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Sophie Hardach / Of Love and Other Wars

 At a rally in the Royal Albert Hall, two Quaker brothers, Paul and Charlie Lamb, sign a pledge of peace that only one of them will honour. Meanwhile, in a draughty Victorian mansion in Hampstead, Mr. Morningstar wonders why his wife, a...

Richard Dormer / Drum Belly

 This city is changing. Different world from when I was a boy. I came over here when I wasn't much taller than you are now. Different world. You know what getting old is? Getting old is slowly losing everything that you're familiar with.Man has just...

Rob Mccarthy / A Handful of Ashes : Dr Harry Kent Book 2

 Crime's most original series character returns in a gripping new case.Dr Harry Kent is on the edge...He works too hard, sleeps too little, hardly sees daylight.And then the Met police call him out to certify the suicide of a whistleblower from a...

Lynda La Plante / Tennison

   From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison.In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the Metropolitan Police Training Academy to be...

Austin Wright / Tony and Susan

   Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and...

Patrick Holford / Say No To Cancer

    Cancer is on the increase. It is predicted that, within twenty years, half the population will be affected at some point in their lives. The single greatest cause of cancer - even greater than smoking - is now know to be the modern diet...

Robert O'Byrne / Mind Your Manners : A Guide to Good Behaviour

   It's the thought that counts. So, while society has changed, the need for thoughtfulness, courtesy and good manners has not. What is the etiquette for internet use, emails and mobile phone calls? How does one handle the delicate politics of...

Jeremy Wyndham / How Long Is a Piece of String? : More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

    Why do weather forecasters get it wrong? What are the best tactics for playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link"? And what is the link between a tin of baked beans and a men's urinal? These and many other questions...

Linda Grant / When I Lived in Modern Times

    It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho sails for Palestine where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand new country.     All of our...

Stephen Clarke / Talk to the Snail

   Have you been taken to what you've been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside, only to find there's no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough, and been diagnosed with a rather more personal...

Wally Lamb / I'll Take You There

   Behind every good man is a great woman - or threeA New York Times bestseller: the kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone.Every Monday, sixty-year-old Felix Funicello sets up a new film for his weekly club at an...

V. S. Naipaul / India : A Million Mutinies

    V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a...

Kerry Young / Pao

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDI was just a boy when I come to Jamaica.Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are...

Sarah Bailey / The Dark Lake

 A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode...A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to...

Sally Clements / Challenging Andie

 Is loving Ryan a challenge too far? Jaded war correspondent Ryan Armstrong reports terrible events without letting them pierce the armor covering his heart. When his colleague Emily Harte is murdered, he feels responsible for her death, and travels...

Peter Godwin / The Fear : The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

 The most powerful indictment of Mugabe's regime yet written' The Economist`A brave, sensitive and observant account of Zimbabwe's tragedy, exposing the cruelty of Mugabe's regime and the remarkable courage of those who have defied it' Financial...

Jon Ronson / What I Do : More True Tales of Everyday Craziness

 As hilarious as it is perturbing, Jon Ronson's What I Do is a treat for everyone who has ever suspected themselves to be at the mercy of forces they can barely comprehend.In part one, read about the time Jon inadvertently made a lewd gesture to a...

Alex Grecian / The Black Country

   Alex Grecian's The Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome historical thriller.When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the...

Dawn Annandale / Call Me Elizabeth : Wife, Mother, Escort

   Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents'...

Fred Sedgwick / How to Teach with a Hangover : A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises

 As the title suggests, a humorous and extremely practical guide for both trainees and practising teachers to coping with some of the more common classroom crises. Feeling at your wit's end after yet another lesson with your 'class from hell'?...

Hilary Fannin / Hopscotch : A Memoir

 Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.' - Roddy DoyleHilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home - Billy - that is different from her...

Uwem Akpan / Say You're One Of Them

 Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.'These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of...

Jim Eldridge / My Story: Flying Ace

 Jack Fairfax is the 19-year old second son of Lord and Lady Fairfax.The Fairfaxes are steeped in the military tradition, and don'tapprove of Jack's volunteering for the Royal Flying Corps. New-fangledflying machines are nothing to do with 'proper'...

Scott Westerfeld / Afterworlds

 Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned...

Frank Delaney / At Ruby's

 Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom as he looks on as the chairman ruthlessly faces down a mysterious challenge from another director. That night...

Chrissie Manby / A Proper Family Christmas

 Annabel Buchanan has the perfect life. A loving husband, a beautiful house, a happy family.So, when her daughter Izzy falls dangerously ill, Annabel will do everything she can to find the organ donor Izzy so desperately needs. And that includes...

James Alan Conlan / Listening to the Unknown

      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...

Edward Marston / The Trip to Jerusalem

 For Lord Westfield's Men, every high road leads to death.When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London's theatres, the acclaimed troupe of players called Lord Westfield's Men take to the high road to seek out fresh...

Rob Lowe / Stories I Only Tell My Friends

 A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his...

Peter May / Chinese Whispers ( A China Thriller Novel )

 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A TENSE AND ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER WITH A HEART-STOPPING ENDING' TANGLED WEB'POWERFUL AND AUTHENTIC' GLASGOW HERALDThe Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the sixth and final...

Henry James / The Wings Of The Dove

 The plan is a success: but Densher's distaste for his role means that in the end he is unable to accept the money, and Kate. The success of the dreadful game brings about the death of their relationship.     All of our books are second...

Nora Roberts / Waiting For Nick

 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR`The most successful novelist on Planet Earth' Washington PostNick didn't know what had hit him. Sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly all woman.And his feelings for her...

John Grisham / The Reckoning

 I couldn't help thinking of Harper Lee's great American novel To Kill a Mockingbird while reading The Reckoning . . . [Grisham] knows how to spin a yarn' - Chicago Sun-Times'May be his greatest work yet' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling...

Kat Gordon / An Unsuitable Woman

 Perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Gill Paul's The Secret Wife`Gloriously dark' Liza Klaussman`Evocative' i newsaper`Seductive' Anna Hope`Rich' Sunday Times`Thrilling' Emma ChapmanTheo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his...

Kate Atkinson / Transcription

 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BY AWARD WINNER KATE ATKINSON'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' ObserverIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of...

Ronnie Corbett / And It's Goodnight from Him . . . : The Autobiography of the Two Ronnies

 Double acts don't come any closer than the The Two Ronnies. Messrs Barker and Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, and yet despite the rigorous work that went into writing, rehearsing and broadcasting almost a hundred episodes to...

Richard Branson / Business Stripped Bare : Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

 In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest...

Robert Kagan / Paradise and Power : America and Europe in the New World Order

     After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly...

Louise Mortimer / Dear Lumpy : Letters to a Disobedient Daughter

   'Dearest Lumpy,I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car yesterday and chooses to believe it was not her fault...'Roger Mortimer's witty dressing-downs and affectionate advice were not only directed at his wayward son, Lupin...

Kate Konopicky / A Woman Of No Importance : A tenderly observed, ruthlessly honest and hilariously funny memoir about the joys and horrors of motherhood

   If there's one thing that everyone has an opinion about it's how to bring up a child - especially your child. Kate Konopicky found herself an embattled mother, knowing that however hard she worked everything was wrong. If she went back to...

Justin Wintle / Perfect Hostage

    Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly...

Michael L. Sheridan / Frozen Blood : Serial Killers in Ireland

      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...

Tim Gautreaux / The Missing

    Louisiana is the setting for this riveting tale of a kidnapped child and the man on her trail - Sam Simoneaux, who feels honour-bound to help find her. Leaving his stalwart wife behind, he works his passage on a pleasure steamer up the...

A. J. Healy / Tommy Storm

      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...

William McPherson / Testing The Current

   Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and...

Ann-Ping Chin / Four Sisters of Hofei

    Through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, a renowned historian examines a century of change in Chinese culture and in women's lives. Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the four Chang sisters lived...

Lori Lansens / The Wife's Tale

    On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their...

Peter Abrahams / A Perfect Crime

    Against the backdrop of an East Coast winter, menace and suspense build towards a chilling conclusion, as the lives of four people, linked by an illict love, are manipulated wth intricate and terminal precision.     All...

Kresley Cole / Dark Needs At Night's Edge

    On the night lovely Neomi Renate, a famous ballerina at the turn of the century, was murdered, an evil force turned her into a spectre - a phantom that's neither alive nor dead - and cursed her to relive her harrowing death every month...

Catherine Sefton / Island of the Strangers

    The children of Ballyhannis do not take kindly to the bus-load from Gobbelier Street School who come to camp on their island. Only Nora refuses to take sides, but after several skirmishes the hostilities between the two sides break into...

Christian Jacq / The Black Pharaoh

    The temples of the North of Egypt are deserted, the Gods forgotten. Everyone thinks only of himself, and corruption and injustice reign. Five centuries after the reign of Ramses, the empire seems to be heading irrevocably towards...

Anna McGrail / Mrs. Einstein

   Lieserl Einstein ist acht Jahre alt, als sie auf dem Bauernhof, wo sie aufwächst, zum ersten Mal von ihrer Mutter besucht wird. Ausgestoßen aus der Familie, schwört sie, Rache zu nehmen. Ihre Begabung für Mathematik und...