December 2024

Richard Hoggart / The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Hardback)

'This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ' SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself...

Mark Lawrence / Red Sister (Hardback)

"I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its...

Katy Regan / Little Big Man (Hardback)

Meet 10-year-old Zac – a boy on a mission – in Katy Regan’s new novel Little Big Man . . . You can't see the truth from the outside, that's what I've worked out. Ten-year-old Zac has never met his dad, who allegedly did a...

Shobha Rao / Girls Burn Brighter (Hardback)

A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two girls who are driven apart but never stop trying to find one another again.When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she...

John Brockman / When We Were Kids : How a Child Becomes a Scientist (Hardback)

When We Were Kids is a book of original essays by celebrated third culture thinkers - scientists who, through their work and writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives,...

Victoria Redel / Before Everything (Hardback)

Before Everything is an ode to friendship for readers of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett, full of dry humour, quiet wisdom and huge empathy.End of sixth grade they made it their official name. It was a joke one afternoon but they liked the way it sounded...

Robert Radcliffe / Freefall (Hardback)

February, 1942. Operation Biting. On a cliff on the coast of Normandy sits a radar facility belonging to the German forces. In the first operation assigned to their battalion, the 2nd Parachute Battalion must secure the area so RAF radio technician...

Jonathan A. Knee / The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Hardback)

Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an...

Georgia Byng / The Ramsbottom Rumble (Hardback)

Arthur Ramsbottom is Gran's boyfriend who claims to work for the secret service. Tom and Dan are pretty sure he's up to no good, but it's going to take all their acting skills to catch him...For confident young readers. Ages 10+.Black Cats is a new...

O.R. Melling / The Summer King (Hardback)

This second book in a series "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance" ("Booklist"), follows sixteen-year-old Laurel as she tries to understand the cause of her twin sister's mysterious death. Honor believed in Faerie, a parallel land of mischievous...

Aaron Elkins / Gideon Oliver #11 Good Blood (Hardback)

Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R & R. They're guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only...

Sue Blackhall / Supermodel Chef Lorraine Pascale: The Unauthorised Biography (Hardback)

Revealed for the first time, the truth behind TV chef Lorraine Pascale's marriage and the colorful aristocrat who betrayed her. While Lorraine was suffering the pain of divorce the woman who had taken her husband was in court formally changing her...

Peter Miller / Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World (Hardback)

How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from...

Geoff Thompson / The Beginners Guide to Darkness: This Book Will Help You to Find the Light (Hardback)

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Jennifer Roy / Yellow Star (Hardback)

The niece of Syvia Perlmutter, one of only twelve child survivors of the Lodz ghetto in Poland, shares her aunt's experiences of the Holocaust in free verse that relates the courage and heartbreak she lived during a time of terrible circumstances...

David Owen / Copies in Seconds (Hardback)

The first plain-paper office copier -- which was introduced in 1960 and has been called the most successful product ever marketed in America -- is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person...

David Sheppard / On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno (Hardback)

Authorised biography of influential musician/producer/cultural commentator Brian Eno, written with his co-operation         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

Gioia Diliberto / I Am Madame X (Hardback)

Follows the life of Virginie Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's famous and controversial portrait, from her Creole heritage and flight to France during the American Civil War, to her troubled adolescence and marriage to a prominent banker...

Peter Schwartz / Art of the Long View, The (Hardback)

Forget number crunching, says our foremost futurist; it's vision that makes things happen — and this guide to his ideas is a vital tool for planners, managers, entrepreneurs, investors, or anyone interested in tomorrow...

Mary S. Lovell / The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History (Hardback)

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Iain Banks / Dead Air (Hardback)

Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people...

Robin Neillands / The Wars of the Roses (Hardback)

The vicious conflict between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster—known as the War of the Roses—marked the end of medieval England and the birth of the Renaissance. Here is a concise and fascinating study of that 30-year period,...

Daniel Easterman / Midnight Comes at Noon (Hardback)

In an idyllic Northumberland village, the locals prepare for the Harvest Festival as they and their ancestors have done for generations. They are ordinary men, women and children, as good and as bad, as subject to joy and misery, as any in the land...

Edward Jay Epstein / The Annals of Unsolved Crime (Hardback)

One of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 yearsThe beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it...

Vikas Swarup / The Accidental Apprentice (Hardback)

In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if, out of the blue, a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch:...

Ed Smith / Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine (Hardback)

Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making – rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to sustained success. And to help us all win more...

Stephen Arterburn, Jim Burns / When Love Is Not Enough (Hardback)

Offers advice from a Christian perspective for dealing with tough issues, including substance abuse, teenage sex, and others         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures (Hardback)

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Hope Larson / Minecraft: Stories from the Overworld (Hardback)

From blocks to panels! Minecraft returns to comics in this stand-alone anthology collection of officially licensed, original comic stories!With tales of witch and pillager rivals finding common ground, a heartless griefer who bit off more than they could...

Mel Robbins / The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit (Hardback)

In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation . Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit .Don't...

George Davidson / Rogets Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 150th Anniversary E (Hardback)

Roget's Thesaurus is the world's most famous and trusted word-finder. First published in 1852 it has now sold over 32 million copies worldwide and has become the indispensable desk companion for generations of speakers and writers of English. Unlike most...

G. Scott Sparrow / I Am with You Always: True Stories of Encounters with Jesus (Hardback)

From near-death experiences to miraculous healings of mind and body, this book documents the stories of people who claim to have seen, touched, heard or even spoken to Jesus at pivotal moments in their lives. A commentary connects these modern...

Jodie Chapman / Another Life (Hardback)

She could be the girl dancing on tables one night, and the next she'd be hiding in the shadows.Just when I thought I understood her, she would melt away and become a completely new person, and I'd have to start all over again.That's how it was with Anna...

Paul Kennedy / The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government (Hardback)

“With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the UN still represents man’s best-organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield.”–Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961The signing of...

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast / House of Night #6 Tempted (Hardback)

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Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback)

This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals...

Christopher Wormell / The Magic Place (Hardback)

'And even though she only saw it in her dreams, she felt sure it was real.' From her cellar bedroom, Clementine dreams of a magic place. And she's determined to find it one day. But first she must escape from her wicked aunt and uncle and from the...

Fenton Bresler / Who Killed John Lennon? (Hardback)

Based on six years of extensive research into the background and motives of assassin Mark Chapman and the circumstances of the murder, Bresler contends that Chapman did not act alone but was part of a political...

elizabeth-laird / The Garbage King (Hardback)

Inspired by a true story of an African childhood lived on the very edge of destitution. When Mamo`s mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. Tricked by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer, he is cruelly treated. Barely alive,...

Belinda Brett / Dreaming of Water (Hardback)

Amid the eerie peace of the East Anglian coast, Frances Lambert is being haunted by dark, strange dreams of water, and of drowning. Then, drawn into a shady antique-dealing ring, she becomes aware that it is not only in her dreams that something dark...

Jay Ingram / Velocity of Honey (Hardback)

Always witty and stimulating and to the point, Jay Ingram's essays are models of their kind, revealing again and again the fascination that can be found beneath the surface of everyday life if we just pause to consider the significance of objects and...

marcus-berkmann / The Role of the Brain (Hardback)

Who in the Bible killed a quarter of the world's population? What hardly ever happens in Hertford, Hereford or Hampshire? And what did Pink Floyd sing about once, Liza Minnelli twice and Abba three times?The answers to these questions and more can be...

J.P. Donleavy / Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever To be Rumoured About Around New York (Hardback)

Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly, known as Stephen, son of rumored former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed composer, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart,...

Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback)

This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,...

David Kean / How Not to Come Second: The Art of Winning Business Pitches (Hardback)

Seven practical and powerful pitch proposal techniques aimed at securing new clients and business make up the core of this indispensable guide to being the most organized, prepared, and best equipped in the competitive realm of new-business proposals...

Richard Layard, David Clark / Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies (Hardback)

Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies thanks to the work of Richard Layard and David Clark. But, even so, in Britain and worldwide the majority of people who need help still don't get treatment. This is both unjust and a...

Charles Baxter / The Soul Thief (Hardback)

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome...

David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo / Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top--And How to Manage Them (Hardback)

If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top executives and how you can avoid...

James Hurman / The Case for Creativity (Hardback)

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Ian Ker, William Oddie / John Paul The Great: Maker Of The Post-conciliar Church (Hardback)

A distinguished list of Catholic writers present their unique insights on the extraordinary achievements of the 25 years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate. This prestigious group of writers make a strong case that this has not been merely an...

Caroline Hodgson / For the Love of Radio 4 An Unofficial Companion (Hardback)

Who were the original Goons?What is happening when presenters ‘crash the pips’?Which radio programme has featured guest appearances by the Duchess of Cornwall, Alan Titchmarsh, Mike Gatting and Kirstie Allsopp?From Farming Today at sunrise to...

Stacy Gregg / The Fire Stallion (Hardback)

An enchanting and empowering standalone story from the author of The Princess and the Foal. Twelve-year-old Hilly has landed her dream job, riding on the set of Brunhilda, an epic film based on the fearless warrior of Icelandic legend. Norse fire ritual...