General Fiction

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...

Susan Hill / Mrs. de Winter

    THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SEQUEL TO REBECCA BY ONE OF OUR FINEST WRITERS. Married to the sophisticated and worldy wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter should be leading a happy and fulfilled life. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca casts...

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...

Clare Allan / Poppy Shakespeare

    Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room and swapping medication. Like the other patients,...

Jonathan Lethem / The Fortress of Solitude

   From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They...

Carl-Johan Vallgren / The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot : His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred

   On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth. To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette, to the other, what can only be described as a monster: a boy, Hercules, deaf-mute and hideously deformed,...

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...

Jennie Fields / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    When Zoe moves to Brooklyn she hopes life will start afresh for her husband, Jamie, who had a breakdown after the birth of their second child, and the death of their first. But Zoe did not expect her daughter's efforts to find a new...

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...

Michele Campbell / It's Always the Husband

   The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller`A page-turning whodunnit that will speak to anyone who's ever had a frenemy.'Ruth Ware`A gripping, tangled web of a novel-it pulls you in and doesn't let you go. I loved it!Shari LapenaIt's Always the...

Susanne O'Leary / Fresh Powder

      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...

Carson McCullers / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

   'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel...

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,...

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...

Jenny Cruise / Welcome To Temptation

    Sophie came to Temptation, a small town in Ohio, to help her sister make a movie. Now she's making trouble for the town council, love with the mayor and lemonade for a murderer. Welcome to Temptation - population 2158. And falling. This...

Stephen Vizinczey / An Innocent Millionaire

      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...

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...

T. C. Boyle / Drop City

    It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers...

Yvonne Antrobus / True to Form

    When Sukie Buckley finds the body of one of the racing fraternity in compromising circumstances, she is forced to become a participant in the race to find a killer. The lives of those linked by a valuable horse, Triumvirate, come under...

Michael Mullen / The Midnight Country

    The epic story of three sisters and their turbulent lives, tied to the destinies of Germany, Austria and Russia in the unstable years leading up to World War I.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Shari low / A Life Without You

   Touching, funny, and bittersweet, this is a story that will make you laugh, cry, and call your best friend to tell her you love her.30-year-old Dee Harper and her husband, Luke, are blissfully happy. Everyday she makes her loyal parents Val...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Seville Communion

    A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition. Father Quart, a suave Vatican trouble-shooter, is sent to investigate...

Dominic Smith / The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

   In the 1600s Sara de Vos loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of ice skaters from the edge of a wood.In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At...

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...

Stuart Browne / Dangerous Parking

    "The screaming ambulance slows down a fraction as it hits the junction of parkway and Camden High Street. It feels as if my bladder is in my head, and any minute now it will explode, and blast piss and blood at a million-foot-pounds...

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...

Douglas Hurd / The Shape of Ice

    Douglas Hurd's fine political novel, set in the near future, eloquently conveys the sheer anarchic pressure of political life at the top - the way problems jostle for attention in the day, with the small ones prevailing because they are...

Iain Pears / The Dream Of Scipio

   Dark, erudite and like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelistsSet in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation -...

Michael Raleigh / In the Castle of the Flynns

   This is the story of a young boy saved from unspeakable despair as he is embraced by Irish love. 'An amazing book, a troika of laughter, love and loss.' Malachy McCourtThe year is 1954, the setting a vibrant Chicago neighborhood.Daniel...

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...

Jonathan Raban / Waxwings

    At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought...

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,...

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...

Wendy Robertson / My Dark-Eyed Girl

    After nursing in the Spanish Civil War, Susan is relieved to set foot on English soil again. By her side is a beautiful, young Spanish woman, Chichu, who has lost her whole family in the fight against Franco and only kept her own life...

Suzanne De Mines / Scarlet

    Intrepid girl reporter exposes secret world of sex, lust and passion. Her assignment was to investigate the world of nude modelling, which was how she found herself posing naked for the camera. She would do anything for a story - and...

Rebecca Hunt / Mr Chartwell

   Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year.July, 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasn't...

Peter Carey / Amnesia

   A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the YearWhen Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse:...

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...

Lindsay Gordon / The Bond

    For some, like Missy and Hank, the bond is an extraordinary passage from innocence to extreme passion. It is a need for sensual freedom and an ability to read the minds of the lovers they ensnare and use. For the Preacher, the bond is a...

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...

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,...

Pat Booth / Sparklers

   A story that races from the Olympic ski slopes of Colorado to the inner councils of the Mafia, from the exclusive haunts of the rich and beautiful to the machinations of the international diamond business.Caroline Montgomery is fresh,...

Lindsey Piper / Hunted Warrior

   Demonic gladiators, ruthless mafia villains, and a race on the brink of distinction: What will become of them? One proud leader wields his power to unlock dark mysteries in the third book in this fierce, sensual new paranormal romance...

Damian Lanigan / The Chancers

   A failed actor has one last chance at success - in this razor-sharp satirical novel from the acclaimed author of STRETCH, 29.Hailed by the Observer as `brilliantly funny, a dazzling performance, teeming with invention, wicked humour and...

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,...

James Wilson / The Dark Clue

   'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do it. I have therefore given...