New Hardback Books

James Morton / Lola Montez (Hardback)

How did an Irish Protestant girl, baptized Eliza Gilbert, transform herself into the most famous courtesan of the nineteenth century, attracting admirers and scandal wherever she went? This enthralling biography reveals the incredible true story of...

María Elena Fernández / And Don't F&%k It Up (Hardback)

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans.Told over the first...

Nigel Owens / The Final Whistle (Hardback)

This is the story of the second half of Nigel’s career as one of the most famous referees in World Rugby, and one of only two Welsh refs ever to officiate at a Rugby World Cup Final.With his contract with the Welsh Rugby Union having come to an end...

Neil Gaiman / AMERICAN GODS (Hardback)

Within just a few pages of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, he commandingly reveals that he is at his considerable best with this disturbing and dark journey into the hidden soul of America. Gaiman, one of the most talented and imaginative writers...

Darcey Bussell / Christmas in Enchantia (Hardback)

Magic Ballerina   Prima Ballerina, Darcey Bussell takes you on a captivating journey to a faraway land of ballet and magic at Christmas! It's Christmas, the most magical time of the year, and Delphie is really excited about taking part in her...

Pope Francis / Only Love Can Save Us (Hardback)

"Only the commandment of love, in all its simplicity steady, humble, unassuming but firm in conviction and in commitment to others can save us." Te Deum homily of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, May 25, 2012 As Pope Francis speaks from a new and much larger...

williams hugh / Fifty Things You Need to Know about World History (Hardback)

If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through the country's past, what would they be? Author Hugh Williams has made the selection,...

Lynne Truss / A Shot in the Dark (Hardback)

After the notorious ‘Middle Street Massacre’ of 1951, when the majority of Brighton’s criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather...

Helen Dunmore / House of Orphans (Hardback)

Set in Finland in the year 1901: Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her challenging, independent, enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it...

Kaleb Cooper / The World According to Kaleb (Hardback)

Get ready for season two of Clarkson's Farm with Kaleb Cooper's worldly wisdom on life's big issues, from the difference between straw and hay to the importance of having a hair perm.Chipping Norton's celebrity farmer Kaleb Cooper has strong...

Matthew Woodring Stover / Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Hardback)

Based on the screenplay of the movie, Star Wars: Episode III, the novel brings the epic full circle, revealing at last just how the young Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, became the most evil villain in the galaxy, Darth Vader, and father to Luke and Leia...

Ana Reyes / The House in the Pines (Hardback)

This is the story of a house.The cabin lies deep in the woods, where the trees are so dense it’s easy to miss. On the outside it might look like it’s crumbling, crawling with weeds, but on the inside it’s warm and cosy. A fire crackles...

Terry McMillan / Waiting to Exhale (Hardback)

Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Bernard Rougier / Everyday Jihad (Hardback)

As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Everyday Jihad plunges us into the sprawling, heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which in the early 1990s became a site for militant Sunni Islamists...

Katherine Ryan / The Audacity (Hardback)

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction."I’ve come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can’t escape."People "know" my on-stage...

Rob Percival / The Meat Paradox (Hardback)

From a vital new voice in food ethics comes a smart, nuanced investigation into the current meat debate.Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural...

James Patterson / Unsolved (Hardback)

The chilling sequel to no. 1 bestseller InvisibleFBI analyst Emmy Dockery's unique ability to uncover the patterns that others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a new case – unfolding across the country – has left her...

Erin Meyer / No Rules Rules (Hardback)

Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance. And never, ever try to please your boss.These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains...

Tae Kim / The Nvidia Way (Hardback)

A deeply reported business history of the chip-designer Nvidia—from its founding in 1993 to its recent emergence as one of the most valuable corporations in the world—explaining how the company’s culture, overseen by cofounder and CEO...

Paul Cummings / It All Matters (Hardback)

The all-encompassing framework for achieving the life of your dreamsIt All Matters presents a framework for the rest of your life. What are those dreams you would only dare to dream if there was no possibility of failure? How can you live a life of...

Judith Butcher / Copy-Editing (Hardback)

Since first published in 1975, Judith Butcher's Copy-Editing has become firmly established as a classic reference guide. This new edition has been revised and redesigned to provide an up-to-date and clearly presented source of information for editors...

Alan Connor / The Traitors (Hardback)

The Traitors: The Ultimate Game of Cunning, Logic and Intuition       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Ted Bader / Desire and Duty (Hardback)

Many critics feel the lively heroine of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, is the best characterized female in all of English literature. Jane Austen s story ends with Elizabeth s marriage and the Baders continue her story as wife, mother,...

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger / Access Rules (Hardback)

A powerful and urgent call to to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all. Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how...

Kenji Yoshino / Say the Right Thing (Hardback)

A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change.In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On...

Isabel Waidner / Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Hardback)

The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize...

Daniel Smith / Sherlock Unlocked (Hardback)

Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes has been fascinating generations of readers, watchers and listeners for over 130 years, since he first appeared in print in 1887. Now an internationally renowned cultural icon, his name appears on books, films,...

Humphrey Hawksley / Absolute Measures (Hardback)

Humphrey Hawksley's first novel Ceremony of Innocence was widely Hawksley is one of only a handful of authors taking the thriller in important new directions' Craig Thomas It begins with an SAS raid on a house in Khartoum which leaves the twins of an...

Parmy Olson / Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Hardback)

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the...

James Shapiro / The Playbook (Hardback)

A brilliant and daring new cultural history about the origins of today’s vicious and intractable culture wars by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James ShapiroFrom 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theater Project staged over a thousand productions in 29...

Michael Kerr / Last Call for the Dining Car (Hardback)

From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, a riveting anthology of railway travel covers every kind of train from the luxurious Orient Express to the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay In an age when low-cost airlines have reduced travel to a...

Brandon Sanderson / The Lost Metal (Hardback)

The Mistborn Saga #7   For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with...

Richard Ayoade / The Fairy Tale Fan Club (Hardback)

What if you could send fan mail to your fairy tale idols? And what if they wrote back? “Happily ever after” takes on a new meaning in this book from actor-comedian-author Richard Ayoade and best-selling illustrator David Roberts.It’s...

Greg Woolf / Et tu, Brute? (Hardback)

Gaius Julius Caesar, life dictator of Rome, not quite a king and not yet a god, was murdered on the 15th of March-the Ides of March-in 44 BC. The killers were a conspiracy of senators that included the leading politicians and intellectuals of their day...

Beatrix Pottymouth / The Tale of Toxic Positivity: A Parody (Hardback)

The author of the hit parody The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadfully Teddy draws on the simple, idyllic world of Beatrix Potter to shed light on some of the most pertinent issues of our time.Beatrix, a refined and gentle lady, decides to relocate...

John Lee / How to Make a Million - Slowly (Hardback)

John is a hero to many private investors in the UK. By tucking money away year after year, and choosing his investments wisely, he has accumulated a portfolio worth more than 1 million. "The Motley Fool"" " I m a big fan of the writings of John Lee...

Enid Blyton / Five on a Treasure Island (Hardback)

Julian, Dick and Anne are excited to be spending time this summer on Kirrin Island - they'll get to meet their cousin George, and her dog Timothy.But their holiday by the sea turns out to be even more exciting than expected...There's a shipwreck off the...

Esther Hicks / The Law of Attraction (Hardback)

This book presents the powerful basics of the original Teachings of Abraham . Within these pages, you’ll learn how all things, wanted and unwanted, are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe, the Law of Attraction. (that which...

Ramsey Campbell / The Incubations (Hardback)

“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James” – The Times Companion to the Special, collectable hardcover Edition for Ramsey Campbell's 60 years in publication.When a weight landed on his legs he raised his...

Brandon Sanderson / Mistborn: Secret History (Hardback)

The Mistborn Saga #3.5   Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The...

Dennis Fox / Critical Psychology: An Introduction (Hardback)

` Critical Psychology acknowledges the influence of related perspectives including feminism, critical theroy, postmodernism, hermeneutics and discursive psychology. Fox and Prilleltensky do not set out to write an account of the history of critical...

Lloyd Jones / Hand Me Down World (Hardback)

This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border.The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother...

James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Hardback)

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in...

James Patterson / Hide & Seek (Hardback)

Maggie Bradford is on trial for murder - in the celebrity trial of the decade.As one of the world's best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all.So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands?Will Shephard was Maggie's...

James K. Galbraith / Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (Hardback)

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern eraThe economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and...

Tess Daly / The Camera Never Lies (Hardback)

Britt Baxter is a 20-something model on the verge of landing a campaign that will make her career. But when things don't go to plan her dreams of seeing her face on billboards are shattered, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and start again...

James Patterson / World Champions! (Hardback)

Max Einstein #4   So far, Max and her team of genius friends have solved problems that no one else could, including: bringing solar energy to remote locations, producing clean drinking water across the globe, and ending world hunger. No easy...

Samantha Harvey / The Shapeless Unease (Hardback)

Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in...

Richard Murphy / The Joy of Tax (Hardback)

In The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner and creator of ‘Corbynomics’, Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that shape the sort of society we want to live in, not...

Marthinus Versfeld / The Philosopher's Cookbook (Hardback)

The Philosopher’s Cookbook is about the art of slow cooking, thinking about what you are cooking, and—most importantly—thinking while you are cooking. The art of preparing and eating food is inextricably intertwined with the meaning...

Nell Frizzell / Square One (Hardback)

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's HannaBy thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)· A fulfilling and successful career· A healthy, long-term relationship, maybe even an engagement ring· A house (or at...

Nicholas Shrady / Sacred Roads (Hardback)

In this richly detailed and absorbing book, Nicholas Shrady travels to six famous pilgrimage sites, investigating not only the phenomenon of pilgrimage itself but also the enduring vitality of the spiritual quest. From Santiago de Compostela to...