New Paperback Books

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...

David Gardner / 9/11 The Conspiracy Theories

David Gardner examines the facts and theories surrounding the infamous 9/11 attacks, seeking truth in hidden - or officially suppressed - information   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Colm McNamee / The Wars of the Bruces

The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part...

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...

Mark Mazower / Hitler's Empire

Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious...

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...

Hauke Friederichs / The Gravediggers

A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power   This book is second hand, and...

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...

Svetlana Alexievich / Last Witnesses

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing... Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian...

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...

Gaito Gazdanov / An Evening with Claire

Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, after a separation of ten years. Trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings, Claire and Kolya resume what fate interrupted. When...

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...

Angus Wilson / The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

Seventy-seven stories by the acclaimed Irish writer range from the 1920s to the present and demonstrate the immediacy of her vision, her intense sense of place and character, and her mastery of 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...

Vasily Grossman / The Road

The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first time   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Simon Winder / Lotharingia

A Sunday Times History Book of the Year Shortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday Times In AD 843, the three...

Andrzej Stasiuk / On the Road to Babadag

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveller. His journeys - by car, train, bus, ferry - take him from his native Poland to small towns and villages with unfamiliar yet evocative names...

Gazmend Kapllani / A Short Border Handbook

'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania...

Saul David / Operation Thunderbolt

*By the historical consultant to the major motion picture Entebbe* 'The definitive work on the subject....This is the achievement of a masterly, first-rate historian' New York Times Book Review 'It's...

Richard Overy / Russia's War

RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the...

Timothy Snyder / The Red Prince

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and,...

Sheila Fitzpatrick / The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

'Hugely authoritative' TLS 'channels the pithy, punchy spirit of the great Norman Stone' SPECTATOR 'Close to a miracle... immensely readable' SLAVOJ ZIZEK From Revolution and Lenin to Stalin's...

Jozef Czapski / Inhuman Land

A classic work of reportage about the Katy? Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself. In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of...

Ian Spence / RHS gardening month by month

  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...