October 2026

Stefan Zeromski / The Faithful River

Originally published in 1912, this lyrical novel is set in a manor house in central Poland during the January Uprising of 1863 to 1864, when a volunteer Polish army futilely fought the Russian...

Joe Moran / Shrinking Violets

Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand...

Matthew Plampin / Mrs Whistler

'A captivating tale ...This novel is a delight' THE TIMES 'A terrific novel ... It springs off the page' DEBORAH MOGGACH 'Vividly engaging' SUNDAY TIMES Chelsea, 1876 Struggling artist Jimmy Whistler...

Erich Hackl / The Wedding in Auschwitz

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story of the love between Rudi and Marga. Rudi Friemel fights for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. When the Republican Front collapses,...

Hugo Hamilton / The Pages

?Part thriller, part treasure hunt and part love story? Profound and heartbreaking? Sunday Times?A terrific, engrossing novel? Roddy Doyle?A masterpiece? Sebastian Barry?A rich, strange book. Very...

Alex Gerlis / Every Spy a Traitor

A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 'One of the superstars of modern spy fiction' Daily Express 'One of the best spy novels I've read' I. S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow 'Gerlis is at...

Joseph Roth / On the End of the World

In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before the end of the world', he wrote a series of articles. The end he...

A.M. Homes / The End Of Alice

THE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in...

William Sitwell / Eggs or Anarchy

Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed Britain. As a nation...

Haim Bresheeth / Introducing the Holocaust

'Excellent... an astounding amount of material.' Times Educational Supplement Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as a horrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish...

Miranda Seymour / In Byron's Wake

A Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The...

Patrick Deville / Plague and Cholera

A French publishing sensation, shortlisted for every major literary award and perfect for everyone who loved HHhH   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Lawrence Durrell / White Eagles Over Serbia

Lose yourself in this classic 1950s Cold War spy thriller tracking a British secret agent in Communist Serbia by the celebrated of The Alexandria Quartet, perfect for fans of John le Carre   This...

Damien Lewis / Churchills Secret Warriors

  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...

Christopher Phillips / Battleground

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East. The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab...

Lyuba Vinogradova / Defending the Motherland

  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...

Lydia Ginzburg / Notes From the Blockade

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance...

Agota Kristof / Notebook

Unavailable for over twenty years, Agota Kristof's modern European classic The Notebook is re-issued by CBe alongside the first English translation of The Illiterate, Kristof's memoir of how she...

Delphine De Vigan / Gratitude

A story about love, loss and the power of giving thanks, from the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and Me   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Jaroslav Rudis / Winterberg's Last Journey

Winterberg's Last Journey follows its two main characters on an eclectic, tragicomic train journey through Central Europe - 'the beautiful landscape of battlefields, cemeteries and ruins'. When Czech...

Lyuba Vinogradova / Avenging Angels

"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story...

George Forty / Tank Warfare in World War II

  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...

McSweeney's / Mcsweeney's Mammoth Treasury Of Thrilling Tales

Mr Eggers is delighted to bring eager readers another packed issue of McSweeney's, his instructive and highly entertaining corrective to the ills of modern life. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of...

Mark Mazower / What You Did Not Tell

SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Fascinating, vast and...

Erik Brouwer / The Fighter of Auschwitz

The incredible story of Leen Sanders, a Dutch boxer who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards at Auschwitz and helped others survive   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Alan Simpson / Murder Madness

Written by the former Deputy Head of the Belfast CID, this book recalls some of the murders which happened in Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles, including the murder of Thomas...

Dov Hoenig / Triumph Street, Bucharest

Bucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish...

Hugo Claus / The Sorrow of Belgium

Set in 1939, this is the story of Louis Seynaeve, a 10 year-old Flemish boy with a wild imagination. He is a student at a convent boarding school, but his chief interest is in his secret society, the...

James Lee Burke / House of the Rising Sun

New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war. From...

John McManus / Inside Qatar

'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER 'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy...

Laurence Rees / Nazis

'The Nazis - A Warning from History' exposes the popular myth surrounding the rise and fall of the Third Reich. The book takes a fresh look at how the Nazis came to power, how they ruled and Hitler's...

Martin Windrow / The Wordsworth Dictionary of Military Biography

This dictionary outlines the biographical details and often brutal careers of the 200 most outstanding land commanders from the 10th to the 20th centuries. Lesser-known pioneers of particular methods...

Elizabeth Strout / Tell Me Everything

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly...

Joseph Roth / The Hotel Years

The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of...

Neil Gregor / How To Read Hitler

Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitler's...

Christian Huber / German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich

Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic voices of those German soldiers who fought on the...

Karen Casey / A Life Of My Own

As part of the incomparable Hazelden Meditations series, the daily readings in A Life of My Own ask us to truly reflect on our relationships with people in our lives who are dealing with alcoholism...

David Starkey / Crown and Country

An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of...

John Buckley / Monty's Men

Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of...

Noel Gilroy Annan / Our Age

Providing an encyclopaedic display of post-war Britain, this book includes sketches from Lord Annan's generation - from Ayer to Wittgenstein, from Keynes to Thatcher. Many social and cultural issues...

Joe Orton / Orton Diaries

  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...

Daniel Farson / Never a Normal Man

The highly praised and richly anecdotal autobiography of one of the great Soho characters of the 1950s and 1960s, whose varied life has included spells as a pioneering TV...

Tony Judt / A Grand Illusion?

The existing European Community has always seen itself as a stepping stone towards a future pan-European political unit. Yet now that the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall have come down, what are the...

Dwight D. Eisenhower / Crusade in Europe

A classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United...

Isaiah Berlin / The Hedgehog And The Fox

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, Guardian Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy   This book is second hand,...

Lord Alanbrooke / Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945

'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL 'Superb' SPECTATOR 'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the...

Martha Schad / Hitler's Spy Princess

'Hold on to this letter, so that it will be evidence of how accurately I have kept you informed. I'm serious; don't throw this letter away.' Born the illegitimate daughter of Jewish parents, Princess...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger / Silences of Hammerstein - A German Story

The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration and fictional interviews...

Jeremy Paxman / Black Gold

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster?A rich social history? Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously? DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY...

Jonathan Clements / A Short History of Finland

The modern nation of Finland is the heir to centuries of history, as a wilderness at the edge of early Europe, a borderland of the Swedish empire, and a Grand Duchy of tsarist Russia. And, as...

Saul David / The Force

December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the snow, in the middle of the night...

David Stafford / Oblivion or Glory

An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy "Important... Its power lies in a vivid re-creation not only of...