New Paperback Books

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 awesome book! Are you ready for another EPIC book from...

Damien Simonis / Herbal Remedies

"Dorling Kindersley's 101 Essential Tips" series brings expert advice at an affordable price. This book breaks down the preparation and use of herbal remedies into 101 easy-to-grasp tips.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

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 its time.' 'The secret of sex is not to take it...

Eric Rasmussen / Sonnets

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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 figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle...

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 world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of...

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 begins when a jogger finds a...

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; shopping for the best Internet deals; downloading free...

Robin I.M. Dunbar / Human Evolution: A Pelican Introduction

The story of human evolution has fascinated us like no other: we seem to have an insatiable curiosity about who we are and where we have come from. Yet studying the "stones and bones" skirts around what is perhaps the realest, and most relatable, story...

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 the world on which it is set.The Ringworld is...

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 companions: two freaky princess clones, a weird...

Milla Vane / A Heart of Blood and Ashes

A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is...

Joan Aiken / Black Hearts in Battersea

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Martin Edwards / The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime

From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique landscapes and locales of Scotland have long inspired writers of the very best Golden Age mysteries. Beginning with the adventures of Sherlock Holmes from...

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 brand new NHS and became one of the first official...

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, and cynical about everything except his profession. To...

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 play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal...

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 adventures, which, once begun, never stop. Hens, dogs, little...

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 Rough Guide comes in, reviewing the best...

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 inventive novel. By George is the twisting story of four...

Anne Rice / The Vampire Lestat

'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he...

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 repression, just as World War I was sputtering to a close...

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 prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of...

The School of Life / The School of Life: On Calm PB

Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm - and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very...

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 of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard...

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 help of his closest companion--a robot named Baymax--Hiro...

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 throughout all the triumphs and disasters of his career...

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 phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways...

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 Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to...

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 Wright and S.W. Gilbert, among others.   This...

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 Aragon arrives newly wed to the pope's youngest son. Life is...

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 valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far...

Jehanne Wake / Sisters of Fortune: The First American Heiresses to Take England by Storm

The Caton sisters were Southern belles descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and were expected to 'marry a Plantation'. But they were independent, fascinated by politics, clever with money, romantic in mood. Arriving In London in 1816 the three...

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, lovers, and friends such as Evelyn Waugh and Cyril...

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 history.They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their...

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 of her life and writing, Life Class brings together four...

Martin Howard / Alfie Fleet's Guide to the Universe

Are you stuck in a holiday rut?Need a change from your usual two weeks in Boredom-on-Sea?Want to explore more far-flung destinations but not sure where to start?Well, look no further because Alfie Fleet's Guide to the Universe will show you the best and...

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 relaly help with a VIOLENT FUDGESPLOSION, a...

Tad Williams / Shadowrise

As shadows threaten to consume the kingdom of Southmarch, Barrick Eddon, heir to March throne, battles his way across the sinister Shadowlands. He must journey through this dangerous, inhuman realm to fulfil a pact - as this may be all that can prevent...

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 captivated the worldas stage. From San Francisco to...

Graham Humphreys / CLASSICS RETOLD JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

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Terry Deary / Horrible Histories: Top 50 Villains

  TOP 50 VILLAINS is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists all about vile villains. From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they schemed and terrified their way to the top. Find...

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 uncovering the secrets of the dead... London, 1501...

R. L. Stine / Goosebumps: House of Shivers 3: Night of the Living Mummy

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Andrea Camilleri / Voice of the Violin

The Sicilian detective, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, is on the search for the killer of a young woman. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer (now disappeared) and her lover - an antiques dealer from Bologna. However,...

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 narcissism of small differences,...

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 suspect. Alone in her empty palazzo, Emma realises there's...

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 alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals and a...

Pamela Butchart / The Magic Hamster

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Melissa Bashardoust / Girls Made of Snow and Glass

ONLY ONE CAN BE QUEEN'A feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed' BookPageSixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone. In fact, it has never beat at all, for her father...

Tommy Tenney / One Night With the King

Tommy Tenney’s powerful fiction debut, One Night With the King, has been adapted for the big screen with a planned spring 2005 release. This major box-office production includes the introduction of Tiffany Dupont as Esther, with starring roles for...

Marilyn Mason~Nathan Parker / The Thinkers' Guide to Life

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