December 2024

Robert M. Sapolsky / Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Why do human beings behave as they do?We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling...

Arthur Phillips / The Tragedy of Arthur

The doomed hero of The Tragedy of Arthur is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling with a larger-than-life father, a con artist who works wonders of deception but is a very unreliable parent. Arthur is raised in an enchanted world of smoke and...

Otava / Facts About Finland

Full color photos reveal the beauty of Finalnd, and the book is - as promised - filled with facts about Finland, from how the government works to basic facts.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Roger S. Kirby / Your Guide to Prostate Cancer

essential and invaluable information. Providing all the necessary facts, guidance and support, this book will enable the reader to make informed choices and regain control of their life.Written by Prof. Roger Kirby and Dr. Claire Taylor, world-renowned...

John Buchan / Pocket Guide to Malignant Melanoma

The ability to diagnose melanomas and ensure that they are properly and swiftly treated can save lives.The latter part of this century has witnessed a rise in the incidence of this life-threatening form of skin cancer, which is linked to sun exposure...

Derek Raymond / Factory Series #3 How the Dead Live

“A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high-fl own philosophy.”— Prospect The third novel in the acclaimed Factory crime series sees Derek Raymond’s nameless detective leave London for a remote village, where...

Michèle Roberts / Mud: Stories of Sex and Love

Chosen as a Fiction Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie O'Farrell In this witty and subversive collection of stories, Michèle Roberts explores women's desires, memories and loves as only she can. A jilted woman skirts the edges...

Alison Kervin / Celebrity Bride

It's the celebrity wedding of the season...The news that Hollywood bad boy Rufus George is finally settling down has caused a media storm. Especially since his bride is a civilian - a nobody. Kelly Monsoon is a pretty, curvy theatre administrator...

Michelle Gayle / Don't Lie to Me, Robbie Wilkins

OMG! My bum looks huge in this LBD!Minutes away from a date with Robbie Wilkins. Him: the buffest Premiership footballer around. Me: now officially an elephant :(.I can't believe I snogged him on my seventeenth-and-a half birthday! (He's a proper catch...

Eileen Rendahl / Cover Me in Darkness

Amanda Sinclair has to fight harder than most for everything she has after fleeing the cult that left her brother dead at her mother’s hand. Amanda works a quiet job in quality control for a small cosmetics company, trying to leave her past behind...

Mary Benson / Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement

Nelson Mandela has become a legend in his own lifetime; the embodiment of the struggle for liberation in South Africa and the symbol of its triumph. In this biography, the author describes Mandela's life, work and ideas from his childhood in the...

Terry Looker, Olga Gregson / Managing Stress

      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...

Doris Lessing / African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority...

James Burge / Heloise and Abelard : A Twelfth-Century Love Story

Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet- the names of Heloise and Abelard stand beside those in the register of 'great lovers'         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Huston Smith / The World's Religions

The World’s Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism,...

Paul Daniels / Paul Daniels: My Magic Life: The Autobiography

In his day, Paul Daniels was the most famous magician in the world. His feats of illusion earned him the highest honours the magic world could award, and his astonishing talent earned him a worldwide recognition and admiration that will long outlive him...

Dan Harris / 10% Happier

After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists...

DM Books / Síscéalta Traidisiúnta do leanaí de gach Aois HB- Fairytales ( As Gaeilge)

Large format padded hardcover, published by DM Books , Castleknock Dublin, undated Fairytales As Gaeilge , 124 pages, illustrated in colour throughout Síscéalta as Gaeilge, learáidí ar gach leathnach, as Gaeilge san...

Larry Niven - Vintage PB SF - Ringworld | Tales of Known Space | Protector | Ringworld Engineers | A World Out of Time | The Man Kzin Wars ( 6 BOOK LOT)

6 Vintage PB titles from SF author Larry Niven - as follows ( all with page tanning, edgewear to corners etc )  The Man-Kzin Wars  ( with Poul Anderson & Dean Ing) - Baen Books USA 0671720767 a 'Known Space' novel, 1988.  A World Out...

Rachel Rafferty / Abundantly Clear: Secrets And Lies Disguised As A Perfect Couple

On the surface, Beatrice has it all...Three angelic children, her ideal job, the house of her dreams and an even dreamier husband. But when her boss insists her teaching skills are falling short of student expectations, Beatrice discovers her issues with...

Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record

Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural...

Jane Fallon / Over Sharing

Does she have the perfect life?Or is she living the perfect lie?Iris is happy, really. No, this isn't exactly what she thought her forties would look like...she's divorced. She hasn't had the baby she so wanted. She's had to rent out her spare room to...

Martin Walters / Bloomsbury Illustrated Dictionary of Animal Life

      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...

Nigel Blundell, Roger Boar / The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

From theft and fraud to murder, the world's greatest unsolved crimes examines the facts behind the most intriguing crimes of all - those that remain unsolved. Such cases are the stuff of whodunits. But this book is based on real life and not fiction...

Anne Holt / A Memory for Murder

      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...

Daisy Wood / The Clockmaker’s Wife

The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the...

Justin Pollard / Secret Britain: The Hidden Bits of Our History

Some of our most intriguing history is missing. Perhaps there has been a conspiracy, a cover-up? Or maybe some stories have been lost, forgotten or were just too embarrassing to talk about at the time? But now they are back, revealed in all their...

Mark Martin / I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

The magnitude of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this disbelief, bringing the...

Emily Herbert / Gok Wan: The Biography

Leading British fashion consultant, author, and television host Gok Wan, born in Leicester in 1974 to an English mother and a Chinese father, went from an overweight teenager to a slimmed down leader in the world of fashion—he started as a...

Mark Ravenhill / Plays for Young People: Citizenship / Scenes from Family Life / Totally Over You

A collection of three plays for young actors written by Mark Ravenhill—Citizenship, Scenes from  Family Life, and Totally Over You—each with an introduction by the author. Originally commissioned as part of the National...

Fin Kennedy, Kevin Fegan / Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actos

Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance...

Kevin Brooks / See Through Me

THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, KEVIN BROOKSWhen fifteen-year-old Kenzie wakes up in hospital in a darkened room, she’s in the dark about what has happened to her too. The doctors break the devastating news that she has...

Chuck Wendig / Dust & Grim

Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick—being raised by her neglectful father—while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are...

Kim Echlin / The Disappeared

After more than 30 years, Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Catherine Bruton / No Ballet Shoes in Syria

Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asylum from war in Syria.When Aya stumbles across a local ballet class, the formidable dance teacher spots her exceptional talent and believes that Aya has the...

Michael Honig / The Senility of Vladimir P.

Set twenty-odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number One—Vladimir Putin, largely forgotten in his presidential dacha, serviced by a small coterie of house staff, drifting in and out of his memories of the past. His nurse, charged with the...

Joe Ide / IQ #3 Wrecked

Isaiah Quintabe - IQ for short - has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go to the corner store without being recognized...

Gavin Lyall / Honour #2 Flight from Honour

The Italian senator thinks the fledgling British Secret Service can offer him protection from assassins, an aeroplane and the means of fuelling a strike in a Trieste shipyard. Those recruited could accidentally change history in this adventure set in...

Tina Baker / Nasty Little Cuts

A nightmare jolts Debs awake. She leaves the kids tucked up in their beds and goes downstairs. There's a man in her kitchen, holding a knife. But it's not an intruder. This is her husband Marc, the father of her children.Once, their differences were what...

Michael Hughes / The Countenance Divine

In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.In 1777 an apprentice...

Adib Taherzadeh / The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Vol.1: Baghdád: 1853-63

The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh is a four-volume series about the Scriptures of the Bahá'í Faith. It is a unique survey of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, using both authentic English translations and original...

James Barrington / Overkill ( Paul Richter Novels - Book 1 )

The Cold War is over, but Russia's arsenal of nuclear weapons is still in place. And when an emissary from an international terrorist group makes a disaffected Russian minister an offer he can't refuse, the survival of the West hangs in the balance.....

Jude Deveraux / Montgomery/Taggert #10 The Princess

Her name was Aria...a beautiful, arrogant princess from a small European kingdom. Stranded in a storm of intrigue near the Florida Keys, she is swept ashore and into the arms of dashing J.T. Montgomery, an officer of the American Navy. Disdainful at...

Fred Hiatt / The Secret Sun

When a young American journalist working in Toyko comes across long-hidden information indicating that Japan was working on its own atomic bomb during WWII, he becomes the target of disinformation, blackmail, and eventually, murder. A masterful,...

Bob Mayer / The Green Berets #6 Z

Although retired from the US Army, Dave Riley is not out of the action as he battles crafty villains and a deadly pestilence in southwestern Africa in this sixth installment of Mayer's absorbing and well-written series (Cut-Out, 1995, etc.). Now a...

John E. Sarno / Mind Over Back Pain: A Radically New Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Back Pain

This is the book that has given thousands of sufferers new hope--a gentle, effective way to find real relief from back pain, without painkillers, without surgery, without spending days on end in bed. Dr. John Sarno 's revolutionary approach to back...

Nancy Thayer / Morning

After she discovers some pages of a distinguished novel mixed up in a run-of-the-mill romance, Sara Kendall, a free-lance editor living on Nantucket, searches out the mysterious author         All of our books are second hand,...

Dawn Thompson / Blood Moon #1 Blood Moon

THEIR DARK CURSE Jon Hyde-White was changed. Neither his horse nor his dog trusted him any longer, and with good cause; the transformation was almost complete. Soon he would cease to be an earl's second son and become a ravening monster. Already lust...

Shayla Black / Doomsday Brethren #4 Entice Me at Twilight

In national bestselling author Shayla Black’s electrifying new novel, the Doomsday Brethren fight their mortal enemy for the newest weapon in a bloody magical war: the one woman a warrior shouldn’t claim . . . yet can’t resist...

Dawn Thompson / Blood Moon #2 The Brotherhood

After discovering that he is the son of two half-created vampires, Joss Hyde-White leaves London in search of answers about his heritage and, along the way, rescues a chestnut-haired beauty from the deadly creatures of the night.     All of our...

Raven Hart / Savannah Vampire #5 The Vampire's Revenge

Jack McShane: lover, killer, seducer, family man, and vampire. In the shadows of Savannah, with its hip nightspots and moss-draped oak trees, Jack is trying to save humankind from a threat it doesn't know it faces: an explosion of the otherworldly, the...

Raven Hart / Savannah Vampire #2 The Vampire's Secret

Once a mortal with a beloved family, William Cuyler Thorne is now a vampire on the prowl for blood and beautiful women. He has the perfect cover as an admired citizen of Savannah society. Though Reedrek, the ruthless old-world vampire who tried to...