November 2024

Tom Keneally / The Tyrant's Novel (Large Print) (Hardback)

  A Booker Prize-winning AuthorA New York Times Editor's Choice In a work reminiscent of the classic Fahrenheit 451 , Thomas Keneally has written a dazzling story of a man caught between the demands of his government and his impulse to run for his...

Toni L.P. Kelner / Wed and Buried: A Laura Fleming Mystery (Large Print) (Hardback)

Since the birth of her six-month-old daughter, Laura Fleming has wanted to do nothing but camp out in her Boston apartment and dream of having one good night's sleep. But then her Aunt Nora calls to say there's trouble brewing back home in Byerly, North...

Karen Russell / Swamplandia! (Large Print) (Hardback)

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline. And Swamplandia!, the family's island home and theme park, in the Florida Everglades, has sophisticated competition - The World of Darkness. Ava is a resourceful, but terrified twelve-year-old, who...

Rosie Thomas / Constance (Large Print) (Hardback)

Constance has made a new life for herself in a foreign land. She is a musician, a composer, a highly paid arranger of other people's music, living in a lively expatriate community in Bali. There the world is idyllic - beautiful beaches framed with lush,...

K.M. Peyton / Dear Fred (Large Print) (Hardback)

Thirteen-year-old Laura falls in love with celebrated jockey Fred Archer in the racing world of Newmarket, England, in the 1880's.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Jade Goody / Forever in My Heart : The Story of My Battle Again (Large Print) (Hardback)

Jade's heart-breaking diary of her fight against terminal cancer and her final precious months with her beloved family. In August 2007 Jade Goody received the shattering news that she had cervical cancer. She was only 27 years old. But with her usual...

Sandra Paul / Domesticating Luc (Large Print) (Hardback)

Dog trainer Julie Jones faces an unusual and frustrating challenge when she attempts to help impatient workaholic Luc Tagliano bond with his new dog.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Leo Kessler / The Blackout Murders (Large Print) (Hardback)

Featuring Major Mackenzie Wartime London, 1942. Just like sixty-odd years before, a fiend is loose in the dark fogbound streets of London. But, unlike Jack the Ripper, this monster looks for women in uniform to mutilate and kill. Major Mackenzie must...

Bernie Mcgill / The Butterfly Cabinet (Large Print) (Hardback)

A story of a secret that refused to be forgotten When Maddie McGlade, a former nanny receives a letter from Anna, the last of her charges, she realises that the time has come to unburden herself of a secret. It is the story of the last day in the life of...

Maggie Bennett / The Tailor's Daughter (Large Print) (Hardback)

An bittersweet historical novel from this bestselling saga writer - The unexpected friendship between Tabitha Prewett, the only daughter of a tailor, and Mariette de St Aubyn, daughter of aristocratic French imigris, deepens as the years pass, rising...

Maureen Reynolds / Mcqueen's Agency (Large Print) (Hardback)

Molly McQueen needs a new challenge. Her move to Australia hasn't worked out and now she's back home and ready to start her new venture, McQueen's Agency. But Molly soon finds that hiring temps is tough going, until the day a lucrative job comes in which...

Betty Neels / A Christmas Wish (Large Print) (Hardback)

For Olivia Harding, the offer of employment at an exclusive private girls' school had come as something of a godsend. With little experience, she hadn't expected to find a job so easily, let alone one that still brought her into contact with her former...

Lesley Lokko / Sundowners (Large Print) (Hardback)

Take four friends...Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything.Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1...

Chris Manby / Girl Meets Ape (Large Print) (Hardback)

He's the King of the swingers... Uptight young zoologist Dr Jennifer Niederhauser is looking forward to making her mark in the conservation world as head of the chimpanzee project at Prowdes Animal Sanctuary. Prowdes seems even more determined to make...

Meg Elizabeth Atkins / Private View (Large Print) (Hardback)

The murder of a local art gallery owner and the theft of the painting he had just privately shown had stumped DCI Sheldon Hunter, and remained unsolved. Four years later, Hunter receives a series of anonymous letters and phone calls implicating a family...

Gladys Mitchell / The Mystery Of A Butcher's Shop (Large Print) (Hardback)

When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher's shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing money lender and when Mrs Bradley begins her...

Graham Hurley / Curtain Call (Large Print) (Hardback)

Two desperate journeys. One unscripted finale. A mesmerizing contemporary thriller.Thirty-nine-year-old Enora Andresson is a successful actress and a woman in her prime. But for how long? Tests have revealed an aggressive brain tumour that could kill her...

Henry Kisor / A Venture into Murder (Large Print) (Hardback)

In Porcupine County there lies a small Michigan town where the people all know one another and gossip cannot be silenced for long. But there's one secret that someone has tried to keep quiet for years...and those who try to uncover it seem to wind up...

Kay Hooper / The Haunting of Josie (Large Print) (Hardback)

Seeking refuge from the pain of her past in an isolated house, Josie Douglas finds herself haunted by a mysterious spirit and by her handsome landlord, Marc Westbrook.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Sarah Harrison / Cold Feet (Large Print) (Hardback)

A warm and wicked sequel to Hot Breath. She's free, fit and just under forty - so why does Harriet feel that life is slipping from her control? Life should be perfect, especially now that she has got rid of her staid husband. Yet complications arise on...

Norah Lofts / Crown Of Aloes (Large Print) (Hardback)

Isabella of Spain was a great woman, a great Queen. 'Crown of Aloes' is presented as a personal chronicle. Within the framework of known fact and detail drawn from hitherto unexploited contemporary Spanish sources, a novelist's imagination and...

Sam Leith / The Coincidence Engine (Large Print) (Hardback)

A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational...

Alex H. George / Love You Madly (Large Print) (Hardback)

A funny, sad, truthful novel about men, women and all that jazzMatthew Moore is madly in love.He's one of the lucky after thirteen years, he still idolises Anna, his wife. What's more, his first novel is about to be published. Life could not be better...

Robin Oliveira / My Name Is Mary Sutter (Large Print) (Hardback)

Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. (Historical...

Sammi Carter / Peppermint Twisted (Large Print) (Hardback)

No one's happy when wealthy Felicity Asbury names herself director of the local arts festival. But when she's found dead, all evidence points to candy shop owner Abby Shaw, who must put aside her sweets to discover the twisted killer.     All...

Sue Moorcroft / Starting Over (Large Print) (Hardback)

Tess Riddell reckons her beloved Freelander is more reliable than any man - especially her ex-fiance, Olly Gray. She's moving on from her old life and into the perfect cottage in the country. Miles Rattenbury's passions? Old cars and new women! Romance?...

Laura Marney / No Wonder I Take a Drink (Large Print) (Hardback)

A lack of funds forces Trisha, an unsentimental lonely boozer, to return to her previous profession as a pharmaceutical rep. The only good news is that her increasingly distant teenage son is about to move back in with her. The bad news is that her...

Ladybird / Key Words with Ladybird Things We Like

In book 3a, Peter and Jane have fun doing things they like in 36 new words including 'me', 'tea', 'bed' and 'give'. Once this book has been completed, the child moves on to book 3b.     All of our books are second hand and all of our books are...

Ladybird / Read it Yourself Level 2: Little Red Riding Hood

Designed for children learning to read, this book retells "Little Red Hen" in natural language with repeated phrases to help children develop the confidence to read alone. Level Two is suitable for children who are familiar with some simple words and can...

Ladybird / Key Words with Peter and Jane #9b Jump from the Sky

Key Words with Peter and Jane uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched and world renowned.In book 9b, Peter...

Ladybird / Key Words with Peter and Jane #11c Books are Exciting

Uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. This book provides the link with writing for the words used in readers "11a" and "11b".     All of our books are...

Ladybird / Key Words with Peter and Jane #11a Mystery On the Island a Series

Key Words with Peter and Jane uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched and world renowned. In book 11a,...

Ladybird / Key Words with Peter and Jane #12c The Open Door to Reading

Key Words with Peter and Jane uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched and world renowned. Book 12c...

Ladybird / Key Words with Peter and Jane #10c Learning Is Fun

Key Words with Peter and Jane uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched and world renowned. Book 10c...

Ladybird / The Beginning of the Armadillos

Rudyard Kipling s Just So stories about animals and their antics have delighted readers for years. Now, Ladybird brings these stories alive for very young children. Meet the lazy camel, grouchy rhinoceros, hungry leopard, curious elephant and many other...

Ladybird / Digimon Digital Monsters: Next Stop...Digiworld!

      All of our books are second hand and all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a book, please ignore it.

Marion McGarry - The Irish Cottage : History Culture and Design - PB - BRAND NEW

The Irish cottage is a cultural emblem of rural Ireland, full of contradiction. It’s a symbol of poverty and Famine, of comely maidens and a bygone era, and also a tourist attraction, an icon of old romantic Ireland. But it is also a place in which...

E.H Gombrich - The Story of Art - PB Illustrated Revised 1977 13th Edition

A paperback copy, Revised edition, 1977, of the classic book on art and art history by E.H Gombrich, The Story of Art, originally published in 1950. The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world...

Alice Thomas Ellis / Fish, Flesh and Good Red Herring : A Gallimaufry (Hardback)

From the cooking methods of Ulysses to Victorian nursery fare, from Biblical food facts to modern food fads, Alice Thomas Ellis takes delight in all things gastronomical, and generously seasons her gallimaufry with anecdote and wit. Fish, Flesh and Good...

Marshall Ulrich / Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America (Hardback)

117 marathons, 52 days, 32 pairs of shoes, 57 years A fascinating glimpse inside the mind of an ultramarathon runner and the inspirational saga of his phenomenal journey running across America.The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more...

Timothée de Fombelle / Toby and the Secrets of the Tree (Hardback)

The second and final part of the thrilling adventure of heroism and friendship in an unforgettable miniature world. Toby's world is under greater threat than ever before. A giant crater has been dug right into the centre of the Tree, moss and lichen...

Alan Macfarlane / Letters to Lily : On How the World Works (Hardback)

What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challenging questions, social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane...

Richard Nelson Bolles / What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (Hardback)

What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the bestselling job-hunting book in the world for more than three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists, from New York Times to BusinessWeek. It has sold more...

Joan Brady / Death Comes for Peter Pan (Hardback)

Alice Kessler is a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it. Instead Alice searches relentlessly for a doctor willing to offer a better prognosis and when she fails to find one in England,...

Justina Robson / Down to the Bone (Hardback)

Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm. The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals...

David Housewright / Like to Die (Hardback)

A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an...

Nathan Filer / The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia (Hardback)

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, presents a balanced summary of the controversy around the biological model of mental ill health, along with the model's...

V.A. Howard / Seasons of Learning: Talks to Graduates on Life After College (Hardback)

The first in-depth treatment of the school/work transition, this book raises the level of discussion above simple how to strategies. Howard considers the values, choices, responsibilities, and challenges facing the student leaving college or...

Georgina Harding / The Gun Room (Hardback)

A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war...

Kinley Roby / Death In a Hammock (Hardback)

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Kate Thompson / Wanted! (Hardback)

Marcus is a young baker in Ancient Rome, living with his family in the shadow of the murderous Emperor Littleboots. When a slave boy shoves the reins of a sleek, beautiful horse into Marcus's hands seconds before he is killed by a soldier, Marcus knows...

S.L. Grey / The Mall (Hardback)

Dan is an angsty emo-kid who works in a deadly dull shopping mall. He hates his job.Rhoda is a junkie whose babysitting charge ran off while she was scoring cocaine. She hates her life. Rhoda bullies Dan into helping her search, but as they explore the...