New Paperback Books

Monica Butterfield / Stories for 8 Year Olds

Read about a school for witches, a pig who wants to fly and the boy trapped inside Ben's Computer Game! This Marvellous mixture of hugely entertaining stories will provide hours of reading fun to...

Norman Hunter / The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawm

He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. He's the craziest genius you'll ever meet and he's about to cause havoc in Pagwell with his wild inventions . . . The lovable Professor Branestawm, with his five...

Christopher Isherwood / The Condor and the Cows

A South American Travel DiaryIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia,...

Tom O'Malley / Marvel Heroes

"Marvel Comics and Top Trumps" have been brought together to create another exciting addition to the "Haynes Top Trumps" books series. This pocket-sized guide features 45 key heroes and villains from...

Christopher Milne / The Enchanted Places

Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted world; laughed at Pooh—a bear of very little...

Diana Wynne Jones / Black Maria

On the surface, Aunt Maria seems like a cuddly old lady, all chit-chat and lace doilies and unadulterated NICEness!When Mig and her family go for a short visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules...

John Mortimer / Rumpole Rests His Case

RUMPOLE RESTS HIS The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs...

Katharine Corr / The Witch's Tears

Can true love's kiss break your heart...?It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack...

Francine Pascal / The Twins Get Caught

Against their better judgement...Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Saturday night. Their friend Aaron Dallas is throwing "the party of the year" at a new teen club called the Hangout...

Angela Gonzalez Hevia / Teach Yourself Get Started in Spanish

The emphasis of this course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Spanish. It provides...

Charles Johnson / Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates

A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island. Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of...

Patricia St. John / In Her Words

Patricia St John was a master storyteller and her books continue to captivate readers even today, but her personal story is no less exciting than one of her fictional tales.It is full of adventure,...

Duncan J. Watts / Six Degrees : The New Science of Networks

  'Six degrees of separation' is a cliche, as is 'it's a small world', both cliches of the language and cliches of everyone's experience. We all live in tightly bonded social networks, yet linked to...

Muhammad Khan / Kick the Moon

Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE’s are looming and his teachers just won’t let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don’t care about any of it...

Benjamin Dean / This Story is a Lie

Harley Matthews is a used to fading into the background. That is until Rising Stars, the high-school programme that takes talented students and makes their dreams come true, choose him to participate...

Adam Frost / The Awesome Body Book

How long are your intestines? How many mites live in your eyelashes? Do all adults wear clean underwear? And much more!Find out disgusting, hilarious, weird and wacky facts about your body with this...

John Brendan Keane / The Little Book of John B. Keane

The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane's writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format. The book includes the 'A play about sex in Ireland is always ahead of...

Eric Rasmussen / Sonnets

    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...

Marion Zimmer Bradley / The Firebrand

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life...

Philip Ball / H2o

The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical...

Reggie Nadelson / Disturbed Earth

The first novel in an exciting crime trilogy starring Russian-Jewish cop Artie Cohen (“the detective every women would like to find in her bed.” — Guardian )Reggie Nadelson’s new Artie Cohen mystery...

Angus J. Kennedy / The Internet and World Wide Web: The Rough Guide, First edition

This bestselling guide for PCs and Macs explains in plain English functions such as sending e-mail; browsing sports, news, and travel information; playing free music samples from thousands of bands;...

Larry Niven / Ringworld's Children

Larry Niven's sequence of Ringworld novels is one of the classic works of science fiction. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, it is a towering imaginative achievement - as extraordinary as...

Jamie Thomson / The Wrong Side of the Galaxy

In space, no one can hear you laugh!Harry wished he was a million miles away, but this is getting ridiculous.Abducted by aliens, Harry wakes up on his birthday marooned on a spaceship. His only...

Joan Aiken / Black Hearts in Battersea

    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...

Molly Corbally / An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea

A touching and warm-hearted memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England, for fans of Call the Midwife and The Language of Kindness. After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the...

Martin Cruz Smith / Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) / Nightwing

Gorky ParkA triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest,...

Michael Kerrigan / William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each...

Astrid Lindgren / Emil and the Sneaky Rat

There's a rat running amok in Emil's house, and he's determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father's bed probably isn't ideal . . . That's just the start of Emil's...

Paul Simpson / The Rough Guide to Kids' Movies

Kids’ Movies – where do you start? There are hundreds of them out on video and DVD, and life (or at least, childhood) is too short to discover the gems, or to endure the dross. Which is where this...

Wesley Stace / By George

Two years ago, singer-songwriter Wesley Stace blew onto the literary scene with his bold and free-wheeling Dickensian comedy Misfortune. Now, he is back with another wonderfully entertaining and...

Joseph Andras / Faraway the Southern Sky

A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920sHo Chi Minh arrived in Paris as a young man, a refugee from political...

Shirley Hazzard / People in Glass Houses

Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity...

Lee Server / Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing

She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest Hemingway saved one...

Walt Disney Company / BIG HERO 6 - JUNIOR

"Big Hero 6" features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the...

Tracey Stewart / Payne Stewart: The Authorised Biography

Written by his wife Tracey Stewart, this is the only authorized biography of Payne Stewart. It gives the reader a detailed look into Payne’s life through the eyes of the person closest to him...

Sarah Jio / Blackberry Winter

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels-- The Violets of March and The Bungalow . With Blackberry Winter --taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather...

Gerald Sparrow / Visiting Egypt

In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the...

Wendy Cope /The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems

Wendy Cope is the bestselling author of Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns. In this anthology, she has selected 101 of her own favourite funny poems, with pieces by Lewis Carrol, Kit...

Jeanne Kalogridis / The Borgia Bride

Incest, poison, betrayal. Three wedding presents for the Borgia Bride.Italy 1492. So begins the Borgia reign of terror, no one is immune. Rome is a hotbed of accusation and conspiracy.Sancha de...

Cynthia Voigt / The Callender Papers

Think carefully... That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It's advice that proves...

Laura Thompson / Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford

This biography draws on Nancy Mitford's highly autobiographical early novels, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her sisters,...

Benjamin Myers / The Gallows Pole

From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British...

Diana Athill / Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill

Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. In a celebration...

Philip Reeve / Jinks and O'Hare Funfair Repair

Meet JINKS & O'HARE, the brilliant repair team who keep FUNFAIR MOON running smoothly. Until one day CHAOS strikes... EMILY is determined to lend a hand - even if no one has asked her to. But can she...

Lesley Downer / Madame Sadayakko : The Geisha Who Seduced the West

A critically acclaimed author tells the enthralling true story of the real Madame Butterfly, a woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the West. At twenty-nine, she...

Graham Humphreys / CLASSICS RETOLD JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

    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...

Karen Harper / The Queen's Confidante

In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by...

Andrea Camilleri / Voice of the Violin

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Jem Calder / Reward System

'If you've been waiting for someone to close the gap on social distancing, to capture the furtive problems of social media, to make you laugh at your own alienation, to wrap your mind around the...

Tasha Alexander / Death in the Floating City

Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalised society when she eloped with an Italian count. Now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has fled, making him the prime...

William C. Dietz / Heaven's Devils

For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight...