General Fiction

Pascal Mercier / Lea

It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet's wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, right up until the day that she hears a snatch of Bach being played on a violin by a busker. Transfixed by the sweet...

Nina Malkin / 6X - The Uncensored Confessions - Loud, Fast and Out of Control

6X are still riding high in the US music charts - and struggling to cope with the trials of fame. Kendall is fast becoming America's sweetheart - a 'real' girl with the voice of an angel, but along with her anonymity, she's anxious to shed the homely...

J.J. Baloch / Whiter Than White

Written by seasoned police officer and accomplished writer, J. J. Baloch, Whiter Than White is the story of Hoor, an ordinary woman caught up in the throes of extraordinary circumstances. Hoor fosters her faith and cultivates confidence in her own...

Hope Holloway / The Dressmaker on Amelia Island

A sisterhood saga with threads of drama, dreams, and danger. Life for the Wingate women of Amelia Island is never dull! While Raina balances the challenge of nurturing newborn twins and a budding romance, trouble arrives on her doorstep to threaten...

Victoria Springfield / Invitation to Italy

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend to...

Fleur Jaeggy / Proleterka

A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl’s youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother, cold and unconcerned; the father who was...

Julie Burchill / Sweet

Some people tread water all their lives. Not me I'm gonna make a big splash. I could see myself living the good life, chasing the sun ...feet up, glass in hand, no worries. Sweet. After a short stay at Her Majesty's pleasure, Maria Sweet, aka Sugar, is...

Hope Holloway / The Chocolate Shop on Amelia Island

The saga continues with secrets, surprises, and sweet temptations…Sadie Wingate has been keeping secrets...from her family and from her brand new husband. But once the truth is revealed, her whole world melts like a truffle in the sunshine. Can...

Rick Gekoski / A Long Island Story

It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children – are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life on the...

Lilac Mills / The Allotment on Willow Tree Lane

When a local meadow is turned into a bee-friendly allotment, will romance also blossom? New teacher Ceri has enough on her plate trying to keep her class in line and get them excited for her Foxmore wildlife efforts. Then she meets the mysterious –...

Beth Reekles / The Summer Switch-Off

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might...

Katy Cox / M is for Mummy

A funny and touching insight into music, autism and motherhood' Dawn French 'A truthful book that dives headfirst into the realities of motherhood that will make you laugh out loud and touch your heart in equal measure' Izzy Judd...

Ava Wilder / How to Fake It in Hollywood

A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners.Grey Brooks is on a mission to keep...

Julie Houston / A Village Secret

When Jennifer goes up to Cambridge University with her head full of the Romantic Poets, she never dreams that she will find her very own Byron. But then she meets gorgeous actor Laurie Lewis, and finds herself living a real-life love poem.Fifteen years...

Bowering Sivers / Turning Point

Fiction that mirrors the experiences of women 45+ I'm going on a cruise. I've chosen my cabin, the ultimate in luxury, with a king-size bed and a Jacuzzi. It's utterly immoral...but I don't care. Daddy taught me to be very careful with money but he...

Hulse Caroline / All the Fun of the Fair

Completely hilarious' LUCY VINE 'Incredibly poignant' BETH O'LEARY'The new Adrian Mole' NICOLA MOSTYN'Sheer joy' CATHY BRAMLEY *The Fair is the only good thing that happens every year. And Fiona Larson is the only person in town who's never been.She's...

Jackie Collins / The Stud and L.A Connections ( Omnibus)

      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...

Barbara Francesca Murphy / Second Chances

Jordan, Florence, Zoe and Madelyn’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when a terrible tragedy is revealed. How far will these women go to prove their loyalty? And will they take matters into their own hands? Each one of them is on a journey of...

Gretta Curran Browne / Ghosts in Sunlight

In a time when the world was excitedly influenced by the cultured intellectualism of the new America president John F. Kennedy, MARIAN BARNARD is a young woman who falls hopelessly in love with MARC GAINES, a young American tourists who walks into the...

Barry Unsworth / Losing Nelson

As the child of an absent mother and a disapproving father, Charles Cleasby found comfort in solitary games of chess. Many years later, in the house where he grew up and now lives alone, he re-enacts the naval battles of his hero Horatio Nelson, moving...

Amanda Craig / Hearts and Minds

Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in...

Patricia le Roy / The Glass Palace Chronicle

When Marco Polo visited Burma in 1298, he was dazzled by gold and silver temples. Seven centuries later, the gold is gone and the Burmese government manages to keep its economy afloat via heroin trafficking. Plunged into this world are Claudia and her...

F.C. Clark / Harper's Fortune

M4RRY M3...Kate and Luke s lives are irrevocably changed. Luke is forced to reveal his top-secret military past to rescue Kate from Russia and she discovers the explosive consequences of becoming a major shareholder of Bagrov and Cooper.But are all her...

Janet Dailey / This Calder Sky

The great Calder empire stretched across the Montana plains as far as the eye could see. Everyone knew a Calder's word was law and that one day Chase Calder would carry the family name to new glories. But for handsome, arrogant Chase Calder there was...

Soinbhe Lally / A Hive for the Honey-Bee

Life, for a worker bee, is filled with toil. The workers keep the hive clean, harvest honey, build honey comb and rear young. Thora, a young worker, wonders if there shouldn't be more to life. When she befriends some drone bees she finds that the males...

Javier Marías / Dance and Dream

Having left Spain after the break-up of his marriage, Jacques Deza has allowed a friend to talk him into working for an MI6-like organisation run by the enigmatic Bertram Tupra. Deza's role is a seemingly innocuous one: he is to observe and comment on...

Hilary Bailey / Elizabeth and Lily

Spanning 30 years from 1886 to 1917, this novel, first published in 1997, follows the lives of two women from different ends of the social scale. They are reunited as adults and find that their friendship helps them through the bitterness and cruelty of...

Marge Piercy / Braided Lives

Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are being sown, Jill and Donna are coming of age in an exciting, turbulent time. Wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world, while her...

David Means / Hystopia

At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called HYSTOPIA. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third...

Frances Garrood / Ruth Robinson's Year of Miracles

All Ruth Robinson ever wanted was the man of her dreams. But she lost the man, and got a baby instead…Six months ago, Ruth Robinson had a regular job, a monthly salary and a comfortable flat to go home to.After quitting her job ready to...

Cathy Cole / Heartside Bay - Winter Wonderland

      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...

Soinbhe Lally / Song of the River

They heard a sound so distant, so remote in memory that Fingal wondered if he had dreamed about it. As they drew closer he realised what it was. It was the rhythm of their own river bar, the river was singing its own song and the great surf crashing on...

Marilyn Heward Mills / Association of Foreign Spouses

Marriage to a handsome Ghanaian architect has brought Eva far from the quiet English countryside. Alfred had made it sound heavenly but the hardship drained her of vitality and the foreign culture bewildered her. But Eva has her friends - Dahlia, Yelena...

Anne Rivers Siddons / Low Country

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband—and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in...

Simon Van Booy / The Illusion of Separateness

Award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man's act of mercy during World War II changed the lives of a group of strangers, and how they each eventually discover the astonishing truth of their connection"Van...

Elizabeth Harrower / The Long Prospect

Neglected twelve-year-old Emily befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist who encourages her to pursue her intellectual interests. But this innocent friendship will expose both to scandal, suburban snobbery, and psychological torment. Sharply observed,...

Val McDermid / Life's Too Short

What does it feel like to drive a lorry that's out of control?What really goes on in a school full of unruly children?Could you travel all over the world for work?Whether we love it or hate it, work has a huge impact on our lives and in recent times...

Benjamin Lytal / A Map of Tulsa

A stunning debut novel of first love set against the art scene of late-90s Tulsa by a former New Yorker editorial staffer.The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways...

Edward Kelsey Moore / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they’ve weathered life’s storms for over four...

Linden MacIntyre / Why Men Lie

Effie Gillis is a history professor teaching at a major university. She is also a survivor - of a troubled childhood, two failed marriages and numerous relationships which, for the most part, ended badly.Now, out of her past, arrives a man who is...

Erin Pizzey / The Wicked World Of Women

Three women, from very different backgrounds, are brought together by an advertisement in an international newspaper for female crew members. All three are victims of disillusionment, unhappy marriages and difficult childhoods. They are on a mission to...

Rebecca Done / My Husband the Stranger

A tragic accident. A terrible injury. And in a moment, the man you fell in love with is transformed into a total stranger. How would you cope? What would you do? Would you be strong enough to stay? But what if you found out that it wasn't an accident at...

Suzanne Power / Love and the Monroes

Do you believe in love at first sight and against all odds?  Chances are you're not a Monroe. Marilyn Monroe is a 30-something mathematical genius who applies a percentage calculation to yield the perfect man. But so far she hasn’t even found...

William Woodruff / Shadows of Glory

Woodruff's novel is about the fortunes of an Oxford University rowing eight, leading up to and during the Second World War. Ultimately this book, like the Nab End stories, is about common humanity and the importance of virtues such as faith,...

Catherine Richards & Luke Bitmead / Heading South

Heading South is a novel of two parts written by different authors, one depicting the animal-loving painter Cassie and the other the good-humoured Nick, still reeling from being dumped by his fiancee. Can the two ever get together as they are plagued by...

D.M. Thomas / Sphinx

Set in present-day London, Rome, and Leningrad, Stalin's Moscow, and the St. Petersburg of the czars, this novel centers on the cold war between truth and lies     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...

Amanda Eyre Ward / The Same Sky

In this heartrending and poignant novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she’s...

Angela Arney / Cast the First Stone

The wedding took place in Naples, a city of burning rubble and poverty -- for the time was 1944 and the Germans were in retreat. Thousands of Italians were starving and prepared to do anything to survive.Liana was more determined than most, not only to...

Deborah Andrews / Walking the Lights

Recently graduated young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple’s meager resources go to drink and drugs. Maddie and some...

Elizabeth O'Roark / The Summer You Found Me

KATEI tore out of rehab to win my husband back. It’ll work, too. He just needs to see that I’m clean, that I’m on my feet again.Until that happens, though, I’ve got only got one guy in my corner-Beck, my husband’s best...

Elizabeth O'Roark / The Summer We Fell

Part coming-of-age and part second chance romance – THE SUMMER WE FELL is an emotional rollercoaster full of sacrifice, love and heartbreak. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Mia Sheridan.He was my boyfriend’s best friend-and the bane of...

Jane Rogers / Conrad & Eleanor

From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage.The story of a marriage, and of two lives in...