General Fiction

Kimberley Chambers / The Victim

   If you live for your family, would you die for your family?The third novel in the compulsive Mitchells and O'Haras trilogy.Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell.Not only has she lost custody of her two children to their sadistic...

Alexander McCall Smith / Tea Time For The Traditionally Built

   It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot...

Will Self / The Book of Dave

   The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novelWhat if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead...

Jason Mott / The Returned

   The book behind the TV show, The Resurrection.A family given a second chance at lifeA world where nothing - not even death - is certainLucille Hargrave's son Jacob has been dead for over forty years. Now he's standing on her doorstep, still...

Ben Okri / Astonishing The Gods

 From the author of the 1991 Booker Prize winner, "The Famished Road", comes a novel which carries the reader to an enchanted island. It is set in a time and place of fairytales, but is evocative of African consciousness.     All of our...

Matthew Green / Memoirs Of An Imaginary Friend

 Goodreads finalist 2012 as voted by over 1 million readersMy name is BUDO.I have been alive for 5 years.5 years is a very long time for someone like me to be alive.MAX gave me my name. Max is 8 years old.He is the only human person who can see me.I...

Elinor Lipman / Then She Found Me

 Given up for adoption thirty-six years ago, April Epner, now a quiet-living, sensible-jumper-wearing Latin teacher, has never had the slightest desire to be reunited with her biological mother. But, as it turns out, she doesn't have a choice. When...

Sophie King / Second Time Lucky

 Once Bridgewater House was the stately home of Lord Pearmain - now the Lord lives in one of the apartments, like the newly-divorced mother-of-three, the legendary screen goddess of the forties and the American PhD student. Over an eventful summer...

Miles Franklin / My Brilliant Career

 First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more...

Andrew Kaufman / The Waterproof Bible

   Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in personal objects - but just how much emotional...

Mal Peet / Tamar

 Written by the author of 'Keeper', winner of the 2004 Branford-Boase award, this is a thrilling and moving story about love, betrayal and belonging.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...

Lesley Glaister / Nina Todd Has Gone

    Nina Todd is not the sort of person you'd notice - and that's the way she likes it. She lives a quiet life: dull job, dependable boyfriend and no disruptions. When Nina meets Rupert in a hotel, it leads to an empty adulterous encounter...

Sheri Holman / The Mammoth Cheese

   When Manda Frank gives birth to an astonishing eleven babies, the world descends on her home town of Three Chimneys, Virginia. Beneath the intense media spotlight the town begins to give up its long-held secrets: from the unrequited love of...

Richard Russo / Nobody's Fool

    It is Thanksgiving in North Bank and Sully, old Miss Beryl's feckless lodger, does not have much to be thankful for. His arthritic knee is acting up and so is his truck; his ex-wife is at the end of her tether; his mistress is giving...

Jill Alexander Essbaum / Hausfrau

   Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. 'The Book that will have everyone talking' CosmopolitanAnna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno -...

Alexandra Shulman / Can We Still Be Friends

   Can We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by the editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman.Summer, 1983. Best friends, Sal, Annie and Kendra are fresh-faced and fresh out of university. Three very different girls about to walk three very...

Richard Milward / Apples

 We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.'As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one night stands, drug fuelled discos and endless...

Emily Fridlund / History of Wolves

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose isexquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Lindalives with her parents in an ex-commune...

Russell Banks / The Reserve

 July, 1936. Vanessa Cole, notorious for her scandalous affairs with the rich and famous, has returned to her parents' home after the collapse of her second marriage. Rumours are rife as the family gathers to celebrate the 4th of July at the...

Dorthe Nors / Mirror Shoulder Signal

 Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister.But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate.Her driving instructor...

Carol Shields / Small Ceremonies

 Judith Gill is writing the biography of a minor Victorian novelist, having completed a novel with which she is unhappy. To make things worse, her personal life has gone awry. Carol Shields's "The Stone Diaries" was runner-up for the 1993 Booker...

Sean Stewart / Firecracker

 When William Kennedy is six years old, he sees his Uncle Billy at a family reunion. The only problem is his uncle died 3 weeks ago at an explosion in a Petroleum plant. For William, this is only the start. Nicknamed 'Dead' Kennedy, he realises he...

Jackie Collins / Confessions of a Wild Child

 Confessions of a Wild Child takes you on trip and navigates the teenage years of a wild child who will eventually rule an empire.Lucky Santangelo is a powerful and charismatic woman. But how did she become the woman she is today? Many people have...

Melvyn Bragg / A Time To Dance

 A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and experience as in age. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion...

Nina Bell / Sisters-In-Law

 Sisters-in-law Kate, Helen and Olivia all have one thing in common - they're hiding something. It's not easy being part of the high-achieving Fox family: the expectations and demands of their husbands and children; the jealousies and rivalries; and...

Tess Daly / The Camera Never Lies

 Britt Baxter is unaware of the effect she has on people. A big-hearted, no nonsense northern girl, she naturally looks for the best in everyone she meets, but in her attempts to make it as a model she finds she struggles against being pinned down...

Mikael Niemi / Popular Music

 A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests - and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from `the Nick Hornby of the Arctic' (Marina Warner, Sunday Times)It's the 1960s, and pop records are gradually finding their...

Danuta De Rhodes / The Little White Car

 After a relationship-breaking argument with her dull boyfriend, Veronique jumps into her little white Fiat and drives off into the Paris night.Feeling the effects of the wine she has been drinking, she makes sure she drives slowly and carefully,...

Kerry Jamieson / The Forgotten Lies

 1935, HollywoodIn a studio-owned house on Lantana Drive, three beautiful young starlets wait anxiously for news.Charlotte, Bee and Ivy are each desperate to win the role of a lifetime - the part that will see their name in lights. And with Warner...

Gilda O'Neill / Just Around The Corner

    All big-hearted Katie Mehan ever wanted was health and happiness for her family and the love of her husband, Pat. But as work at the docks gets scarcer and the political unrest of the 1930s begins to impinge on them, she wonders if even...

Paul Kilduff / The Dealer

    When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is sensationally announced, life will never again be the same for many influential players in the City. A star equities dealer has just bought a million soaring Provident shares -...

Eileen Townsend / The Other Woman

    The story of the orphan Mhairi McLeod, born out of wedlock on the magical isle of Skye, and of her quest for fortune and her heritage over 40 years. By the author of "The Love Child", "In Love and War" and "Of Woman Born"...

Kevin Lewis / Frankie

   Homeless, streetwise and running away from a past she would rather forget, Francesca Mills is just another face on the streets of London. When a violent encounter leads to a man's death, however, she is forced to leave the harsh world that...

Evelyn Hood / Birds In The Spring

   Paisley, 1920. In the post-war decade of peace, uncomfortable new conflicts are looming. Women no longer take a back-seat in the business community and one, Fiona MacDowall, has made it clear she intends to inherit her father's furniture...

Neil Griffiths / Betrayal in Naples

      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...

Richard Preston / The Cobra Event

    In New York City, a 17-year-old girl and a homeless man have died of the same horrible virus, but in no sense is this a straightforward epidemic. This is murder and Alice Austen of the Center of Disease Control has to track down the...

Bobbie Ann Mason / Spence and Lila

    From the author of In Country and Love Life, Spence + Lila is a moving story of love, old age and optimism in the face of tragedy.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Robert Chalmers / Who's Who in Hell

   Chalmers balances tragedy and comedy with the skill and poise of John Irving' IndependentTowards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In Hell: a mammoth compendium of the damned. Daniel is supported...

Gerard Donovan / Julius Winsome

    Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and not by accident. Gerard Donovan weaves an...

Bell / Back to the Future

      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...

Lewis Gibbon / Sunset Song

    Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally decides to stay in the rural community of her childhood. Yet World War I and the changes that follow make her a widow and mock the...

Meredith Wild / Hardwired

    Determined to overcome a difficult past, Erica Hathaway learns early on how to make it on her own. Days after her college graduation she finds herself face to face with a panel of investors who will make or break her fledgling startup...

Winston Graham / Warleggan

   Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only...

Lionel Shiver / The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

   `Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMESThe brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to...

Howard Jacobson / Zoo Time

   Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than...

Julie Highmore / Beautiful Strangers

   When Cait joins a singles' week in Oxford and realises that there are far more women than men, she resigns herself to concerts, museums and punting with something of a heavy heart. But a spur-of-the-moment decision takes her and fellow...

Owen Whittaker / The Godfather

   Max Patterson is a successful novelist, living as a recluse in a Gothic Irish mansion. He likes to think he is self-sufficient, but in fact he's been in a wheelchair since a childhood trauma. So when he is told that his best friend has been...

Elizabeth Young / Asking for Trouble

    Sophy's single and happy about it. She likes her life. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, a little white lie whose sole purpose is to keep her mother off her back. Which is fine until his presence is demanded at a family...

Gena Schowalter / Savor Me Slowly

    A beautiful race of aliens called Schoen are now stalking the streets of near future New Chicago - beautiful but oh, so deadly. They are infecting humans with a terrible madness, a virus that corrupts and destroys both mind and body...

Claire Dyer / The Moment

    Paddington station, nine a.m., rush hour. As the crowds ebb and flow, time suddenly stands still for two people: Fern and Elliott, ex-lovers who parted twenty-five years before and never expected to see each other again. But here they...

Emily Barr / Baggage

   At eighteen, your closest friend commits suicide.At twenty-nine, you're backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband. She has a ten-year-old son. She has a baby on the way. She claims to be someone else. But...

Liz Tuccillo / How to be Single

   Following a disastrous night out that began with steaks and martinis and ended in a trip to A&E, Julie Jenson decides that she and her four single friends are doing something wrong. Between them, there's more dysfunction and...