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Solomon Northup / Twelve Years a Slave

   This is an official tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany Steve McQueen's major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Quvenzhane Wallis. Solomon...

Lesley Glaister / The Private Parts of Women

   Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of apparent calm but beneath the surface lie not one but three different...

Peter Sheridan / Every Inch of Her

 Things will never be quite the same again for the sisters at Dublin's Good Shepherd Convent thanks to the arrival of their newest refugee, Philo, a huge, tattooed woman with a penchant for smoking, swearing, and eating, who is fleeing her abusive...

Steve Martin / The Pleasure of my Company

 From Steve Martin, one of our best-loved comedians, a fantastic new novel with an unforgettably weird, original and ultimately engaging character - Daniel Pecan Cambridge.'Makes you laugh out loud' Sunday TelegraphDaniel Cambridge is a...

Sam Thompson / Communion Town

 The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice.On crowded streets, in the town squares and half-empty tower blocks, the lonely and lost try to make a connection...

Ian Mcewan / The Innocent

 Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his...

Ita Ryan / It Can be Dangerous

      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...

Jessie Keane / Playing Dead

   Annie Carter is back...She was a madam in a brothel and a gangster's moll, but now her protection is gone and her enemies are closing in.1971, London gang boss Annie Carter Barolli is living the New York high life with the feared mafia...

Douglas Kennedy / Five Days

 Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special...

Charles Mackay / Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

   Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the...

Andy Mulligan / Trash

 A SLUMDOG, FEEL-GOOD TREASURE FIND' Daily Mail Now adapted into a Bafta-nominated film directed by Steven Daldry and written by Richard Curtis. Raphael lives on a dumpsite, eking out a living sifting through rubbish. One unlucky-lucky...

Brian Kennedy / The Arrival of Fergal Flynn

   His father and brothers despise him; he's his mother's crutch one day, her punching bag the next; he has no idea what he wants to do with his life; and he fancies one of the boys in his class... Fergal just wants to belong - but knows he...

Liz Lyons / Barefoot Over Stones

 What would it take to destroy your closest friendship? Alison and Ciara meet at college in Dublin and soon become firm allies, sharing a flat and facing the world together. Ciara is all that Alison aspires to be - sassy, confident and fearless...

Karen Joy Fowler / The Sweetheart Season

 Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and...

Neville Thompson / Streetwise : Stories From An Irish Prison

 Every day the population of Ireland wakes up to reports of another horror case of crime. The streets have become unsafe to walk upon and yet nothing seems to be done about it. Politicians make noises voicing their disgust while the police make...

Elsa Lewin / I, Anna

 IT WASN'T YOUR TYPICAL MURDER! Fifty, middle-class, divorced and respectable Anna lived with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. And one night, after a singles party, in a strange man's apartment, all the loneliness and frustration...

Susanna Kearsley / Named of the Dragon

 When one of her authors invites her to Wales for the Christmas holidays, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw hopes to escape the nightmares that have plagued her since the death of her baby five years before. But Lyn's painful memories are brought to the...

Clare Dowling / My Fabulous Divorce

   Jackie Ball knows that happiness is hard to find, so when Dan Lewis jogs into her life with his skin-tight shorts and sexy smile things start to look up. One night he presents Jackie with a diamond ring and suggests he trade in his BMW for a...

Laura Blumenfeld / Revenge : A Story of Hope

   Should be required reading at the White House' Guardian In Jerusalem 1986, a member of a rebel faction of the PLO shot Laura Blumenfeld's father. He survived, but Blumenfeld was haunted by a desire for revenge.Travelling across Europe, the...

Aseem Malhotra / The Pioppi Diet : A 21-Day Lifestyle Plan

   As heard on ITV's Save Money: Good Health, Sky News, BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC World News, BBC Asian Network, London Live News and as seen in The Telegraph . . . 'A healthy sustainable diet. There's nothing faddy in there' Save Money: Good...

Sheena Wilkinson / Taking Flight

 Moving from a harsh West Belfast estate to the glamour of the showjumping ring, Taking Flight is a fast-paced story of courage overcoming jealousy. The only riding fifteen-year-old Declan has ever done is joyriding. When he's forced to stay with...

Gerald Seymour / The Collaborator

 Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after...

Eliza Kennedy / I Take You

 Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily's fiance Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no...

John O'Brien / Rachel's Tears and Mary's Songs

      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...

Polly Samson / The Kindness

 Julia is married and eight years his senior; Julian is a gifted English student, a life of academia ahead. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they each give up all they have to be together. Their new life in London offers immense happiness,...

Anonymous / A Woman In Berlin

 Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences,...

Charles Handy / The Hungry Spirit

 With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion...

Maeve Byrne Crangle / Conquer Your Fear of Flying

 As many as one in ten people are simply terrified of flying; even the thought of boarding a plane can cause pure terror. Now updated with the latest information, this well-established book examines and confirms the many types of anxiety involved...

Ali Smith / How to be Both

 WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014NOMINATED FOR THE...

David Lodge / Thinks

 Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite...

Kate Griffin / Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

 Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of...

Penelope Fitzgerald / The Blue Flower

 From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam.The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his...

Steve Feasey / Changeling

 Teenage werewolf Trey is facing the most important and dangerous mission of his life. He must journey into the dark Netherworld and rescue Alexa, daughter of his vampire guardian Lucien, who is being held hostage by a powerful demon lord. But...

Fiona Barton / The Widow

 THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful' Stephen KingWe've all seen him:...

Andy Murray / Coming of Age

 With Andy, the sky's the limit...' John McEnroeAt Wimbledon 2005, Andy Murray announced himself on the tennis world stage by thrashing star pros George Bastl and Radek Stepanek: a legend was born and Britain had a new sporting hero.From there,...

Eamon Delaney / The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy

      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...

Owen Jones / The Establishment : And how they get away with it

   Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of...

Robert Hughes / Barcelona

 An informed and readable work of history, art criticism, and urban anthropology devoted to the most un-Spanish city in Spain     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Graham Swift / The Light of Day

   Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can...

Siobhan Dowd / A Swift Pure Cry

 After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual...

Peter Carey / Theft: A Love Story

 Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia...

Daniel Handler / Adverbs

 A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, `Adverbs' is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, and famed author of the Lemony Snicket series.`Adverbs' marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult...

Catherine Lim / Following the Wrong God Home

 In modern-day Singapore, a successful society upheld by stern government and a respectful population, a young woman is about to break all the rules. Yin Ling, enigmatic, beautiful, and engaged to the wealthy, politically ambitious Vincent Chee,...

Trevor Norton / Reflections On A Summer Sea

 This is the funny and touching story of a menagerie of eccentric and talented ecologists who, mainly as a hobby, spent forty summers at Lough Ine, a stunning marine lough in a corner of Ireland, where myths seep from the ground like will o' the...

Gin Phillips / The Well and the Mine

   An assured, inspiring debut which demonstrates the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship. In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as...

Gabriel Walsh / Maggie's Breakfast

      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...

Judy Finnigan / I Do Not Sleep

   Do not stand at my grave and weep;I am not there. I do not sleep.There is nothing more powerful than a mother's love.Five years ago, Molly Gabriel lost her twenty-year-old son, Joey, to a terrible sailing accident. His empty boat was washed...

Dilly Court / The Orphan's Dream

 The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast...

Jean Plaidy / Murder Most Royal

 The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Tudor series telling the tragic stories of two Queens betrayed and beheaded - Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. At the decadent French court of King Francois, the young Anne Boleyn grows into an enigmatic and...

Gustaf Sobin / The Fly-truffler

   Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled every winter since childhood on his family estate. Since the death of his young wife Julieta, however, the truffles come to represent far more than a delicacy for his palette. They trigger now a series of...

Don George / The Kindness of Strangers

 When we miss our train or bus, lose our wallets, fall ill or get lost, a kind stranger can save not only the day, but the entire journey. This collection explores the unexpected acts of kindness that can occur on the road, those unforgettable...

Julie Mayhew / The Big Lie

   Shortlisted for the Peters Book of the Year.A shocking story of rebellion and revelation set in a contemporary Nazi England.Jessika Keller is a good girl: she obeys her father, does her best to impress Herr Fisher at the Bund Deutscher Madel...