General Fiction

Danuta De Rhodes / The Little White Car

 After a relationship-breaking argument with her dull boyfriend, Veronique jumps into her little white Fiat and drives off into the Paris night.Feeling the effects of the wine she has been drinking, she makes sure she drives slowly and carefully,...

Kerry Jamieson / The Forgotten Lies

 1935, HollywoodIn a studio-owned house on Lantana Drive, three beautiful young starlets wait anxiously for news.Charlotte, Bee and Ivy are each desperate to win the role of a lifetime - the part that will see their name in lights. And with Warner...

Leon Uris / A God in Ruins

   From the author of Redemption and Trinity comes another sweeping and awe-inspiring novel of politics, family, passion and intrigue.Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 Presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the unforgettable...

Gilda O'Neill / Just Around The Corner

    All big-hearted Katie Mehan ever wanted was health and happiness for her family and the love of her husband, Pat. But as work at the docks gets scarcer and the political unrest of the 1930s begins to impinge on them, she wonders if even...

Paul Kilduff / The Dealer

    When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is sensationally announced, life will never again be the same for many influential players in the City. A star equities dealer has just bought a million soaring Provident shares -...

Eileen Townsend / The Other Woman

    The story of the orphan Mhairi McLeod, born out of wedlock on the magical isle of Skye, and of her quest for fortune and her heritage over 40 years. By the author of "The Love Child", "In Love and War" and "Of Woman Born"...

Soheir Khashoggi / Mosaic

   Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working...

Kevin Lewis / Frankie

   Homeless, streetwise and running away from a past she would rather forget, Francesca Mills is just another face on the streets of London. When a violent encounter leads to a man's death, however, she is forced to leave the harsh world that...

Evelyn Hood / Birds In The Spring

   Paisley, 1920. In the post-war decade of peace, uncomfortable new conflicts are looming. Women no longer take a back-seat in the business community and one, Fiona MacDowall, has made it clear she intends to inherit her father's furniture...

Neil Griffiths / Betrayal in Naples

      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...

Frank Cottrell Boyce / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

   Packed with fun illustrations by Joe Berger, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is the hilarious sequel to Ian Fleming's much loved children's classic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the author of the Carnegie Medal-winning Millions.When the...

Bobbie Ann Mason / Spence and Lila

    From the author of In Country and Love Life, Spence + Lila is a moving story of love, old age and optimism in the face of tragedy.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Julia Claiborne Johnson / Be Frank with Me

   A funny, poignant and unforgettable novel about Frank - one of the most lovable and unusual characters you'll ever meet.For some boys fitting in means standing outMeet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial...

Maria Semple / Where'd You Go, Bernadette

   Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' Sam Baker, RED MAGAZINEShortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for FictionA NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerCOMING SOON: The film adaptation, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate...

Robert Chalmers / Who's Who in Hell

   Chalmers balances tragedy and comedy with the skill and poise of John Irving' IndependentTowards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In Hell: a mammoth compendium of the damned. Daniel is supported...

Maggie Gee / The Ice People

    In this novel, Maggie Gee speculates about the survival of love between men and women in a frozen future world where children are rare, child-size robots run out of control and homosexuality is the norm. Far into the the twenty-first...

Gerard Donovan / Julius Winsome

    Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and not by accident. Gerard Donovan weaves an...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

   As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni attempting to reform himself into a...

Bell / Back to the Future

      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...

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...

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...

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...

Denis Johnson / Tree of Smoke

   Tree of Smoke - the name given to a `psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned - is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the...

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...

Jane Green / The Sunshine Sisters

   The Sunshine Girls is a moving story of love, loss and family by the bestselling author of Falling, Jane Green.'Jane Green's best yet. I raced through this' Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Still MeIt was never easy, being one of Ronni...

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...

Nuala Ellwood / The Day of the Accident

   WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT DID YOU DO? 'Gripping, poignant...I read it in one sitting' ROSAMUND LUPTON'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS____________________________Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma,...

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...