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Margart Yorke / Act of Violence

   Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed facade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to...

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...

Phill Jupitus / Good Morning Nantwich : Adventures in Breakfast Radio

 What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ?The opening DJ on the Beeb's new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio...

Marianne Heron / Fighting Spirit : An Autobiography of Sheila Conroy

   The biography of an extraordinary woman and a fascinating account of social and labour history during the 1940s & 1950s in Ireland.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

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...

J. Jefferson Farjeon / Murderer's Trail

   Ben the tramp is back at sea, a stowaway bound for Spain in the company of a wanted man - the Hammersmith murderer.Ben, wandering hungry through the foggy back alleys of Limehouse, is spooked by news of an old man murdered in Hammersmith -...

Andreas Pfluger / In the Dark

 A blind police detective.A psychopath with a grudge.A hunt that will expose her darkest fear...Jenny Aaron was once part of an elite police unit in Berlin, tracking the country's most dangerous criminals. She was the best. Until a mission went...

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...

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...

Noel Fitzpatrick / Listening to the Animals: Becoming The Supervet

 THE MASSIVE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.A powerful, heart-warming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - star of the Channel 4 series The Supervet.Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin,...

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...

Robert Louis Stevenson / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Strange Tales

 The structure of ['Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] follows a path as indirect and elusive as its multiple narrative voices. With its obliquely recorded incidents, its eyewitness accounts and sealed confessions, it resembles...a [police detective's]...

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...

Rachael English / The Night of the Party

 A cracking page-turner in the best tradition of Maeve Binchy' Patricia Scanlan'Beautiful, compelling, and sincere in the way of the very best stories and the best books' Irish IndependentFrom the Number One bestselling author of The American Girl...

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...

Brian Moore / No Other Life

 Father Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary on the poor Caribbean island of Ganae, rescues a little local boy from abject poverty, and sets him on the road towards a dramatic and dangerous future as a revolutionary priest and, later, as the first...

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...

Meg Cabot / The Mediator: Mean Spirits and Young Blood

 The Mediator: Mean Spirits and Young Blood is a bind up of the third and fourth books in Meg Cabot's sensational The Mediator series.Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl who just happens to be a ghost-hunter . . . oh, and she's also...

Tess Gerritsen / Keeper of the Bride : Whistleblower

   KEEPER OF THE BRIDEHad she survived because of fate, coincidence or just luck?If Nina Cormier's wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb went off.It wasn't...

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...

Victor Hugo / Les Miserables Volume One

   With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character...

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...

Mark Sennen / The Boneyard

   The truth won't stay buried forever . . .`A wonderfully twisty maze' JAMES OSWALDMalcolm Kendwick is charming, handsome - and a suspected serial killer.When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on...

Stanley A. Feldman / Life Begins

   After a lifetime of getting up at 7.30am, starting work at 8.30am and returning home in the evening, too tired and stressed out to do anything but watch television, most people look forward to reducing their workload at around 60 years and...

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...

Denise Mina / The Last Breath

   A secret worth killing for - and she's next in line...Everything is going well for journalist Paddy Meehan. She finally has a flat of her own, and the job she always wanted, as one of Scotland's leading newspaper columnists.Then the police...

Nayantara Sahgal / Rich Like Us

    A story of the India of Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, when power becomes arbitrary once more, when the corrupt and the opportunists flourish. It is also a story of an older India, of a generation who remember the British Raj and Partition, of...

Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair

   The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories...

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...

J. Eldridge / Depth-Charge Danger

    The German Warship Tirpitz poses a massive threat to British shipping. All previous attempts to destroy it have failed. A new plan is hatched involving the deployment of midget submarines, sent in to lay depth charges beneath the mighty...

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...

Paul Donnelly / TV Babylon

    Provides insight into the lives of TV celebrities. It covers the "curse of Eastenders", goes behind the doors of Coronation Street and divulges the secrets of Blue Peter.     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Alex Scarrow / Gates of Rome ( TimeRiders - Book 5 )

   Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists.Its...

Paula Polk Lillard / Montessori A Modern Approach

    A presentation of the basic principles of the Montessori method, preceeded by an historical survey of its vicissitudes.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Deborah Cooke / Flying Blind

    I will shift shape and I will cast dreams and I will be everything that I am forecast to be. I am the Wyvern. And I will claim my birthright, right here and now. Zoe Sorensson is a perfectly normal teenage girl. That's the problem...

Jinny Ditzler / Your Best Year Yet! : How to Make the Next 12 Months Your Most Successful Ever!

    A self-help and personal development book. Based on a goal-setting programme used by thousands of people, the key is a set of ten questions which provide the impetus to self-knowledge and change.     All of our books are...

Flic Everett / Girl's Guide to Getting it on : What Every Girl Should Know About Sex

    Published in association with "Company" magazine, this guide book is a vibrant guide to sex. There are 15 chapters dealing with different aspects of sex and sexuality. Each chapter has boxes on different themes and at the end there is a...

Rupert Thomas / The Book of Revelation

    On a bright spring day in Amsterdam, a man goes out to buy a packet of cigarettes. He is a dancer - charismatic, talented and physically beautiful. What happens next takes him completely by surprise and marks him for ever. He awakens to...