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Patrick McGrath / Trauma

As a psychiatrist Charlie Weir has seen every kind of trauma New York has to offer. Yet he has never managed to overcome the tragic mistake, seven years earlier, that lost him his wife and his daughter, leaving him prone to corrosive loneliness and...

Mark Greaney / One Minute Out

'I love the Gray Man' -- LEE CHILDTIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THE CITY OF ANGELSWhile on a mission to Croatia, Court Gentry uncovers a human trafficking operation. The trail leads from the Balkans all the way back to Hollywood.Court is determined to shut it...

Clémence Michallon / The Quiet Tenant

Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man respected by his local town. He's the kind of man who always has a good word for everyone. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer who has murdered eight women. And there's a ninth, a woman he calls Rachel,...

Mazey Eddings / Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety), you name it, she’s done it… and made a mess of it too. One mistake she’s never made is letting anyone get closer to her than a...

Caroline Gray / The Third Life

Pounds. Everybody assumes that Julie knows where the money is and her life turns into a nightmare as the pressure to find the missing fortune increases.Twenty-one-year-old Julie Allen is the novel's heroine and naif, educated in a Swiss boarding school,...

Michael Pollan / Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

A definitive compendium of food wisdomEating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with the...

Gordon Jarvie / Irish Folk and Fairy Tales

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scott-nicky / Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

What do you do with your old mobile phone Where can you take your old medicines Which plastic is recyclable What happens to the stuff you recycle This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday...

Josef Briffa / Ignatius in the Holy Land - A Guided Pilgrimage

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A.S. Byatt / New Writing 4

A fourth collection of contemporary British literature, including poetry, essays, short stories, and previews of novels in progress. Among the many contributors, including both new and established writers, are A.S. Byatt, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi,...

George Plimpton / Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 7th Series

Interviews With:Malcolm Cowley. Arthur Koestler. William Maxwell. MaySarton. Eugène Ionesco. Elizabeth Hardwick. Philip Larkin. John Ashbery. Milan Kundera. John Barth. Edna OB́rien. Philip Roth. Raymond Carver.   This book is second hand,...

Donald Davie / Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy

Purity of Diction in English Verse (1952) explains how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers like Cowper, Goldsmith and Dr Johnson gave them a force and moral value different from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley.   This book is second...

Robert Burchfield / Unlocking The English Language

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Jenny Uglow / GEORGE ELIOT

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Lesley Parr / Where the River Takes Us

It's February 1974 and working class families have been hit hard by the three-day week. The reduced power usage means less hours for people to work, and less money to get by on. Thirteen-year-old Jason feels the struggle keenly. Ever since his parents...

Mark Vanhoenacker / Imagine a City: A Pilot’s Love Letter to the World’s Greatest Cities

'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTONGrowing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the...

Paul Stewart / Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (The Edge Chronicles, #6)

  Twig Verginix has gained a formidable reputation as the young sky pirate captain who dared to sail over the Edge. But far out in open sky a storm is brewing. In its path lies Sanctaphrax – the great floating city tethered to the land by a...

Hjalmar Söderberg / Doctor Glas

Into the lonely life of the relentlessly introspective Doctor Glas steps the young and beautiful Helga Gregorius, plagued by the attentions of her ageing husband. Thus begins the struggle between thought and action that drives the plot of Hjalmar...

Caroline Lawrence / Trimalchio's Feast and other mini-mysteries

Full of the sights and sounds of ancient Rome, each of the stories in this thrilling collection brings to life events from the lives of Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia, and Lupus that were alluded to in previous volumes of the Roman Mysteries series. Set during...

Paul Ham / The " Sunday Times" 50 Essential Questions on Money

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Adèle Geras / The Fabulous Fantora Files

Meet the Fantoras...Filomena, the granny with the power in her knitting needles.Auntie Varvara, the veggie vampire on the lookout for love.Bianca, the girl who can make any party come to life — literally!And me, Ozymandias, the Keeper of the files,...

Michael White / Stephen Hawking a Life In Science

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Martin H. Manser / Dictionary of Eponyms

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Joe R. Lansdale / The Bottoms

The narrator of The Bottoms is Harry Collins, an old man obsessively reflecting on certain key experiences of his childhood. In 1933, the year that forms the centerpiece of the narrative, Harry is 11 years old and living with his mother,...

Jane Hill / Sculpture

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Christine Comaford-Lynch / Rules For Renegades: how to storm the boardroom, build power, harness your individuality, and get stuff done!

Christine Comaford-Lynch reveals the unconventional secrets of her multimillion-dollar success - and how her "get stuff done" philosophy works better than any business degree. She's never had a high school or college diploma, but that didn't stop...

Kenneth Mole / Easy PC: How to Use Your First Computer

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Gerald Priestland / The Unquiet Suitcase

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Patrick J. Power / Five Radio Plays: Easily adaptable for stage

Five radio plays comprises Patrick's best radio broadcasts, from 30/45 minute to one hour plays, all broadcast on RTE Radio One and BBC Radio 4 between 1980 and 2005. These plays are easily adaptable for stage, as they contain small casts and are set in...

Arabella Seymour / Sins of the Mother

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David Gardiner / The Other End of the Rainbow

James Joyce meets Ray Bradbury in David Gardiner's second collection of tales wrapped in the imaginings of a Cassandra/Wandering Jew-type sage whose words open doorways into landscapes of the imagination, both bright and profoundly dark. These are short...

Joseph Amiel / Birthright

A novel of consummate dramatic sweep and emotional force, BIRTHRIGHT is the story of a brilliant woman locked with her treacherous father in a bitter contest for control of the world's most legendary banking house and of her love for the two men who hold...

George Plimpton / Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series

Includes Interviews With:E.B. WhiteLeon EdelRobert FitzgeraldJohn HerseyJames LaughlinCynthia OzickElie WieselDerek WalcottE.L. DoctorowAnita BrooknerRobert StoneJoseph BrodskyJohn Irving   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Joshua Levine / SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS

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James A. Michener / Chesapeake

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Robert Greene / The Concise 33 Strategies Of War

From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, "The Concise 33...

Lou Treleaven / Turns Out I'm An Alien

“I’m Jasper. I’m eleven years old and four foot six inches tall, with green eyes and green hair, and this year I found out something amazing about myself. Turns out…” Jasper thinks his life is as normal as can be (green...

John Andrew Simpson / The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. From "forty-rod whiskey" and "five-finger discount" to "bum rap," "buzz off," and "fly by night," slang words add zest to everyday...

Dr Mark Rowe / A Prescription for Happiness: The Ten Commitments to a Happier, Healthier Life

In this groundbreaking book Dr Mark Rowe draws on philosophy, psychology and years of professional experience to explain what happiness is – and what it isn’t. He explores how happiness affects your success in life and details how to apply...

Hanna Greally / Flown the Nest

This is the story of the road to recovery for Hanna Greally, who spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. In her first book Birds Nest Soup she recounted with vivid detail the terrible...

Lorna Kelly / The Camel Knows the Way

The Camel Knows the Way is a candid account of an extraordinary and ultimately thrilling quest for God. Lorna Kelly's odyssey from middle class British school girl to glamorous, New York Sotheby's auctioneer to volunteer in the slums of Calcutta is a...

Sheridan Morley / Odd Man Out: James Mason – A Biography

‘Incredibly good-looking, in a dark way … that curious quality of a man with an eternal secret. … That was what was so arresting. … That and the voice.’- Geraldine FitzgeraldThe reason for watching a James Mason film, as...

scruton-roger / Dictionary of Political Thought

Containing 1700 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of political thought, defining concepts and ideologies, surveying the arguments on issues, giving capsule histories of political institutions, and summarizing the thought of major political...

Margie Hare / Secrets of Hot Stone and Aromatherapy Massage: An Essential Guide for Health and Pleasure

Secrets of Hot Stone and Aromatherapy Massage, written by a well-knows practicing aromatherapist, is a full-color, fully illustrated step-by-step practical guide to the art of Hot Stone and Aromatherapy Massage. Everything you need to know to get started...

Noel Streatfeild / The Growing Summer

The four Gareth children have always led a very quiet life in London with their parents - until Dad suddenly gets ill abroad, and Mum has to go out to look after him.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Evan Hunter , Ed McBain / Let's Talk

In the late 1980s, Ed McBain got a sore throat, not unusual except his then lasted on-and-off for the next ten years...Doctor after doctor attempted to treat his condition, but it got neither better nor worse and eventually became a source of some...

William Cran / The Story of English

This text examines the origins and development of the English language. 2000 years ago, English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe. Today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the...

Gordon Kerr / Professional Killers: Cold-blooded murderers programmed to kill

Even before The Day of the Jackal created the archetypal image of a professional hit man there had been no shortage of them in real life. Governments, terrorists, corporations, criminal organisations like the Mafia as well as private individuals have...

Rico Tice / The Ultimate Christmas Wishlist: What If You Could Get What You’re Really Hoping For?

Outreach book sharing the hope of Christianity at Christmas. We all need hope in our lives, but many struggle to know where to look for it. This short, warm and profound book by well-known evangelist Rico Tice makes a compelling case for Christianity and...

Janet Cronin / Purple Ronnie's Little Book For A Smashing Dad

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Sheena Dempsey / Pablo and Splash: The Castle Quest

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Leonard Maltin / Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide

Film critic and historian for Entertainment Tonight Leonard Maltin delivers his new edition of the guide that "belongs next to every TV and VCR in every home" (USA Today). Features updated source lists, expanded indexes, 300 new films, and more. 20,000...