sinead Moriarty'Brimming with...

Jem Lester / Shtum

   'An unforgettable first novel' The Times * * * * *THE EBOOK BESTSELLER ABOUT FATHERS, SONS AND LOVETen-year-old Jonah lives in a world of his own.He likes colours and feathers and the feel of fresh air on his skin.He dislikes sudden loud...

Nick Spalding / Love...From Both Sides

   'I haven't giggled so much in ages. I sailed through it, only occasionally having to put it down to wipe the tears of mirth from my cheeks.' Daily Mail'Clevery constructed and downright hilarious.' CloserWhen Nick Spalding self-published...

Julie Cohen / Where Love Lies

   `A brilliantly original story that will resonate loud and clear with anyone who's ever been knocked sideways by love' HEATWhen Felicity steps off the train on the way to meet her husband, she is so sure of everything. Where she is heading,...

Mary Elizabeth Coen / Love & The Goddess : One Woman, One Myth, Three Goddesses

   When Cookery teacher Kate Canavan’s perfect life falls apart she moves to Galway City.Her friend James urges her to love and nurture herself, but mischievous Ella persuades her to dust off her unused dating skills. So Kate explores...

M. R. James / Ghost Stories

    The tail piece Stories I have tried to write accompanies 30 classic tales of their genre set against convincing backgrounds to afflict chilling terror on the reader.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Annie Sparrow / Said and Done

    First novel by an author with a keen eye for office politics and a sense of romance. When the least appealing partner in a firm of London solicitors is picked to open a Dublin office, legal secretary Emma is asked to go ahead and...

John Conner / CHILDS GAME

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Carol O'Connell / Flight of the Stone Angel

    The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered...

Susan Hill / Mrs. de Winter

    THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SEQUEL TO REBECCA BY ONE OF OUR FINEST WRITERS. Married to the sophisticated and worldy wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter should be leading a happy and fulfilled life. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca casts...

Lucy Hawking / Jaded

    William Gadget's last bonus was worth more than his parents' house. His pyjamas are made of pashmina and many Hungarian ducks gave their feathers to fill his plump pillows. He can pontificate the length on the state of the Nikkei when...

Clare Allan / Poppy Shakespeare

    Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room and swapping medication. Like the other patients,...

Jonathan Lethem / The Fortress of Solitude

   From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They...

Carl-Johan Vallgren / The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot : His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred

   On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth. To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette, to the other, what can only be described as a monster: a boy, Hercules, deaf-mute and hideously deformed,...

A. D. Miller / The Faithful Couple

   Turn a betrayal inside out and you found its opposite, a secret and a bond. Perhaps that was what friendship came down to: a lifelong, affectionate mutual blackmail.Neil and Adam, two young men on the cusp of adulthood, meet one golden...

Jennie Fields / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    When Zoe moves to Brooklyn she hopes life will start afresh for her husband, Jamie, who had a breakdown after the birth of their second child, and the death of their first. But Zoe did not expect her daughter's efforts to find a new...

Tom McNeal / To Be Sung Underwater

   For you, I was a chapter-a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter-and for me, you were the book.'Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that 'picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio...

Michele Campbell / It's Always the Husband

   The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller`A page-turning whodunnit that will speak to anyone who's ever had a frenemy.'Ruth Ware`A gripping, tangled web of a novel-it pulls you in and doesn't let you go. I loved it!Shari LapenaIt's Always the...

Susanne O'Leary / Fresh Powder

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Carson McCullers / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

   'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel...

Alice Fitzgerald / Her Mother's Daughter

   1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind.Seventeen years and two children later,...

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

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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...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Seville Communion

    A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition. Father Quart, a suave Vatican trouble-shooter, is sent to investigate...

Dominic Smith / The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

   In the 1600s Sara de Vos loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of ice skaters from the edge of a wood.In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At...

Saul Black / Lovemurder

   'Black delivers a powerhouse of a thriller.' Lisa Gardner The second spine-chilling serial-killer thriller featuring homicide detective Valerie Hart from the author of the critically-acclaimed THE KILLING LESSONS. REMEMBER HER FACE. IT WILL...

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...

Iain Pears / The Dream Of Scipio

   Dark, erudite and like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelistsSet in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation -...

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,...

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....