General Fiction

Richard Gwyn / Deep Hanging Out

It is 1981 and while Britain enjoys the full impact of Thatcherism, Cosmo Flute, a brilliant and dissolute young painter, and his friend Ruben Fortuna, a street-wise Argentinian photographer, flee to the Greek island of Crete to indulge in...

Colin Butts / Is Harry on the Boat?

You arrive at the airport to be greeted by a sun-tanned clipboard bearer, there to make your dream holiday come true. But behind the smiles, the badge and the suspect command of the native lingo, what really goes on? Are they a happy, celibate team...

Margaret Dickinson / Reap the Harvest ( Fleethaven Trilogy - Book 3 )

This is the final part of the Lincolnshire regional trilogy, following " Plough the Furrow" and " Sow the Seed" .         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of...

Tom Connolly / Men Like Air

It is April in Manhattan and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother...

James Grippando / Found Money

Single mother Amy Parkens feels trapped by a boring job, low pay, and no time for her young daughter. But that's before $200,000 in cold, hard cash arrives in an unmarked box. Desperately needing the money, Amy fears a setup or a connection to her...

Lucy Ellmann / Mimi

Bach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary work of art to date. It’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his...

Gillian Tindall / Give Them All My Love

Gillian Tindall's "Give Them All My Love," the story of a killing in which she examines complex themes concerning love, revenge, justice and the nature of grief, is a tour de force, the most compelling novel she has ever written. The story opens with...

Ann Purser / Spinster of This Parish ( Round Ringford Novels - Book 2 )

The 2nd novel in the series set in the heart of a country village. It is a year since Ivy Beasley, an ageing spinster with a waspish tongue and an all seeing eye, watched with deep suspicion as hernew neighbours, the Palmers moved into Round Ringford...

Julie Garwood / The Ideal Man ( Buchanan-Renard Novels - Book 9)

Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the...

Erin Pizzey / The Consul General's Daughter

Mary Jane Freeland is the consul general's daughter, a beautiful but lonely young woman traveling the world in search of love, who finally realizes that her mother's secret past holds the key to her future...

Ivan Wainewright / The Kosher Delhi

Vik is a twenty year old English boy of Jewish/Indian mixed heritage. He wants to become a chef, but his experiences of racism in restaurant kitchens hold him back.Until he meets Yvonne: Scottish activist, hedonist, who strives vehemently for social...

Rachel Billington / Magic and Fate

When Sissie Slipper slips, the fashion world gasps. Her mentor Rudolph dies and Sissie loses a tooth. Life as a supermodel is at an end, but that leaves a wider world to explore. The mysterious, mocking figure of the Author guides her forward on her...

Mandy Haggith / Bear Witness

The brutal shooting of a bear cub galvanises ecologist Callis MacArthur into becoming an activist. Dreaming of bears roaming free - even in Scotland, a thousand years after their disappearance - she finds herself exploring Europe's remotest forests...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Comfort Of Saturdays ( Isabel Dalhousie Novels - Book 5 )

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a...

Addison Jones, Cynthia Rogerson / Wait for Me, Jack

Married in 1952, Jack and Milly meant to live the American Dream—but over six decades, the dream has changed for their country and for them. Wait for Me, Jack takes us from the aches and indignities of old age back to the exhilarating...

Nevada Barr / Firestorm (Anna Pigeon -Book 4)

An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best--and worst--in those sworn to defeat it...

Trezza Azzopardi / Remember Me

The Hiding Place is a harrowing, elegant, and vivid portrait of a lost life at last reclaimed. Winnie would say she's no trouble, content to let the days go by, bothering no one. Living on the edge of nowhere, she'd rather not recall the past and, at...

Meghann Foye / Meternity

      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...

Carl Muller / The Jam Fruit Tree

Winner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the...

Nicholson Baker / Checkpoint

The main characters in the novel are two men, Jay and Ben. The novel consists of their dialogues in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., in May 2004. The story begins with Jay asking Ben to go to Jay's hotel room. From that conversation it is inferred that...

Rosemary Kay / Return Journey

A novel about a young woman's search for her father and the discovery of something completely different but no less valuable.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Lewis Davies / Work, Sex and Rugby

Young and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romantic, and life isn't matching up to all he thinks it should be...

Max Schaefer / Children Of The Sun

In 1970s Britain, 14-year-old Tony is entranced by the racism and brutality of the skinhead movement. From white-power rock gigs and race riots to clandestine homosexual encounters, Tony rages through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s while the far right...

Joanna Nadin / Wonderland

Jude must get away. She has to ace her exams and an audition at a prestigious drama school or she'll never escape her small town life and follow her dream of becoming an actor. But then her best friend Stella returns, bringing excitement and danger...

Julian Barnes / Elizabeth Finch

Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration. Neil is just one of many who fell under her spell during his time in her class. Tasked with unpacking her notebooks after her death, Neil once again encounters Elizabeth's astonishing ideas on the...

Eliot Schrefer / Heart of Danger ( Ape Quartet - Book 1 )

The compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos--and herself--from a violent coup.The Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When one girl has to follow her mother to her sanctuary for bonobos, she's not...

Jo Carnegie / Party Games

Although the countryside town of Beeversham looks picture-perfect, nothing is quite as it seems. Behind closed doors, three women are struggling to lead the lives they want.Vanessa seems like she simply must have it all - she's beautiful, rich and...

Millie Gray / The Tangling of the Web

Sally, who married young to escape her appalling childhood, is often left to bitterly reflect on the hand she has been dealt. She is, on the whole, happy caring for her handsome husband, his mother, her own three children, one of whom has a...

Michelle Gayle / Don't Lie to Me, Robbie Wilkins

OMG! My bum looks huge in this LBD!Minutes away from a date with Robbie Wilkins. Him: the buffest Premiership footballer around. Me: now officially an elephant :(.I can't believe I snogged him on my seventeenth-and-a half birthday! (He's a proper catch...

Jane Fallon / Over Sharing

Does she have the perfect life?Or is she living the perfect lie?Iris is happy, really. No, this isn't exactly what she thought her forties would look like...she's divorced. She hasn't had the baby she so wanted. She's had to rent out her spare room to...

Daisy Wood / The Clockmaker’s Wife

The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the...

Kim Echlin / The Disappeared

After more than 30 years, Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Michael Honig / The Senility of Vladimir P.

Set twenty-odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number One—Vladimir Putin, largely forgotten in his presidential dacha, serviced by a small coterie of house staff, drifting in and out of his memories of the past. His nurse, charged with the...

Michael Hughes / The Countenance Divine

In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.In 1777 an apprentice...

Rose Tremain / The Swimming Pool Season

After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling...

Nancy Thayer / Morning

After she discovers some pages of a distinguished novel mixed up in a run-of-the-mill romance, Sara Kendall, a free-lance editor living on Nantucket, searches out the mysterious author.         All of our books are second...

Taylor Smith / Best Of Enemies

When a young college girl is linked to a terrible crime and then mysteriously vanishes, one woman, who firmly believes in the girl's innocence, joins forces with a man tormented by his tortured past to unravel dark secrets that will rock a tranquil New...

Antonio Pagliarulo / Celebutantes : In the Club

The most fabulously glamorous tale of It girls, fashion, money and murder you'll ever read!         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...

Roberta Latow / Cannonberry Chase

      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...

Marcelle Bernstein / Saints & Sinners

Every saint has a past - and every sinner has a future. When Janie Paxton, a young journalist with a chequed and painful past of her own, begins to investigate the life of Mama - visionary, mystical healer, peacemaker to nations - old and terrible...

Louise Erdrich / The Sentence

In this powerful and timely novel, National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich explores how the burdens of history, and especially identity, appropriation, exploitation, and violence done to human beings in the name of justice, manifest in ordinary...

Charlotte Nash / Mallory Cook and the Road Not Taken

One single mother. Three escaped pensioners. An unforgettable road trip. In their tiny, pale green cottage under the trees, Mallory Cook and her five-year-old son, Harry, are a little family unit who weather the storms of life together. Money is tight...

Julian Fellowes / Snobs & Past Imperfect

SNOBS Edith Lavery, the attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, leaves behind her dull job when she manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors in town. But is life amongst the aristocracy really all that it seems...? PAST IMPERFECT...

W.E. Bowman / The Ascent of Rum Doodle

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a peak in the Himalayas, many thought it was inspired by the 1953 conquest of Everest. But Bowman had drawn...

Freya Watson / Axel's Summer ( A Heart to Share - Book 2 )

In the second part of the 'A Heart to Share' trilogy, Axel has his own journey to follow. A long summer of rennovating an old family home on Cape Breton Island leads him into territory he hadn't quite expected, leaving Maya to deal with the...

Eva Glyn / The Dubrovnik Book Club

In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik’s historic Old Town, a book club begins…Newly arrived on the sun-drenched shores of Croatia, Claire Thomson’s life is about to change forever when she starts working at a local bookshop. With her cousin...

Elizabeth Pewsey / Children of Chance

Prue Pagan, brought up by a religious aunt, is an innocent. Cleo Byng, raised by her artist mother, is extrovert, streetwise and bent on having fun - preferably with men. Good friends at school, now they have taken holiday jobs in the same village in...

Kate Sawyer / This Family

This house. This family.Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance.The wedding celebrations have brought fractured...

John Harding / While the Sun Shines

About to hit 50, obsessed with sex, cocaine-fueled, and gripped by a crippling fear of death, Professor Michael Cole is finding life a bit of a struggle. He knows the time has come to act his age—the question is how. It's when he's caught in...

Freya Watson / A Heart to Share

Maya is a woman who loves color - the colors of her fabrics and the countries from which they come, and the colorful experiences her travels lead her into, from Ayahuasca to Tantra. But her life at home with her husband has faded to a dull gray that...

Phil Lamarche / American Youth

In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a...

Louise Douglas / The Lost Notebook

A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morannez… It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman...