New Paperback Books

Berlitz Publishing Company / French Compact Dictionary

Available in both paperback and vinyl cover, these dictionaries high impact cover design in striking "Berlitz" blue, in-keeping with the whole "Berlitz" range for increased brand recognition; bold, blue headwords that offer the user maximum...

Ingvald Marm / Norwegian

This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide to everyday conversational Norwegian for readers with no previous experience of the language.Norwegian has two accepted languages, Landsmål and Riksmål, which are spoken in different areas...

GAYRARD VALY YVETTE / The Story of Fossils

An informative and copiously illustrated exploration of the discovery of prehistoric humans and the development of the science of paleontology examines how humankind's fascination with the past of the human race has helped us understand our place in the...

James Patterson / Private: The Royals

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour...

James Waddington / Bad to the Bone

  'Waddington employs a cheerful surrealism to convey the superhuman status of his cyclists and the designer violence of his killer. The encounters with death are funny rather than frightening and the narrator is omnipotent, stylish and amused...

Amanda Brookfield / Single Lives

Annie and Marina have shared a London flat for years, and in spite of very different outlooks on life have become very close. Annie, a newspaper columnist, is unsure of herself and eager, longing to find the man of her dreams who will always give her...

Nicky Pellegrino / When in Rome

It is the 1950s and Rome is a city full of life, music and desire. It is the place that Serafina has always known, sharing a tiny apartment with her mother and sisters, surviving on little, but supporting each other.When they get the chance, the sisters...

M.K. Pagano / Girls Who Burn

A twisty, pulse-pounding enemies-to-lovers thriller full of secrets, privilege, and murder.The summer before her senior year, Addie hurled the worst words she could think of at her sister—and hours later, Fiona was found dead at the bottom of a...

Tom Clavin / Lightning Down

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald,...

Peter F. Hamilton / Misspent Youth

It is forty years in the future and, following decades of research and trillions of euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to rejuvenate a human being. The first subjest chosen for treatment is Jeff Baker, the father of the...

John Warrillow / The Automatic Customer

In The Automatic Customer, John Warrillow provides the essential blueprint for turning your customers into subscribersThe lifeblood of your business is repeat customers. But customers can be fickle, markets shift and competitors are ruthless. So how...

Chris Ferris / Darkness Is Light Enough

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Alex Scott / How (Not) To Be Strong

From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott's remarkable journey has always been her resilience. But thanks to a 'push-through mentality' the world has only ever seen the 'strong' side of Alex Scott...

Mark Forsyth / The Elements of Eloquence

From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Etymologicon<?i>, explains the secrets that make a phrase—such as 'Bond, James Bond', or 'To...

Amanda Brooke / Where I Found You

A touching and emotional novel from the author of Richard and Judy pick YESTERDAY'S SUN. One woman who can't see her future Maggie Carter knows Victoria Park like the back of her hand. She can tell you what time of year the most fragrant flowers...

Rick Reilly / So Help Me Golf

Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game has meant to him and to others.This is the...

Michelle Hodkin / The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not...

Claire Harman / Charlotte Brontë

On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth, Penguin is publishing the definitive biography of this extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman. Charlotte Brontë's life contained all the drama and tragedy...

Cathy Rentzenbrink / A Manual for Heartache

"When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to...

Jenny Lawson / Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

#1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has...

Dervla Murphy / Where the Indus Is Young: Walking to Baltistan

One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter Rachel walked into the Karakoram mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas and along the perilous Indus Gorge. Accompanied only by a gallant polo pony, they encountered conditions...

Ali Hazelwood / Deep End

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a...

Sue Nyathi / The Golddiggers

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Charlotte Baden-Powell / Architect's Pocket Book

This fully revised edition of the pocket book includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand. The book is of use to the student as well as the...

Abigail Dean / Day One

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, their futures may be defined by one What really happened on Day One?Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb defined by poignant traditions...

Leenie Brown / Oxford Cottage

A Pride and Prejudice VariationOn a rainy day in April, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Charles Bingley stop to ask a gentleman for directions to Netherfield since the ones they have been given appear to be faulty. At the gentleman's insistence Darcy and his...

Oren Harman / The Price of Altruism

When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary biologists. All seven men had come to mourn an eccentric...

Neal Stephenson / Seveneves

What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far...

David Weber / Out of the Dark

Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, over half the human race has died. Now Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour...

Jacqueline Roy / Fat Lady Sings

Locked in a psychiatric unit because her public singing brought her to the attention of the police, Gloria meets another British woman of Jamaican descent with whom she can share her past, giving them both hope for the future...

Ellen Ullman / By Blood

The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matterSan Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to...

Paul Hannam / The Wisdom of Groundhog Day

As heard on Chris Evans' Radio 2 Breakfast ShowWith a foreword by Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog DayPaul Hannam has developed a programme based on the hidden, underlying roadmap to freedom found in the film Groundhog Day. Using research-based...

Ken Follett / The Armour of Light

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent...

Stephen M. Camarata / Late-Talking Children: A Symptom or a Stage?

What parents need to know about the causes and treatment of children's late how to avoid misdiagnoses, navigate the educational system, and more. When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more...

Emma Larkin / Finding George Orwell in Burma

A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast AsiaOver the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all...

David Wood / Plays 1

Plays 1: The Gingerbread Man / The See-Saw Tree / The Ideal Gnome Expedition / Mother Goose's Golden Christmas   The Gingerbread Man - 'The perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-tapping songs ... a magnificent...

Rob Yeung / Emotional Intelligence

It takes more than just brains, hard work, and the correct protocol for exchanging business cards to get ahead in business or in life. This book is about that additional, hidden element, what Dr. Rob Yeung calls "Emotional Intelligence," or "EQ."This...

Robert Olen Butler / Perfume River

Perfume River is an examination of relationships, personal choice, and how war resonates down the generations. It is the finest novel yet from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange MountainRobert Quinlan and his wife Darla...

John Fuller / Tell It Me Again

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James Kelman / Not Not While the Giro

Not Not While the Giro is James Kelman's first major collection of short stories—originally published by Polygon in 1983. The reader follows the lives of young men, social misfits, whose lives are spent waiting—waiting for their next giro...

Stan Barstow / The Right True End

The third in the Vic Brown trilogy. Vic has finally left Ingrid, and Donna has left him. The story is in two parts; one part is about his life as he tries to pick up the pieces; the other picks up the story ten years later...

Helen Zahavi / Dirty Weekend

' This is the story of Bella, who woke up one morning and realised she'd had enough. ' So begins Dirty Weekend , a tale of revenge...       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Beatrice Hitchman / Petite Mort

Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death . . .A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé studio, before it was seen even by its director.A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but...

Daniel Anselme / On Leave

A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France’s engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not...

Philip Hensher / Tales of Persuasion

Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency – from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump...

Alison Lurie / Truth and Consequences

Alan Mackenzie's bad back is ruining both his and his wife Jane's lives. After years of happy marriage, these two attractive and intelligent people have stopped making love and are starting to resent each other. However, the arrival of a new couple in...

Annie Wilson / What Colour Are You?

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Jonny Sweet / The Kellerby Code

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, he has catered to his friends' fetching drycleaning, sorting flowers for premieres. It's a noble effort, really - anything to keep his best pals Robert...

Paul Muldoon / Lord Byron

Lord Byron: Poems Selected by Paul Muldoon     In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the...

Maximillian Potter / Shadows in the Vineyard

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied...

Kevin Crossley-Holland / Bracelet of Bones

One morning Solveig wakes to find her father, Viking mercenary Halfdan, has broken his promise to her and gone to rejoin his friend, Harald Hardrada, in Constantinople, where he is leader of the Empress's guard. Deciding to follow him, Solveig sets...

Joe Dominguez / Your Money or Your Life

For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to...