October 2026

Mr Alan Hunter / Gently with the Painters (George Gently) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe’s Rifles: Book 6 (the Sharpe Series) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain’s forces are retreating towards Corunna, with...

Jenny Maxwell / The Black Cat (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Gloriana Mayall was the prettiest of the two daughters. Her mother, despairing of ever making Ann in any way feminine, concentrated imparting her wide experience with men on Glory. As a child she was...

Lynn Hightower / Flashpoint (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A New York Times Notable Book: Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair hunts a serial killer who's playing with fire in Shamus Award–winning author Lynn Hightower's chilling thriller A single...

James Clavell / King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga (Older Edition Small Paperback)

'A splendidly exciting and original story' Sunday Telegraph 'Terrifyingly exciting suspense' Ian Fleming Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of...

Rosemary Aitken / The Tinner's Daughter (Older Edition Small Paperback)

(The second book in the Cornish Sagas series) Carie Tremble leaves her beloved Terrase in Penvaris to go to Penzance and go into service. Despite fitting in with this unfamiliar way of life, she...

Margaret Drabble / The Radiant Way (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Liz, Alix and Ester have been part of one another's lives since their Cambridge days twenty-five years ago. Liz is a successful psychotherapist, Alix is a wife and mother, still pursuing politics,...

L. Montgomery / Anne's House of Dreams (Puffin Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Anne's House of Dreams, the fifth novel about Anne Shirley, the...

John Mortimer / Summer's Lease (Older Edition Small Paperback)

It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway,...

Paul Scott / Jewel in the Crown (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The first instalment of Scott's Raj Quartet, about life in colonial India. A young Englishwoman, new to India and untainted by the institutionalized racism of the ruling British colonials, begins an...

Russell Hoban / The Mouse and His Child (Puffin Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Acclaimed as a classic of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child follows two clockwork mice who are thrown onto the scrap heap and begin a dangerous quest for a new place to...

Len Deighton / Goodbye Mickey Mouse (Older Edition Small Paperback)

'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The Times December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over...

William Styron / Sophie's Choice (Older Edition Small Paperback) (1)

A young Southerner journeys North in 1947 and becomes involved with the demonically brilliant Jew, Nathan, and his Polish lover, Sophie, a beautiful woman with a number tattooed on her arm and an...

Moira Martingale / Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Anthropophagy - humans eating their fellow-humans - creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascination in the 'civilised' Western world. When the perpetrator is a murderer - most commonly a...

Marcelle Bernstein / Sacred and Profane (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A nun collapses at prayer, crying out in agony. At the same moment, thousands of miles away, a woman wakes panic stricken in her prison cell. What links these two women? As the nun nears death, a...

Anthony Trollope / The American Senator (World's Classics S.) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, "I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands." Arabella's determination to...

Paterson Katherine / The Great Gilly Hopkins (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Gilly Hopkins is a tough operator – she’s super-cool and super-intelligent. And Gilly’s not going to be ‘had’ by anyone: teacher, social worker or foster parent. All she wants is a reunion with her...

Iain Johnstone / Wimbledon 2000 (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A novel of sex and suspense, based on the international tennis circuit. Twin boys, born in London in 1977, are separated at three days old. They grow up in ignorance of each other's existence, but in...

Morris West / Cassidy (Coronet Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

When a powerful Australian politician dies, he leaves a tangled international web of debt and corruption for his son-in-law to unravel. Can Gregory avoid the trap that's been set for him? Even in...

John Abbott / Scimitar (Older Edition Small Paperback)

An assassin of incomparable cunning is employed by a head of state to murder one of the most closely guarded world leaders.   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition...

Robert Littell / An Agent in Place (Older Edition Small Paperback)

In Moscow as a low-level diplomat, Ben Bassett meets an independent poet named Aida Zavaskaya, and they enter into a passionate love affair and become caught in a plan to return the U.S. and U.S.S.R...

Philippa Pearce / A Dog So Small and the Way to Sattin Shore (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A moving story of a boy's longing to own a dog and his realization that "you couldn't have impossible things."   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition Small...

Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Bigge - Wilton, Peter; Sawyer, Pete; Knight, John; Knight, Ronnie (Older Edition Small Paperback)

On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash,...

David Lodge / Ginger, You're Barmy (Older Edition Small Paperback)

When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy...

John Irving / The Hotel New Hampshire (Export Ed) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Paul Theroux / Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe,...

Judith Kerr / When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.(Older Edition Small Paperback)   The picture shown is the actual book...

Berlie Doherty / Granny Was a Buffer Girl (Contents S.) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

This story tells the tale of 18 year-old Jess, who is about to embark on a year's adventure in France, but, before she goes, she wants to learn all the family secrets, its love stories and its ghost...

Jean Ure / Play Nimrod for Him (Red Fox Young Adult Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Christopher and Nick have an exclusive friendship that isolates them from the crowd. Then Sal appears on the scene and tempts Christopher away from this private world with Nick. The tensions crowd in...

Walter Macken / The Flight of the Doves (Piccolo Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Desperate to escape their vicious uncle in London, orphans Finn and Derval Dove embark on a dangerous journey across England to Ireland. Lonely and scared, their only hope lies in reaching the...

David Henry Wilson / Do Goldfish Play the Violin? (Piccolo Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Whenever Jeremy James does anything wrong, the more he tries to help, the worse it gets. He hides his cousin Melissa's violin in the goldfish pond because the noise of her playing made his little...

Dan Fesperman / The Prisoner of Guantanamo (Older Edition Small Paperback)

When the body of an American soldier is discovered in Cuban waters near the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Revere Falk, a former FBI agent, is reassigned from his job interrogating an accused...

Berlie Doherty / Children of Winter (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Catherine and her family are out for a walk when a sudden storm blows up, and they are forced to take shelter in a deserted barn which they have never seen before but which seems strangely familiar...

Geraldine O'Neill / Aisling Gayle (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Cara Gayle is one of life's pleasers. A young, country school-teacher in 1960s Ireland, she spends her life looking after her philandering husband, Oliver, and her pious mother, Maggie. When Cara's...

Piers Paul Read / Villa Golitsyn (Coronet Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A betrayal in Indonesia fifteen years ago resurfaces when one of the possible traitors, Leslie Baldwin, risen high in Britain's Foreign Office, and the other, wealthy William Ludley, is subject to an...

Lena Kennedy / Susan (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A novel by the author of "Kate of Clyve Shore", "Owen Oliver", "The Dandelion Seed", "The Inn on the Marsh", "Lady Penelope", and "Down in our Street"(Older Edition Small Paperback)   The picture...

Stephen Hunter / The 47th Samurai (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Bob Lee Swagger has seen enough of war and fighting for any man: his past as a Marine Corps sniper and later as a self-appointed avenger has been a bloody one. But the hope that he is finished with...

Gail Carriger / Changeless (the Parasol Protectorate) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he...

Bruce Coville / I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.(Older Edition Small Paperback)   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive  ...

Matt Hilton / Slash and Burn (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Gordon Snell / Dangerous Treasure (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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A.A. Milne / The House at Pooh Corner (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin.(Older Edition Small Paperback)   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition...

Lucy M. Boston / A Stranger at Green Knowe (Puffin Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children...

Kaye Umansky / Pongwiffy and the Goblin's Revenge (Book 2) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Witch Pongwiffy has a lot on her mind. Her broom is behaving strangely and the goblins are up to their usual tricks. Will the witches have the biggest bonfire this year? And what is that strange...

Jack Higgins / The Last Place God Made (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Written by the author of "The Eagle has Landed", "Night of the Fox" and "Storm Warning". Sam was a pilot for the RAF on the Western Front, but by the 1930s he was pushing ancient planes across the...

Morris Gleitzman / Waterwings (Pb) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Pearl's life is decidedly wonky. Her dad's run off, her mum doesn't love her, her cousin Mitch is mad and her guinea pig's in the freezer. The only thing she can think of to straighten things out is...

Emyr Humphreys / The Best of Friends (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Peter Cunningham / The Snow Bees (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Tom Sharpe / Wilt on High (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The shadow of drug dealing falls across Fenland Tech and suddenly Wilt finds himself the target of suspicion. With his talent for making new enemies, an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory...

Kim Harrison / For a Few Demons More: 05 (Rachel Morgan Series) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Rachel Morgan is back and there are more sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires than ever before. For a Few Demons More is the fifth instalment of Kim Harrison’s New York...

Cynthia Voigt / A Solitary Blue (Lions S.) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Jeff learns a lesson about love and emerges from a solitary depression when he realizes that he can be alone and not be lonely. By the author of Homecoming and Dicey's Song. Reprint(Older Edition...

David Henry Wilson / How to Stop a Train with One Finger (Adventures with Jeremy James S.) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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