General Fiction

Alan Sillitoe / THE BROKEN CHARIOT

A superb creation of love, life and class in the post-war world. When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang was seven, his parents – as loving, as doting as any parents of their generation – took him away from India and left him in a boarding school in England which...

Jami Attenberg / All Grown Up

'Hilarious, courageous and mesmerising' Maria Semple 'Think BBC's Fleabag set in Brooklyn' Stylist 'I'm alone. I'm a drinker. I'm a former artist. I'm a shrieker in bed. I'm the captain of the...

Nick Bradley / Four Seasons in Japan

From the author of The Cat and The City - 'vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell - a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and...

Hanako Footman / Mongrel

An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

L. J. Shen / My Dark Desire

From Wall Street Journal bestsellers L.J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes a tantalizing forbidden romance between a broken Prince Charming and a disgraced Cinderella     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Hannah Bonam-Young / Next to You

Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and she’s just not happy. So, after a night out celebrating her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulse purchase: a giant yellow forty-eight...

Douglas Coupland / Worst. Person. Ever.

Raymond Gun, he's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show...

Wilson John Haire / The Yard

Wilson John Haire entered the Belfast shipyard as an office boy at fourteen. Brought up mainly in rural areas, he was suddenly thrown into the world's biggest shipyard, a huge cauldron of twisted metal, great baulks of timber, the freezing sea,...

Barry Pilton / The Valley

A glorious satire on the countryside in crisis, and a cautionary tale of urban refugees in search of Eden _________________________ 'It's a complete hoot' - Daily Mirror 'Laugh-out-loud funny, with one of the best opening chapters I...

Rene Karabash / She Who Remains

High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekja escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin, renouncing her womanhood to live as a man. Her decision sets off a brutal chain of events, destroying her...

Tony Parsons / Return to the High Country

In the beginning there had only been High Peaks, the MacLeod family property in the heart of Australia's rugged high country. Andrew and Anne MacLeod struggled on the land to give David, their only son and heir, a better life. Wracked by grief...

Muriel Barbery / The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The funny and moving publishing sensation about an unassuming apartment building in Paris Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. To the snobbish residents she is all they expect from a caretaker - hard working, dowdy and...

Ron Rash / The World Made Straight

Summer in Madison County. Seventeen-year-old Travis Shelton cannot see a way out of his small town - until he discovers a grove of marijuana in the woods that could make him some serious money. But Travis has stumbled across more than drugs. His...

Barney Leason / Passions

A humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue and the demands of the big egos involved     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

T. Coraghessan Boyle / Budding Prospects

A comic novel which satirises our eternal quest for money, and our habits of addiction     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and...

Peter Clover / Donkey Danger

Danni's parents run a donkey sanctuary at their home on Whistlewind Farm and there's nothing Danni and her friend, Tim, enjoy more than helping to look after all the donkeys. But the sanctuary is short of funds so Danni decides to do a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Håkan Nesser / The Inspector and Silence (Hardback)

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fug of heat. In the beautiful forested lake-town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge’s tranquil existence is shattered when he receives a phone-call from an anonymous woman. She tells him that a girl has...

Hannah Rothschild / High Time (Hardback)

'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping 'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO?...

Fern Britton / A Seaside Affair (Hardback)

You will love this wonderfully warm and witty novel from Fern Britton, the Sunday Times bestselling novelist. When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by coffee chain, Café...

Milton Jones / Where Do Comedians Go When They Die? (Hardback)

Fizzing with the one-liners and surreal humour for which Milton Jones is famous, this is an authentic, hilarious story of the life of a stand-up comedian .A star of everywhere except his own home, it’s hard for Jerome Stevens to balance the demands of...

Phil Harrison / First Day (Hardback)

Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective passions. When Anna falls pregnant, the affair is revealed...

Alys Conran / Dignity (Hardback)

'BRILLIANT: A TRULY CONVINCING STATE-OF-THE-NATION NOVEL' Daily Mail 'Makes you smile while breaking your heart' Woman's Weekly 'I loved this... Magda is a real stand-out character for me in books I've read recently, I...

Bernadette MacLean / Next of Kin (Hardback)

Next of Kin begins with the funeral of one of the village's most valued members. Once the funeral is over, the village are desperate to know who will inherit Luke s fortune. Bernadette takes a humorous look at the events leading up to this moment...