July 2025

David Constantine / In Another Country

The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they do sometimes as exiles, driven into isolation by convictions that even they don t fully understand; sometimes as carriers...

Thomas Love Peacock / Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle

Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery...

Véronique Olmi / Beside the Sea

A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys...

Aeronwy Thomas / My Father's Places

In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to...

Bradley Nelson / Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love and Happiness

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Glennon Doyle Melton / Carry On, Warrior

On Mother's Day, 2002, Glennon Doyle was unmarried, addicted to drugs, booze, food and bad love. But by a strange twist of fate, it was on this day that she discovered she was pregnant. After twenty years of wilful self-destruction, how could Glennon...

Elizabeth Bowen / The Hotel

These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The English, liberated from one long war and not yet faced with the next had - at least when well-off- a confident kind of vitality. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, run for prosperous...

Sakyong Mipham / Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life

You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at...

Gary B. Lundberg, Joy Lundberg / I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better

In their weekly radio show and in their popular workshops, Gary and Joy Lundberg have already helped thousands of people and their families to communicate more effectively. Now, the Lundbergs address an all too common dilemma that arises when others...

Paul Phelan / Connemara & Mayo: A Walking Guide

Connemara and Mayo form an area known for stunning scenery and this guidebook describes some of the region's best and most spectacular walks. A wide variety of walks and terrains are easy two-hour walks on surfaced paths; two- to three-hour flat...

Fyodor Dostoevsky / Fyodor Dostoevsky

Noted for his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden members of nineteenth-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) has exercised immense influence on modern writers. His fiction, rich in philosophical and psychological insights,...

Silvia Ferrara / The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

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Mona Simpson / Anywhere but Here

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Cyril Connolly / The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to...

Susan Hill / The Bird of Night

Francis Croft, the greatest poet of his age, was mad. His world was a nightmare of internal furies and haunting poetic vision. Harvey Lawson watched and protected him until his final suicide. From his solitary old age Harvey writes this brief account...

Nick Davidson / Inequalities in Health: The Black Report/the Health Divide

From birth to old age those at the bottom of the social scale have much poorer health and quality of life than those at the top. Gender, area of residence and ethnic origin also have a deep impact. When the Black Report first revealed these tragic...

Sarah Mlynowski / Bras & Broomsticks

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Weinstein just can't believe it. Her younger sister, Miri, and her mum are both witches How come SHE didn't get the powers that could have propelled her effortlessly into school superstardom?Miri refuses to use her witchy...

Charles B. Handy / Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organisations

Handy jargon-free observations pack more power because of their clarity and prescriptive nature. --'Fortune'A man with a lifetime s experience... One of the more stimulating books on management. --'Financial Times'This is a serious book, while...

Anita Burgh / Love the Bright Foreigner

Love the Bright Foreigner is a novel of love and betrayal, of illusions and reality - but which is which? Suddenly widowed, Ann Grange feels her life is over; how can she ever find such perfect love and happiness again? Badgered by her family and friends...

M.J. White / The Deadly Echoes (Cora Lael #4)

Four murder victims. One silent survivor. Can Cora hear the secrets he’s hiding?When a terrified, bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam, police are called to the scene.What they find...

Alex Gough / Emperor's Knife (Imperial Assassin #2)

Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies… An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle...

Liz Hyder / The Gifts

October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders.Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and...

Gabby Logan / The First Half

When I sat down to write this book, I was really not keen on the idea of writing a biography that charted my life in a regular, linear fashion. Largely because I thought that nobody would be interested in how well I did in my maths GCSE ( C ) or what my...

Deirdre Sullivan / Wise Creatures

I always thought that hauntings began with houses. They don't, of course.It's people, isn't it? It starts with people.Former child psychic Daisy hasn't thought about her past for a long time. She was only six, after all. The 'wise creatures' in the walls...

Shelan Rodger / The guiltiest secrets

When Chala loses her beloved stepfather, it opens the floodgates to a lifetime of secrets. Since childhood, Chala has battled with the guilt she feels for a tragedy that changed the entire course of her life. Now, she is forced to re-evaluate...

Ruth Silvestre / A House in the Sunflowers

In the late 1970s in the south-west of France, Ruth Silvestre and her family found Bel-Air de Grezelongue, a house that had been deserted and uninhabited for ten years. They fell in love with it. A House in the Sunflowers tells of their love affair...

Brian Johnstone / Double Exposure: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Two revelations, each coming to light 20 years apart following the deaths of his father and mother, prompt Brian Johnstone to turn a poet’s eye on his 1950s childhood and explore his parents’ lives before and during World War II. His double...

James Clarke / Steven Spielberg

At the pinnacle of his career and entering his fourth decade as a director, Steven Spielberg is firmly established as the world's most popular filmmaker. Celebrated for his mastery of spectacle and fantasy, he has also proved his skill as a craftsman of...

Graham Tomlin / Why Being Yourself Is a Bad Idea: And Other Countercultural Notions

Building on the success of books offering key concepts in digestible form, Graham Tomlin writes for millennials and emerging adults who are seeking to make sense of life. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a common human experience - WONDER, LOVE,...

Jay Heinrichs / How To Argue With A Cat

If you can persuade a cat ... you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way. Jay Heinrichs, award-winning author of Thank You for Arguing and advisor to the Pentagon, NASA and Fortune 500 companies, distils a lifetime...

Alexander Gordon Smith / The Fury

Imagine if one day, without warning, the entire human race turns against you.Every single person you meet becomes a bloodthirsty, mindless savage, hell-bent on killing you - and only you.Friends, family, even your mum and dad, will turn on you. They will...

Paul Richardson / Indulgence: One Man's Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate in the World

From Willy Wonka to Ferrero Rocher, chocolate is embedded in our culture as perhaps no other foodstuff. And although it has been swooned over endlessly in print, Indulgence takes the subject to entirely new realms. In a pleasurable mélange of...

Diksha Basu / Destination Wedding

Tina wants to feel Indian. Really Indian. Not Indian in the sense of going to yoga in Brooklyn. She wants to know the real India - only whenever she visits, people take her to bars and restaurants and boutiques that could be anywhere in the world.So she...

Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus / Nanny Returns

Ten years after the fateful night when Nan was fired, she returns to New York with her husband, HH. Finally settling in to build a permanent home and get her consulting business off the ground, Nan's plans are derailed by HH's sudden desire to start...

Lynne Cox / Swimming to Antarctica : Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

This is an inspiring account of a woman whose passion for long-distance swimming has lead her to achieve remarkable feats.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown...

Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Postcards to Europe

From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us - in this unique collection.In these pages you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the...

Timberlake Wertenbaker / Our Country's Good

Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly...

Helen Dixon / Playing Foxes

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Catherine Aird / A Late Phoenix (Inspector Sloan #4)

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brown sandra / Texas ! Chase

By the author of Charade. Chase loses his wife and unborn child in a car crash. Marcie Johns had been driving the car when the accident happened, but she gambles her happiness to give Chase something to live for. Hating himself for it, Chase soon...

R.A. Penfold / Using Dreamweaver 4

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José Roleo Santiago / Pakistan: Travel Survival Kit

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Robert Siegel / Whalesong

An ecological fable of Hruna, the humpback whale.       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...

Paul Gitsham / A Price to Pay (DCI Warren Jones #6)

If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned…It should be an easy solve: a murder in broad daylight with two eyewitnesses. But the victim is the son of a notorious local crime family who has a habit of hitting on other men’s...

Francis Turner Palgrave / Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics

In the 1860s, Francis Turner Palgrave set out to collect the finest English lyrical poems in one volume. What he created was The Golden Treasury, an instant classic of verse anthologies. Over the last century, it has withstood the test of time as an...

Alison Stedman / Faith, Hope and Love

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m g vassanji / The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters, real and imagined, in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence. between the pull of his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he...

Monica Porter / Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously

Witty, funny and full of thoughtful observations about sex and relationships, Monica Porter's 'yummy grand-mummy' memoir is the first of its kind. As a 60-year-old writer living in London, mother and grandmother Monica Porter thinks her sex life is...

Robert B. Reich / Supercapitalism

Robert Reich - a member of Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board and Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor - explains how widening inequalities, heightened job insecurity and global warming are the logical outcomes of capitalism's...

David Fisher / Chicken Shit for the Soul

A parody of "Chicken Soup for the Soul", this volume features fifty twisted tales, including the one about Step-Mother Teresa who turns a Calcutta orphanage into a sweat shop, and "The True meaning of Love", as seen from the stalker's point of view...

Iris Murdoch / Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

This is an analysis of Sartre's novels and philosophy, first written by philosophy lecturer Iris Murdoch before she became known as a novelist herself.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Jack J. Kanski / Ophthalmology: Picture Tests

A quiz book of commonly encountered ophthalmological problems, giving practice in visual recognition of eye conditions. The high quality colour pictures provide a wider range of conditions than would normally be seen in short clinical attachment, and...