General Fiction

Diane Chamberlain / Her Mother's Shadow

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Alexandra Connor / The Hour of the Angel

Nothing prepares Ruth for the horror of her young husband's death and its traumatic consequences. A fresh start with a new career in London provides success in her life, but she discovers that true contentment will never be hers until she can...

Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the...

Charity Norman / Freeing Grace

A tender and thought-provoking story exploring the sacrifices we make for family and what it takes to be a good parent. Grace's teenage mother dies shortly after giving birth and the perfect adoptive parents are found for her: David, the curate of an...

Jenny Colgan / The Christmas Surprise

Rosie Hopkins, newly engaged, is looking forward to an exciting year in the little sweetshop she owns and runs. But when fate strikes Rosie and her boyfriend, Stephen, a terrible blow, threatening everything they hold dear, it's going to take all...

Stephen Grosz / The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Longlisted for the Guardian first book awardA Radio 4 Book of the WeekThis book is about learning to live.In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most...

Mauriel Barbery / The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with...

Armistead Maupin / More Tales Of The City

The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac...

Benjamin Hoff / The Tao of Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh is ‘The Bear for all Ages’, and now he’s more fun than ever before. Join in The Tao of Pooh! Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear, and...

Sharon Creech / Love That Dog

Slowly Jack learns the pleasures of writing poetry as Miss Stretchberry encourages him to tell his own story through verse. What emerges is a moving and memorable story about a boy and his dog and his growing passion for poetry.All of our books are...

Amy Sackville / The Still Point

At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion...

John Irving / A Widow for One Year

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character -- a 'difficult' woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice, " but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in...

Elizabeth Laird / Red Sky in the Morning

This story is told from the viewpoint of Anna who is 12 years old when her mother gives birth to her baby brother. But the joy of the family is over-shadowed by the baby's handicap. The story revolves around the family's coming to terms with the...

Eirin Thompson / The Undercover Mother

A part-time job as an undercover store detective at the Riverside Shopping Mall seems ideal for our mum-of-three whose kids are now at school. Used to not being noticed at home, she feels she has the perfect credentials. The invisible eye of the Mall,...

Rachel Hore / The Silent Tide

When Emily Gordon, editor at a London publishing house, commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton's formidable widow, Jacqueline, who's determined to protect his secrets,...

Jenny Downham / Now is Good

Tessa has just a few months to live.Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests and drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Starting tonight.Released from the...

Claudia Carroll / Me and You

Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how love and friendship can heal the most damaged of hearts.“I’m fine. I’m sorry...

Stephen Fry / The Liar

Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he...

Rache Simon / The Story of a Beautiful Girl

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Lauren Weisberger / last Night at Chateau Marmont

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Santa Montefiore / Last Voyage of the Valentina

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Amanda Brooke / The Missing Husband

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Anita Shreve / A Wedding in December

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Emma Hannigan / Designer Genes

Emily Cusack's got it all sorted. A loving husband, two adorable kids and a gorgeous home. All she needs now is an au pair, for life to be truly perfect. Her friend Susie is content too. A brilliant psychotherapist, she's got an elegant flat, a...

Reay Tannahill / The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Reay Tannahill moves back to 15th-century Scotland, to a sensual, violent, jewelled world where a family as subtle as the Borgias is planning the murder of the king, and a woman yearns for a love that is forbidden to her. By the author of "A Dark...

Monica Ali / Alentejo Blue

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates.For some, such as Teresa, a...

Judith Michael / Private Affairs

The Lovells had everything: demanding and absorbing careers, two teenage children, a lifestyle of enviable affluence. And they still had their youth. But for sixteen years they knew their most treasured dreams had been put aside in deference to...

Anna Dillon / Consequences

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Paul Scott / Day of the Scorpion

In "The Day of the Scorpion," Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point...

Anna King / A Handful Of Sovereigns

Maggie Paige and her brother and sister are orphaned and left to fend for themselves. When starvation threatens, Maggie goes out to solicit men. She cannot go through with it, but the outing is destined to have surprising consequences.All of our books...

Marina Oliver / The Cobweb Cage

Marigold makes an agonizing decision - she gives up her son, the only living memory she has of Richard, to the parents-in-law who threw her out - in return for the financial security her family so desperately needs. Marina Oliver is the author of...

Dorothy Koomson / The Rose Petal Beach

Every love story has a dangerous twist. Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband, Scott, is accused of something terrible - but when she discovers who his accuser is, everything goes into freefall. Backed into a corner and unsure what to think, Tamia...

Jonas Jonasson / The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

In 1994, hip-hop was going through an at-times painful growth spurt. Since N.W.A. and Ice-T's ascent in the late 80s, the rap game was no longer owned by the East Coast. After the worldwide popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, things were looking...

Iain Banks / The Wasp Factory

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and...

Nadia Aguiar / Secrets of Tamarind

Simon, Maya and Penny never thought they'd return to Tamarind, the mystical island of adventure . . .But when a long-lost friend tells them Tamarind is in danger, they know they must go back. On their arrival Tamarind is more mysterious than ever...

Liz Ryan / One More Chance

Two very different women, from two very different backgrounds, leave Ireland for France to make their dreams come true.Shona Fitzpatrick is bright and beautiful. Yet everything she touches seems to turn to dust. Her job is under threat and her boyfriend...

Liz Ryan / The Year of Her Life

Lauren Kilroy and Saiv Lovett have been best friends since one was a college dropout while the other headed the class. A decade later, Lauren is a high-flying advertising executive while Saiv is a shy philosophy professor, and still, each is the first...

Pamela Oldfield / Golden Tally

The final volume in a trilogy begun by GREEN HARVEST and SUMMER SONG, set in Kent at the turn of the century. A young widow struggling to leave behind her East End roots and manage her late husband's estate has to confront snobbery, and her uneasy...

Tina Reilly / Wish Upon A Star

It's hard for Lucy, being the sister of super-model Tracy, especially now that Tracy has landed a part in a major Hollywood movie and all Lucy ever wanted to do is act.Worse than that, Lucy's daughter wants to get to know her father - only Lucy...

Sophie McKenzie / Three's a Crowd

Luke and Eve are heading off on their first holiday together. But they're staying with Eve's dad in his Spanish hotel and things aren't going to go to plan... Eve's dad treats his daughter like a little girl - and if Luke was hoping for a...

Nancy Mitford / Love in a Cold Climate

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, the story of coldly...

Imogen Parker / More Innocent Times

Gemma is ready for a change of scene. Her self-imposed exile in America worked for a while, helped her to forget, but now she is returning to England, the country of her birth, for a fresh start. A new job, a new house, a new life beckons, but there are...

Ellen McCarthy / Guarding Maggie

All her life, people have looked after Maggie Breslin. She is happy enough with her quiet life in the heart of rural Donegal. But when a face from her past surfaces, disaster follows, and Maggie is left alone to pick up the pieces. Who would want to harm...

Patricia Scanlan / Foreign Affairs

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Luke Rhinehart / The Dice Man

The cult classic that can still change your life…Let the dice decide!This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart – and in some ways changes the world as well.Because once you hand over your life to the...

Denise Deegan / Love Comes Tumbling

Lucy Arigho is not the sort of woman to be swept off her feet. She is sober, career-minded and slightly numb since the death of her fiancee. So, it's completely out of character for her to race a man in traffic - and even more unusual when they meet...

Elizabeth Strout / Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout's acclaimed novel Olive Kitteridge is now the basis for a HBO drama starring Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand.Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in...

Anna Mcpartlin / So What If I'm Broken

On the 21st June 2007 Alexandra Kavanagh left home, chatted to her neighbour, got onto the DART, arrived at Dalkey train station and disappeared ... Tom is distraught. His wife is missing, his world has fallen apart and his only focus is on finding her...

Vikas Swarup / Q & A

Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was,...

Maeve Flanagan / Nell's Novel

A witty novel set in Dublin, which tells the story of the writing of a novel.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...

Caroline Finnerty / In a Moment

Adam & Emma are a couple being torn apart by their past. Their relationship is only held together by a thread. As their marriage disintegrates around them, Adam tries desperately to salvage it while Emma does everything in her power, not only to...

Tom Wolfe / A Man in Full

Set against a background of race politics in Atlanta, Georgia, this is the story of a self-made millionaire in the food and property industries. He has all the trappings of wealth and considers himself unstoppable, but what happens when the banks start...