General Fiction

Antonio Pagliarulo / The Celebutantes on the Avenue

It's summer in the city for Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton. Only, these triplet heiresses have more on their plate than hot-tubbing and the Hamptons...      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Susan Irvine / Corpus

In this illuminating collection, Susan Irvine takes the reader into the creative mind. From Concept I, in which an artist presents her son as a work of art for the Turner Prize, to a Hoxton novelist who outsources the production of his prose to a...

Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn / Patsy

Patsy yearns to escape the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised for a new life in New York and the chance to start afresh.  But spreading her wings will come at a price: she must leave her five-year-old daughter, Tru, behind...

Danielle Steel / Palazzo

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the...

Amy Lynch / Bride without a Groom

Single, coupled-up or married, this laugh-out-loud summer read is the perfect anecdote for the wedding season!Rebecca has chosen the most luscious, five tiered, wedding cake. The engagement ring that she has selected is celebrity inspired. The wedding...

Hazel Gaynor / The Last Lifeboat

      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...

J. Paul Henderson / Daisy

In my opinion, the world can be divided into two types of one happy to talk about themselves, and the other not. I belong to the latter category.Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Herod S Pinkney and I’m in love with a girl called Daisy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Richard Flanagan/ First Person

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his...

Leigh Russell / Poppy Takes the Lead ( Poppy Mystery Tales )

The third installment in the Poppy Mystery Tales, a British cozy crime series perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and SJ Bennett's The Queen Investigates serie sEmily is living happily in the quaint village of Ashton Mead, where...

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...

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...

Sue Moorcroft / Under the Italian Sun

A sun-baked terrace. The rustle of vines. And the clink of wine glasses as the first cork of the evening is popped…Welcome to Italy. A place that holds the answer to Zia-Lucia Costa Chalmers’ many questions. Not least, how she ended up with...

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...

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...

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...

Michel Laub / Diary of the Fall

I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out ... but he lay on the ground with his eyes...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Jess Kidd / The Night Ship

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy...

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...