New Paperback Books

Steve Hanley / The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall

The first insider’s account of life inside The Fall, Steve Hanley’s story unfolds like a novel; from 1979 when he joined his schoolmates Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon in The Fall, he puts us right in the heart of the action: on stage, on...

Jowita Bydlowska / Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska’s immediate,...

Elizabeth O'Roark / The Summer I Destroyed You

EMMYElliott Springs has small-town values, cobblestone streets, perfect scenery. These are things I don't care about. What I do care about is . . . Revenge. And no matter how compelling I find Liam Doherty -the guy focused on saving Elliott Springs- I'm...

Cameron Bloom / Penguin Bloom

PENGUIN BLOOM is a unique journey of recovery and an extraordinary celebration of life, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive. Penguin the Magpie is a...

Kevin Burke / One Night in Dudelange

University College Dublin AFC, a student team from the second tier of Irish football, is a club unlike any senior club elsewhere in Europe.They’ve been world champions, started riots in Sudan and had the Archbishop of Dublin deem it a mortal sin to...

Kit Frick / See all the Stars

We Were Liars meets Goodbye Days in this thrilling debut novel that sweeps readers away as they try to solve the mystery of what happened then to make Ellory so broken now.It’s hard to find the truth beneath the lies...

John Launer / How Not to Be a Doctor

How not to be a Doctor offers a selection of fifty essays that have been published over the past few years by John Launer, a well known medical columnist and commentator on medicine and its relation to the arts, humanities and philosophy. The essays...

Lesley Thomson / The House With No Rooms

The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl stumbled upon a deserted gallery. Dizzied by the heat, she thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the...

Claire North / The Gameshouse

Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets . . .It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league...

Sue Grafton / A For Alibi/ B For Burglar/ C For Corpse

    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 existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

George Mann / The Affinity Bridge

Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution.Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground...

Edd China / Grease Junkie

As you'll discover in his incomparable memoir, inventor, mechanic, TV presenter and walking tall as the definition of the British eccentric, Edd China sees things differently.An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had 35 ongoing car projects...

Alec Marsh / Ghosts of the West

Drabble and Harris #3   When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate.The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble...

Virginia Woolf / The Years

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger...

John Gribbin / In Search of the Multiverse

John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary journey through the most fundamental questions in science, exploring the frontiers of reality itself. What are the boundaries of our universe? Could there be other worlds - do we...

Elaine Everest / The Teashop Girls at War

The Teashop Girls #3   It is 1942, and with the country still at war, the girls who work for Joe Lyons are praying for their loved ones to return home safely.Happily married, Rose is busy with staffing problems at the teashop with many...

Amber Crewe / Adult Virgins Anonymous

Are you still a virgin?Want to talk about it in a safe space?Meetings every other Tuesday.You're not alone.Kate Mundy's life is not going to plan. Nearing thirty, she's been made redundant from her job, her oldest friends have quietly left her behind,...

Bryan Appleyard / Understanding the Present

This is an important work, which demands that we sit up and take notice of the ever-increasing effects of science on the way we live our lives. In this thrilling and compelling exploration of the human condition, Brian Appleyard exposes the central...

Timothy J. Keller / The Reason for God

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism       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...

Jay Rayner / Day of Atonement

  It is the early Sixties. Down the side of a dilapidated synagogue in North-west London, a great partnership is born. Apart, Mal Jones and Solly Princeton are two teenage no-hopers scrabbling about in the dirt. Together they are a world-beating...

Adam Langer / The Thieves of Manhattan

The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain...

Lu Hersey / Deep Water

When her mum vanishes, Danni moves to a tiny Cornish fishing village with Dad – where the locals treat her like a monster. As the village’s dark, disturbing past bubbles to the surface, Danni discovers that she’s not who – or...

Tahmima Anam / The Bones of Grace

Bangla Desh #3   Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors...

Jane Smiley / Ordinary Love

These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. Here a woman recalls the long ago affair that ended her relationship with her husband and changed their...

Brian Shawver / The Cuban Prospect

A novel of last-ditch hopes, destiny’s curve balls, and quiet redemption, The Cuban Prospect gloriously projects a harrowing, yet affirming vision. With compassionate intensity and great heart, Brian Shawver, in his powerful debut novel, tells...

Susan Mallery / The Boardwalk Bookshop

When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it's a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving,...

Marc Phillips / The Legend of Sander Grant

Sander Grant is a giant. He comes from a long line of giant men—cattle ranchers in Dixon, Texas. These men have a tendency to marry small women who can bear only one child, always a son. And as Sander is soon to learn, he is one of the few...

Mandy Byatt / Just Another Liar

He says he loves you. He says you’re the only one. He’s just another liar…Three women love him. But he’s lying to them all.Denise, Petra, and Anna all have their reasons for being alone.But they’re not ready to share them...

Alexander Lee / The Ugly Renaissance

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of...

Edward Heath / The Course of My Life

Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life - as Chief Whip, Minister of Labour, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Writing with great...

Nicky Pellegrino / A Dream of Italy

Live your dream of Italy...Here is your chance to buy your own home in southern Italy for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The picturesque mountain town of Montenello is selling off some of its historic buildings for just ONE EURO each. The only...

Blair Bowman / The Pocket Guide to Whisky

The Pocket Guide to Whisky: Featuring the Whisky Tube Map       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...

Wendy Green / How to Understand and Deal with Depression

A practical, supportive, and easy-to-read guide to help you understand and overcome depression, filled with helpful tips and actionable advice.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Alison Bechdel / Fun Home

DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane...

Elizabeth Taylor / Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

One rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets...

Ken Mooney / Godhead

Olympus has fallen; new gods must rise. The Greek gods have been betrayed by one of their own. Zeus is dead, and Olympus is under siege by the demonic forces of Kaos. Their only chance of survival is to abandon the city, buying them time to regroup...

Edith Wharton / The Children

A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being...

Alistair MacLean / HMS Ulysses

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II.Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS...

Lindsey Davis / Rebels and Traitors

A groundbreaking historical novel set in the English Civil War.Rebels and Traitors is a groundbreaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey Davis’ first love in historical fiction, the English Civil War. Sweeping...

Alistair MacLean / Bear Island

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island,...

Emily Barr / Ghosted

Ariel's accidental meeting with a handsome stranger called Joe is completely perfect; they have a connection like she's never known before. They exchange numbers and agree to meet when he is back from a trip to France. But when Ariel messages him, the...

Zhang Wei / The Ancient Ship

Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei's award-winning novel is the story of three generations of the Sui, Zhao, and Li families living in the fictional northern town of Wali during China's troubled...

Lauren Asher / Love Unwritten

Meet the Lakefront Billionaires . . .Get ready for another addictive romance from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Lauren AsherRafaelEllie Sinclair is a hopeless romantic who writes love songs.I'm a struggling workaholic who could...

Lloyd Devereux Richards / Maidens of the Cave

From Lloyd Devereux Richards comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his victims.Forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik has a knack for solving the...

Lin Anderson / The Party House

The Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware .Devastated by a recent pandemic brought in by outsiders, the villagers of Blackrig in the Scottish...

Jay Griffiths / Wild

I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their...

David O’Donnell / The Berlin Gambit

1941, Berlin. After Police Chief Investigator Rolf Schneider is summoned to a meeting with Himmler and tasked with investigating the assassination of Heydrich, he exposes a web of corruption and secrecy involving the highest-ranking figures in the Reich...

Douglas Jackson / Blood Roses

As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. A population brutalised by restrictions and reprisals. Amid the devastation, another hunter begins to prowl. What are a few more deaths amid scores...

Ewart Hutton / Good People

The half-Welsh/half-Italian cop Glyn Capaldi has fallen from grace and is exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside. It's a place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where supposedly he can do little harm.But...

Ian Holloway / How to Be a Football Manager

Football management is like being a potato - you're never too far from the sack and everyone is constantly chipping away at you. It's not for the faint-hearted and unless you've got skin as thick as rhino and, more importantly, a wicked sense of humour,...

Yanis Varoufakis / Is Capitalism Broken?

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' David Brooks...

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi / Selected Poems

The essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mysticThe founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His verse speaks with the universal voice of the human...