December 2024

Sandra Dallas / Fallen Women (Hardback)

It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver.  What they do not tell her is...

Annabel Pitcher / Ketchup Clouds (Hardback)

Secrets, romance, murder and lies: Zoe shares a terrible secret in a letter to a stranger on death row in this second novel from the author of the bestselling debut, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece.Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret—a dark...

Beverly Lewis / Curing Hooks and Slices: Straighten the Curving Shots (Hardback)

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Francis Gay / The Friendship Book 2011. (Hardback)

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Anne Fine / Jamie and Angus Forever (Hardback)

A collection of stories about Jamie and his toy highland bull, Angus. It lets you join them as they have fun at Jamie's birthday party, think up some new ways to cry, and deal with a rather naughty pet gerbil.         All...

D.A. Nelson / DarkIsle (Hardback)

Ten-year-old Morag is being held prisoner. When a dodo and a rat accidentally rescue her, she is drawn into their dangerous and life-threatening mission to retrieve an ancient stone used to protect their northern homeland...

Susan Rennie / Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools 2010 (Hardback)

This Oxford thesaurus contains thousands of synonyms, and provides help in avoiding pitfalls and overused words. It is compiled using the Oxford Children's Corpus for real vocabulary and age-appropriate sentences...

Terry Deary / The Vicious Vikings and the Measly Middle Ages (Hardback)

Frightening facts are given about vicious Vikings, these vile invaders and their savage Saxon enemies in this double book which shares with another on the Measly Middle Ages. This shows what life was really like in days of old, when knights were bold...

Dick Strawbridge / Made at Home: Curing & Smoking: From Dry Curing to (Hardback)

Curing and smoking are two of the best ways to preserve and enjoy meat, fish and even dairy products. From salami and ham to bresaola and smoked salmon, cured meat and fish can be expensive to buy and cook with; and often the quality is questionable...

Ann Granger / Mitchell and Markby #13 Shades of Murder (Hardback)

The Oakley family has always lived in the shadow of crime. Over a 100 years later, the only remaining members of the family live alone in a rambling ancestral home, ready to sell up and move on. A young Polish man appears, is found dead, and the the...

Martyn Bedford / The Houdini Girl (Hardback)

In The Houdini Girl, award-winning mystery writer Martyn Bedford explores the pulsing spiritual chaos that lies at the heart of erotic obsession. Fletcher "Red" Brandon is a master magician who uses his talents to seduce Rosa, a flinty Irish woman...

hiaasen-hiaasen-carl / Star Island (Hardback)

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Maeve Binchy / Circle of Friends / Silver Wedding (Hardback)

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Rosalind Coward / Our Treacherous Hearts: Why Women Let Men Get Their Way (Hardback)

So much appears to have improved for women. In theory they have equal pay and opportunity; working mothers are no longer stigmatized; women are moving into the highest levels of politics. Yet in many fundamental ways, little has changed. It is still...

Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback)

What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue...

Nancy Dell'Olio / The Dark Lady (Hardback)

Though Nancy Dell’Olio is no stranger to the front pages, her real story has never been told. From her childhood in New York and Puglia in Italy and the accident which nearly killed her, to the successful career in commercial law and the...

Gary Ablett Paul Joyce / The Game of My Life Gary Ablett - My Story (Hardback)

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Nils. Ringdal / Love for Sale : A Global History of Prostitution (Hardback)

From the Whore of Babylon to The Happy Hooker, eminent historian Nils Johan Ringdal has written a masterly, extremely readable world history of the world’s oldest profession, spanning a wide historical swathe armed with a lively wit. Beginning...

Betty-Anne Stenmark / A New Owner's Guide to Saint Bernards (Hardback)

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Roberts Michele / The Mistressclass (Hardback)

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Fiona Beckett / How to Match Food With Wine: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing Wine to Go With Food (Hardback)

Here’s an indispensable companion for anyone who likes to indulge in that just-right mix of delicious wine and fabulous food. Fiona Beckett is one of the UK’s most respected authorities on how to pair up these two pleasures of life, and...

Patricia Wentworth / Unlawful Occasions (Hardback)

This thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries offers fascinating insight into the British mindset during World War IIWhile waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is drawn into a conversation with an elderly woman who is also...

Victoria Colligan / Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle (Hardback)

Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. The nationally acclaimed Ladies...

Virginia Parker Guidry / The Poodle: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Hardback)

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Willy Jocher / Turtles for Home and Garden (Hardback)

Recommendations for caring for a pet turtle, with descriptions and photographs of many kinds of turtles.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Godried Schulbert / Fish Diseases: A Complete Introduction (Hardback)

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Sheila Cole / The Canyon (Hardback)

As long as Zachary Barnes can remember, he has been going to the canyon. In fact, everybody in San Ramon goes there to picnic, to jog, and to drink in its wild beauty. Zach and his best friend, Trevor, have tested their courage and strength on the...

Margaret Crowther / traditional massage for health (Hardback)

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Julia Samuel / Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving (Hardback)

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood...In Grief Works we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and great loss - and survived. Stories that explain how...

William Horwood / The Willows at Christmas (Hardback)

Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger return once more in a special Christmas tale from the bestselling author of The Willows in Winter, Toad Triumphant and The Willows and Beyond. The twelve days of Christmas are fast approaching and Mole is planning to...

Martin Waddell / Gallows Hill: And The Ghostly Penny (Hardback)

Irish folk tales with a ghastly ghostly twist! Two tales in each book, written in Martin Waddell's inimitable lyrical style. Every story is packed with atmosphere and a twist of gentle humour. From Boneless's revenge on the tricky tinker and Eileen's...

E.V. Thompson / Becky (Hardback)

Fergus Vine has left the Navy to seek out his mentor, Henry Gordon. But Gordon lies dead, a victim of the scourge of the poor: alcoholism. Grieving for the loss of his friend, Fergus decides to fulfil Gordon's mission to record the lives of the poor...

Robert Dessaix / The Pleasures of Leisure (Hardback)

In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further;...

Mary A. Larkin / Painful Decisions (Hardback)

Life in 1920s Belfast is hard for the working class people, but the Mc Guigans are more fortunate than most. But when eldest son Johnnie shatters the family's peaceful existence with a shocking and unwelcome revelation, opinions become divided. And...

Lord Oaksey / Flings Over Fences: The Ups and Downs of Gay Kindersley (Hardback)

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Alex Berenson / John Wells #12 The Deceivers (Hardback)

The Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's...

Eliezer Ginsburg / Mishlei/Proverbs: Volume 1, a New Translation with a Commentary Anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic, and Rabbinic Sources (Hardback)

A decade in preparation and well worth the wait this volume brings Shlomo HaMelech's wisdom to every Jewish home, school, office and shul. Compiled and crafted by a master of Torah thought and ethical teaching, it explains, enlightens and inspires...

Jenny Diski / Happily Ever After (Hardback)

Daphne Drummond - ex-novelist and trainee baglady - decides it's high time she took a lover. This comedy of lust and noble failure begins when Daphne sets her sights on her landlord, Liam, a drunk whose only pleasures are avoiding work and...

Alison Bruce / DC Gary Goodhew Mystery #7 Cambridge Black (Hardback)

A cold case waits to be solved . . . and a killer waits in the wings.Amy was seven years old when her father was arrested for murder. His subsequent trial and conviction scarred her childhood and cast a shadow over her life until,...

Anabel Hernández / Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers (Hardback)

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to author Anabel...

Adele Parks / If You Go Away (Hardback)

1914. Vivian, a young, impassioned debutante is hurried into a pedestrian marriage to cover a scandal. War breaks out on her wedding day -- domestically and across Europe. Quick to escape the disappointment of matrimony, her traditionalist husband...

Alexandre Dumas / The Man in the Iron Mask (Hardback)

In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to...

Jay McInerney / The Last Bachelor (Hardback)

An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - the master of modern American prose - which, in true McInerney style, examines post-9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory.His characters include a...

Jhumpa Lahiri / In Other Words (Hardback)

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated...

F.W. Leakey / Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal (Hardback)

Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its "landmark" status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial...

Christine Richardson / Mediaeval Drama (Hardback)

Medieval Drama is a textbook, designed to be used by A level and undergraduate students of theatre and drama. It is divided into two major areas, mystery cycles and morality plays, and it examines the plays from a performance perspective. The book...

Eric Van Lustbader / Jason Bourne #13 The Bourne Enigma (Hardback)

Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne - 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the world'.Before...

Jamie Freveletti / Covert-One #11 The Geneva Strategy (Hardback)

On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the...

Lynda Cohen Loigman / The Two-Family House (Hardback)

Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small...

Angus Donald / The Outlaw Chronicles #6 The Iron Castle (Hardback)

Robin Hood and his band of mercenaries fight to save the final English stronghold in Normandy in Angus Donald's latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Outlaw Chronicles         All of our books are second hand, and while...

Janet Woods / The Convict's Woman (Hardback)

Framed for a crime he didn't commit and after serving a seven year sentence in prison, former stable lad Seb Cornish returns to his native Dorset with old scores to settle. Above all, he seeks revenge against the young girl who unwittingly betrayed...

W.S. Merwin / The Rain in the Trees (Hardback)

Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...