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Camille Kouchner / The Familia Grande

The shocking story of how incest and sexual abuse is ever-present at the highest levels of French society, even among the most glamorous, powerful, bohemian, left wing intellectual Parisian élite. A family's secret weighs on everyone...THE FAMILIA...

Helen Whitaker / Flying Home for Christmas

When her Christmas Eve flight home to London is grounded by a snowstorm, Thea is desperate to make it back to her family. The only flight available is first thing the next morning, so she books a night's stay at the closest hotel.But there's a there's...

Carol Vorderman / It All Counts

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Sandra Howard / Tell the Girl

A scintillating roman a clef, set in swinging '60s London and present day, recalling a life of glamour and style and haute couture       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Emily Stone / Home Again for Christmas

Two fierce rivals. One Christmas truce?Lexie is always on the move, but there is one constant in her life - her 'wish jar'; the childhood tradition from home that she couldn't leave behind.When Lexie's estranged dad dies, she is shocked to learn that she...

Leslie Forbes / Fish, Blood and Bone

Fish, Blood and Bone is Leslie Forbes’ brilliant second novel. When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London’s East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it...

Harry Dolan / Bad Things Happen

The man who calls himself DAVID LOOGAN is hoping to escape a violent past by leading a quiet, anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery...

Stephen Westaby / The Knife’s Edge

An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head...

Christian Wolmar / A Short History of Trains

A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy. From the earliest steam engine to the high-speed bullet trains of today, A Short History of the Railway reveals the hidden...

Edward O. Thorp / A Man For All Markets

A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a result he launched a gambling renaissance. His remarkable...

Caroline Moorehead / Human Cargo

Human smuggling is now said to have an annual turnover of over $7 billion — more than revenue from smuggling drugs. Caroline Moorehead's important new book looks at 'human cargo' from Afghanistan, Liberia, Palestine and many other places. She has...

David Carey / King of Capital

Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . . The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street...

Susan Wittig Albert / Death at Epsom Downs

Lord Charles Sheridan has launched an investigation into a jockey's recent (and mysterious) death - while his wife, Kate, puzzles over the long-ago theft of an actress's jewels. But soon the Sheridans can't help wondering if the two strange events...

Maddie Please / Sisters Making Mischief

Joy Chandler has had enough!All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara announces she’s getting divorced...and where is the fizz? And son, John and perfect wife Vanessa announce they...

Nicholas Gill / Chile

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Graeme Obree / The Flying Scotsman

Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling’s most unlikely star, capturing the public’s imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won...

Don Pendleton / Intercept

From Bletchley Park to cyber-attacks in the twenty-first century, this is the untold story of computers and past, present and future.The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied...

Olen Steinhauer / The Confession

The small, unnamed Eastern bloc country of Olen Steinhauer's debut novel "The Bridge of Sighs" is making its first tentative steps towards democracy. By command of the party chairman, the labour camps are being emptied of innocent civilians. The...

Allison Pataki / The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle...

Amy Tan / Where the Past Begins

In this frank and intimate memoir, the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club explores the traumatic childhood that made her a writer, her complex relationship with her father, and the shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia...

Rory Clements / A Cold Wind From Moscow

Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever—and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create extra chaos.But Stalin has a more...

Stig Abell / Death Under a Little Sky

A detective ready for a new lifeJake Jackson, high-flying ex-city detective, inherits a rural retreat from his reclusive uncle. It's the perfect chance to start anew.A death that disrupts everythingBut then the local annual treasure hunt spirals into...

S.J. Butler / Last Orders

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Jack McDevitt / The Engines of God

Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation.Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration,...

James Patterson / Confessions of the Dead

James Patterson, J.D. Barker     The dead tell no tales…unless they swam in Cemetery Lake.   Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and...

Tim Vigors / Life's Too Short To Cry

It is not often that a remarkable gem of a manuscript is uncovered and published. Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light was one example. The memoir of Timothy Ashmead Vigors is another.Born in Hatfield but raised in Eire and educated at Eton and Cranwell,...

Peter Watts / Firefall

February 13, 2082, First Contact.Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere—a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty...

John Kerry / A Call to Service

Presents a summary of John Kerry's proposals for policy changes in economics, education, health, the environment, and foreign policy, which he would implement if he is elected president of the United States in November, 2004...

Dolly Alderton / Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship

Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously...

Steve Frech / Dark Hollows

Jacob Reese enjoys the quiet life, running a coffee shop and renting out his cottage in The Hollows, Vermont.But the calm is shattered when a woman who looks eerily similar to his ex-girlfriend Laura turns up to stay in the cottage, and...

Charmian Clift / Peel Me a Lotus

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian...

Stuart Barker / Ragged Edge

The unvarnished, raw truth behind the world's most dangerous sporting event - in the words of those who ride it.One week in June. One small island. 40,000 annual visitors. Raw speed. Numerous annual deaths. The Isle of Man TT motorcycle road race.Five...

Benjamin Zephaniah / The Dread Affair

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David Brennan / Spit

Welcome to the village of Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion.Suffering an unexplained, perpetual banishment the Spook of Spit is...

Jacob Weisberg / More George W. Bushisms

"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom -- or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."--...

Négar Djavadi / Disoriental

Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimia is inundated by her own...

Kathryn Scanlan / Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy...

Lau Siew Mei / The Last Immigrant

Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to...

Fergal Keane / The Madness

An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and...

Sinolingua / Quotations From Confucius

Chinese Sages Series includes four books of quotations from Confucius and Mencius and stories about them. The quotations are selected from their pithy and wise maxims. Each story has an illustration pertaining to the lives and careers of the sages...

Eva Rutland / No Crystal Stair

Ann Elizabeth Carter grew up in the segregated Atlanta of the 1920s and 1930s, part of the black privileged class, the much-loved daughter of a doctor—and the granddaughter of a slave. She was a charming, confident young woman with a well-planned...

Cherry Hartman / Be-Good-To-Yourself Therapy

In the bestselling tradition of How to Be Your Own Best Friend, here is a small press inspirational bestseller brimming with simple wisdom on how to be good to yourself. Line drawings.       This book is second hand, and while you...

Septimus MacGillicuddy O'Reek / Holy Smoke!: Lighter Side of Faith

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Dan Burstein / Secrets of Mary Magdalene

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Caroline Slaughter / The Banquet

Falling deeply in love with Blossom the first time he sees her, Harold takes two months before he can approach her and struggles continually with a fierceness of passion that threatens to engulf their relationship       This...

Harper Collins / Collins Gem Italian Dictionary

With its extensive coverage of Italian language in a compact form, the Collins Italian Gem remains the indispensable small dictionary for learners of Italian. Now updated for the millennium, its 40,000-plus references and 70,000 translations include...

Dunedin N. V. / Quotable Ustinov

This text features Sir Peter Ustinov's comments on his own life and others, and a variety of different subjects. The topics range from the funny to the ennobling and wise. For example, on the subject of "Money corrupts - particularly those who don't...

Robert Dallek / John F. Kennedy

Everywhere acclaimed and talked about, An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened...

Susanna Gregory / A Poisonous Plot

The twenty first chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series.In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from upstarts rivals such as Zachary Hostel. Their...

John Nichol / Lancaster

After its maiden flight on 5th January 1941, Lancaster chief test pilot Sam Browne said, ‘Oh boy, oh boy. What an aircraft!’ With a maximum weight of over thirty tons, far heavier than the RAF’s previous...

Peter Stamm / Seven Years

Alex is caught between two very different women. Sonia, his wife, is intelligent, beautiful, charming and ambitious and together they have established a successful architectural firm and a life of easy luxury. But in the background is Ivona, who is...

Julia Elliott / Oxford Paperback Dictionary & Thesaurus

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