New Paperback Books

John Sellars / Lessons in Stoicism

What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together?In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But...

Ian Moore / Death at the Chateau

The third book in the The Times -bestselling murder mystery series, by leading TV/radio comedian Ian Moore! Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Julia Chapman, or MC Beaton'Cosy, quirky and wry, but most of all, hilariously funny!'JANICE HALLETT,...

Carl R. Rogers / Client-Centered Therapy

Presenting the non-directive and related points of view in counselling and therapy, this book defines the progress recently made in the development of the techniques and basic philosophy of counselling.   This book is second hand, and while you may...

Egmont Publishing UK / Spirit Riding Free - Abigail's Diary

Discover the world of DreamWorks Animation’s new series, Spirit Riding Free. Written in diary form, meet Abigail Stone as she explores the world of Spirit with her best friends Lucky and Pru!Dear Diary, Can you believe Lucky, Pru, and I finally...

Angela Gallop / How to Solve a Crime

'Endlessly fascinating...meticulously written and thoroughly absorbing book' Financial TimesOut *Revised and Updated* The gripping new book by the UK's most eminent forensic scientists, Angela Gallop__________CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which...

Tim Bowler / Midget / Dragon's Rock

Midget A unique and unnerving story about Midget - fifteen years old, three feet tall, and target of his older brother's bullying and cruelty. Midget dreams of buying a boat and sailing away, but people say it'll take a miracle for that to happen. Midget...

Robert Muchamore / Jet Skis, Swamps & Smugglers

Robin and Marion are taking on the authorities again in the third action-packed adventure from international bestseller Robert Muchamore.There's a price on Robin's head, one that has attracted a gang of ruthless mercenaries who are determined to track...

Ryan Giggs / Giggs: Autobiography

Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain. He took possession of United's left wing and never loosened his grip. Over a fourteen year career so far, he's seen them...

Parragon Books / My First 100 Words

Help your child explore new worlds and build vocabulary. With 100 essential first words and vibrant pictures throughout, this is an ideal first book for young children everywhere!   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Matsuo Bashō / Backroads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

Basho (1644–1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal,...

Martin Luther King Jr. / A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the...

Aristotle / One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

  A selection of writings on how to achieve a more ethical society and way of life, from one of Ancient history's most celebrated thinkersHow can one live well in the world? What does it mean to be happy? In this selection from The Nicomachean...

Benjamin Myers / The Perfect Golden Circle

England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.Under...

Anton du Beke / The Royal Show

By Royal invitation, join us to celebrate The Royal Show!Prodigal son and loyal daughter...The Forsyth Variety Company has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to entertain Her Majesty at 1962's Royal Variety Performance.Keen to rehearse, the...

Katie Kirby / The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks

Lottie Brooks is BACK for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on holiday and gets her very first boyfriend!THINGS THAT ARE RUBBISH IN MY· Have the most disgusting little brother in the entire world· Have to get braces when am...

Sam Wellman / Corrie ten Boom

  For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In Corrie ten Boom,...

Lexus / Harrap's French Grammar

Comprehensive grammar of modern French Suitable reference from GCSE to universityLively examples   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...

Judith H. Miller / Miller's Field Guide: Glass

Miller's Field Guides are an invaluable resource for collectors when out buying items at antiques shops, auctions or car boot fairs. They provide a fast and accurate way to recognize, identify and date antiques. In each book a simple question-and-answer...

James Patterson / Till Murder Do Us Part:

From the hit TV series come two true-crime stories where the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you brutally apartTILL MURDER DO US PART(with Andrew Bourelle)Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Steven Marcum. Twelve years...

Chan Park / Tango Zen: Walking Dance Meditation

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Carolina Maria de Jesus / Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition

  This authentic example of literature-truth emerged from the diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, which recounts the sad and cruel daily life of a woman who survives as a paper taster in the face of everything to scare away children and raise her...

Christmas Carol Kauffman / Not Regina

"The 1500's were stirring times in Europe. Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to a church door in Germany, exploding a powder keg of unrest that seethed for decades. Against this background Regina Strahm found herself caught between two religious...

Celia Harwood / Widow's Peak

In May 1920, Major Edward Giffard, DSO, still recovering from war injuries, is convalescing in the spa town of Buxton accompanied by his wife, Isabel. He receives an anonymous letter advising him to enquire into his father’s Will.The Major has not...

Joseph M. Marshall III / The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

  Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of...

Paul Cooke / German Expressionist Films

Introducing readers to one of the must influential film movements of the 20th century, responsible for such widely-known classics as Nosferatu, Metropolis and The Blue Angel, this Pocket Essential travels all the way from Germany in the swinging Twenties...

Richard Jenkyns / Classical Literature

What makes Greek and Roman literature great? How has classical literature influenced Western culture? What did Greek and Roman authors learn from each other? Richard Jenkyns is emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition and the Public Orator at the...

Paul Ormerod / Why Most Things Fail

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David Thomson / Suspects

  Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime—these are a few of nearly 100 names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He...

Italo Calvino / Numbers in the Dark

"Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything...

Alice Walker / Complete Stories

A collection of short stories by the author of HER BLUE BODY EVERYTHING WE KNOW; EARTHLING POEMS 1965-1990, COMPLETE and THE COLOR PURPLE.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Sue Monroe / The Magnificent Moon Hare

I am the Moon Hare! I'm off on a dangerous quest to rescue King Winston from having his head chopped off! P.J. is coming and so is a dragon who's called Sandra (even thought he's a boy). And there are bits about marzipan and secret tights and games and...

Pádraic Ó Conaire / The Finest Stories of Padraic O Conaire

This collection, the first representative translation of his work, contains 15 of his greatest short stories including M'Asal Beag Dubh, beloved of generations of schoolchildren.Padraic 6 Conaire was born in Galway in 1882, brought up in the Connemara...

J.C.H. King / Blood and Land: The Story of Native North America

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Randall Munroe / How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong...

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 delight every 8 year old.   This book is second hand,...

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 pairs of spectacles and his pockets full of all manner...

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, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account...

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 the Marvel universe, all illustrated using Marvel's...

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 brain—and worried about Piglet and his problems...

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 the place with a rod of sweetness that’s tougher...

P.G. Wodehouse / Highballs For Breakfast

  'A splendid anthology' The TimesNo writer knew better than PG Wodehouse how a drink can lift the spirits – and he was a master at the high comic effects of having a few too many. Highballs for Breakfast is a handpicked selection of wit,...

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 over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he...

Robin Wall Kimmerer / Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova,...

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. But Merry's not the only one whose fairy tale is over...

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. Everyone from their class will be there -...

Angela González 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 extensive vocabulary, grammar tips and tests that help you...

Steve Hare / Crikey I'm... a Dad!

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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 the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first...

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, larger-than-life characters and exotic destinations. But...

Max Porter / The Death of Francis Bacon

A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

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 vast numbers of people more closely than we...

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. There’s no space in...