General Fiction

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - PB 1979 ( Originally 1977)

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling back into the light. It is a very wide canvas and all...

Pete Johnson / Hero

Luke's sister is really annoying. Her ex-boyfriend is worse. But when the guy starts spreading rumours, Luke can't let it stand, not when they're about his family. And that's how he winds up in the biggest fight of the school year - one he probably won't...

Rosalind Miles / Bitter Legacy ( Return to Eden Book 2 )

Seven years after the horrific finale of her marriage to Greg, Stephanie Harper is rebuilding her shattered life. Back in her beloved Eden, reunited with her adored children, she finds happiness with Dan Marshall, the brilliant surgeon who made her whole...

Jenny O'Connell / The Book of Luke

Emily Abbott has always been considered the Girl Most Likely to Be Nice -- but lately being nice hasn't done her any good. Her parents have decided to move the family from Chicago back to their hometown of Boston in the middle of Emily's senior year...

Deborah Ellis / The Heaven Shop

Binti's father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. As Binti and her brother and sister slowly begin to understand what this means, they begin to realise too that not only is this what killed their mother,...

Amanda Hemingway / Soulfire

Micky Murphy, a muckraker with a passion for the truth, works as an investigator for a TV programme which exposes the illegal activities of tycoons. She's the perfect person to work on the case of Vincent Scarpia Savage, the aloof possessor of a...

Mark Haskell Smith / Moist

Moist' is the hilarious story of Bob's transformation into Roberto, a kingpin in the Los Angeles Mexican mafia.     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...

Austin Duffy / Ten Days

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth, travel to New York from London to scatter Miriam's ashes in the Hudson River. During the ten High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah...

Royce Keaveney / Free Like You : A Novel of Unabashed Queerness

A relentlessly well written love letter to the power of alternative lifestyles, positive mental health and proper pronoun use. They make me read this in hell" - Pastor Fred Phelps.Join me, precious reader, in exploring the thoughts, actions and worries...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...