General Fiction

Annalena McAfee / The Spoiler

   Tamara Sim, a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist, is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait. Finally - a chance for Tamara to prove that there's more to her than forged expenses claims and the 'what's...

Kevin Powers / The Yellow Birds

   WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF...

Hwee Hwee Tan / Foreign Bodies

    Mei, a young Singaporean lawyer, receives a call from Andy, her English boyfriend. He's in jail, accused of masterminding an international soccer gambling syndicate. As Mei attempts to clear Andy's name, we learn of secrets buried in...

Aravind Adiga / Selection Day

   Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. WilsonOne of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of...

Helen Warner / Stay Close to Me

   Amy has enjoyed a charmed life, shopping and lunching while the nanny looks after her children. Until her world is thrown into disarray when husband Ben's business collapses overnight, taking their house and savings with it. Suddenly Amy...

Simonetta Agnello Hornby / The Almond Picker

    In the Sicilian village of Roccacolomba, La Mennulara ('the woman who gathers almonds') lies dead.For more than 40 years she had been at the heart of the Alfallipe family, one of the richest families in Roccacolomba first as a humble...

Terri Paddock / Come Clean

   Mesmerising, moving novel from exceptional new author about one girl's struggle to cope after being wrongly admitted to a boot-camp-style rehabilitation centre. A powerful and page-turning read.Justine is trying to cope with the desperate...

Giovanna Fletcher / Billy and Me

   The gloriously romantic debut about fame, friendship and falling in love, from the bestselling author of Some Kind of Wonderful and Happy Mum, Happy BabySophie May has a secret.One that she's successfully kept for years. It's meant that...

Harry Bingham / Dead Simple

   A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected resultsThe grieving widow who finds that she's about to lose more than just her husbandWhen a man attempts the perfect murder, it's not quite as easy as he thinksTwo men in prison play...

Philip Pullman / Grimm Tales : For Young and Old

   In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.From the...

Winston Graham / Marnie

    The novel that became a classic Hitchcock film. Marnie seems a charming woman, but no one knows her real name or anything about her at all. Now Marnie has walked into a trap. The game is over - or would be - if the man who trapped her...

Maggie Gibson / First Holy Chameleon

    Cash Ryan's life is a mess. A property developer has made her homeless, her boyfriend has decided to lead the celibate life, and her big acting break in a TV soap has just fizzled out like a damp squib. She gets sympathy and support...

Sarah Dunant / In The Name of the Family

   A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the YearA Cosmopolitan Best Book of the YearA History Today Book of the Year'Dunant has made completely her own the story of the Italy's most infamous ruling family . . . in a way that we can see,...

S. D. Robertson / Stand By Me

   'A heartbreaking tale' THE SUN'Exceptionally beautiful' MIRANDA DICKINSONThey'll always have each other...won't they?Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was...

Patrick McGrath / Port Mungo

    Throughout their privileged but highly eccentric childhood Jack Rathbone has enjoyed the constant adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend art school in London, Jack plunges into a passionate affair with Vera Savage, a painter some...

Suzanne Kingsbury / The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me

   Four young people come of age in small-town Mississippi where racial tension lies just below the surface - as does an unknown body in a shallow grave.Fletcher Greel, the Judge's son, is home for the summer; he falls instantly for beautiful...

B M Carroll / The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

   'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane MoriartyShe's the victim.But is she so innocent?Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she...

C. W. Gortner / The Last Queen

    Married at sixteen. A queen at twenty-five. Declared insane and locked up by the men she adored. Juana "la Loca" - the last true queen of Spain. Juana - daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella and sister to Catherine of Aragon - is a woman...

Eve Devon / Christmas at the Little Clock House on the Green

   A cosy heartwarming festive romance that will make you laugh out loud!Welcome back to the village of Whispers Wood, where Christmas magic is in the air...After giving his heart last year only to have it given away the very next day, Jake...

Anna Richards / Little Gods

   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it.A girl -...

David Foenkinos / Delicacy

    He was passing by, she kissed him without thinking. Now she wonders whether she did the right thing. But Natalie isn't certain of anything anymore. One minute she was a happily married young woman, successful in her career, and...

Rhiannon Navin / Only Child

   A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.We all went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home.When...

Ali Shaw / The Girl with Glass Feet

   Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)Shortlisted Tahtifantasia Award Nominee...

John Ajvide Lindqvist / Harbour

   'Lindqvist is Sweden's answer to Stephen King' Daily MirrorThey only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it took.It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across...

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...