General Fiction

George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

Graham Norton / Frankie (Hardback)

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York...

Myla Goldberg / Bee Season (Large Paperback)

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her...

Patrick C Reidy / A Fanfare of Tales (Large Paperback)

Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, Colum Johnston is looking forward to reuniting with his former comrades and reliving the old days when they were all secret Moscow agents. As he prepares for the party and reflects on the past, he has no...

John Burnham Schwartz / The Commoner (Large Paperback)

In this national bestseller from the author of  Reservation Road,  a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy.When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty...

Camille Laurens / In Those Arms (Large Paperback)

"All my life I have been interested only in men. That's how it is. You can call it a defect, if you want..." Camille has begun divorce proceedings and a new novel. While sitting in a cafe, she falls in love with a man who walks past. She follows him, and...

Kate Atkinson / Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Large Paperback)

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.   This book is...

Paolo Tullio / Longing and Belonging (Large Paperback)

From the author of the bestselling North of Naples, South of Rome, comes Longing and Belonging , a novel set in the Italian south of the last century, when emigration, poverty and ignorance dominated society. It tells the story of the beautiful and...

Daniel Quinn / Ishmael (Large Paperback)

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit TEACHER SEEKS PUPIL.Must have an earnest desire tosave the world. Apply in person.It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime...So begins Ishmael, an utterly...

Peter Ackroyd / The House of Doctor Dee (Large Paperback)

This novel centers on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell,...

Janice Galloway / The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (Large Paperback)

Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of...

Mavis Cheek / The Sex Life of My Aunt (Large Paperback)

Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family: apart from the envy of her less contented sister everything in Dilys's rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at a railway station who is also - lovely. As she hurtles...

Abraham Verghese / Cutting for Stone (Large Paperback)

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a...

P.J. Curtis / The Lightning Tree (Large Paperback)

This novel tells the story of one woman's remarkable life, lived out in the harshly beautiful landscape of the Burren. A life which began in the shadow of the Great Famine and ended as electricity began to reach the byways of the west of Ireland.It...

John Wray/ Lowboy (Large Paperback)

Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Will is on a mission to save the world from global warming―to do it, though, he'll need to cool down his own body first. And...

Stephen Buoro / The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (Large Paperback)

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in...

Ken Follett / Winter of the World (Large Paperback) ( The Century Trilogy - Book 2)

  Winter of the World Ken Follett     Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary historical epic Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as �sweeping and fascinating, a...

Kiese Laymon / Long Division (Large Paperback)

From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in...

Colm Tóibín / Brooklyn (Hardback) HB

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in...

Cathy Sweeney / Breakdown (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters - PB ( Persephone Books Edition) 2007 ( Originally 1943)

Michiko Aoyama / What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardback)

What are you looking for?So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door...

J.M.G Le Clézio - Ritournelle de la Faim - Gallimard PB 2008

Paperback, published by Gallimard, Paris , 2008.  Ritournelle de la faim (The Same Old Story of Hunger, or The Refrain of Hunger) is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it deals...

James Morier - The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan ( Iran) - 2 Vol HB - 1895

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan is a satirical Oriental novel, written in 1824 by James Justinian Morier, a former British envoy who lived in Qajar dynasty Iran (Persia) in 1808–1809 and 1810–1814, amidst the diplomatic difficulties...

Rosaleen McDonagh - Contentious Spaces - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published March 2026.  The Traveller families who live in Saint Rita's are on borrowed time. In just a week they will be evicted by the local council, threatening not only their homes but also their history and the stories that...

Stewart O'Nan / Ocean State (Large Paperback)

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's book is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do.In the first line of Ocean State,...

Josephine Cox / The Broken Man (Large Paperback)

Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man ...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old. an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man.A successful and ruthless businessman. he breeds fear into the...

Stephen Thompson / Toy Soldiers (Large Paperback)

Thompson's first novel--a mix of reportage and personal narrative--gains from his background in journalism; this is an exposé of a life lived out on the edge of crime, drugs and friendship. The epigraph from Albert Camus--"The aim is to live...

Katharine McGee / Rivals (Large Paperback)

American Royals #3 The third book in the New York Times bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyone's loyalty to the crown…and their own hearts.Beatrice is queen, and for the American royal family,...

Jenny Colgan / West End Girls (Large Paperback)

The streets of London are paved with gold ...allegedly. They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites - Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a...

Liz Ryan / The Past Is Tomorrow (Large Paperback)

Shivaun Reilly is still dealing with the loss of her family and her hospital's closure when Ivor leaves her to live in Spain. She decides to move to America but once there she discovers some important truths - and that the past can't be left behind that...

Josephine Cox / A Daughter's Secret (Large Paperback)

Will a dark shadow destroy her family? As a servant below stairs at the big manor house, Rose dreams of running her own teashop one day, and carefully saves a few shillings each week from the money she sends back home to her mother. But on her next visit...

T. C. Boyle / The Harder They Come (Large Paperback)

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores...

Dorothy Ketterer / Forever Family Friends (Large Paperback)

“You put the same time into making a garment that’s cheap as you do making a good quality one. So why not put the time into making something that will last?” Forever Family Friends outlines the lives and interactions between three...

Joshua Ferris / Then We Came to the End (Large Paperback)

No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his...

Tash Aw / The South (Large Paperback)

A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw.When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the...

Gill Lewis / Sky Hawk (Large Paperback)

When Callum and his friends find Iona on Callum's farm they try to chase her back into the village. But Iona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain gullies. Worried for Iona's safety, Callum follows to find...

Colleen Hoover - It Starts With Us | It Ends With US - 2 X PB

2 Colleen Hoover paperback copieds of  It Ends With Us ( Originally 2016, reprint)  It Starts With Us - ( Originally 2022, reprint) A prequel to the original , but published after It Ends With Us ( somewhat confusingly)  Light edgewear...

Howard Jacobson / Live a Little (Large Paperback)

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two...

Jon Hickey / Big Chief (Large Paperback)

There, There meets Winter Counts in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, love lost and gained, and the importance of facing one’s past head on.Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions. After his...

Vicki Notaro / Long Story (Large Paperback)

Two best friends, one old flame … It’s a long storyTara is a famous movie star, known for her leading roles in beloved rom-coms. When her husband shows up on set one day to tell her he’s leaving her for his much younger...

Eric Puchner / Dream State (Large Paperback)

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws' lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to...

Heather Barbieri / The Lacemakers of Glenmara (Large Paperback)

An enchanting, romantic tale of friendship and love set in Ireland, in which a young American woman helps a group of local lace makers change their lives—and, ultimately, her own.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Claire Powell / At the Table (Large Paperback)

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily married for more than thirty years. So when Linda and Gerry announce that they've decided to separate, the news sends shockwaves through the siblings'...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs (Large Paperback)

      Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing...

Per Petterson / I Refuse (Large Paperback)

I Refuse Per Petterson, Don Bartlett (Translator)     Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends - but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and...

Kevin Powers / A Line in the Sand (Large Paperback)

        A compulsive and timely thriller by PEN/Hemingway Award winner of The Yellow Birds.One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim—Arman...

Carrie Hope Fletcher / With This Kiss (Hardback)

When their lips touch, will she seal his fate?From the outside, Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. She loves reading, she works at the local cinema and she adores living with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden,...

Joanna Cannon / Will You Read This, Please? (Large Paperback)

Jenn Ashworth, Tracy Chevalier, Catherine Cho, Selali Fiamanya, Shelley Harris, Benjamin Johncock, Clare Mackintosh, Kathryn Mannix, Rebecca Pert, Rhik Samadder, Hafsa Zayyan How do we give a voice to...

Marilynne Robinson / Jack (Hardback)

Gilead #4 Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.Jack tells the story of John...

Ben Elton / Gridlock (Hardback)

By the television comedy writer of "Black Adder" and "The Young Ones", this is an ecological disaster novel written with humour but containing an underlying seriousness.        This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Karen Roberts / The Flower Boy (Hardback)

The Buckwater family live side-by-side with their Ceylonese staff in a house nestled in the lush hillside tea estates of '30s Ceylon. Premawathi is their cook and housekeeper. She has two beautiful daughters and a son, Chandi, who even at...