Fiction

Ann Purser / The Wild Wood Enquiry

Things are quiet at the Springfield's Home for the Elderly until Gus' ex wife shows up looking for a place to hide. With jewels missing and foul play all around, it looks like another job for Ivy and her team of amateur sleuths. As their small...

Benjamin Stevenson / Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret

A FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 24 advent calendar doors. 23 clues. And 1 killer to catch before Christmas . . . a deviously clever, classic murder mystery for the festive season 'Lots to enjoy. Light and fun . . ...

Erica James / It's The Little Things (Hardback)

Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters - the Boxing Day tsunami - their lives have changed dramatically. Dan and Sally are now parents...

Edward Rutherfurd / Paris (Hardback)

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the...

Garrison Keillor / Pilgrims (Hardback)

Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her - he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussy...

George R. R. Martin / The Book of Swords (Hardback)

An epic collection of fantasy tales in the grand tradition, including a never-before-published A Song of Ice and Fire story by George R.R. Martin and an introduction by Gardner Dozois. Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes...

Elif Shafak / 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Hardback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair ' Incredibly...

Walker Percy / Thanatos Syndrome (Hardback)

Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a...

Catherine Storr / The Underground Conspiracy (Hardback)

When Jass first hears that her cousin Colly is coming to stay for Easter she's fed up. She can't imagine how he'll fit in with her plans, especially her secret way of spending her free time - travelling for hours on end on the underground...

Sarah May / Becky (Hardback)

'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam...

Benjamin Stevenson / Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret (Hardback)

24 advent calendar doors. 23 clues. And 1 killer to catch before Christmas . . . a deviously clever, classic murder mystery for the festive season For fans of Janice Hallett, Anthony Horowitz and Peter Swanson’s The Christmas Guest 'Lots to enjoy...

Alexander Kent / The Darkening Sea (Hardback)

Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinique Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress, Lady Catherine Somervill. But the shadow of a new conflict already...

Diana Leatham / They Built on Rock (Hardback)

"They Built on Rock" tells the stories of the men and women who brought light and hope to the world of the Dark Ages.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Dinah Jefferies / The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Hardback)

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE Dinah Jefferies' stunning new novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds... 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death,...

Ana Menendez / In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (Hardback)

A collection of short stories explores the hopes and heartbreaks of exiled Cubans trying to build new lives in the United States     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Keith Thomson / Twice a Spy (Hardback)

On the heels of Once a Spy , which PW hailed as a ?wildly original debut [with] an action-packed story line,? Keith Thomson returns with a breakneck thriller that?s twice as explosive as the original. In the tradition of Robert Ludlum, with a witty...

James Patterson / Along Came a Spider (Hardback)

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video! Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like...

Sarah Quigley / The Conductor (Hardback)

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in...

Robert Rankin / The Da Da-De-Da-Da Code (Hardback)

Robert Rankin, the world's Master of Far Fetched Fiction, takes us on a roller coaster ride in his brand-new bestseller, which focuses on the biggest conspiracy theory in the world, ever. Here, in the Da-Da-Di-Da-Da Code, you will find the music of...

Christopher Hope / The Love Songs Of Nathan J. Swirsky (Hardback)

In the early 1950s in Badmington, a suburb suspended in time somewhere outside Johannesburg, comes Swirsky, opening a pharmacy. With his talk of exotic places and his gleaming bottles and jars, the children think of him as a magician. Then, his wife,...

Fidelis Morgan / Fortune’s Slave (Hardback)

Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche finds herself with cash to spare when...

Penelope Lively / City of the Mind (Hardback)

Penelope Lively's story of a London architect's struggle for identity in love and career     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Seth Morgan / Homeboy (Hardback)

Joe Speaker is a barker at a strip joint who has a heroin habit. After a botched robbery and the violent murder of a prostitute, Joe is thrown in jail. This story of murder and retribution was written by a man who won a PEN contest for convicts, while...

Ian Pattison / A Stranger Here Myself (Hardback)

In his inimitable style Rab C. Nesbitt tell us his life story - no holds barred - in a novel by his creator, Ian Pattison. From opinionated foetus to fiercely proud father, Rabs has a wealth of wisdom and acute philosophical ramblings     This...

Tarquin Hall / The Case of the Missing Servant (Hardback)

Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are...

Linwood Barclay / I Will Ruin You (Hardback)

An explosive psychological suspense crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Take Your Breath Away and The Lie Maker     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Loretta Rothschild / Finding Grace (Hardback)

'Shocking, stylish, elegant, and twisting. A truly stunning debut' Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark 'One of the best books I've read this year' Jodi Picoult SHE THOUGHT IT WAS FATE. I KNEW IT...

Sarah Bird / Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (Hardback)

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn...

Lolly Winston / Happiness Sold Separately (Hardback)

Discovering that she and her husband are unable to have children, Elinor Mackey finds her carefully ordered world falling apart in the wake of her husband's subsequent affair with a young mother, the woman's violent ex-boyfriend, and her own...

Simon Winchester / Atlantic (Hardback)

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and...

Talat Abbasi / "Bitter Gourd" and Other Stories (Hardback)

The 17 short stories in this collection are focused on the social structure of life in Pakistan and of Pakistani in diaspora: such a focus covers each strata of society centered round daily small events     This book is second hand, and while...

J. A. Sutherland / Where Was Rebecca Shot? (Hardback)

From the novel of the best selling Is Heathcliff a murderer? an ingenious book of puzzles in 20th century fiction. The novel is today stronger than it ever was. 'Classics', boosed by a hugely successful string of TV and film adaptations, now...

Colin Stagg / Pariah: Colin Stagg (Hardback)

Wrongly jailed for the murder of Rachel Nickell, Stagg speaks powerfully in Pariah, a hard-hitting account of his flawed trial, agonising imprisonment and failed attempts to rebuild life after his release. Although cleared of the killing, Stagg -...

Libby Purves / A Free Woman (Hardback)

Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, who are very different. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the world with a backpack. Now...

Ronald Tierney / Nickel Plated Soul (Hardback)

Private eye Howie Cross is badly beaten by a couple of thugs, but doesn't know why. Out of action, he asks Deets Shanahan to take on his one current case, but it's far from straightforward. Hugh Dart wants his wife traced; the only thing is,...

Robert Swindells / Last Bus (Hardback)

Andy knows a great way to spend Saturday - riding buses on a Day Rover ticket. At first Chris is happy to go along with him, but he begins to feel uneasy when he realizes that Andy is stealing things from the shops they visit. When they catch the last...

John Maddox Roberts / Spqr XI: Under Vesuvius (Hardback)

Decius discovers the dark side of his position as Praetor when he is asked to investigate the killing of a priest in a town near Vesuvius, while protecting the young boy who has become the prime suspect from the local mob vigilantes, in a mystery set...

Paula Cocozza / Speak to Me (Hardback)

*An Elle Summer Read 2023* 'Cocozza's writing is addictive... her sharp observations steal the show ' Joanna Cannon, Guardian 'Searing, perceptive, shattering' Observer 'Charming, very touching and very funny. Taut and full...

John Maddox Roberts / The Year of Confusion (SPQR) (Hardback)

"When Dictator Caius Julius Caesar rankles the public by bringing in foreign astronomers and astrologers to revise the Roman calendar, overseer Decius finds himself investigating the murders of two of the foreign consultants, which are linked to an...

Wilbur A. Smith / Pharaoh (Hardback)

Worldwide #1 bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns to Ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times. EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK. Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All...

John Maddox Roberts / Oracle of the Dead (SPQR) (Hardback)

Enjoying the good life in southern Italy, Decius Caecilius Metellus, Roman magistrate for cases involving foreigners, becomes caught in the middle of a bitter rivalray between the priests of Apollo and those of Hecate that explodes into murder, when the...

Richard Mason / The Drowning People (Hardback)

James Farrell murdered Sarah, his wife of thirty years, yesterday. He killed her at Seton Castle, her ancestral home - which should have passed to her cousin, half American, bewitching, mysterious Ella. To explain the murder, after such a secureand...

Dr Paul Doherty / The Year of the Cobra (Hardback)

At the end of THE SEASON OF THE HYAENA, the previous book in this trilogy, Mahu had just been recalled to court because the young Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, was suffering from a serious mental illness. THE YEAR OF THE COBRA now resumes Mahu’s tale:...

Minette Walters / The Scold's Bridle (Hardback)

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned with a crown of nettles. What could have driven her to such a desperate act? Then rumours start to spread that...

Katy Birchall / Awesomely Austen (Hardback)

A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Emma Woodhouse is pretty, clever and rich, and sees no reason why she would ever need to get married. But she loves...

BBC / Bob The Builder (Hardback)

Each of these small format books is based on the exploits of one of Bob's machines - together, they create an appealing library.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Samantha Downing / He Started It (Hardback)

SOMEONE ALWAYS TAKES THINGS TOO FAR . . . 'So addictive it should come with a warning' Alice Feeney *** No-one knows you better than your family. They know the little things that make you smile. Your proudest achievements. Your darkest secrets...

Layne Fargo / They Never Learn (Hardback)

From the author of the &;raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless&; (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve. Scarlett Clark is an...

Thomas W. Young / The Mullah's Storm (Hardback)

A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan. For two people-navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold-a battle for survival begins across some of the...

Riley Sager / The Only One Left (Hardback)

THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Everyone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer. When the Hope family was massacred decades ago, she was the only one left after that tragic night. Mute,...

Lauren Beukes / Afterland (Hardback)

Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author...

Carol Shields / Collected Stories (Hardback)

For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines...