December 2024

John Taylor, Helena McKinnon / Pilgrim Spirit: An Introduction to Reformed Spirituality

Pilgrim Spirit offers a warm and inviting introduction to an everyday spirituality which is firmly rooted in the Scriptures and which will be a sure guide through the whole of life. Combining inspiration with practical advise, this text renews our...

Padmal de Silva, Stanley Rachman / Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: The Facts

The book is intended both for those who have this disorder and for their families and friends. It is full of up-to-date information about the nature, symptoms, types, causes, treatments, and theories of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The authors look at...

Tom Sykes / What Did I Do Last Night?: A Drunkard's Tale

Tom had always drunk. Initially it was to escape the drudge of school and the distress of his rapidly disintegrating family, but as his career in journalism took off, so his alcohol consumption turned into a full-blown obsession. Having first run...

Richard Pryor, Todd Gold / Pryor Convictions

A candid, funny, often outrageous memoir by the comedian spans his childhood in the whorehouses, bars, and pool halls of Peoria, Illinois, his army service, his ascent to fame, and his tragic fall at the hands of drugs.     All of our books are...

Elizabeth Peters / Amelia Peabody #6 The Last Camel Died at Noon

Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.         All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Sue Etherington / Tables, Charts and Graphs

The appealing, compact, reasonably priced Essential Computers series from DK meets all of the getting-started needs of the beginning computer and Internet user, focusing exclusively on Microsoft products. With attractive French flaps and...

Richard Templar / Body Care: Life and Work 10.07

Fast track route to improving the health of your organization and yourselfCovers key health management techniques, from eliminating stress to auditing diet, and from expressing your feelings to maintaining a healthy work-home balancePacked with lessons...

Boris Akunin / He Lover of Death

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so...

Gabrielle Fernie / Lush

Lushadj. Very rich and providing great sensory pleasure (Oxford English Dictionary)n. A habitual drunkard (Oxford English Dictionary)'Arms linked, just as we did when we were seventeen, we teeter our way to the club, pausing to tug Emma's stiletto out of...

Lewis Hyde / The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

* What are the most important gifts in life?* What is the value of art in our society?* Are we in danger of ignoring our most precious commodity?A brilliantly argued defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated...

Kim Slater / A Seven Letter Word

Finlay's mother vanished two years ago. And ever since then his stutter has become almost unbearable. Bullied at school and ignored by his father, the only way to get out the words which are bouncing around in his head is by writing long letters to...

Carol McGrath / The Stolen Crown

When Princess Matilda is eighteen years old, tragedy strikes the royal family, and she becomes the only child of the king of England - the de facto heir to the throne. As her dying father persuades the barons to pledge allegiance to her, Matilda returns...

Carolyn G. Hart / Bailey Ruth #6 Ghost to the Rescue

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart’s ghostly gumshoe Bailey Ruth Raeburn is frequently amusing…but this is the first time she’s been a muse.Supervisor Wiggins at Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions dispatches...

Daniel Hurst / The Doctor's Wife

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S.K Marlay /The Stone Keep

Eadha learns early the cruel nature of the world from Lord Huath, a brutal Channeller. The Channellers rule Domhain, sapping magic from others so that the crops might grow, the cities might prosper, and the dragons might be held at bay. But there is...

Nicola Pierce / In Between Worlds: The Journey of the Famine Girls

In 1849, the Thomas Arbuthnot set sail for Australia.Onboard were 194 Irish girls.I heard the emotion in Sarah’s voice as she asked, ‘Will we ever come back?’‘Come back where?’‘Home,’ said Sarah. ‘Do you...

Richard Platt / Pirate Diary Journal Of Jake Carpenter

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Dave Haslam / Manchester, England

The definitive account of the pop cult capital of the UK by Dave Haslam, one of Manchester's top DJs and journalists. Manchester, a predominantly working-class city, away from the nation's capital, has been at the margins of English culture for...

Howard Hughes / Alice Quentin #2 A Killing of Angels

Alice Quentin returns to tackle a series of murders in the Square Mile, in the thrilling sequel to CROSSBONES YARD..At the height of a summer heatwave, a killer stalks the City of London.The avenging angel leaves behind a scattering of feathers with each...

Stefano M. Manelli / Jesus Our Eucharistic Love

A treasure of Eucharistic devotional writings and examples from the Saints showing their stirring Eucharistic love and devotion. Originally written in Italian, this latest edition is the most complete and accurate English translation. It is the most...

Michael Asher / Death or Glory #3 High Road to Hell

Part three in Death or Glory series, Highroad to Hell is Michael Asher's latest Second World War adventure. With Asher's insider knowledge of the SAS he brings to life the action of the battlefield in this fast-paced and compelling novel following...

Alice Kaplan / French Lessons: A Memoir

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

Andy Ripley / Ripley's World

Winner of the National Sporting Club's prestigious British Rugby Book of the Year Award for 2008, Ripley's World transforms and redefines the genre of the sports autobiography. In a moving and intimate memoir, Andy Ripley, England rugby icon and...

Polly Heron / New Beginnings for the Surplus Girls

Manchester, 1923: Jess Mason is determined to make her own way in the world.When a misunderstanding on a job application means she's appointed manager for Holly Lodge, a home for old soldiers, she must convince the owner that she can run things just as...

Stephen Glover / Splash!: A Novel

'I thoroughly enjoyed Splash! It's a delicious confection of excellent plotting, an inventively bonkers cast of characters, subtle insights into the world of newspapers and a satisfying ending which invokes the great Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece, Scoop . A...

Edward Blishen / A Nest of Teachers

In 1949 Edward Blishen presented himself at a London emergency training college to be hastily converted into a teacher. During the year that followed, it struck him later, he was also being emergency-trained as a husband and father.Set in the period...

Onjali Q. Raúf / The Great (Food) Bank Heist

Written with great empathy and Rauf’s trademark humour, The Great (Food) Bank Heist is a moving story that gives a child’s-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty.On Thursdays, Nelson, Ashley and Mum head out to the bank. But not...

D.B. Thorne / Perfect Match

When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an online date, Solomon can't believe this was just a terrible accident. Determined to find out what happened to his sister, and with the police unwilling to help, Solomon begins to...

Stephen Dobyns / Eating Naked

Here Stephen Dobyns, peerless chronicler of the menace and unease that lurk in small-town America, turns his attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity and good sense of the most ordinary people. The sixteen stories in...

Chuck Spezzano / If It Hurts, It Isn't Love

"If It Hurts, It Isn't Love" first came to media attention when Princess Diana gave an underlined and personally annotated copy of it to a friend. Its wise and inspiring principles clearly touched a chord with her - as they have many others in the...

Edward Marston / Domesday #2 The Ravens of Blackwater

In this novel, Edward Marston continues his colorful, historically fascinating series of mysteries set in England, just after the Norman Conquest, during the reign of William the Conqueror. Each novel draws upon an actual entry in the Domesday Book,...

K.M. Peyton / Gains #2 Greater Gains

In this sequel to "Small Gains," the love-hate relationship between Clara Garland and Nat Grover continues. Clara has been left a widow, pregnant with another man's child, and it seems as if things could not get worse. But soon her pretty and...

Michael Sheridan / Game, Set, Murder : The Gruesome True Story of Ireland's Wimbledon Finalist

At the beginning of August 1907, an early-morning train from Monte Carlo pulled into the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseilles. A trunk with a forwarding address was taken to the baggage section to await transportation. Some hours later a station...

Helen Berry / The Castrato and His Wife

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was nothing less than a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a...

Jonathan Harvey / The History Of Us

Liverpool 1985Kathleen, Adam and Jocelyn are three teenage friends who bond over an unconventional nativity play. They all have ambitions, they all have dreams.Adam wants to be a writer, Jocelyn wants to sing and Kathleen - well, she wants to be an...

Allen Carr / Allen Carr's No More Hangovers : Control Your Drinking the Easy Way

Allen Carr's Easy way to Stop Smoking has helped millions of smokers to quit. In No More Hangovers Allen turns his common sense approach to drinking. Using examples from his own experience, one by one Allen demolishes all the myths that surround the...

Tim Ewbank / Andrew Flintoff: The Biography

Andrew Flintoff is the most exciting talent in world cricket today, the kind of player who comes along once in a generation. Named Man of the Series during the epic Ashes success of 2005, his powerful stroke play, aggressive fast bowling, brilliant...

Ola Awonubi / A Nurse’s Tale

Inspired by a true storyBorn Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when war broke out – facing both the devastation of the Blitz and the...

P.J. Roberts, Marc Roberts / Mister Lee's Fantastic Football Dream

Teenager Lee dreams of becoming a professional soccer player, but growing up in a family of humble means, he is unsure what the future holds for him. One day a chance encounter leads to a trial ... can Lee make the under-18 national squad? Teenage...

Ron Halliday / Evil Scotland

Scotland is one of the friendliest and most hospitable countries in the world. Yet it has a sinister side that includes horrific murders, satanism, ritual killings, supernatural occurrences, alien abductions and phantom beasts. All of this and more...

Robert Rankin / Armageddon #2 They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie

Continuing the theme of The Musical, this book chronicles the further adventures of characters such as Rambo Bloodaxe, Deathblade Eric, and Hugo Rune, caught up in events beyond their control.         All of our books are...

Don Webb / Green For Danger

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Joan Aiken / The Wolves Chronicles #8 Is

Dido's sister, Is, travels north to try and find her lost cousin. But instead of the promised Playland, she discovers an underground kingdom where children work as slaves in the worst conditions imaginable - under the rule of the sinister Gold Kingy...

Stephen Bowkett / Dreamcatcher

The Shadowcatcher lives in our dreams, constantly looking for ways to break out of the dream world and wreak havoc in the world. In Dreamcatcher, he haunts the dreams of a teenage boy, trying to break through into the world via a derelict house built...

Jenny Nimmo / Ultramarine

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Eric Brown / The Web - 2028 #6 Walkabout

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A.Rutgers Van Der Loeff / Avalanche!

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Cathy MacPhail / Fighting Back

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Marcus Tullius Cicero / An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched...

Doris Lessing / Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in...

Edward Young / One of our Submarines

In the very highest rank of books about the last war. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically and with...

Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge...