General Fiction

Mario Vargas Llosa / The Time of the Hero

 The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged...

Lee Irby / 7,000 Clams (Hardback)

 Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing...

Caleb Azumah Nelson / Open Water (Hardback)

 WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'A tender and touching love...

Yun Ko-Eun / The Disaster Tourist (Hardback)

 Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior...

Tahmima Anam / The Startup Wife (Hardback)

 Selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Observer, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Red and the Daily MailHalfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her...

Peter Moore Smith / Ravelling (Hardback)

 Pilot's parents and elder brother all believe that his little sister Fiona was murdered. At the age of 29 Pilot is in therapy for schizophrenia and he continues to "see" Fiona. Through a trauma of...

Janette Oke / Nana's Gift (Hardback)

 Nana's husband buys her a pearl necklace that is worn on every special occasion and is handed down through the generations, until it finally falls in the hands of a great-granddaughter who finds out...

Vicky Burford / The Greatest Household Tips in the World

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Lynne Reid Banks / The Backward Shadow

   Settled in the country with David, her baby son, Jane is trying to do the right thing for him and for Toby, her lover, who is beginning to make his way as a writer. Struggling to make ends meet,...

Jhumpa Lahiri / Whereabouts

 'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES 'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE

Ismail Kadare / The Accident (Hardback)

   On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot...

John Updike / In the Beauty of the Lilies (Hardback)

 This novel opens in 1910, as Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister, suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become an encyclopaedia salesman. He also becomes a movie addict. The novel...

Anton du Beke / B is for Ballroom : Be Your Own Armchair Dancefloor Expert (Hardback)

   Do you know your Botafago from your Volta Cross? Ever wondered how the Foxtrot got its name? Why is the Quick Step so quick? Which is easier, the standard Ballroom dances or the Latin ones?

Andre Brink / The Other Side Of Silence (Hardback)

 As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th...

Katy Hayes / Curtains (Hardback)

 In a plot wihch reads like LOVE STORY gone wrong, Isobel falls in love with Dick - not a meeting of the minds - and the loveless Arlene is rescued from her barren existence by the man from the local...

Joseph Bruchac / Bowman's Store : A Journey to Myself (Hardback)

 Having lived with his grandparents as a boy, the author describes how he was raised, never knowing about his Native American heritage, and explains how, as he grew up, he discovered things for...

Douglas Hurd / The Shape of Ice (Hardback)

   Prime Minister Simon Russell's personal alarm clock is ticking away. Beyond No 10, prison riots, bombs in Ireland, corporate blackmail in China and civil unrest in Russia jostle for his attention...

Sheri Joseph / Where You Can Find Me (Hardback)

 A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, he is found living a seemingly normal life under a new name with a man he calls his father...

Eimear McBride / The Lesser Bohemians (Hardback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016From the writer of one of the most...

David Park / A Run in the Park (Hardback)

 I loved this book' Daily MailStrangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness...

Howard Jacobson / The Making of Henry (Hardback)

 One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love-nest? Henry...

Janet Davey / By Battersea Bridge (Hardback)

 Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her self-confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of -...

Patricia Scanlan / The Liberation of Brigid Dunne (Hardback)

 Published in the UK as A Family Reunion *** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ***

Peter Ackroyd / Hawksmoor (Hardback)

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William Trevor / Reading Turgenev (Hardback)

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Declan Toohey - Perpetual Comedown - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named...

Roddy Doyle / Two More Pints (Hardback)

 Two men meet for a pint - or two - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell... In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle's drinkers...

Carmen Callil / The Modern Library : 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (Hardback)

 The authors have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. It includes some familiar names and some surprises. Witty and controversial, their aim is to encourage reading...

Philip Ó Ceallaigh - Trouble - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

Pages: 233 ISBN: 978-1-906539-86-3 Published: May 2021 Trouble is another stunning collection of stories from Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a writer who continues to amaze me with the intelligence...

Patrick Modiano - Dimanches d'août - PB - Gallimard 1992 ( Originally 1986)

Pourquoi le narrateur a-t-il fui les bords de la Marne avec Sylvia pour se cacher à Nice ? D'où vient le diamant la Croix du Sud, la seule chose dure et consistante de leur vie et qui, peut-être leur...

Mike Lepine / The Official Politically Incorrect Handbook

 Sick to death of being told to save the world, protect the ozone layer, stop smoking, start exercising, care for the elderly, use pooperscoopers, reassess your materialistic values and insulate the...

Naoise Dolan / Exciting Times

   'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty m

Robert Fabbri / Masters of Rome

 Rome, AD 51: After eight years of resistance Vespasian captures Rome's greatest enemy, the British warrior Caratacus. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove him from politics. Emperor Claudius...

Luke Wordley / The Fight

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi / The First Woman

 'In Jennifer Makumbi, we have a giant of literature living among us.' Peter Kalu, Jhalak Prize Judge

Tama Janowitz / American Dad

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Tama Janowitz / A Cannibal in Manhattan

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Helen McGinn / This Changes Everything

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Bill Cheng / Southern Cross the Dog

 When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert's ad

Alexander McCall Smith / The Baboons Who Went This Way And That: Folktales From Africa

 A man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked? With mo

Nancy Harrison / Winnie Mandela : Mother of a Nation

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Alexander McCall Smith / Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party

 It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in...

Richard Ford / Wildlife

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Antony Sher / Middlepost

 A novel set in 1902 about a homeless Jew who leaves Lithuania for South Africa. It is written by one of Britain's most acclaimed actors, and the author of the bestselling "Year of the King" and...

Peternelle Van Arsdale / The Beast is an Animal

 Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village.These soul eaters are twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly grew into something not quite human, something that needs to...

Mike McCormack - Solar Bones (Large Paperback) - 2021 ( Originally 2016)

Jim Crace / Being Dead (Hardback)

 The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to...

Katherine Collette / The Helpline (Hardback)

 An eccentric woman who is great with numbers--but not so great with people--realizes it's up to her to pull a community together in this charming, big-hearted debut perfect for fans of Eleanor...

Chang-Rae Lee / Aloft (Hardback)

 Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the...

John MacKenna / The Last Fine Summer (Hardback)

 An exploration of love and grief. Tim is grieving for his lover, Jean. As he looks back over the course of their affair, his memories intertwine with his recollections of his first lover, Kevin...

Fay Weldon / Mantrapped (Hardback)

 A wonderful new slice of the bizarre from Weldon. Trisha had been rich and Trisha had been poor, and she knew it was better to be rich. But, even worse, now she was to be stripped of her identity...

James Cowan / A Mapmaker's Dream : The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (Hardback)

 When the Venetian cartographer-monk Fra Mauro sets out to create the definitive map of the world, he has no idea that the project will become the adventure of a lifetime, challenging most of his...