New Large Paperback Books

Astrid Lindgren, Lauren Child (Illustrator) , / Pippi Longstocking (Large Paperback)

Pippi Longstocking is loved by children all over the world. This glorious edition of Astrid Lindgren's enduring story is illustrated by award-winning artist, Lauren Child.       This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Melvyn Bragg/ The "South Bank Show": Final Cut (Large Paperback)

Melvyn Bragg looks back over 30 years of The South Bank Show, and presents unique insights into the extraordinarily gifted artists he has met over the years.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Alex Shearer / The Cloud Hunters (Large Paperback)

Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted. In a world where water is scarce and deadly jellyfish swim through the sky, mollycoddled teenager Christien dreams of excitement and danger. When he meets the exotic and alluring Jenine and her family of...

Wendy Cooling (Compiler) , Quentin Blake (Illustrator) / D Is For Dahl A gloriumptious A-Z guide to the world of Roald Dahl (Large Paperback)

Did you know that Roald Dahl loved chocolate, but never ate spaghetti? Or that he was a terrible speller? Or that he had four sisters? D is for Dahl is an A to Z collection of facts, trivia, and zany details that bring Roald Dahl and his memorable...

Elin Hilderbrand / The Hotel Nantucket (Large Paperback)

  After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore — until it's purchased and renovated...

Tim Blanchard / Being Gregory : Bill Forsyth, Gregory's Girl, the lot (Large Paperback)

In 1980, a 34 year-old Glaswegian got the chance to turn his first screenplay into a feature film. With a small budget and support from a youth theatre in an area of ‘multiple social deprivation’, Bill Forsyth made a film which still holds a...

Ben Schott / Jeeves and the Leap of Faith (Large Paperback)

Jeeves & Wooster - Homage to P.G. Wodehouse #2 'This homage to P.G. Wodehouse is so good ... a masterpiece in every sense' MAILThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the war-path. Oh, and His Majesty's Government needs a...

Antoni Jach / Layers of the City (Large Paperback)

In this mesmerising and highly original novel, Antoni Jach conjures up the modern city - Paris — its street life and underground life, its beggars and bourgeoisie, its public parks and gardens, its hidden apartments and rooms — and meditates...

Rick Yancey / The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Large Paperback)

Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life stealing Excalibur - the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers...

Pietra Rivoli / The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Large Paperback)

An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around the world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a...

Michael Crichton, James Patterson / Eruption (Large Paperback)

A once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii.But a decades-old military secret could turn the volcano into something even more terrifying...Now it’s up to a handful of brave individuals to save the island...

Nadifa Mohamed / Black Mamba Boy (Large Paperback)

For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world.Aden, Yemen, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to...

Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback)

At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,...

P.J. O'Rourke / On The Wealth Of Nations (Large Paperback)

As one of the first titles in Atlantic Monthly Press’ “Books That Changed the World” series, America’s most provocative satirist, P. J. O’Rourke, reads Adam Smith’s revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you...

Markus Venzin / The Strategy Process: A Practical Handbook for Implementation in Business (Large Paperback)

Markus Venzin, Volker Mahnke, Carsten Rasner Dismissing the plethora of meaningless buzz words, simplistic checklists, and impractical business models common to management theory, this handbook advocates down-to-earth techniques for creating...

Andrew Sean Greer / Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) (Large Paperback)

In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”For Arthur Less, life is...

Carol Rifka Brunt / Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Large Paperback)

  1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her...

Laila Lalami / Secret Son (Large Paperback)

Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that 19 year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinemas screen offer the only glimmer of hope to his frustrated dreams of...

Milli Hill / Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your Body. Your Baby. Your Choices. (Large Paperback)

As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 LiveSelected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.   This book is second hand,...

Richard Ford / Be Mine (Frank Bascombe - Book 5) (Large Paperback)

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature.Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an...

ZZ Packer / Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Large Paperback)

 Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls...

Walt Bogdanich / When McKinsey Comes to Town (Large Paperback)

An explosive exposé of the world's most prestigious and successful management consultancy____'Panoramic, meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'Every page made my blood...

Robert G. Cooper / Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch (Large Paperback)

For over a decade, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. In this fully updated and expanded edition, Robert Cooper demonstrates with compelling evidence why consistent product development is so vital to...

Ann Bracken / Mind Body Baby - How to overcome Stress and Enhance Your Fertility (Large Paperback)

How to Overcome Stress & Enhance your Fertility with CBT, Mindfulness & Good Nutrition The must-have fertility plan that will soothe your mind, nourish your body and maximise your chances at having a baby .Leading fertility counsellor, Ann...

Michael Koryta / Last Words (Mark Novak - Book ) (Large Paperback)

The newest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Michael Koryta.Still mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case that may be his undoing. On the same day his wife died, the body of a teenage girl was pulled...

Andy McNab / DropZone (Large Paperback)

Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of...

Chris Ryan / Osama (Large Paperback)

The first casualty of war is the truth, the second is your soul Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.Osama Bin...

Brendan Barrington ( Editor) / The Dublin Review, Number 36: Autumn 2009 (Large Paperback)

Brendan Barrington (Editor), Robert Cremins (Contributor), Adrian Frazier (Contributor), Carlo Gébler (Contributor), Selina Guinness (Contributor), Aiden...

Damien Wilkins / Chemistry (Large Paperback)

The Webb family seems genetically disposed toward medicine. Penny, abused wife, neglectful mother and firebrand elder sister, is a doctor. Don, the middle child, runs a small-town pharmacy. And Jamie, the youngest son, has been self-medicating with...

Mark Haddon / The Pier Falls (Large Paperback)

An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a...

Andy McNab / DropZone : Terminal Velocity (Large Paperback)

The Raiders are a talented young skydiving team - with a secret. They are also a highly trained group of covert operatives, carrying out deniable missions for Britain's intelligence services. Under the demanding guidance of their ice-cold leader, an...

Prevention Magazine / The Doctors' Book of Home Remedies (Large Paperback)

Simple, Doctor-Approved Self-Care Solutions for over 140 Common Health Problems This is a compilation of tried and tested remedies that the reader can admininster at home themselves. Every remedy is doctor-approved. The book suggests over-the-counter...

Jeff Howell / The Sunday Telegraph Guide to Looking After Your Property (Large Paperback)

 Everything You Need to Know About Maintaining Your Home This book, based on Jeff Howell's column "On the Level" in the Sunday Telegraph , is packed with insider tips and knowledge, covering everything from boilers and builders to condensation,...

Steve Mann / Easy Peasy Awesome Pawsome: Dog Training for Kids (Large Paperback)

My name is Steve Mann and I have THE COOLEST JOB IN THE WORLD! As a dog trainer, I get to work with our fantastic furry friends every single day. Now, I want to teach YOU how you can become an AWESOME PAWSOME dog trainer too!As well as all the essential...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie #6) (Large Paperback)

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher & amateur problem solver, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders...

John Francome / Final Breath (Large Paperback)

It's been over a year since Danny Clark's girlfriend Kirsty died in a horrific diving accident in the Caribbean. Danny was plunged into a time of bitter mourning but now he's back on his feet, with a lot of help from Kirsty's best friend, Tara. In fact,...

Lee Wei-Jing / The Mermaid's Tale (Large Paperback)

If the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even learn to dance......  In her early thirties, Summer lives alone, jobless, with little material wants. Her only...

Susan M. Pearce / Museums, Objects and Collections (Large Paperback)

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as...

W.J. Thomas Mitchell / Landscape and Power (Large Paperback)

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of...

James Watson, Anne Hill / Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies (Large Paperback)

The Watson and Hill dictionary in its 8th edition presents a fresh and comprehensive overview serving all aspect of the study of media and communication. It provides a detailed compendium of the different facets of personal, group, mass media and...

Daniel Miller ( Editor) / Materiality (Large Paperback)

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here...

Felipe Alfau / Chromos (Large Paperback)

Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis...

Diarmuid O'Murchu / Reframing Religious Life: An Expanded Vision for the Future (Large Paperback)

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

Jon Bird, George Roberts, Barry Curtis, / The Block Reader in Visual Culture (Large Paperback)

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the woek of contemporary artists, and bring the...

David B. Berman / Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World (Large Paperback)

Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders?Why do we really have an environmental crisis?How can accessible design broaden your audience?Why does the U.S. economy...

Madeline Stringer / Revisited Sins (Large Paperback)

Should we pay attention to our gut feelings? Is someone trying to warn us?Gina and her husband Alan agree that cousin Clive may come after his wife throws him out. The gorgeous, charming Clive soon expects the household to change to suit him, and Gina...

John J. Kirvan , Thérèse of Lisieux / Simply Surrender: Based on the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux(Large Paperback)

An innovative series that allows everyone an opportunity to spend a few moments a day over a 30-day period with a great spiritual master   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Piero Ferrucci / What We May Be: The Vision and Techniques of Psychosynthesis (Large Paperback)

A popular and practical introduction to psychosynthesis -the empowering psychology of self-actualization and enhanced personal growth. This book outlines a specific programme of easy-to-perform exercises that form the basis of a total system for...

Alvin Marcetti , Shirley Lunn/ A Place of Growth: Counselling and Pastoral Care of People with AIDS (Large Paperback)

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

Richard M. Gula / Moral Discernment (Large Paperback)

A clear and accessible guide to interpreting how conscience works in making moral decisions, by a distinguished moral theologian.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Donna L. Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson / Death, Dying and Bereavement (Large Paperback)Donna L. Dickenson (Editor) ,

"The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read and therefore accessible to a wide audience. In all it...

Pauline Ford, Mike Walsh / New Rituals for Old: Nursing Through the Looking Glass (Large Paperback)

In this sequel to their highly successful 'Nursing Rituals, Research and Rational Actions', the innovative & challenging approach adopted by the authors is pursued further. They argue that unless nurses continually think & act autonomously &...