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Humphrey Hawksley / Man on Ice

An incident in the snows of Alaska could trigger the outbreak of World War III in this tense and twisting thriller.When Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts brings his fiancee, trauma surgeon Carrie Walker, to his remote home island in the Bering...

Carmen Reid / Drama Girl

Gina can’t wait for her mom and friends to make the trip over to visit her from sunny California, but things don’t go exactly to plan and she’s stuck in the middle of them and her friends. Niffy is not happy about her best friend and...

Sarah Hall / Sudden Traveller

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEA Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year'No one writes...

Philip Prowse / Double Cross

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A politician survives an attempted...

Fintan O'Toole / We Don't Know Ourselves

A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel' Irish Times'Evocative, moving, funny and...

Pam Rhodes / Hear My Song - Meditations on life through Favourite Hymns

The words of a favourite hymn can be a lifeline in difficult times, providing an outlet for feelings that may threaten to overwhelm us. Hymns also help us celebrate life - to see joy in the ordinary stuff of the everyday, as well as in those moments when...

Marge Piercy / Woman on the Edge of Time

After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential...

Mark Sarvas / Harry, Revised

Harry Rent, recently widowed and struggling to deal with the loss, finds himself in an unfortunate conundrum. He finds himself in love. From Harry's first hapless pursuit of Molly, the waitress at his local diner, we follow the transformation of one man...

James Le Fanu / Too Many Pills

The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone...

Chris Wright / No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next

What do you do next if you have walked on the moon? How do you follow the first perfect 10 in Olympic history? How do you move on after surviving a plane crash? Some people will forever be defined by a single moment.Chris Wright has travelled the globe...

Colin Walsh / Flotilla

A novel whose aim is to amuse, maybe more than that, make the reader laugh out loud, more embarrassing on a train than a mobile phone. Can be read safely in summer, but sure brightens long winter days. You don't have to be a sailing buff to get immersed...

Saci Lloyd / Quantum Drop

Anthony Griffin is an ordinary kid caught up in a dangerous world. The boundaries between real and virtual are more and more blurred, and when Anthony’s girlfriend is taken out in a gang hit, he has to venture into the underground world of the Drop...

Madeline Stevens / Devotion

Sexy-but-literary' Sunday Times'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman'[A] literary psychological smoulderer' MetroDesire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and...

Guy Browning / How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed

From the author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questionsNormal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact...

George Lamming / In the Castle of My Skin

A classic first novel about growing up in colonial Barbados. In the Castle of my Skin is a brilliant, sensitive record of the evolving consciousness of a poor village boy, at a time of rapid social change.     All of our books are second hand,...

Sebastian Rook / Vampire Dusk : Paris

Jack wants to believe that the vampires are gone, banished for a thousand years by a ritual that sent their leader to the depths of Hell. But he isn't sure. The voice of the vampire god still echoes in his mind, promising to return. Jack's friends Ben...

Marc Abrahams / This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research

The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us – and you.Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and...

Hunter Davies / A Life In The Day

Hunter Davies’ childhood lived amongst the post-war dirt and grime of Carlisle was immediately hailed as a classic memoir from one of Britain’s foremost columnists of the past half century. The Co-op’s Got Bananas! left our protagonist...

Vikas Shah / Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century

Since 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist Vikas Shah MBE has been on a mission to interview the people shaping our century. Including conversations with world leaders, Nobel prizewinners, business leaders, artists and Olympians, he quizzes the minds...

John Micklethwait / God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World

As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. As "God is Back" shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model...

Megan McKenna / We Live Inside a Story

Unpeel the layers of your spiritual life… In the realm of the Spirit, and when dealing with our own souls and the souls of others, we are often at a loss for words. We have a sense, maybe even an image, of what we want to share, ask or...

Oonagh Armstrong / Will You Marry Me?: Everything You Need to Know About Marriage Before You Take the Plunge

Millions of people rush into marriage without considering the full implications - and the divorce statistics show that more than half of all marriages now fail. This book explains what the most common reasons for marital breakdown are and shows how to...

Jennifer Anne Grosser / Trees in the Pavement

They were cutting the branches off the trees again.When Zari first arrived in East London, she had wondered about the trees. She had never seen any fields and farms in London, like there were at home in Kosovo. But there were more trees. Or at least you...

Mary Kay Zuravleff / The Frequency of Souls

A tale of electricity, relationships, love, and life after death. George Mahoney is a refrigerator designer with more than a passing interest in dinosaurs. Niagara Spense, his new colleague, is passionately seeking electrical evidence - via an old...

Marilyn Kaye / Gifted - Better Late Than Never

Teenage goth Jenna Kelly can read anyone's mind without even trying. When her alcoholic mother has to go into hospital, a stranger turns up who says he's her long-lost dad, and promises her a better future. While Jenna is happy to discover what it's like...

S.L. Powell / Fifty Fifty

Gil is on a collision course with his scientist father, and when he meets Jude, a passionate animal rights activist, things soon reach crisis point.As Jude's plans become clear, Gil is faced with a devastating dilemma that goes right to the heart of his...

Livvy West / The Blazing Glen

When Janet and her grandmother. Mary, are evicted and then Mary dies, Alastair protects Janet on the journey to Glasgove, Murdo helps her get a job, but his constant urgings that they marry begin to irk Janet, as do Alastair's repeated offers to look...

Toni Maguire / Please Protect Us

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of shame, silence, abuse and survival.'I have a very clear picture of the day Clive entered our lives. I can see him now as he walked into our living room, a tall man with a loud commanding...

Robyn Flipse , Jacqueline Shannon / The Wedding Dress Diet

Every bride wants to look perfect on her wedding day. It's the one day you're guaranteed to be the centre of attention. This title features a safe and sane diet and exercise plan that offers advice and suggestions to help brides look and feel fantastic...

Helga Jensen / My heart is in Venice

Venice was where it all began…Libby and Will spent a glorious honeymoon in this magical city. They didn’t have much money, but they had a whole lot of love and a bright future ahead of them.And Venice was where it all went wrong…Two...

Max Davidson / Fields of Courage: The Bravest Chapters in Sport

From Jackie Robinson to Billie Jean King, a cavalcade of sports heroism celebrating virtues that transcend winning and losing  Explaining why athletics, at their best, can be so inspirational, this is a history of sports...

Sean Young / Stick With It - The Science of Lasting Behaviour

Learn how to make real, lasting changes in your lifeWe all have bad habits - whether it's a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lack of exercise. But change is hard. Forty percent of dieters quit within a week. Eighty percent of New...

J. Todd Scott / This Side of Night

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun .In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on...

Jess Kidd / The Night Ship

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy...

Margit Sandemo / Mortal Sin ( Legend of the Ice People )

Against the background of the continuing Thirty Years War, Silje's granddaughter Cecilie jeopardises her role as governess at the court of King Christian IV when she becomes pregnant - by a priest! But she finds a good friend in Alexander, one of the...

Penny Thorpe / A Quality Street Christmas

      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...

Fiona Longmuir / Looking for Emily

When twelve-year-old Lily moves to the sleepy seaside town of Edge, she’s sure that nothing exciting is ever going to happen to her again. But when she stumbles upon a secret museum hidden in the middle of town, she realises that there might be...

William Johnston / The Wounded Stag

Christian mysticism begins and ends with the mystery of the Cross and the mystery of God's love. The Wounded Stag examines the Old and New Testaments, the Christian mystical tradition, the Eucharist and mystical prayer, and explains how these can lead to...

Cat Clarke / Letting Go

When Agnes made a promise to her girlfriend Ellie, she thought they would be together forever. One year later, Agnes is keeping that promise and it's put her in a situation she never could have predicted; climbing a desolate mountain, in miserable...

Jesse Andrews / Munmun

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person’s physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are...

Robert Jenkins / The Fell

In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man...

Chris Berry / Tough Season

Greg Duggan is having a tough season with basement club Hopton Town until a new owner offers him his dream job. Suddenly, Greg’s life and loves are under pressure like never before from perpetrators bent on their goals. Is the reason sex, money or...

Tova Leigh / F*cked at 40

  Over 1.3m engaged followers on social media love to hear Tova Leigh's frank, funny, outrageous and often moving views on life. This updated paperback is filled with all that and more, with the addition of a new chapter on life in lockdown.“I...

Marie Aubert / Grown Ups

Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devastating, Grown Ups is for anyone who has ever felt the fear of being overtaken by a sibling, who feels almost--but not quite--grown up, and who's struggled to navigate a new future for themselves.Ida is...

Nic Sheff / Tweak

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his...

Brian Michael Bendis / Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim

Brian Michael Bendis is one of the most successful and bestselling comic book writers currently working in the medium, and Powers is his best-known original creation. It debuted in 2000 and is currently printed by Marvel's Icon imprint, where...

C.K. Stead / All Visitors Ashore

As their friends leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was...

Peter McGarrick / Britain Post Brexit

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE TIES ARE CUT?Whatever view you take on Brexit, innovative ideas are needed to thrive. The UK needs to get itself into shape. This book suggests how.We consider radical ideas to reform the voting system, transform the economy via...

Kate Aronoff / A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics.The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, radical change. A Green New Deal can tackle the climate...

Frank Beddor / Seeing Redd ( The Looking Glass Wars)

Alyss of Wonderland's rule has only just begun, but the Queendom and her White Imagination are already under threat. Someone has resurrected the brutal Glass Eyes, and they are attacking Wonderland on all sides.Has renegade Redd Heart freed herself and...

Shawn Achor / The Happiness Advantage

Most people want to be successful in life. And of course, everyone wants to be happy. When it comes to the pursuit of success and happiness, most people assume the same formula: if you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become...

Aislinn O'Loughlin / Big Bad Me

I’ve got two claws, Katie. Two giant, evil, freaking Freddy Krueger monster things. I am not calm.’Evie Wilder is living a very normal life. Except for the fact that her mum has gone missing, she’s just found out she’s a werewolf,...