December 2024

Charlene Altemose F.E.C. / What You Should Know About the Word of the Lord

When we share the Word of God in Liturgy, we believe that we encounter Christ, just as surely as we encounter him in the sacrament of the Eucharist. What You Should Know About the Word of the Lord is a clear, detailed, easy-to-understand explanation...

Andrew Cotter / Dog Days : A Year with Olive & Mabel

In Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel, join Andrew Cotter as he takes you behind the scenes and into the pages of his diary to reveal just how extraordinary the year has been, and what really happened after his lockdown superstar Labradors chewed up...

Gerald M. Edelman / Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and...

Daniel C. Dennett / Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

In Breaking the Spell Daniel C. Dennett explores how the great ideas of religion have enthralled us for thousands of years - and whether we could (or should) break free.What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind...

Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution

For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when...

Jane Smith, Ian D. Learmonth / Hip Replacement

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Knud Romer / Nothing But Fear

The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to tear a town - and a young boy's life - apart. Knud is growing up in Falster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over but the Germans are still hated and Knud has a German mother...

D.T. Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant...

Al Murray / Al Murray The Pub Landlord's Great British Pub Quiz Book

Who doesn't enjoy a rousing question-and-answer session over a pint and some scratchings? Indeed, what higher calling is there than standing in the pub loudly demanding answers to difficult questions like "d'you want some?" Here, for your pleasure,...

BRENNAN / Herbie Brennan's Forbidden Truths: Atlantis

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S.J. Perelman / The Swiss Family Perelman

The author offers a humorous account of his family's voyage to the Far East, France, and England         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...

S.J. Perelman / The Most of S.J. Perelman

This definitive collection brings together the finest of Sidney Joseph Perelman's comic writings, satires and parodies, from The Customer is Always Wrong and Boy Meets Gull to Is There an Osteosynchrondroitrician in the House? and The Pants...

Rosemary Kay / Return Journey

A novel about a young woman's search for her father and the discovery of something completely different but no less valuable.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Nancy Mitford / Radlett and Montdore #1 The Pursuit of Love

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties...

Lewis Davies / Work, Sex and Rugby

Young and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romantic, and life isn't matching up to all he thinks it should be...

Frances Mary Hendry / Angel Dancer

Brenda, at 15, is a wild girl who will risk anything - anything at all - to become a ballerina. Can her worried younger sister Mary, and the Ballet Angel she hopes will look after Brenda, prevent her fanatical determination leading her to disaster?...

Nigel Barley / The Innocent Anthropologist #3 Not a Hazardous Sport

This book has been republished as . After Nigel Barley's insurance company determined that anthropology was not a hazardous sport, he was free to set off for Torajaland, a remote district of Indonesia. His visit sparked an enduring love afair which...

Tessa Hadley / Sunstroke and Other Stories

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Ann Granger / Campbell and Carter Mystery #3 Bricks and Mortality

The third Cotswold village mystery featuring Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter reveals a ruthless killer and a case of mistaken identity.In the cold light of dawn, a dead body is found entombed in the smouldering remains of a...

Terry Deary, Hemesh Alles / Tudor Chronicles #6 The Queen of the Dying Light

As Queen Elizabeth I lies dying, England is in turmoil. A young lad Will and his friend Meg set off to London to clear his familyname but are confronted by great obstacles, none worse than the magician, Doctor Dee, a man much admired by Queen Bess...

Barbara Trapido / Temples of Delight

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Budd Schulberg / The Harder They Fall

The celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Robert M. Youngson / Collins Dictionary of Human Biology

Human Biology is a key subject of study in all the subjects related to medicine from radiology to pharmacology. This is the first student dictionary devoted to the subject. In over 6,000 entries, this dictionary covers the topics necessary in...

Ben Okri / Starbook

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Carrie Vaughn / Kitty Norville #7 Kitty's House of Horrors

Talk radio host and celebrity werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. What she's expecting is cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as...

Joan Lingard / After You've Gone

Beautifully written and emotionally charged, After You've Gone is a fascinating account of one woman's struggle to find happiness and independence in 1920s society. When Willa met Tommy Costello, a handsome, smooth-tongued sailor, she thought he had...

Max Schaefer / Children Of The Sun

In 1970s Britain, 14-year-old Tony is entranced by the racism and brutality of the skinhead movement. From white-power rock gigs and race riots to clandestine homosexual encounters, Tony rages through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s while the far right...

Simone Weil / The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French...

John Niven / Straight White Male

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way...

James A. Coleman / Relativity for the Layman

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Joanna Nadin / Wonderland

Jude must get away. She has to ace her exams and an audition at a prestigious drama school or she'll never escape her small town life and follow her dream of becoming an actor. But then her best friend Stella returns, bringing excitement and danger...

Cara Lynn Shultz / Spellbound #2 Spellcaster

Finding your eternal soulmate - easy.Stopping a true-love-hungry evil - not so much…After breaking a centuries-old romantic curse, Emma Connor is (almost) glad to get back to normal problems. Although...it's not easy dealing with the jealous...

Lisa Heathfield / Seed

Seed loves you. Seed will never let you go.Fifteen-year-old Pearl has lived her whole life protected within the small community at Seed, where they worship Nature and idolise their leader, Papa S. When some outsiders arrive, everything changes. Pearl...

Barbara Straunch / Why Are They So Weird? : What's Really Going on in a Teenager's Brain

As Strauch reveals, scientists now recognize that there is a biological component to why teenagers are so likely to slam the door and hide out in their rooms at the least provocation. There is a reason they are articulate and idealistic one moment,...

Roger Voss / Wines Of Loire

Voss sets out to make up for the apparently curious neglect of wines of the Loire in wine literature. The region produces wine as fine as Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne and yet has received only occasional recognition, perhaps because the wines are...

Tony Bradman / How to Be a Boy

Ten edgy stories from the streets of Britain and the US, inspired by the pressures of being a twenty-first century boy.Teenage boys are trouble. It’s in the news, on the front page – everywhere you look they’re doing drugs, messing with...

Joni Eareckson Tada / Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos

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Malcolm Archibald / Last Train to Waverley

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Jillian Madison, Michelle Madison / Dear Asshole: 101 Tear-Out Letters to the Morons Who Muck Up Your Life

Ever wish you could leave a nasty note for that jerk in the Hummer who blocked you in, or the idiot who didn’t clean up after his dog? Now you can! Dear Asshole includes 101 letters to all of the assholes you encounter on a daily basis, each...

Dee Phillips / Joyride

"Right Now!" is a special series of low word count fiction books for teenagers with a reading age of 6 to 8 years. With bright illustrations and minimal text, these titles cover current and exciting topics that will appeal to young teenagers...

Paul McAuley / Confluence #1-3 Confluence - The Trilogy

Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. A world beyond the end of human history, served by countless machines, inhabited by 10,000 bloodlines who worship their absent creators, riven by a vast...

Kresley Cole / Immortals After Dark #8 Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Lucia the Huntress is as mysterious as she is beautiful. Garreth, prince of the Lykae, has long watched over Lucia, the lovely little Valkyrie who alternately maddens him and inflames his lust. He aches to claim the seductive creature as his own, but...

Kresley Cole / Immortals After Dark #9 Demon from the Dark

From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch he vows to protect-even from himself.Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by...

Rachel Wright / You've Got Blackmail

My heart is now thumping like the clappers. Panic is rushing through my veins. What in the name of Nora am I going to do? Jaffa Cake junkie Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. She's been caught borrowing her sister Karen's stuff; her mum's...

Ruth Rendell / Anthology of the Murderous Mind

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Ruaidhrí Ó Báille / Dúnmharú ar an Dart

Nil Niall O Briain sasta ann fein. Ta se tuirseach da phost mar mhuinteoir, ta se tuirseach de scolairi mar Bill 'Brean' O Ruairc a thugann Rothweilers ar scoil 'don chraic', agus ta se tuirseach de thuismitheoiri a dheanann 'jabanna' ar mhuinteoiri...

Chloe Bennet / Boywatching

The annual joint school dance (aka the Snog Fest) is looming, and Chloe and her three best friends are determined not to repeat last year's disaster, which led to Year 9's top Mean Girl, Maggie, humiliating them online as a pack of sad losers. First...

Carolyn Mackler / Virginia Shreves #1 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Manhattan teenager Virginia has a bigger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex to go with it, particularly when she compares herself to her practically-perfect-in-every-way siblings. But when a horrifying allegation is levelled at her...

Matt Dickinson / Mortal Chaos #3 Speed Freaks

Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever. A father and son diving off the coast of Hawaii, with the sharks closing in. A scientist in a forest under attack...

Nina Bell / The Empty Nesters

Clover Jones and Laura Dangerfield have been best friends since their children were born. Along with Clover's stylish, powerful friend, Alice, they share holidays, sleepovers, school runs and childcare. They're like one big family. But all families...

D.J. McCune / Death & Co. #1 Death & Co.

Adam is a Luman, and it runs in the family. Escorting the dead from life into light, Adam must act as guide to those taken before their time. As his older brothers fall into their fate however, Adam clings to his life as a normal kid - one who likes...

Anne, a lay apostle / Direction for Our Times, Vol. 1: Thoughts on Spirituality

Relationship of author with Jesus and the journey to Jesus talking and giving messages to the World         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...