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Diego Marani / New Finnish Grammar

 Triese, 1943: an unconscious soldier is revived in hospital, but he has lost his memory and cannot even remember his own language. With no documents about his person it will be hard to identify him. The doctor who treats him is originally from...

Norman Mailer / Oswald's Tale

 A work of meticulous research and breathtaking insight, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery asks the essential question about the Kennedy Assassination: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Providing the first full account of his childhood, the years under...

Lynn Erickson / Aspen

 A charismatic senator and his scandal-ridden family ruthlessly pursue their ambitions in the face of painful memories, alcoholism, and Case McCandless, a solid and incorruptible town sheriff. Original.      All of our books are...

Juiet Marillier / The Dark Mirror

 In the mid 6th century the Pictish kingdom in northern Britain is under threat from the Gaels and the Christian faith, which leaves the leaders of the northern realm struggling to maintain their ancient traditions.All hope rests on the shoulders of...

Rosemary Sutcliff / The Silver Branch

 Carausias, Emperor of Roman Britain, has been murdered. Inspired by his vision, soldier counsins Justin and Flavius join a tattered band of outlaws and revive the Lost Legion of the Ninth to resist the usurper Allectus.      All...

Paul Johnston / The Bone Yard

 It is New Year's Eve 2021 - the one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant. It is the perfect time for murder. Welcome to 21st century Edinburgh - an oppressive, almost crime-free independent city state, run by the Council of City...

James Cobb / Choosers of the Slain

 The Argentines have launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula. The world's first stealth missile destroyer, the sleek and dangerous USS Cunningham, is no ordinary warship. Her crew are about to find out just how good she and her...

Jonathan Safran Foer / The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning

 The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning is Jonathan Safran Foer on top form inventive, funny and full of surprises.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Anne McCaffrey / Freedom's Challenge

 The third novel in the Catteni sequence finds the inhabitants of Botany safe from harm beneath the impervious bubble surrounding their planet. But as they find themselves still under attack from monstrous Eosi ships, they formulate a plan to rid...

Anne McCaffrey / Freedom's Choice

 They had called the planet Botany, after the old penal colony on earth. For that is what they were - prisoners and dissidents from other worlds whom the hated Catteni had banished to an empty planet - or what they thought was an empty planet.Kris...

Greg Baxter / The Apartment

 The Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has come here from far away, hoping to forget. Instead, he remembers:...

Herman Koch / Summer House with Swimming Pool

 Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can't refuse. But by the time the suntans fade, Ralph Meier is dead. The...

Katherine Farmar / Wormwood Gate

 Imagine a world as fantastic as Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, and characters curiouser than Alice. Imagine a place where three castles burn and no one is seen on the streets after curfew. Imagine three queens, warring pigeons and seagulls, a merhorse...

Nancy Horan / Loving Frank

 In the internationally bestselling vein of The Paris Wife and Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald this biographical novel is set in the early 1900s when polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible scandal when renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright,...

Brian Viner / Ali Pele Lillee and Me

   Brian Viner's formative years as a sports nut coincided with what he argues was the best sporting decade of all time. The 1970s gave us the greatest football team in the history of the game. Muhammad Ali in his pomp. Red Rum. Gareth Edwards...

Sandra Newman / How NOT to Write a Novel : 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published

   There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of...

Lesley Garner / Life Lessons : Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier

 A highly praised columnist for the Daily Telegraph, Lesley Garner's latest book is an anthology of some of the essential pieces from all three of her previous works, examined again in a new light and with more depth and relevance than ever before,...

Eve Edwards / The Other Countess

 England, 1582 ELLIE - Lady Eleanor Rodriguez of San Jaime - is in possession of a gold-seeking father, a worthless title and a feisty spirit that captivates the elite of the Queen's court, and none other than the handsome new Earl of Dorset . ...

Holly Hepburn / The Picture House by the Sea

 The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of A Year at the Star and Sixpence. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley. All four Picture House novellas in one book!The picture house by the sea is the Palace at Polwhipple - a lovely art deco...

Patsy Westcott / Food Solutions: Eczema

 In a recent study, scientists found that 70 per cent of people suffered from food related illnesses. Of those that altered their eating habits, 76 per cent found that their well being improved markedly. This guide to improving the condition of the...

Joshua Mowll / Operation Red Jericho

 This work is set in Shanghai, in 1920. While on board the Expedient, Doug and Becca MacKenzie stumble across an amazing secret. What unfolds is a story of two young people caught up in an astonishing adventure and a story of an ancient order...

Robert H Frank / The Economic Naturalist : Why Economics Explains Almost Everything

 Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The answer is simple: economics...

Tony Clayton-Lea / Rockaganda : Essential Irish Rock Quotes

 Rockaganda' is a themed trawl through the past 30-odd years of active Irish rock'n'roll mouthing from the great, the good, the bad, the awful, the hopefuls, the contenders and the totally forgotten.      All of our books are...

Norah Lofts / Crown of Aloes

 Crown of Aloes" is presented as a personal chronicle. Within the framework of known fact and detail drawn from hitherto unexploited contemporary Spanish sources, a novelist's imagination and understanding have provided motives, thoughts, and...

Wendy Cope / Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

   Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.    All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Reina James / This Time Of Dying

 It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing...

Wolfgang Eulitz / The General And I : The Untold Story Behind Martin Cahill's Hotdog War

 The General and I is the story of one man's struggle against a criminal psychopath. Wolfgang Eulitz was a hard-working hotdog vendor on Dublin's notorious Leeson Street, but after four successful years the General appeared on the scene wanting to...

Steve Martin / An Object of Beauty

 An irresistible look at the glamour and subterfuge of New York's art world, from bestselling author and Hollywood star Steve Martin. Lacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm. She...

Jude Morgan / Symphony

 An audacious, brilliant and haunting novel about the composer Hector Belioz, by the author of PASSION.In 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and talented young Irish actress joins an English company taking Shakespeare to Paris. With the ferment of...

Pat Barker / Border Crossing

   An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls'Rich, surprising, breathtaking' The Times'A tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps...

Stella Rimington / Rip Tide

 To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters.When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames...

Stefan Ahnhem / The Ninth Grave

 The stunning prequel to Victim Without a Face. TWO COUNTRIES IN THE GRIP OF WINTER. On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister for Justice steps into a blizzard - and disappears. Who has taken him? That same night, across the Baltic...

Norah Lofts / The Concubine

 All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired, black-eyed, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more...

Sandrone Dazieri / Kill the Father

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe twisty and darkly compelling thriller, European bestseller and RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK that will keep you up all night.'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please...

Peter Robinson / Sleeping in the Ground ( DCI Banks Novels - Book 24)

   A terrible crime. No obvious motive.Banks is on the case.'Top-notch police procedure' - Jeffery DeaverA shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground...

Lucy Dillon / Where The Light Gets In

 You know those cracks in your heart, Lorna, where things didn't work out, but you picked yourself up and carried on? That's where the fear gets out. And where the light gets in.'It was Betty, defiant to the end, who sent Lorna back to Longhampton...

Todd Hasak-Lowy / Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You

 John Greenmeets 500 Days of SummermeetsNick Hornby.Darren hasn't had an easy year. His parents divorced, his brother left for college, and his best friend moved state. Also, he still doesn't have a girlfriend. Then his dad shows up at 6am with...

Noreena Hertz / The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism & the Death of Democracy

 The way we are governed is changing; so is our economy. Government has less and less power to influence how we live our lives, while the private sector has more power than ever to control what we do and what we think. Yet the business pages of the...

Anne Fine / All Bones And Lies

   Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged...

Suzy Cox / The Dead Girls Detective Agency

 Solving the mystery behind your death can be murder. Charlotte wakes up at Hotel Atessa, home to murdered New York teenagers and HQ of The Dead Girls Detective Agency. Before she has time to adjust to her new, erm, dead self, she's thrust into...

Alex Lake / Copycat

 The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of After Anna and Killing Kate.Imitation is the most terrifying form of flattery...Which Sarah Havenant is you?When an old friend gets in touch, Sarah Havenant discovers that there...

Dan Buckley / Man Overboard

 The trials and tribulations of the 21st-century male are laid bare.      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...

Edward de Bono / Tactics

 What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? A touch of madness? Edward de Bono talked to 50 outstandingly successful men and women, all of whom spoke frankly about their own strategy. Among them were David Bailey,...

Miriam Stoppard / Baby & Co Pregnancy & Birth Handbook

      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...

Robert P. Crease / A Brief Guide to the Great Equations : The Hunt for Cosmic Beauty in Numbers

 Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation. Each is an equation that...

Gill Paul / The Secret Wife

 The USA Today bestseller `A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story... A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIESA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries...Love. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914Russia...

Christopher Berry-Dee / Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

 Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals - including notorious serial killers - he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of...

Elizabeth Walker / The Court

      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...

Charlotte Lamb / Walking in Darkness

 Catherine Gowrie's father, Don, is close to his greatest ambition - nomination as Presidential candidate - and nothing must be allowed to stand in his way. But Sophie Narodni, a young journalist from Prague, carries a secret that could destroy...

Kyle Mills / Storming Heaven

 Punished for his maverick ways, FBI agent Mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C., to a sleepy Southwest office where he's got one last chance to play by the rules. But that's not going to happen, not when he's on a case that may be too...

J. Wallis Martin / The Long Close Call

   When Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional life begin to fall apart. The family of the dead man discovers McLaughlan's...

Keith Baker / Reckoning

 Tom Gallagher is traumatized by the past, an FBI agent in control of a disastrous operation, haunted by the guilt of innocent deaths. Back in Ireland, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to re-establish his relationship with his daughter, he is...