New Paperback Books

Leonardo da Vinci / Da Vinci Notebooks

Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His celebrated notebooks display the astonishing...

Dáithí Ó hÓgáin / Irish Superstitions

One of Ireland's leading folklorists gives a lively account of the more widespread superstitions and folk beliefs in the country. Here is a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. Here...

Mehdi Hasan / MACMILLAN Win Every Argument The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking.

A riveting and practical guide to the art of argument and rhetoric, from the award-winning journalist, anchor, and expert debater, MSNBC’s Mehdi HasanArguments are everywhere—and everyone wants to win. In fact, every single person on the face...

John W. Keddie / Eric Liddell: Finish the Race

As a young child Eric Liddell lived in the exotic climate of China. His parents worked there as missionaries, teaching the good news of Jesus. Eric?'s life from then on brought him to boarding school in England, university in Edinburgh and the fame of...

Ben Jonson / Epicoene or The Silent Woman

'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord'This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed...

Seán O'Casey / The Silver Tassie

Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled...

Various / One-Pot Recipes

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-08-20 192 English Harper Collins 100 Clever Recipes and Tips from the Worlds Best Food Magazine.Theres nothing more rewarding after a long day than smelling the aromatic flavours of a savoury meal permeating . through your house...

Julian Vignoles / Rory Gallagher: The Man Behind the Guitar

Rory Gallagher is revered as one of the greatest guitarists ever to pick up the instrument. The energy of his shows and his commitment to the audience is legendary. Drawing on extensive interviews with those who knew him, Julian Vignoles casts new light...

Lana Bastašić / Catch the Rabbit

Sara hasn't seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara...

Yvonne Griggs / Shakespeare's King Lear

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic'offshoots') and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how...

Jewell Parker Rhodes / New Rollercoasters: Ghost Boys: Jewell Parker Rhodes

  When 12-year-old Jerome is killed by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real one, Jerome becomes a ghost. As he watches his family grieve, he begins to notice other ghost boys and quickly realises they remain on earth for a reason. As...

Ian Hamilton / Anthology

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martin-weyer / Falling Eagle : The Decline of Barclays Bank

Once Britain's leading bank, this is the inside story of the decline of Barclays. Weyer worked for them for 11 years and was responsible for setting up several overseas operations. He focuses on the personalities of the Barclays story but set in a wider...

Neil Cross / Burial

How do you live with your guiltiest secret? And what do you do when it comes back to haunt you, threatening to destroy everything? Neil Cross's 'Burial' explores this stark predicament.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Quintin Jardine / Murmuring the Judges

Bob Skinner faces a complex case of murder and organised crime in this absorbing crime thriller.In Edinburgh's old Parliament House, an armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn. While the lawyers tussle over the evidence, the judge suddenly...

Richard Slobodin / Rivers: As Seen in Regeneration

The first concise biography of the psychiatrist who treated WW I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. He was also friend of George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Richard Coles / Murder Under the Mistletoe: A Canon Clement Christmas Novella

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.At the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail.Until two meet under the mistletoe...

Simon Fox / Running Out of Time

I can steal time.The most I can take at the moment is fifteen seconds, which is not a lot. Grandmother took almost three minutes once and she told me she’s done more, but I never saw it.She says there are stories of someone who can take all the...

Adèle Geras / Love, or Nearest Offer

What if your estate agent could find you not just your perfect house, but your perfect job, your perfect partner... your perfect new life? Meet Iris Atkins. On paper, Iris is an estate agent, but she's not just good at finding suitable houses for her...

Roisín O'Donnell / Nesting

In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a...

Joe Navarro / The Dictionary of Body Language

From former FBI agent and bestselling author Joe Navarro, a field guide companion to his classic What Every BODY is Saying, revealing the more than 400 essential body language indicators.A decade after his huge international bestseller What Every BODY is...

Rebecca Ross / Divine Rivals

Two competing journalists know a magical connection, and their share lies in the fact that they can pass through the abyss of hell... at once. After many years of sleep, the gods again began to turn to war... Eighteen-year-old Iris Vinnov wants one thing...

Roger Gosden / Designer Babies: Science and the Future of Human Reproduction

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Peter V. Jones / Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age Death

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors 2,000 years...

Raymond Queneau / We Always Treat Women Too Well

We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916...

Carlo Gébler / The Eleventh Summer

An eleven-year-old Irish boy visits his grandparents for the summer and discovers the mysteries of the adult world surrounding him   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Joan Aiken / The Stolen Lake

Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an...

Ian Gillan / Ian Gillan: The Autobiography of Deep Purple's Lead Singer

In 1970, Deep Purple burst on to the British rock scene with their hit "Black Night" and bestselling album "Deep Purple in Rock". This is the autobiography of their lead singer, Ian Gillan. Here he tells his life story, and that of the band he helped to...

Fiona McIntosh / The Diamond Hunter

During the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa, Clementine is left to be raised by her destitute father following the death of her mother. Her care falls largely to their companion, Joseph, and the two form an unbreakable bond.When the two men uncover...

Elizabeth Pisani / Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now...

Beryl Peters / Tea & Conversation: Develop the art of conversation with afternoon tea

Friends gather; tea is brewed and conversation flows.Everything tastes better with social niceties from days when afternoons were longer.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Tony Augarde / The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Containing more than 5,000 quotations from authors as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, George W. Bush, Homer Simpson, Carl Sagan, William Shatner, and Desmond Tutu, this dictionary is organized alphabetically by author, with generous cross-referencing and...

Debra Fine / The Fine Art of Small Talk

Communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk - in any situation. Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding in the bathroom or hanging around the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the...

Guillaume Pitron / Rare Metals War

A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order.The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but...

Drago Jančar / Joyce's Pupil

The finest short stories of Slovenia's most prominent author. A young man learns English in Trieste in 1914 from James Joyce, who repeatedly describes an oil lamp. Years later, in 1941, this same man must flee his country, and he becomes the Slovenian...

Barry Cunliffe / Druids: A Very Short Introduction

The Druids have been known and discussed for at least 2400 years, first by Greek writers and later by the Romans, who came in contact with them in Gaul and Britain. According to these sources, they were a learned caste who officiated in religious...

Michelin I-Spy / I-Spy in the Countryside

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David Frost / I Could Have Kicked Myself

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Selwyn Hughes / How to Live the Christian Life

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Tim Waggoner / Halloween Kills: The Official Movie Novelization

The official novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Halloween , starring Jamie Lee Curtis.Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in...

Collins / Collins Atlas Of The World

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Nathanael Lessore / Against All Odds

A HILARIOUS WORLD BOOK DAY COMEDY FOR TEEN READERS FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF STEADY FOR THIS AND KING OF NOTHING!Noranto knows who he is. Or at least, he thinks he does.Footballer. Hustler. One of the boys. He's got the playground game on...

Mick Herron / Standing by the Wall

A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow...

Justin Gustainis / Hard Spell

Stan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit.Like the rest of America, Scranton's got an uneasy 'live and let unlive' relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling...

Cyrus Lawrence Day / Knots & Splices

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Richard Bradley / The Greatest Pop Hits of 2000

Thirty-two titles American Pie (Madonna) * Back at One (Brian McKnight) * Oops! . . . I Did It Again (Britney Spears) * What a Girl Wants (Christina Aguilera) * Maria Maria (Santana) * Smooth (Santana) * Amazed (Lonestar) * Private Emotion (Ricky Martin)...

William March / The Bad Seed

The bestselling inspiration for the chilling movie starring Patty McCormack and Nancy Kelly. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This spine-tingling tale investigates a mother's concerned suspicion...

Dora Alonso / Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real

Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as...

Kiran Millwood Hargrave / The Wolf Trials

Trial 1: Track a wolfTrial 2: Tame a wolfTrial 3: Train a wolfEira's always wanted to compete in the Wolf Trials. The winners become part of the Ryders, an elite group of warriors who ride gigantic sea wolves.There's only one problem: Eira can't take...

Sterling Publishing Co. / I like to Read : The Picnic

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Jim Rogers / Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade.Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his...

Alia Trabucco Zerán / The Remainder

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with...