New Paperback Books

Brad Gilbert / Winning Ugly

He's been called the best in the world at the mental game of tennis. Brad Gilbert's strokes may not be pretty, but looks aren't everything. He has beaten the Tour's biggest names - all by playing his ugly game.Now in Winning UglyGilbert teaches...

Massimo Gramellini / Sweet Dreams, Little One

It's early morning on New Year's Eve, and nine-year-old Massimo wakes up to a long, doleful cry and the disconcerting image of his dad being supported by two strangers. Inexplicably, his mother has disappeared, leaving only a vague trail of perfume...

Kerry Greenwood / Murder on the Ballarat Train

In Phryne's third adventure, Phryne is off to Ballarat for a week of fabulousness, but the sedate journey by train turns out to be far from the restful trip she was planning. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of...

James Dyson / Against the Odds

How did a maverick English inventor manage to design, market and make money from his own invention, toppling market leaders in the process? This inspirational autobiography tells the remarkable story behind James Dyson and his most successful...

Lauren Ling Brown / Society of Lies

How far would you go to belong?Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion - it's been a decade since she graduated, and this visit is special because she will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi.But what should have...

Bohjalian Chris / The Buffalo Soldier

With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family–the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after...

Angela Marsons / Dying Truth

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Angela Marsons / Fatal Promise

D.I. Kim Stone #9   Eeeny meeny, miney, moe. Who lives, who dies only I know.When the body of a doctor is discovered brutally murdered in local woodland, Detective Kim Stone is shocked to discover the victim is Gordon Cordell – a man...

Simone Weil / Simone Weil: An Anthology

Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical...

Camille Kouchner / The Familia Grande

The shocking story of how incest and sexual abuse is ever-present at the highest levels of French society, even among the most glamorous, powerful, bohemian, left wing intellectual Parisian élite. A family's secret weighs on everyone...THE FAMILIA...

Jamie Sams / Earth Medicine

The true spirit of Native American ways of knowing shines through in these heartfelt meditations, poems, and stories. In 364 daily offerings organised according to the cycles of the moon, Jamie Sams offers stirring and poetic insights into the...

Helen Whitaker / Flying Home for Christmas

When her Christmas Eve flight home to London is grounded by a snowstorm, Thea is desperate to make it back to her family. The only flight available is first thing the next morning, so she books a night's stay at the closest hotel.But there's a there's...

Carol Vorderman / It All Counts

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Sandra Howard / Tell the Girl

A scintillating roman a clef, set in swinging '60s London and present day, recalling a life of glamour and style and haute couture       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Emily Stone / Home Again for Christmas

Two fierce rivals. One Christmas truce?Lexie is always on the move, but there is one constant in her life - her 'wish jar'; the childhood tradition from home that she couldn't leave behind.When Lexie's estranged dad dies, she is shocked to learn that she...

Leslie Forbes / Fish, Blood and Bone

Fish, Blood and Bone is Leslie Forbes’ brilliant second novel. When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London’s East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it...

Harry Dolan / Bad Things Happen

The man who calls himself DAVID LOOGAN is hoping to escape a violent past by leading a quiet, anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery...

Stephen Westaby / The Knife’s Edge

An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head...

Geoffrey Robertson / Rather His Own Man

Geoffrey Robertson led students in the 60s to demand an end to racism and censorship. He went on to become a top human rights advocate, saving the lives of many death-row inmates, freeing dissidents and taking on tyrants in a career marked by courage,...

Christian Wolmar / A Short History of Trains

A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy. From the earliest steam engine to the high-speed bullet trains of today, A Short History of the Railway reveals the hidden...

Edward O. Thorp / A Man For All Markets

A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a result he launched a gambling renaissance. His remarkable...

Caroline Moorehead / Human Cargo

Human smuggling is now said to have an annual turnover of over $7 billion — more than revenue from smuggling drugs. Caroline Moorehead's important new book looks at 'human cargo' from Afghanistan, Liberia, Palestine and many other places. She has...

David Carey / King of Capital

Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . . The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street...

Susan Wittig Albert / Death at Epsom Downs

Lord Charles Sheridan has launched an investigation into a jockey's recent (and mysterious) death - while his wife, Kate, puzzles over the long-ago theft of an actress's jewels. But soon the Sheridans can't help wondering if the two strange events...

Maddie Please / Sisters Making Mischief

Joy Chandler has had enough!All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara announces she’s getting divorced...and where is the fizz? And son, John and perfect wife Vanessa announce they...

Nicholas Gill / Chile

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Graeme Obree / The Flying Scotsman

Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling’s most unlikely star, capturing the public’s imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won...

Don Pendleton / Intercept

From Bletchley Park to cyber-attacks in the twenty-first century, this is the untold story of computers and past, present and future.The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied...

Olen Steinhauer / The Confession

The small, unnamed Eastern bloc country of Olen Steinhauer's debut novel "The Bridge of Sighs" is making its first tentative steps towards democracy. By command of the party chairman, the labour camps are being emptied of innocent civilians. The...

Allison Pataki / The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle...

Amy Tan / Where the Past Begins

In this frank and intimate memoir, the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club explores the traumatic childhood that made her a writer, her complex relationship with her father, and the shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia...

Rory Clements / A Cold Wind From Moscow

Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever—and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create extra chaos.But Stalin has a more...

Stig Abell / Death Under a Little Sky

A detective ready for a new lifeJake Jackson, high-flying ex-city detective, inherits a rural retreat from his reclusive uncle. It's the perfect chance to start anew.A death that disrupts everythingBut then the local annual treasure hunt spirals into...

S.J. Butler / Last Orders

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Jack McDevitt / The Engines of God

Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation.Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration,...

James Patterson / Confessions of the Dead

James Patterson, J.D. Barker     The dead tell no tales…unless they swam in Cemetery Lake.   Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and...

Andrea Carter / Death Writes

A local author dies on stage at a literary festival. Ben O' Keeffe has to sort through his complicated estate— and find his murderer while she' s at it.Solicitor Benedicta “ Ben” O' Keeffe and her boyfriend Police Sergeant Tom Molloy...

Tim Vigors / Life's Too Short To Cry

It is not often that a remarkable gem of a manuscript is uncovered and published. Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light was one example. The memoir of Timothy Ashmead Vigors is another.Born in Hatfield but raised in Eire and educated at Eton and Cranwell,...

Peter Watts / Firefall

February 13, 2082, First Contact.Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere—a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty...

John Kerry / A Call to Service

Presents a summary of John Kerry's proposals for policy changes in economics, education, health, the environment, and foreign policy, which he would implement if he is elected president of the United States in November, 2004...

Dolly Alderton / Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship

Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously...

Steve Frech / Dark Hollows

Jacob Reese enjoys the quiet life, running a coffee shop and renting out his cottage in The Hollows, Vermont.But the calm is shattered when a woman who looks eerily similar to his ex-girlfriend Laura turns up to stay in the cottage, and...

Charmian Clift / Peel Me a Lotus

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian...

Stuart Barker / Ragged Edge

The unvarnished, raw truth behind the world's most dangerous sporting event - in the words of those who ride it.One week in June. One small island. 40,000 annual visitors. Raw speed. Numerous annual deaths. The Isle of Man TT motorcycle road race.Five...

Benjamin Zephaniah / The Dread Affair

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David Brennan / Spit

Welcome to the village of Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion.Suffering an unexplained, perpetual banishment the Spook of Spit is...

Jacob Weisberg / More George W. Bushisms

"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom -- or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."--...

Négar Djavadi / Disoriental

Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimia is inundated by her own...

Kathryn Scanlan / Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy...

Lau Siew Mei / The Last Immigrant

Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to...

Fergal Keane / The Madness

An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and...

Sinolingua / Quotations From Confucius

Chinese Sages Series includes four books of quotations from Confucius and Mencius and stories about them. The quotations are selected from their pithy and wise maxims. Each story has an illustration pertaining to the lives and careers of the sages...