New Hardback Books

Christina Noble / Bridge Across My Sorrows (Hardback)

Christina Noble's story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse on a scale that most would find unimaginable. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name: after the early death of her mother, her family was...

Kate Sharam / Under the Skin (Hardback)

Laura and Frankie are brought together by a snatched handbag. Their chance meeting proves a catalyst for their individual self-fulfilment and they become united in their vengeance of the man who is central to both of their lives.     All of our...

Alex Benzie / The Year's Midnight (Hardback)

in the late 18th century, in the Scottish village of Aberlevin, a man in unjustly hanged. Enraged, the townsfolk vent their anger on the clocktower, destroying the clock and calling a halt to time. A century later, shy, gifted watchmaker William...

Claire Sterling / Crime Without Frontiers (Hardback)

New global criminal consortiumS emerged in the 1990's to threaten the security of Europe and America, ignoring the national frontiers. The world's powerful crime syndicates co-operated rather than compete; the Sicilian Mafia has links with criminals from...

Richard Bourke / Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity - Wordsworth - the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (Hardback)

This provocative book explores the difficulties surrounding the attempt to understand the relationship between literary and political discourse. It examines the initial formulation of these difficulties in Georgian Britain, and traces them through the...

J M Beesley / Echoes of a Distant Past (Hardback)

As the Honourable Jethro StJohn stood on the threshold of the ballroom at Devonshire House, that evening in 1784. He surveyed the company through his quizzing glass, and his eyes alighted on a young woman to whom he felt an immediate attatchment. From...

John McPhee / The Control of Nature (Hardback)

1990 Profiles the various places where humankind is struggling to control the forces of nature, discussing both the natural forces at work and the individuals who attempt to foil them.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Da Chen / Colours of the Mountain (Hardback)

Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's...

Stephen Barlay / The Final Call : Air Disasters (Hardback)

Published 1990.  Based on hundreds of interviews with industry and aviation experts from around the world, The Final Call is an authoritative, alarming expose of the hazards of commercial flight--from archaic aircraft to pilot error; from bad...

James McManus / Great America - Poems (Hardback)

A 1993 collection of poems examining the contradictions and moral ambiguities within contemporary American culture.      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...