General Fiction

Robin Cooper / The Timewaster Diaries : A Year in the Life of Robin Cooper

   Rita fell down the stairs at twenty-two minutes past midnight.'Robin Cooper, author of The Timewaster Letters, turns his hand to diary writing in this hilarious new novel.The year starts badly for Robin, who is fired for writing too many...

Margaret Dolan / Wire Me to the Moon

      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...

Robert Goolrick / A Reliable Wife : When Passion turns to Poison

   COUNTRY BUSINESSMAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE.COMPELLED BY PRACTICAL REASONS.REPLY BY LETTER.Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful industrialist, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered...

Helen Dunmore / Talking to the Dead

    Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth of Isabel's first child, tensions are...

Molly Ringwald / When It Happens to You

    Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You, the debut novel in stories from actress and author Molly Ringwald. A Hollywood icon, Ringwald defined the teenage experience in the eighties in such classic...

Michael Collins / The Life And Times Of A Tea Boy

    Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait...

Catherine Dunne / Another Kind of Life

    Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling...

Nicola White / In The Rosary Garden

    Ali Hogan is leaving school, all the possibilities of adult life glistening before her, when her discovery of a murdered newborn in the convent garden in Ireland shatters her world and resurrects half-formed memories of her childhood...

Peter Carey / My Life as a Fake

    Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he...

Darragh McManus / Shiver The Whole Night Through

    A small town in Ireland, a chilling mystery, a teenage detective - and a message from the deadAfter months of misery and feeling ready to end it all, Aidan Flood wakes up one morning to find that local beauty and town sweetheart Slaine...

Rachael English / The American Girl

   *No.1 bestseller*From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O'Farrell comes an unforgettable novel . . .Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited - and pregnant. She wants to marry...

Kass Morgan / The 100 : Book One

   The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. Now a major TV series on E4.No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's...

James Hawes / Dead Long Enough

    Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the...

Domnica Redulescu / Train to Trieste

   It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no one else.But life under Ceausescu's Romania...

Brunonia Barry / The Lace Reader

   Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.Would knowing the future be a gift or a burden? Or even a curse...?The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future...

Danny Wallace / Charlotte Street

   A heartwarming everyday tale of boy stalks girl...My name is Jason - and I have just met the most incredible woman, on Charlotte Street. Well, I say 'met'. I sort of held her bags for a second. But she smiled at me! And it was this amazing...

Barbara Dimmick / In the Presence of Horses

    Emotionally impactful, beautifully written, IN THE PRESENCE OF HORSES is an entrancing novel of the almost mystical healing power of horses over emotionally damaged people, as well as a compelling portrayal of commitment and betrayal...

Frank Kippax / The Scar

    In HM Prison Bowscar, there have already been disturbing rumblings of unrest. Political bungling brings mass murderer Angus McGregor and crooked financier Michael Masters together under one roof with a group of dangerous men with deadly...

Iain Johnstone / Cannes : The Novel

    It is May 1997, the eve of Hong Kong's return to mainland China, and the film world is converging for the 50th Cannes Film Festival. Against a backdrop of celebrity premieres, power breakfasts and self-indulgence, a megastar is...

Mark Burnell / Chameleon

   They are chameleons. Beyond the law, beyond morality, they've survived by adapting, whatever the circumstances. And by trusting nobody but themselves.IT'S A QUESTION OF IDENTITY.Stephanie Patrick, a woman who was more comfortable under an...

Caroline Leavitt / Pictures of You

   One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him.Two cars collide on a foggy highway, and a woman dies. The survivor,...

Louise Wener / The Big Blind

   Audrey Unger hasn't seen her father since she was a child. A professional poker player and compulsive gambler, he left home when she was eleven years old and disappeared from her life for good.Now in her early thirties and poised on the...

Fanny Blake / What Women Want

   A heartwarming and witty novel about female friendships and how they will outlast any man from the author of The Secrets Women KeepBea, Kate and Ellen have always known that they can depend on each other, no matter what. But as each reaches...

Oisin McGann / Strangled Silence

   When pretty, talented and very ambitious Amina Mir manages to land a newspaper work experience placement she thinks it might just be making coffee and following-up tame stories. But then, when by chance she's sent to interview Ivor...

Jane Gardam / The Queen Of The Tambourine

   Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her...

Elizabeth Edmondson / The Villa in Italy

   Escapist and completely absorbing, The Villa in Italy is the perfect, mouth-watering summer read.Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who...

Lucy Robinson / The Greatest Love Story of All Time

   'The new Marian Keyes . . . romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious' CosmopolitanIt's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend...

Geraldine Brooks / People of the Book

   The new novel from the author of `March' and `Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the...

James Long / Ferney

    When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything...

Julia Williams / Coming Home For Christmas

   Warm, humorous and completely irresistible. All you want for Christmas is right here!"Terrifically warm, with lovely, lively characters." Fiona Walker"This story warms you like a cosy cup of cocoa." CloserThese three friends are dreading...

Fiona Gibson / The Woman Who Upped and Left

   A brilliantly funny and uplifting novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Perfect for anyone who's ever wanted to escape it all!Forget about having it all. Sometimes you just want to leave it all behind.Audrey is often seized by the...

Wendy Jean / Unstolen

    The thing about being the unstolen one is that you'd better be strong, you'd better stay safe, you'd better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can't take any more stress in their lives and...

Kevin Sampson / Freshers

   Kit Hannah is about to start university. He's funny, clever and popular, but he's harbouring a dark foreboding he dare not share with anyone. And it's with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life. At the vast Halls of...

Lucy Diamond / On a Beautiful Day

   Treasure every moment. Life can change in a heartbeat.'A new Lucy Diamond book is one of the happiest highlights of my calendar' Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Country EscapeIt's a beautiful day in Manchester and four friends are...

Jane Green / Summer Secrets

   Summer Secrets by number one bestselling author, Jane Green, is a gripping tale of recovery and redemption. June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. When she...

Madeleine Wickham / The Gatecrasher

   Fleur is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of The Times announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich, vulnerable men. She charms...

Fionnuala Kearney / The Day I Lost You

   `Incredibly moving, it's beautifully written and page-turning' Susan LewisTHE DAY I LOST YOU WAS THE DAY I DISCOVERED I NEVER REALLY KNEW YOUWhen Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes.Jess's first...

Jane Green / Falling

   Falling is an astonishingly tender love story from the internationally bestselling author, Jane Green.Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines of her upper-crust English life - and rather dull boyfriend - and moved to...

Jess Walter / The Financial Lives of the Poets

   From the author of the bestselling Beautiful Ruins comes The Financial Lives of Poets - a brilliantly funny novel about a man who, in an attempt to save himself, may destroy everything he loves.Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job,...

Deborah Scroggins / Emma's War

   Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from...

Jim Lynch / Truth Like the Sun

   It is 1962, and the city of Seattle is about to be famous. Roger Morgan, an audacious young promoter, wants to pull off the ultimate coup de theatre: the World's Fair. Roger dazzles everyone he meets, and is still a backstage power forty...

Alice Randall / Ada's Rules

   Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care centre where she...

Helen Fitzgerald / The Cry

   Now a major BBC 1 drama starring Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Dr Who) and Ewen Leslie (Top of the Lake, Safe Harbour), The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life.Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime...

Julia Stoneham / Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

   England, 1943. The country is at war With so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her...

Giovanna Fletch / Billy and Me

   A gloriously romantic novel about fame, friendship and falling in love, from the bestselling author of Some Kind of Wonderful - perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Sophie Kinsella & Cecelia Ahern. Sophie May has a secret.One that she's...

Louise Pentland / Wilde Like Me

   THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Warm and engaging' Sophie Kinsella'I'm smitten' Lindsey Kelk'Gorgeous, witty, reassuring' Daisy Buchanan'Funny, heartfelt, tender and empowering!' Giovanna Fletcher'Hilarious, moving and extremely well...

Andrew Rosenheim / Fear Itself

    It's the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. War is threatening in Europe, but in America, with forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure to stay out of the fight. Jimmy...

Lynn York / The Piano Teacher

   Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is a town of only 2,500 inhabitants with a 1950s mindset doing its best to cope with the social upheavals of the 1970s. Miss Wilma, a widowed music teacher and organist, suddenly finds her quiet and...

Jane Adams / The Greenway

    Cassie still has nightmares about that day in 1975 when she and her cousin Suzie took a short cut through The Greenway. For somewhere along this path Suzie simply vanished. Also haunted is John Tyson, the retired detective once in...

Alice Munro / The Progress of Love

   Contains 11 short stories on the theme of love and relationships.    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...

Belinda Jones / Winter Wonderland

   Imagine waking up in a snow globe. . . That's how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada's glittering Winter Carnival.Over ten sub-zero days Krista's formerly frozen heart begins to melt...

Christopher Castellani / A Kiss from Maddalena

    It's the spring of 1943, and the tiny village of Santa Cecilia is about to be overrun by German soldiers. But Vito Leone's campaign is to win the hand of the beautiful Maddalena Piccinelli. Maddalena's sassy, iron-willed sister Carolina...