General Fiction

Tony Parson / Catching the Sun

   Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn...

Clair Allen / The Mountain of Light

    The Mountain of Light, a London Indian Restaurant, is Balu's great love, the delicious kulfis and dansaks he devises in its kitchen his sole connection to the land of his childhood. When a young woman, Sarah, rents the flat upstairs,...

Robert Allison / The Letter Bearer

   The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying - dying - in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and...

David Malouf / Fly Away Peter

    For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong...

Ann Pilling / Black Harvest

    Colin and Prill were looking forward to a holiday of fun and adventure in Ireland. It would have been perfect if only they hadn't had to drag along their cousin Oliver. But Oliver, it turns out, isn't their biggest problem. Almost from...

David Gillham / City of Women

   A stunning and cinematic tale of life in Berlin at the height of the Second World War.In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved?It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by...

Mike Bullen / Trust

 The debut novel from BAFTA Award-winning writer of TV's COLD FEET: a laugh-out-loud tale of contemporary relationships, this is perfect for anyone who has ever fallen in love. Or out of love. Or back in love again.'Trust wasn't something you could...

Sheena Kamal / Eyes Like Mine

 A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing adds up to an extraordinary debut - highly recommended' LEE CHILD'Utterly compelling, rich with voice and psychological insight, populated with heartbreakingly real characters' JEFFERY...

Jan Mark / Hairs in the Palm of the Hand

    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 price...

Simth Hengerson / Fourth of July Creek

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER (award for the best crime novel by a debut author)A dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands.'If I knew for a...

Laline Paull / The Ice

 An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees.`A memorable eco-thriller. This is a world of arms dealers, heroic arctic adventurers and power crazed captains of industry...

Susan Hill / From the Heart

 A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for...

Andrew O'Hagan / Be Near Me

 Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now.When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends...

Amin Maalouf / Leo The African

 From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world...

Beth Gutcheon / Gossip

 Loviah French owns a boutique dress shop in Manhattan. She has two best friends: Dinah - a columnist covering New York's wealthiest - and Avis - a prominent figure in the art world. Despite the deep affection they both feel for Loviah, Dinah and...

Robert G. Barrett / White Shoes White Lines and Blackie

 NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSONAll Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life. How he let notorious conman Kelvin Kramer...

Manuel Puig / Kiss Of The Spider Woman

    Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all...

Tom Wolfe / The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby

    This collection of essays by Tom Wolfe recalls some of the seminal figures of the early 1960s - including the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali and the Beatles - as well as focusing on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social...

James Smythe / The Explorer

   A tense, claustrophobic and gripping science fiction thriller from the author of The Testimony.When journalist Cormac Easton is selected to document the first manned mission into deep space, he dreams of securing his place in history as one...

Jeff Mariotte / 30 Days of Night: Light of Day

    This is an all-new original novel based on the suspenseful and terrifying world of the comic book mythos 30 Days of Night, one of the most acclaimed horror sagas in recent years an innovative and nationally bestselling book expansion of...

Susan Isaacs / Magic Hour

    The Hamptons is a film-maker's dream, a stretch of beach where deals are made and games are played all day long. When a cold, debonair movie mogul is murdered, Detective Steve Brady, former local bad boy, discovers that his prime...

Susan Lewis / Silent Truths

    Secrets can be deadly...When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep, minutes after Beth's husband, political high-flier Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking...

William Diehl / Eureka

   Young Thomas Culhane grows up in the small Californian town of Eureka. But, although he is adopted by one of the town's wealthy families, he knows he must escape Eureka to make his own way in the world. Then World War I intervenes and...

Jon Fasman / The Geographer's Library

    Cub reporter Paul Tomm is working for a local newspaper in a sleepy Connecticut town when he's asked to write the obituary for an old Estonian history professor. This apparently routine assignment proves to be anything, but when Paul's...

Maureen Martella / Friends & Lovers

   Is there such a thing as just good friends...?When a long-distance phone call summons private investigator Annie McHugh's lover and business partner, Gerry, across the Atlantic Annie's left in charge. She's been looking forward to being in...

Julia Notaro / Short Change

    Lisa Soames is half-heartedly looking for a job. Turning up at a major Japanese investment bank wearing a turqoise jacket, yellow socks and red patent leather lace-up shoes, she doesn't rate her chances of being picked, but somehow...

Rich Hall / Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society

   The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething - cryin' out savagely for relief...

Jo Tatchell / The Poet of Baghdad : A True Story of Love and Defiance

   In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands...

Melanie Raabe / The Trap

   The Trap by Melanie Raabe is set, and ready to spring.I know you killed my sister.I wrote this novel for you.Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years on, she's...

Elena Mauli Shapiro / 13 Rue Therese

   An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut.As he settles into his new office in Paris, American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of century-old artifacts...

Tracy Quan / Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl

   Married call girl Nancy Chan has been asked to do something outrageous - even by her standards.Most favoured customer Milt has invited Nancy to his luxurious new villa in idyllic Provence. That's a lot of euros, but ...Can a (married)...

Susan Schneider / The Wedding Writer

    Wedding writers face particular challenges, envy being one of them, especially if the writer happens to be single, as Lucky is. Who are all these smug people, thinking life is just one great big happily ever after? Does anyone truly...

Tara Heavey / Sowing the Seeds of Love

    Though she doesn't know it, the day Aoife spots a neglected walled garden is the day her life begins again ...Restoring the garden gives Aoife an escape from the turmoil in her head and the ache in her heart. At first, Aoife does not...

Michael Kimball / Mouth to Mouth

   Following the huge international success story of UNDONE, Michael Kimball s acclaimed debut thriller, MOUTH TO MOUTH takes the reader deeper still into a world of twisted love, dark passions and ingenious scheming. When a lonely woman falls...

Guillaume Musso / Where Would I be Without You?

    Parisian cop Martin Beaumont has never really got over his first love, Gabrielle. Their brief, intense affair in San Francisco and the pain of her rejection still haunt him years later. Now, however, he's a successful detective - and...

Libby Purves / A Free Woman

   Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the...

Angela Huth / South of the Lights

    A novel by the author of "Nowhere Girl", "Invitation to the Married Life", and "Land Girls".     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...

Darcie Chan / The Mill River Recluse

   Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, an...

Miranda Dickinson / A Parcel for Anna Browne

   The gift of a lifetime?Anna Browne is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. Her day job as a receptionist in bustling London isn't exactly her dream, yet she has everything she wants. But someone thinks Anna Browne deserves more . . ...

Sean Williams / Twinmaker

 A near-future thriller that fans of the GONE series and Doctor Who will love. Clair is pretty sure the offer in the ‘Improvement’ meme is just another viral spam, though Libby is determined to give it a try. But what starts as...

Tahmima Anam / A Golden Age

 One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on...

Joyce Carol Oates / I'll Take You There

 Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. `I'll take You There' is an intense, deeply moving story of how a young woman finds her place in the world.`In those days in the early 1960s we were not women yet but girls...

Lawrence Hill / The Book of Negroes

   Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and...

Nick McDonell / Twelve

   Waterstones' Books of the YearNick McDonell's electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City.From page one, this novel pulsates...

Judith Gould / Never Too Rich

   In the Seventh Avenue world of haute couture, three women are determined to make it to the top. But a twisted human monster stalks the streets of Manhattan and his attention has been caught by the glittering trio.   All of our books...

Paulo Coelho / Aleph

 Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist.Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of...

Zoe Miller / A Husband's Confession

 Two couples. One secret. Will it be discovered? Will it be forgiven?Find out in A Husband's Confession, a sophisticated and engrossing page-turner . . .The artisan bakery Ali and Max Kennedy own isn't just a successful business - it's a second...

Cora Harrison / Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend

    Jane wants to meet a hero worthy of her extraordinary imagination: a gentleman who is dashing and daring and handsome and brave; who can dance like a viscount and duel like a king. Jane and Jenny are whiling away the season in Bath and...

Mark Mason / The C Words

    Alex is thirty-four, and, after a string of unsuccessful relationships, single and not really sure why. His last ex-girlfriend Amy told him he had 'commitment issues', and in an attempt to establish exactly what these are, Alex is...

Carolyn Haines / Touched

    Novel by the author of 'Season of Innocents'.     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...

Eithne Shortall / Grace After Henry

 Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page TurnersShortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book AwardsAn Irish Independent Book of the Year_______________________________Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the...

Sophie King / Mums@Home

 Calling all mums! What would you do if your husband had a fling? Have you ever had to keep a terrible secret from your kids? Do you sometimes wish you had a life outside being a mum? Are you pregnant and alone? Caroline, Mark, Susan and Lisa are as...