New Paperback Books

Simon Scarrow / Hearts of Stone

The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful new novel of World War II.1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people...

Dilip Hiro / Blood of the Earth

Changing the geopolitics of oil, China and India are expanding their navies as they become dependent on lines of oil tankers from the Middle East, posing the beginning of a challenge to American hegemony in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea...

Philip Davison / The Crooked Man

Harry Fielding is a shabby, solitary, but basically cheerful sort, living in a seamy flat in London and subsisting on a diet of gin and airline meals. He also works for MI5. However, when he witnesses a violent crime, Harry, crooked man, decides to...

Jay McInerney / A Hedonist in the Cellar

Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian...

James Ponti / Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Will time stand still?Long ago, in the sand-swept land of Persia, one king ruled with fairness and strength. His name was King Sharaman. Blessed with two sons, Sharaman still longed for one thing - a son he knew would love him for himself alone, not for...

Gordon Thorburn / Cassius

Cassius was a truly exceptional police dog whose career became the stuff of legend and the gold standard for all dogs coming after. In just five years he scored a century of arrests, saved lives, bit half a dozen policemen, and gave his handler, PC...

John M. Ford / The Dragon Waiting

Edward IV sits on the English throne; Lorenzo de Medici's court shines brilliantly in Florence. But this is an alternate world, and European history is not entirely as we know it. Europe is being menaced by the mighty Byzantine Empire, while in Milan the...

Polly Bloom / Old Wives' Lore

A treasure trove of age-old customs and time-honoured advice, as well as intriguing old wives’ tales.A combination of folklore and traditional advice, Old Wives' Lore illuminates the history behind female wisdom from yesteryear and...

John Moffat / I Sank the Bismarck

May 1941, the pilots of fifteen canvas-covered biplanes struggled to hold their Swordfish aircraft steady as they aimed towards the German battleship Bismarck. They flew low over a wind-cracked ocean, aiming their torpedoes, totally vulnerable in their...

Simon Heffer / The Great British Speeches

50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history.The speechmakers King Henry V; Queen...

Daniel Defoe / The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

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Simon Gunn / Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl

Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs. Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays, and cycling clubs—all are preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class...

Denise Marek / Calm for Women Who Worry

Denise Marek reveals a proven four-step process designed specifically for women who worry. This simple yet powerful formula will help you stop worrying, eliminate self-limiting beliefs, and develop greater inner peace.       This...

Alissa Quart / Hothouse Kids

An exposé of the ways in which today’s children are being driven ever harder to succeed.Alissa Quart’s deeply disturbing account looks at the intensely competitive and frenzied lives of America’s children. Travelling the country...

Dawn Barker / Let Her Go

Zoe wanted a baby more than anything. But her dreams will come at a price... After years of struggling to conceive, Zoe and her husband face the prospect of never having a family. When Zoe's stepsister, Nadia , offers to be a surrogate it presents the...

Eric J. Weiner / The Shadow Market

Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that our government cannot reverse and about...

David Craig / The Great European Rip-off

In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name.It has been estimated that the EU costs us around £1,000 billion a year - an incredible £2000 for every man, woman and child...

George Orwell / Orwell's England

Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER - Orwell's vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell's best writing on the political and social...

Iris Murdoch / Jackson's Dilemma

Iris Murdoch's 26th novel is a romp as well as an homage to that master of convoluted comedy, Shakespeare. She has adopted a syncopated slightly mocking tone, and many scenes have a distinctly theatrical air. She has also achieved a disarming sense of...

Riku Onda / The Aosawa Murders

The novel starts in the 1973 when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owners of a prominent clinic in a town on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be...

China Miéville / The City & The City

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger...

Nick Hornby / Stuff I've Been Reading

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary.'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us...

Harry Bingham / This Little Britain

Celebratory, witty and incredibly insightful, Harry Bingham explores the eccentricities and customs of the British nation in a bid to answer a question which has everyone debating – Who are we? For the British, ‘Who are we?’ is an...

Honest John / The " Daily Telegraph": Honest John's Book of Motoring Answers

This is the motoring guide that answers questions, gives tips and advice on just about everything to do with cars. It provides information on where to save by buying nearly new; how to save by buying new at low EU prices; ways to learn to be a better...

Michael Janes / The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary

Language has never changed at a faster rate than it has recently. New words, or new uses of old words, crowd into everyday speech in English, French, and Italian. The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary and The Oxford Paperback Italian Dictionary...

Edmund White / The Flaneur

A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who...

Elly Griffiths / The Crossing Places

Arkeologiprofessor Ruth Galloway elsker det øde nordengelske marsklandet. Men så blir restene av et menneske funnet ute på marsken, og politietterforsker Harry Nelson ber Ruth om hjelp. Ruth kan raskt slå fast at beina er over to...

Samantha Jackel / My Purple Pants

This is the remarkable story of a young woman's journey from childhood loneliness and fear, through teen years of oppression, deception and manipulation to a life of amazing healing and love.An encounter with a praying woman from the Salvation Army, a...

Julie Mae Cohen / Bad Men

Saffy Huntley-Oliver is beautiful, charming, rich - and in her spare time she's a serial killer. For the past fifteen years she's been hunting down and killing bad men: rapists, murderers, domestic abusers. As a hobby, it's not as Instagrammable as...

Dale Concannon / Monty

European number one and the towering Colin Montgomerie has been praised for his golfing illiance as well as the inspiration behind three successive European Ryder Cup victories. Vilified for his on-course sullenness. Yet 'Monty' has learned to take such...

Gabriele Marcotti / Hail, Claudio!

This is the inside story of the rise and rise of a butcher’s son from Rome whose hard work, passion for the game, and ability to learn from his mistakes have earned him the respect of players, fans, and owners worldwide. Between them,...

Maggie Mason / The Fortune Tellers' Daughters

1939War has returned to Blackpool, and Martha and Trisha, along with their now-grown daughters Bonnie and Sally are determined to do their bit.But will their friendship and the family gift of foresight be enough to see them through their toughest years...

Gary Edwards / Paint It White

In his dedication to Leeds United, Gary Edwards has no rivals. He has seen every Leeds game since January 1968, home and away, including League, Cup, and Europe. Although a painter and decorator/signwriter/cartoonist, he's never taken a break from...

Gail Muller / Unlost

Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike one of the world’s toughest treks, The Appalachian Trail – a 2,200-mile journey that would help her reclaim her life and heal her...

Maggie Mason / A Mother's Hope

She'll do anything to protect her family from war . . .BLACKPOOL, 1914Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poorest streets. Life is busy, but happy, as she works alongside her mother taking care of their...

Rumer Godden / The River

A girl in India growing into womanhood experiences the changes which the passage of time brings--birth and death, blindness and cruelty, love retribution.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation

It's the summer of love in late 1960s England. Basil D'Oliveira has just been dropped from the English cricket team before a test series in apartheid South Africa; the war in Biafra dominates the news; and the Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing to land...

Irene Northan / A Safe Haven

When Amy Kennedy is sent from Lambeth Workhouse to Devon alongside her closest friends Seth , Jed and Daisy , it finally seems like life is taking a turn for the better. But life at the seaside is not the safe haven they’d hoped for. Though Amy...

Robin Neillands / The Battle for the Rhine 1944

Could the war in Europe have been won in 1944 if the right strategies had been employed? Historian Robin Neillands casts a new and informed light on the long-drawn-out and costly struggle for the Rhine.       This book is second...

Kenneth O. Morgan / The Oxford History of Britain

The highly-acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Britain tells the story of Britain and her peoples over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Now available in an easy-to-read, updated format, The Oxford History...

Jo Gambi / Holding On

Having faced death head on, we wanted no regrets. It was time to go'. In 2005 Rob and Jo Gambi became the first married couple to achieve the ultimate adventurer's ambition when they climbed the 'Seven Summits' (the highest mountains on all seven...

Jack Davis / Paperbark

Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings       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. Removing...

Andrew Wilson / Mad Girl's Love Song

More than 50 years after her death, Sylvia Plath's poetry still has the power to disturb. This ground-breaking biography offers a comprehensive picture of her formative years before her marriage to Ted Hughes. Drawing on previously unavailable papers...

Dorothy Porter / Akhenaten

This is a recreation of the life of Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband, which tells the story of his reign from 1378 to 1362 BC. In spite of attempts to eradicate all traces of his reign, enough exists to tell a story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a...

Henri J.M. Nouwen / The Inner Voice of Love

This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating...

Matt Redman / Inside Out Worship

Together with Matt Redman, Louie Giglio, David Crowder and an inspiring host of others, start the journey to understand worship that begins on the inside and finds expression in everything you do. If you yearn for the true heart of worship, you will...

Publius Cornelius Tacitus / The Agricola and The Germania

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating...

Danny Danziger / 1215: The Year of Magna Carta

On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document...

David Kynaston / Austerity Britain, 1945-48: A World to Build

David Kynaston's Austerity Britain 1945-51, the first book in his series Tales of a New Jerusalem, was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2007.David Kynaston's Austerity Britain 1945-51, the first book in his series Tales of...

Jacqueline Sheehan / Lost & Found

An unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on—with the help of one not-so-little dog…After the death of her husband, Rocky flees to Peak’s Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine, a million miles away from...

Paula Gosling / Death and Shadows

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Nicholas Coleridge / Deadly Sins

Miles Hunter is the handsome, confident and hugely successful Chairman of Hunter Public Relations, one of the top consultancies in the country. Miles is a man who enjoys many things: entertaining (at his vast Cotswold manor or his posh Notting Hill...