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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: wW16969H E. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... 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They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... 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Quick view Details Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... 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It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view Details Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough - Bernard's father has lost an arm and his carpenter's income. But added to this... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3257H Mary Wesley / A Part of the Furniture (Hardback) In 1941 Juno Marlow waves off to war her two male childhood friends. At a loss and with no family, Juno finds herself at 17 pregnant and living on a farm with a widower 40 years her senior. But surrounded by love, she blossoms and grows in strength... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X75609H Laird Hunt / The Evening Road (Hardback) 'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even - somehow - wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7192H Colleen McCullough / The Touch (Hardback) Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17503H Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback) A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view Details sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough - Bernard's father has lost an arm and his carpenter's income. But added to this... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3257H Mary Wesley / A Part of the Furniture (Hardback) In 1941 Juno Marlow waves off to war her two male childhood friends. At a loss and with no family, Juno finds herself at 17 pregnant and living on a farm with a widower 40 years her senior. But surrounded by love, she blossoms and grows in strength... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X75609H Laird Hunt / The Evening Road (Hardback) 'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even - somehow - wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... 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In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view Details Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... 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MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7192H Colleen McCullough / The Touch (Hardback) Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17503H Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback) A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... 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Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough - Bernard's father has lost an arm and his carpenter's income. But added to this... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3257H Mary Wesley / A Part of the Furniture (Hardback) In 1941 Juno Marlow waves off to war her two male childhood friends. At a loss and with no family, Juno finds herself at 17 pregnant and living on a farm with a widower 40 years her senior. But surrounded by love, she blossoms and grows in strength... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X75609H Laird Hunt / The Evening Road (Hardback) 'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even - somehow - wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7192H Colleen McCullough / The Touch (Hardback) Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17503H Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback) A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view sku: 41788H Connie Willis / Lincoln's Dreams "A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38199H Karen McCombie / Catching Falling Stars It's 1940. Gloria and her little brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London.But their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. The womanthey're living with, Miss Saunders, is strict,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7192H Colleen McCullough / The Touch (Hardback) Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17503H Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback) A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view sku: rR36014H Jean-Michel Guenassia / The Incorrigible Optimists Club Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... 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Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 67904H Giles Waterfield / The Iron Necklace The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their new lives are soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80555H Peter Lovesey / Rough Cider The standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR24085H Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33808H Anna Jacobs / A Valley Dream The new heartwrenching story from the Queen of the Rural Saga, million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Can she find happiness in her new home?1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93417H Wendy Holden / The Governess (Hardback) Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Quick view sku: wW28363H Anthony Horowitz / Moriarty (Hardback) Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough - Bernard's father has lost an arm and his carpenter's income. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... 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Quick view sku: wW27230H Tracy Chevalier / Reader I Married Him (Hardback) 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94465H Christopher Hein / Settlement (Hardback) Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough - Bernard's father has lost an arm and his carpenter's income. But added to this... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3257H Mary Wesley / A Part of the Furniture (Hardback) In 1941 Juno Marlow waves off to war her two male childhood friends. At a loss and with no family, Juno finds herself at 17 pregnant and living on a farm with a widower 40 years her senior. But surrounded by love, she blossoms and grows in strength... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X75609H Laird Hunt / The Evening Road (Hardback) 'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even - somehow - wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23152H Susannah Constantine / After the Snow (Hardback) Thoughtful and dark' The Times Magazine'Captivating' Woman & Home'Beautifully written' Hello!Strictly Come Dancing contestant 2018** The #1 eBook bestseller! **Christmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Russia | sku: X50025E Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Hardback) The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7192H Colleen McCullough / The Touch (Hardback) Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17503H Simon Scarrow / Centurion (Hardback) A gripping new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato on their most dangerous mission yet. In the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15066H Charlotte Betts / The Palace of Lost Dreams A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft. 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fictionIt's hard to be an American girl in 1957... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x63032H Anamaria Crowe Serrano / In The Dark (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16969H E. Camden / Desperate Hope (Large Paperback) Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her--or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she's now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23586H Maggie Shipstead / Great Circle (Large Paperback) LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME BOOK OF THE YEARA Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping, Daily Mail, Mail... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: wW31384H Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7143H Kate Manning / My Notorious Life by Madame X (Large Paperback) 'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling.They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.'Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26117H,wW26283H Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback) From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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Quick view sku: rR39491H Georgette Heyr / Charity Girl : Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romance When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x69176H Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback) It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14154H Saskia Sarginson / Wonderful (Large Paperback) A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X43814E Dara Horn / All Other Nights (Large Paperback) 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... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: X81780H Jonathan Falla / Blue Poppies (Large Paperback) It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart. All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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SALE Quick view sku: X70814H Suzannah Dunn / The Queen's Sorrow (Large Paperback) A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW15262H Jessie Burton / The Miniaturist (Hardback) Over one million copies soldThe phenomenal Number One BestsellerWinner of the Specsavers National Book Award 2014Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2015There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . ... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW14237H E. V. Thompson / Tomorrow Is For Ever (Hardback) Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in The Great War on HMS Viper. Eighteen months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW26655H Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback) Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x33295E Lucy Adlington / The Red Ribbon (Hardback) Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Compare Selected × OK
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SALE Quick view sku: wW19825H Wilbur Smith / Monsoon (Hardback) Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW30915H Jacqueline Winspear / The Mapping of Love and Death (Hardback) In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28305H Bernard Cornwell / Heretic (Large Paperback) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21193H Lucy Caldwell / These Days (Large Paperback) Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14829H Laura McKenna / Words To Shape My Name (Large Paperback) SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021'An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about liberty, equality, identity. [...] This book is an act of salvage, performed with great skill: cleanly... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26251H Kerri Maher / The Paris Bookseller (Large Paperback) INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY'A vivid evocation of the famous female-owned Parisian bookshop... Kerri Maher writes a love letter to books, bookstores and booklovers everywhere' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'I... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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