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Successories / The Essence of Attitude: Quotations for Igniting Positive Attitudes

A positive attitude is healthy for us. It removes the rust from our minds, lubricates the soul, and fires up our enthusiam for life. In this modern world, we are surrounded by negative thoughts and ideas, yet no one can force us to accept a negative idea...

Jonathan Green / Unnatural History

In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam...

Olivia Blacke / Vinyl Resting Place

First in a new series by Olivia Blacke, Vinyl Resting Place follows three sisters who discover that opening a family business can be murder.When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip &...

Adam Macqueen / The Inalienable Right: A Tommy Wildblood Novel

  In the age of AIDS and Section 28: a secret that could change political historyIt is 1987, and Tommy Wildeblood has put his days as a Piccadilly Circus rent boy long behind him. Slightly to his own surprise, he is now a rookie teacher at a South...

Rhodri Marsden / FWD This Link

From skate-boarding dogs to Arnold Schwarzenegger photoshopped into a swimsuit and sat on George Bush’s lap >>FWD This Link brings together the biggest distractions of the past decade into an addictive user-friendly Rough Guide. Rhodri...

HALL TARQUIN / The Case of the Love Commandos

The wonderful fourth outing for delhi detective vish puri ('the indian hercule poirot' financial times). When india’s love commandos rescue a young woman from a high-caste family who has been forbidden from marrying an untouchable, she looks set to...

Angela Carter / The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

'Sexuality is power'  - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis,...

Teffi / Subtly Worded

A selection of the finest stories by this female ChekhovTeffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show...

Hisashi Kashiwai / The Restaurant of Lost Recipes

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food Detectives series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto...

Maria Coffey / Three Moons in Vietnam: A Haphazard Journey by Boat and Bicycle

This is the story of the author and her husband's journey around the real Vietnam by leaky fishing boat, sampan and coracle, rickety bicycle and battered bus, a journey that took three full moons. It reveals a Vietnam where people survive their terrible...

Rachel Bryant-Waugh / Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide

Eating problems are common in children and teenagers. Yet myths about such problems abound and it can be very difficult to separate the facts from popular beliefs; unusual or disturbed eating patterns can be understandably bewildering and distressing for...

Ronan Hession / Panenka

His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story. Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest...

Edgar Evans Cayce / Edgar Cayce on Atlantis

Drawing on his readings, and placed within the context of reincarnation, Edgar Cayce offers evidence of the civilisation of Atlantis - showing how its achievements and failures directly relate to the conflict and confusion of today.   This book is...

Marc Sautet / Nietzsche para principiantes

Si Marx sostenia que el futuro estaba en las masas, Nietzsche puso esa afirmacion cabeza abajo: aseveraba que el futuro se concentraba en los grandes hombres. A su juicio, el Superhombre era la finalidad de la vida y hasta le dio carácter de...

Richard Holloway / Doubts and Loves

In this passionate and heartfelt book Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. He liberates the power of the great Christian stories from their sometimes antiquated settings, and reveals the essence of Jesus's...

Correlli Barnett / The Verdict of Peace : Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future

Correlli Barnett brings to a majestic finale his acclaimed Pride and Fall quartet, tracing Britains decline from world power. He argues that between the Korean conflict in 1950 and the Suez debacle in 1956, Britain threw away her last opportunity to...

Chris Grabenstein / Dog Squad

ntroducing DOG SQUAD, the crime-fighting, tail-wagging, hilarious new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of Max Einstein!When trouble calls . . . it's DOG SQUAD to the rescue!Duke is...

Adrian Selby / Snakewood

This debut epic fantasy from a British writer of incredible talent tells the tale of the Twenty, a band of mercenaries hunted by an unknown killer. Filled with unique voices and incredible worldbuilding, this stunning novel will delight fans of Andrzej...

Sara Davies / Broken

Sara Davies' story is one of abuse, neglect, betrayal, and, ultimately, survival. When she was just 5 years old, her violent father began to sexually abuse her. She suffered in silence for many years, as her father took advantage of her innocence and her...

Brian Morton / Starting Out in the Evening

Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller’s novels when she was growing...

Rhian Tracey / When Isla Meets Luke Meets Isla

Isla moves down with her parents from Scotland to England and instantly feels herself in an alien land. But then she meets Luke and slowly their friendship blossoms into love.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Marcus Sedgwick / Monster Mountains

Saving the world isn't going very well for Elf Girl and Raven Boy. They've left Fright Forest and crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains, where they find a sign telling them to turn back. Perhaps they should do as it...

David Almond / War is Over

From the bestselling, award-winning author of SKELLIG comes a vivid and moving story, beautifully illustrated, which commemorates the hundred-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. "I am just a child," says John. "How can I be at war?" It's...

L.P. Hartley / Simonetta Perkins

Considered by Hartley to be the most accomplished of his works, Simonetta Perkins is a brilliantly observed tale of desire and guilt. Set against a glorious Venetian backdrop, it explores the nature of physical temptation, creating a complex...

Clare Empson / Him

'You're stuck there, aren't you? Right at the end. And I wonder if it might help to go back to the beginning, to put everything in some kind of order.'Catherine has witnessed something so traumatic that she can't speak. Or won't speak. The doctors say...

Miguel Ruiz / The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

In The Four Agreements , bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can...

Sherman Alexie / Reservation Blues

Only Big Mom can help when you've made a deal with the Devil. Robert Johnson, legendary blues man, arrives at the Spokane Reservation looking for relief. Thomas Builds-the-Fire shows him the way and finds himself owner of the great man's guitar. So, with...

Andrew Gordon / The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and...

Sarah Henshaw / The Bookshop That Floated Away

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

Jean Hood / Submarine: An Anthology of First-Hand Accounts of the War Under the Sea, 1939-1945

This outstanding anthology is a testament to the courage, tenacity, initiative and humour of the many thousands of Second World War submariners who served their countries, often in the most difficult and extraordinary circumstances. It allows men of all...

Joachim Wieder / Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments

Originally written over 30 years ago by a historian who was also a participant, this analysis of the Nazis' ill-fated attempt to take Stalingrad now features revisions by the author. Much more than a routine account of a battle, Stalingrad presents a...

Arena & Kettle / Paper Round

    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 second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ann Cleeves / A Prey to Murder

The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak pointed towards her eyes . . .The sight is a particularly horrible shock for George Palmer-Jones, ornithologist and amateur detective, as he was an...

Ann Cleeves / Murder in Paradise

When Mary, a deaf child, is found at the bottom of a cliff in idyllic Kinness, visiting birdwatcher George Palmer-Jones vows to get some answers from the reticent townspeople   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

John Ramsden / Don't Mention The War

The Times decided in 1891 that "Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy"—the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and British monarchy was closely involved with Germany...

David McDermott / Prayers from Revelations of Divine Love

Translated from Julian of Norwich. A 14th Century Mystic. The Prayers are a reflective translation of the sixteen revelations from God imparted to Julian of Norwich that define the Trinty, the Personification and the association between God and man's...

Janet Malcolm / The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

From the moment it was first published in The New Yorker, this brilliant work of literary criticism aroused great attention. Janet Malcolm brings her shrewd intelligence to bear on the legend of Sylvia Plath and the wildly productive industry of Plath...

Rachel Ferguson / A Harp in Lowndes Square

In the schoolroom in Lowndes Square, a child, in her ugly, unsuitable frock of plum-coloured satin, cut down when discarded from one of her mother’s, bent over the cutting out of a doll and its cardboard wardrobe, and shivered as she worked...

Kingsley Amis / The Green Man

Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend...

Elizabeth Taylor / Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOn a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently...

Jonathan Phillips / The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic...

Beth Blair / Break Into Travel Writing: A Teach Yourself Creative Writing Guide

By plane, train, or automobile, you can turn your journeys into paychecksGetting paid to go on holiday may sound like a great lifestyle, but there's a lot of hard graft involved--particularly, breaking into this industry in the first place. Few...

Wanderlust Publications / How to travel guilt free: essential tips for ethical travellers

How to travel guilt free is the Wanderlust magazine guide to eco-friendly travel. Whether you’re enjoying a staycation or heading off on a round-the-world trip, Wanderlust’s expert travel writers will make your adventures green, every step of...

Terry Pratchett / Unseen Academicals

'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic . . . so they're in the mood for...

Helen Cresswell / Ordinary Jack

First in the super-funny classic series starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family – from best-loved author Helen Cresswell.Jack’s fed up of living in the shadow of his brilliant siblings. He and his trusty dog Zero are completely...

Helga Jensen / Escape to the French Riviera: An irresistible later-in-life romance

Can Lucy find her second-chance romance in the glamour of the French Riviera?When aspiring author Lucy attends a rich friend's 50th birthday party in glamorous Monaco, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever.Heartsore after a broken...

Claire Daverley / Talking at Night

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother’s wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer—destined to be...

George Packer / Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

A GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of America’s greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man...

Mark Whitehead / Jack the Ripper

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult...

Blessed Sister Faustina / Handbook of Devotion to the Divine Mercy

No. 1 new bestseller in Ireland and many other countries around the world. This is the fastest selling Prayer book in print. If you give this book to someone it can change their whole life.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Anthony Clayton / The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the present

An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of...

John David Anderson / The Dungeoneers

An action-packed, funny, and unexpected middle grade fantasy-adventure from the acclaimed author of Sidekicked . The world is not a fair place, and Colm Candorly knows it. While his parents and eight sisters seem content living on a lowly cobbler's...