Paperback 2.50

Philip Caveney / Alec Devlin : The Eye of the Serpent

  This book is set in Egypt in the year 1923. Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig...

Rachel Urquhart / The Visionist

 'It was years before a Visionist came to the City of Hope. How could I have fathomed that her presence in our small, remote sanctuary - as unforeseen to her as to anyone - would change everything?'Massachusetts, 1842. Fifteen-year-old Polly Kimball...

Rosie Rowell / Leopold Blue

 A tense and moving South African coming-of-age story about family, friendship and first romanceMeg Bergman is fifteen and fed up. She lives in a tiny town in rural 1990s South Africa - a hot-bed of traditionalism, racial tension and (in Meg's eyes)...

Caroline Smailes / Black Boxes

 Julie Myerson meets Ian McEwan in this gripping novel of family breakdown.Ana Lewis is trapped by her own expectations. Her intense relationship with fellow student Alex begins to crack beyond repair when she falls pregnant, and his subsequent...

Dictionary of Dreams

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, 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...

Lisa Jackson / Malice : New Orleans series, book 6

 'Shiveringly good suspense!' Lisa GardnerTHE SIXTH BOOK IN A GRIPPING CRIME SERIES FROM 30 MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR.HOW WELL DO YOU REALLY KNOW SOMEONE?Detective Rick Bentz wakes in hospital to see his wife Jennifer standing in the doorway. But...

Eddy Brimson / Hooligan

  The highly acclaimed author of Everywhere We Go makes his fiction debut with this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account of football violence. Hooligan shoots down the myths behind those involved and exposes the lengths they will go to to...

John Brindley / Starry Eyed and Screaming

 Sixteen-year-old Amy Peppercorn has a lot to scream about. She's struggling with her A-Levels and coping with her two-year-old sisters while her parents tear each other apart. Her best friend is being lured away from her.Then Amy falls under the...

Brona Mills / A Time for Everything

  Twenty-year-old Michael is visited by time-traveller Audrey, who has information that can improve his life. In this time-travel dilemma, relationship influences are the centre of Audrey's conflict: what things in life should be left to fate?...

Tim Smit / Eden

  'With passion and commitment thousands of "small" people built Eden as a symbol of hope in action...We may all have feet of clay, but that shouldn't stop us trying to make a difference. Wouldn't we all rather look back and say, "I'm glad I...

Andy Remic / Quake

  A world where nuclear warheads can be hidden in a briefcase ...A world where bio-plagues are held suspended in a teardrop ...On an Earth where conventional armies are powerless to defend against the devastation wrought by single assassins, the...

Wendy Alec / Against All Odds : The Story of Europe's First Daily Christian Television Network

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, 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...

Marcus Sakey / No Turning Back

 They thought it would be easy. They were dead wrong...Alex is failing as a father.Ian keeps dangerous secrets.Jenn wants adventure.Mitch wants Jenn.Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get...

Glenn Murphy / Supergeek 2: Robots, Space and Furry Animals

  How much do you REALLY know about the science that matters? This book features over 300 fun science questions and answers chosen by Glenn Murphy to test your knowledge. Find out all about blood and guts, senses and feelings, robots, furry...

L. J. Smith / The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries: Bloodlust : Book 2

  Stefan and Damon Salvatore are now vampires, and must deal with the consequences of their fate. They escape their small hometown of Fell's Church, which is overrun with vampire hunters, and travel to New Orleans. While Stefan revels in his...

Melissa Bank / The Wonder Spot

  Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules, simply because she does not fit into any neat description of who she might be: she's Jewish, but...

Alex Chance / Savage Blood

 In Atlanta, Charlie Cortez MD diagnoses his mistress with an unknown neurodegenerative disease that is inducing violent and bloody psychosis. The apparent cause? Consumption of infected human flesh...In Vienna, Dr. Reeta Kapoor, eminent...

Cathy Cole / A Date With Fate

 Life, love and everything in between - gripping soap opera dramathat will make teen readers desperate for more...Eve seems to have the perfect life, but she has a very big secret,one that's tearing her apart. What's happening to her? Ignoringher...

Marc Raabe / Cut : The international bestselling serial killer thriller

 Fast and furious - a stunning debut thriller for fans of Stieg LarssonTHE SERIAL KILLER THRILLER THAT TOOK EUROPE BY STORMAt eleven years old, Gabriel Naumann is witness to a horrific crime.29 years later his girlfriend is taken.Then the messages...

Linda Finlay / The Girl with the Red Ribbon

 Is the legacy of her mother's love enough to survive alone?At just eight years old, Rowan is devastated when her mother dies. And when years later her father remarries a scheming woman who makes it clear she doesn't see Rowan as part of her new...

E. V. Thompson / Seek A New Dawn

  When the copper mines of Cornwall began to close down at the end of the 1870s, many men left for the golden land of Australia, intending to earn enough money to bring their families out. Sam Hooper was one such emigrant, but he had to leave his...

Marisha Pessl / Special Topics in Calamity Physics

 Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics is an unforgettable debut novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock: a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story,...

Russ Harris / The Happiness Trap : Stop Struggling, Start Living

 THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLERDo you ever feel worried, miserable or unfulfilled - yet put on a happy face and pretend everything's fine? You are not alone. Stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem are all around. Research suggests that many of...

Linda Fairstein / Death Angel

 'Maybe she blessed the waters a century ago, but now she's a magnet for murder. She's an angel all right,' Mike said, staring at the beautiful sunlit figure that towered over us. 'A death angel.'In New York's Central Park, Assistant DA Alexandra...

Cathy Glass / Cruel to Be Kind : Saying No Can Save a Child's Life

 Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before...

Simon Scarrow / Praetorian (Eagles of the Empire 11)

  PRAETORIAN is the gripping eleventh novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. The city of Rome in AD 51 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every...

Grown-ups' Book of Books

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, 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...

Jane Bailey / Mad Joy

  In the beginning a small girl runs into a wood, and two years later walks out of it and into the nearest house. Gracie, the childless spinster who finds her curled up on her armchair, takes her on as her own, seeing her as a feral gift of fate...

Paul Arden / God Explained in a Taxi Ride

  A punchy, humorous, and probing look at the nature of religious belief, by the author of the massively successful Whatever You Think Think the Opposite. In a series of brilliant visual episodes, Paul Arden investigates the questions that have...

Nicholas Searle / The Good Liar - PB

 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELEN MIRREN AND IAN MCKELLENThis is a life told back to front.This is a man who has lied all his life.Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his...

Emily Diamand / Reavers Ransom

  Lilly Melkun is out fishing with her sea-cat when the bloodthirsty Reavers come raiding and steal the Prime Minister's daughter. Her village blamed, Lilly decides to find the girl. Off she sails in secret with a ransom - an extraordinary...

Jasper Fforde / The Song of the Quarkbeast : Last Dragonslayer Book 2

 A long time ago Magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keeps bicycles from falling over.Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV...

E. F. Benson / Mapp and Lucia

 Meet Mapp and Lucia--two of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social rankingEmmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) is emerging from...

Linda Newbery / Sisterland

 Following the success of The Shell House, Linda Newbery again demonstrates her brilliance at weaving thought-provoking subjects into a wholly satisfying and sensitively drawn novel.Hilly's German grandmother, HeidiGran, comes to live with her...

Kitty Neale / A Fathers Revenge

 A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear...A bad man can never come good...Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence.In the meantime, his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him and remarried,...

Travis Mulhauser / Sweetgirl

 A cat-and-mouse survival story featuring a baby, a young girl and a criminalA LIFE IS IN HER HANDSThe last thing Percy expected to find in the local drug den was a baby girl. Now she needs to get the baby to a hospital, and fast. But there's a...

Hanif Kureishi / The Body and Other Stories

 The centrepiece of Hanif Kureishi's brilliant new collection of fiction delves into the fascinating concept of personal identity, and the extent to which this is rooted in our physical being.Middle-aged playwright Adam is amazed to be approached by...

John Chapman / A Fresh Start, a

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, 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...

Jens Lapidus / Top Dog

  For decades, a secret network in Stockholm has been exploiting young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who threatens to reveal their secret. As oddly paired duo Teddy and Emelie - the thug and the lawyer - investigate, the terrifying noose...

Anne De Courcy / The Fishing Fleet : Husband-Hunting in the Raj

 The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers...

Hazel Gaynor / The Girl Who Came Home : A Novel of the Titanic

  Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic-a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting...

Daniel James Brown / The Boys In The Boat : An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin

 Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany.Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of...

Kate Muir / Left Bank

  Enter the world of Olivier and Madison Malin, glittering inhabitants of Paris's exclusive Left Bank. The Malins' life together with their daughter is the stuff of dreams -- and carefully-selected celebrity magazines. Madison is a film star: her...

Ben Lerner / Leaving the Atocha Station

  Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers,...

Kyung-Sook Shin / Please Look After Mother

 Combining a unique setting with universal themes, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love.PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life...

Colm Toibin / Soho Square: New Writing from Ireland Bk. 6

  This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, John Banville, Frank McGuiness, Tom Paulin,...

Rana Conway / What to Eat When You're Pregnant and Vegetarian : The complete guide to healthy eating

 As a vegetarian or vegan you already know how important it is to maintain a healthy, balanced diet. But being pregnant aswell can make it seem even harder to eat and drink in a way that will keep you healthy, your baby safe and provide the ideal...

Adam Foulds / The Broken Word

 Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.The combination here of language and imagery that feel utterly contemporary, and subject...

Rebecca Chance / Bad Girls

 They met in rehab - but some of them had rather more therapy than they bargained for.Supermodel Amber Petersshould have the world at her feet. But her secret addiction has led her down a dangerous path. Lap dancer Skye Ellwood is desperate to get...

Caitriona Lally / Eggshells

 WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE 2018A modern Irish literary gem for anyone who has felt like the odd one out.`Inventive, funny and, ultimately, moving' GUARDIAN`Wildly funny' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW`Beguiling' THE IRISH TIMES`Delightfully quirky'...

Judith Saxton / We'll Meet Again

  stockings, lisle . . . shoes, black clumpy . . . The list went on and on. And to think that she'd chosen the WAAF because the blue uniform looked so smart! When war broke out, seventeen-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family...

Belinda Alexandra / Wild Lavender

 'Nothing is wasted, Simone. The love we give never dies.'At fourteen, Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provencal lavender farm and sent to work in Marseille. Her life there is hard and impoverished, but Simone discovers the music hall...