General Fiction

Deborah Rodriguez / Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

   Six women forever joined by a little cafe in KabulSunny, former proprietor of the Little Coffee Shop and new owner of the Screaming Peacock vineyard. Can she handle the challenges of life on her own?Yasmina, the young mother who now runs...

Pat Conroy / South of Broad

   Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life.But...

Richard Russo / Straight Man

    Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget...

Sarah Long / Invisible Women

   Perfect for fans of Allison Pearson, Dawn French and Sophie Kinsella.'I was hooked from the start on this emotionally intelligent read' Daily MailIsn't it about time we talked about YOU?Sandra has a naughty secret.Harriet has been ditched...

Rachel Crowther / The Things You Do for Love

   'A wonderful page-turner of a novel about the complexity of female life, by a new writer who understands it all too well. You can have it all, but only if you're prepared to pay the price.' Fay WeldonAn elite surgeon with a brilliant but...

Jane Green / The Sunshine Sisters

   The Sunshine Girls is a moving story of love, loss and family by the bestselling author of Falling, Jane Green.'Jane Green's best yet. I raced through this' Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Still MeIt was never easy, being one of Ronni...

Susanne O'Leary / European Affairs

    Eva Connolly is elegant, clever and determined to make a brilliant career in the European Commission in Brussels. When her brother offers her a month's holiday in his luxury villa in St Tropez, she thinks it will be the perfect...

Leonore Fleischer / Rain Man

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Alice Munro / Too Much Happiness

   **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which...

Simon Van Booy / The Secret Lives of People in Love

    Offers a collection of stories that are set in New York City, Wales, Cornwall, Paris, Rome and Greece. This title explores love's labour and love's loss.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

David Ebershoff / The Danish Girl

   The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper.Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to...

Peggy Riley / Amity & Sorrow

   AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world...

Nathan Englander / The Ministry of Special Cases

    Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. As...

Andrei Makine / Brief Loves That Live Forever

    In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an...

Kat French / Undertaking Love

   `Laugh-out-loud fun with a real romantic heart' MIRANDA DICKINSON"Try not to wheel any dead bodies across the pavement when the bride's outside, OK?"When Marla Jacobs discovers that the vacant shop next to her Little White Wedding Chapel is...

Emma Chapman / How to Be a Good Wife

   I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid...

Mari Hannah / Settled Blood

   When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian's Wall, it's not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably alive before she hit...

Claire Calman / Lessons For A Sunday Father

    It's never too late to grow up...This is the story of: Scott, who finds his belongings outside in a bin bag one day and realises he may have made a big mistake; Gail, who wishes her husband were under guarantee so she could send him...

Ada Parellada / Vanilla Salt

    Alex is a brilliant chef, but he struggles to fill his Barcelona restaurant because of his gruff, eccentric personality and his refusal to use ingredients that trace their culinary origins to America, such as potatoes and tomatoes. When...

Bernardine Bishop / The Street

    There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor...

Carol Brennan / Chill of Summer

    Emily and Dev Hannigan, the detective pair, feature in a novel of suspense and intrigue.     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...

Margaret Scott / The Fall Out

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Jenny Erpenbeck / The End of Days

   Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeFrom one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates...

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

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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...