General Fiction

Stella Rimington / Present Danger

   MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland. From the moment she lands in Belfast, danger follows. She soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious.Then a source reports strange goings-on at a house on the...

Tom Hanks / Uncommon Type : Some Stories

   _________________________A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best...

Sally Mandel / Portrait of a Married Woman

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Alice Kuipers / Life on the Refrigerator Door

    Beautifully told through notes left on their kitchen fridge, this is an intimate portrait of the relationship between a hard-working mother and her teenage daughter. Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting, it is about being a 'good...

Andrew Taylor / Call The Dying

   'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the seventh instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesLove and need make unexpected bedfellows, and...

David Sedaris / Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

   David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters.He goes on vacation with his family.He gets a job selling drinks.He attends his brother's wedding.He mops his sister's floor.He gives directions to a lost traveller.He eats a hamburger.He has...

Emma Hannigan / The Gift of Friends

   'Vintage Emma: Wise, funny, full of wit and sparkle. Read and be uplifted' Cathy Kelly'A beautiful story about fractured families, unconditional love and the importance of friendship. I read it in one sitting' Sinead Moriarty'Brimming with...

Julie Cohen / Where Love Lies

   `A brilliantly original story that will resonate loud and clear with anyone who's ever been knocked sideways by love' HEATWhen Felicity steps off the train on the way to meet her husband, she is so sure of everything. Where she is heading,...

Jaci Burton / Hope Burns

    A novel of small-town hearts and big dreams--from the author of Hope Ignites and the Play-by-Play novel Straddling the Line... "PREPARE TO FALL IN LOVE..."--Jill Shalvis Molly Burnett dreads returning to her hometown of Hope for her...

Annie Sparrow / Said and Done

    First novel by an author with a keen eye for office politics and a sense of romance. When the least appealing partner in a firm of London solicitors is picked to open a Dublin office, legal secretary Emma is asked to go ahead and...

John Conner / CHILDS GAME

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Carol O'Connell / Flight of the Stone Angel

    The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered...

Lucy Hawking / Jaded

    William Gadget's last bonus was worth more than his parents' house. His pyjamas are made of pashmina and many Hungarian ducks gave their feathers to fill his plump pillows. He can pontificate the length on the state of the Nikkei when...

A. D. Miller / The Faithful Couple

   Turn a betrayal inside out and you found its opposite, a secret and a bond. Perhaps that was what friendship came down to: a lifelong, affectionate mutual blackmail.Neil and Adam, two young men on the cusp of adulthood, meet one golden...

Tom McNeal / To Be Sung Underwater

   For you, I was a chapter-a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter-and for me, you were the book.'Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that 'picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio...

Alexander McCall Smith / Trains and Lovers

    Imagine you're on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you've all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly all share: you have all...

Susanne O'Leary / Fresh Powder

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Thomas Perry / Silence

    Six years ago Wendy Harper was running for her life. Jack Till, an ex-cop turned private eye, helped her disappear. He did a very good job of it and even Jack has no idea where she might be. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business...

Richard Yates / Disturbing the Peace

    Everything began to go wrong for Janice Wilder in the late summer of 1960. And the worst part, she always said afterwards, the awful part, was that it seemed to happen without warning...John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful...

Alice Fitzgerald / Her Mother's Daughter

   1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind.Seventeen years and two children later,...

Martin Edwards / The Arsenic Labyrinth

   Daniel Kind's relationship with Miranda is on the rocks. After the bright lights of London, Miranda feels isolated in the Lake District and Daniel fears that she will just up and leave. And Miranda wouldn't be the first: ten years ago Emma...

Jasmine Cresswell / The Refuge

    Left penniless, with a young son to support, following the deaths of her father and cruel husband, Marisa Joubert finds employment at a Colorado ranch that houses unwed mothers, where she and Jimmy, a janitor at the ranch, join forces...

George D Shuman / Last Breath : A Sherry Moore Novel

   Following close on the heels of his celebrated debut 18 Seconds, George Shuman returns with yet another remarkable thriller featuring investigative consultant Sherry Moore -- a blind woman with an uncanny ability to view the final living...

Miklos Vamos / The Book Of Fathers

   In 1705 Kornel Csillag's grandfather happens across a miraculous gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud of an ancient Magyar battlefield, which is to improve dramatically his family's shipwrecked fortunes - for the timepiece bestows an...

Stephen Vizinczey / An Innocent Millionaire

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James Kennedy / Armed and Dangerous

    Four convicted IRA killers break out of a top-security prison - a jailbreak that leaves a trail of corpses and speeds towards a major catastrophe in London. Can MI5 stop them and save the peace process, when those who are meant to...

Hilary Boyde / Meet Me on the Beach

   Where do you run when your heart's breaking all the rules?When pillar-of-the-community Harry Stewart dies of a sudden heart attack, the whole village is devastated - except for his wife Karen, the only one who really knew the abusive...

Saul Black / Lovemurder

   'Black delivers a powerhouse of a thriller.' Lisa Gardner The second spine-chilling serial-killer thriller featuring homicide detective Valerie Hart from the author of the critically-acclaimed THE KILLING LESSONS. REMEMBER HER FACE. IT WILL...

Siobhan Curham / Sweet FA

    A neglected woman is a dangerous thing, so when four very different ladies join together to wage war on their football obsessed partners, who knows where the game will end?     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Richard Howard / Bonaparte's Warriors

    During four years of uneasy peace, France has seen many chances. Alain Lausard and his companions have become part of Bonaparte's Grand Armee, but there are those who still oppose Bonaparte and his regime. When the leading conspirator...

Christina Jones / Going the Distance

    Chaotic, likeable Maddy Beckett lives in Milton St John, where horses, trainers and jockeys outnumber the rest of the inhabitants. Fully recovered from a disastrous love affair and running a successful small business, she is her own...

Sarah Stovell / Mothernight

    "I was beginning to realise that time didn't move forwards here. It just spun round and round, circling an old date, endlessly."So says seventeen-year-old Olivia, who spends the summer at the home of her boarding school friend, the...

Christina Jones / Stealing the Show

    When Nell Bradley discovers a set of dilapidated gallopers - an antique roundabout with carved horses - for sale, she is delighted. She and her brothers, Danny and Sam, run a traditional fair which, so far, has afforded them a good...

Rosemary Aitken / The Girl from Penvarris

    When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher.Instead,she goes into service at the big house with her sister,Fanny.Soon,and against her will,she finds herself growing...

Mary Hooper / Amy

    'It all started after I fell out with Louise and Bethany, really. It was falling out with them that made me try to find friends somewhere else, and the Internet seemed a good place to look...' Amy is a level-headed sort of girl,...

Romesh Gunesekera / Reef

    The story of love in a spoiled paradise is told by Triton, who at the age of 11, escapes from his family and goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing...

Amanda Smyth / Black Rock

    Celia's mother died bringing her into the world - when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi's second husband Roman, a man so sly he could crawl under a...

Davies / Nest of Vipers

    Undercover agent Sarah Jensen is sent to investigate a billion dollar conspiracywhose chief suspects are a government banker,the Mafia & a merchant bank.She is hurled into a vortex of deceit,betrayal & murder....

Jill Mansell / You And Me, Always

   Jill Mansell's YOU AND ME, ALWAYS is a deliciously romantic and poignant read about love, loss and how nothing can stay hidden for ever... If you love the novels of Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond, you won't want to miss Jill Mansell...

Kathleen McGurl / The Girl from Ballymor

   What would you sacrifice for your children?Ballymor, Ireland, 1847As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Chance

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Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Sanjida O'Connell / The Naked Name of Love

   In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the...

Barbara Esstman / Mare's Milk

    Simon Mahler died at 17 from a fall from a mare that he and his mother loved dearly. Simon's father, unable to bear the sight of the horse, destroys the one creature that could have helped his distraught wife heal herself. Nora Mahler...

Susanne O'Leary / Diplomatic Incidents

    Anna O'Connor is a beautiful, if slightly overweight, ex-ballerina. As the wife of a successful Irish diplomat, she moves to Paris, city of her dreams. But the dream starts to turn into a bizarre nightmare when Michael, a drunken,...

Mark Gartside / What Will Survive

   Graham Melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met Charlotte Marshall over a can of warm lager at his best-friend's party in 1985. It was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the same again.Two decades later,...

Diane Johnson / L'Affaire

    This is a wickedly funny and observant novel about the delicate questions of love, death and money. Amy Hawkins, Californian millionairess, is travelling in Europe, to find her culture, her roots and a cause to which she might devote...

Patrick Redmond / All She Ever Wanted

    Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold,...

John Ramster / Ladies' Man

    Simon and Ruth work together. She's a partnerless mum and he's gay, fun, single and searching. Simon realizes that he wants to be more than just friends with Ruth but will he be able to cope with vomiting babies, ex-partners and a...

Anna Blundy / Only My Dreams

    Be careful what you wish for...Alice Reynolds had always dreamt of escaping her grimy corner of South London for the fairytale world of the privileged aristocratic elite. Cricket whites, Pimms and summer balls were the stuff of Alice's...

Susan Sizemore / I Burn for You

    As the dark hollows of his soul threaten to overwhelm him Alec undergoes treatments to allow him to bear daylight. Living a double life as a bodyguard, he must now battle the chemistry between him and Domini, his soulmate. When she gets...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...