General Fiction

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...

Emilie Richards / Fox River

When her lover, Christopher, a gifted horse trainer, is convicted of murder, Julia Warwick is unexplainably seiged by sudden blindness and decides to marry a friend who offers her a safe haven, and as she acclimates herself to a world of darkness, Julia...

Louise Armstrong / Kingfisher Days

Antonia Everett-Cox is extremely worried when her half-brother, Maximilian, fails to make an appearance at her birthday party. He had been exploring the jungles of the Caribbean, but he should have returned to London by now. Antonia decides she must go...

Zee Edgell / Beka Lamb

Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The politics of the small colony, the influence of the matriarchal society and the dominating presence of the Catholic Church are woven into the fabric of the...

Kinky Friedman / Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola

Kinky Friedman is a Jewish Texan country-and-western singer turned Greenwich Village amateur detective, with a collection of smelly cigars, a cat, and two former—but simultaneous—girlfriends named Judy. Shortly after the possibly suspicious...

Brian Moore - I Am Mary Dunne - PB 1977 ( Originally 1968)

First published in 1968 , I Am Mary Dunne follows one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the...

Philip Prowse / Double Cross

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A politician survives an attempted...

Cass Lester / The One After the One

How do you know if they’re The One (after The One)? Charley’s in a new relationship with perfect boyfriend, Ricky, slowly moving on from the death of her husband. But having only ever been in love once before, how can she know when it’s...

Mark Sarvas / Harry, Revised

Harry Rent, recently widowed and struggling to deal with the loss, finds himself in an unfortunate conundrum. He finds himself in love. From Harry's first hapless pursuit of Molly, the waitress at his local diner, we follow the transformation of one man...

Emma Rathbone / Losing It

Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to...

Colin Walsh / Flotilla

A novel whose aim is to amuse, maybe more than that, make the reader laugh out loud, more embarrassing on a train than a mobile phone. Can be read safely in summer, but sure brightens long winter days. You don't have to be a sailing buff to get immersed...

Madeline Stevens / Devotion

Sexy-but-literary' Sunday Times'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman'[A] literary psychological smoulderer' MetroDesire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and...

Costello Jane / Bridesmaids

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHORIt's a happy day for everyone except the bridesmaid ...With less than an hour to go before her best friend, Grace, is to walk down the aisle, Evie is attempting to fulfil her most...

George Lamming / In the Castle of My Skin

A classic first novel about growing up in colonial Barbados. In the Castle of my Skin is a brilliant, sensitive record of the evolving consciousness of a poor village boy, at a time of rapid social change.     All of our books are second hand,...

Anna Bell / It Started With A Tweet

Could YOU survive a digital detox?Daisy Hobson lives her whole life online. But when her social media obsession causes her to make a catastrophic mistake at work, Daisy finds her life going into free-fall . . .Her sister Rosie thinks she has the answer...

Dee Wyatt / A Price To Pay

Ann Thornton was thrilled to be offered the post of researcher on the popular TV series 'Yarwood Mill', but very soon she sensed that something was wrong...Who or what made her feel so uneasy? Was it James Yarwood himself? Or his brother, Steven, a...

Jennifer Anne Grosser / Trees in the Pavement

They were cutting the branches off the trees again.When Zari first arrived in East London, she had wondered about the trees. She had never seen any fields and farms in London, like there were at home in Kosovo. But there were more trees. Or at least you...

Mary Kay Zuravleff / The Frequency of Souls

A tale of electricity, relationships, love, and life after death. George Mahoney is a refrigerator designer with more than a passing interest in dinosaurs. Niagara Spense, his new colleague, is passionately seeking electrical evidence - via an old...

Joan Silber / Improvement

Improvement is a major work of literature.' - Nick Hornby, The BelieverReyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a...

Helga Jensen / My heart is in Venice

Venice was where it all began…Libby and Will spent a glorious honeymoon in this magical city. They didn’t have much money, but they had a whole lot of love and a bright future ahead of them.And Venice was where it all went wrong…Two...

José Emilio Pacheco / Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.     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...

Nicole Kennedy / Everything's Perfect

Can you ever have the perfect life? A smart and thought-provoking romantic comedy about motherhood, friendship and the quest for perfection in an Instagram age. Cassie Holliday is at the top of her game. A glamorous wife and mother with 1.3 million...

Robert Jenkins / The Fell

In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man...

Chris Berry / Tough Season

Greg Duggan is having a tough season with basement club Hopton Town until a new owner offers him his dream job. Suddenly, Greg’s life and loves are under pressure like never before from perpetrators bent on their goals. Is the reason sex, money or...