General Fiction

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...

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...

Tracy Corbett / Someone to Love

It’s hate at first sight for the wedding planners…It’s down to maid of honour Beth and best man Matt to plan a dream wedding for the absent bride and groom. Not only do they have to handle the bride’s sky-high expectations and...

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...

Benjamin Wood / A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better

With his third novel, Wood’s talent has burgeoned spectacularly. The book is a tremendous achievement, an unputdownable domestic thriller that is also subtle and moving … travelling well beyond his earlier fiction, Wood has produced a tour...

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...

Marie Aubert / Grown Ups

Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devastating, Grown Ups is for anyone who has ever felt the fear of being overtaken by a sibling, who feels almost--but not quite--grown up, and who's struggled to navigate a new future for themselves.Ida is...

C.K. Stead / All Visitors Ashore

As their friends leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was...

Annie Macmanus / The Mess We’re In

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready.It’s the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house with her best mate and...

Bronagh Curran / The Good Activist

Maeve Daly is a product of her time, opinionated, impressionable and determined.But she is also a product of her upbringing, for half of her life she called her teenage mother her sister and never knew her place in the family, let alone the world.So when...

Yvonne Roberts / Shake

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Danny Rhodes / Fan

In 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only...

James A. Michener / Recessional

Andy Zorn, a gifted Chicago doctor sued for malpractice, leaves town one day and witnesses a terrible accident in which a young woman has both her legs crushed. He is advised to disappear in order to avoid further malpractice charges. Later he meets the...

Samuel Shem / Mount Misery

Welcome to Mount Misery psychiatric hospital, home of the crazed, the suicidal, the Machiavellian and the wicked. And that's just the doctors. For Dr Roy Basch, proudly starting his residency there, it is a bewildering and nightmarish experience. The...

Peter Matthiessen / Shadow Country

Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end...

Anne Glenconner / A Haunting at Holkham

The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique , based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting.January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business...

Sherry Bagnato / Happy Endings

In the early hours of a sizzling summer morning, strung out on cocaine, Dilarang Membuang stands on top of a boulder in a dog park of Lake Ontario; with arms outstretched, he is ready to meet two hit men who will blow him to pieces. A slew of ordinary...

Valerie Mendes / Coming of Age

When her mother is killed in a riding accident, nine-year-old Amy is left mute and traumatized. She was there, but she cannot remember what happened and is haunted by a nightmare that she cannot fully explain. Gradually her voice returns, but not her...

Melissa Hill / Please Forgive Me (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Claudia Carroll / The Women of Primrose Square (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Cathy Kelly / Never Too Late (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Claudia Carroll / Personally I Blame My Fairy Godmother (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Patricia Scanlan / Forgive and Forget (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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