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Craig Collie / Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing

Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in NagasakiIn a compelling...

Scott Mitchell / By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor

'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a minute of it...'In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting...

Andrea Warren / Surviving Hitler: One Boy's True Story

In 1942 fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum was torn from his family in Poland and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. This is Jack's own true story of how he fought against starvation, disease and the insane brutality of the Holocaust. Jack is sent to a...

James Patterson / The Palm Beach Murders

James Patterson sets this bestselling thriller in Florida’s wealthiest zip code. Palm Beach doesn’t just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes—it also has the best murder plots money can buy. The Palm Beach Murders (...

Josephine Tey / Inspector Alan Grant #6 The Singing Sands

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic...

Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman / Clay Edison #1 Crime Scene

Crime Scene is the next enthralling psychological thriller from Number One bestsellers and masters of the genre, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman.Natural causes or foul play? That's the question deputy coroner Clay Edison must answer each time he...

Jorge Luis Borges / Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot...

James Mitchell / So Far from Home

A between the wars novel, peopled with charmingly eccentric characters, a sumptuous story steeped in 1920s glamour and razor edged wit.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Madge Swindells / Sunstroke

A fund manager for a London merchant bank, Nina Ogilvie vowed that love would struggle to have a place in her life. She has reaped the rewards and become one of the City's most brilliant -- and most heartless -- operators. When her firm decides a...

Jack London / The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories

A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew,...

Lucy Diamond / The Promise

When faced with the sudden death of his brother, Dan’s mission is clear. He puts together a project to help pick up the pieces and support his grieving sister-in-law Zoe, plus her young children. This is Dan’s promise - to ensure his...

Morris L. West / Navigator

Gunnar Thorkild, grandson of the last great Polynesian navigator, has rashly proclaimed, in a scientific paper, the existence of a legendary island to which all navigators go on the eve of their death. With his future at the Hawaii Institute on the...

Stephen Hunter / Ray Cruz #2 Soft Target: A Thriller

Another action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunter’s previous bestseller, Dead Zero .Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the...

Graham Masterton / Family Portrait

They found the first body in Europe... She had once been a pretty, fresh-faced girl—but with exquisite skill someone had carefully teased the skin entirely away from her body. She had been skinned alive!The second blood-raw corpse turned up in New...

M.C. Beaton / Hamish Macbeth #27 Death of a Kingfisher

When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than...

Johanna Lindsey / Wyoming #3 Angel

Hoping to cool off a twenty-five-year-old feud between two neighboring families, Cassie Stuart only succeeds in pouring kerosene on the flames. Both sides have warned her to get out of Texas pronto. . .or they will burn her father's ranch to the ground...

James Craig / Inspector Carlyle #8 Sins of the Fathers

When Julian Schaeffer is shot in front of his son in a London park, suspicion falls on his estranged wife. The woman has a seemingly watertight alibi, but Carlyle - trying to make the best of a difficult relationship with his new sergeant, Umar Sligo...

Jacob Ross / Black Rain Falling

Delving into issues of family, class and loyalty, Black Rain Falling is a stunning crime novel that asks how far one should go to protect those they love.On the Caribbean island of Camaho, forensics expert Michael 'Digger' Digson is in deep trouble.His...

Kerry Greenwood / Phryne Fisher #18 Dead Man's Chest

Travelling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza accompanied by her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth and their dog Molly, The Hon Miss Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice...

Louise Voss, Mark Edwards / Killing Cupid

He is watching her... The chillingly brilliant read from Mark Edwards and Louise Voss, the bestselling authors of Catch Your Death. Doesn't love always feel this way? Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He has never loved anyone...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Camino Royale

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Anna Jacobs / Jubilee Lake #3 Diamond Promises

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Debbie Macomber / Angelic Intervention #11 A Mrs Miracle Christmas

Mrs. Miracle shows an ordinary family that they are blessed beyond belief in this uplifting holiday tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.As the holiday season begins, Laurel McCullough could use some good news. She and...

Honoré de Balzac / La Comédie Humaine #57 Cousin Pons

Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two a devotion to fine...

Barnes Julian / The Man in the Red Coat

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin #3 Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

Agatha Raisin 50s returns from a lonely holiday to find James Lacey having an affair with newcomer Mary Fortune. She sees green - jealous, Mary's favorite color, and the Garden Open Day competition. A body planted head first brings Mary's estranged...

Susanna Gregory / Matthew Bartholomew #11 The Mark of a Murderer

It is February 1355, and Oxford has exploded in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridge as their refuge. They don’t remain safe for...

Joy Fielding / Life Penalty

Gail Walton's life seemed perfect, but one terrible day her young daughter is murdered and left in the park where she had played. Gail shuts out all who love her and becomes so frustrated with the police investigation that she decides to track her...

Child Lee / The Secret

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William Makepeace Thackeray / The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives:...

John Harris / Lost at Sea

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Apricot Jam and Other Stories

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Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning

Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's...

Robert Allen / Things to Do Now That You're...50

Did you ever want to transform your sedate life into a more exciting andf fruitful existence or do something totally radical? Have you ever dreamed of singing with a band, visiting a nudist colony, climbing a mountain, starting a new career, or...

Shamini Flint / Inspector Singh Investigates #6 A Calamitous Chinese Killing

Inspector Singh's expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political intrigue to get to the bottom of a very murky and complex crime Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a...

Trent Reedy / Words in the Dust

Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven out of Afghanistan. She hopes for a better relationship with her hard stepmother. And she hopes one day even to go to school. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the...

Lee Goldberg / Diagnosis Murder #8 The Last Word

When Dr. Jesse Travis and his wife Susan are blamed for the deaths of several patients who received organs containing the West Nile Virus, Dr. Mark Sloan, vowing to find the truth, uncovers a conspiracy of greed and revenge that could destroy all of...

Roddy Doyle / Life Without Children

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question...

Juan Arias / Paulo Coelho: Confessions of a Pilgrim

Revealing interviews with the author of the alchemist and veronika decides to diethis fascinating book is full of paulo’s unique insights and life story and will have huge appeal for his fans it is the closest thing there is to an autobiography...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin #12 Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came

Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious.What are her options?...

J.M. Coetzee / The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the...

Edward Luce / The Retreat Of Western Liberalism

From the Financial Times' US commentator, The Retreat of Western Liberalism is an extraordinarily sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed now face mortal danger         All of our books are...

hill reginald / Dalziel & Pascoe #2 An Advancement Of Learning

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Alan Ryan / On Politics

A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising...

Francis Fukuyama / The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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Shamini Flint / Inspector Singh Investigates #7 A Frightfully English Execution

Inspector Singh is irate. He's been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in a job for paper pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned.And as if that isn't bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for...

Andreï Makine / The Crime Of Olga Arbyelina

The stunning new novel by the author of the international bestseller Le Testament Français, a dramatic, sensuous tale set in a Russian emigré community in post-war France.Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her...

Annabel Karmel / My Kitchen Table: 100 Family Meals

Annabel Karmel is the best-selling author of cookbooks for children and their families. Relied on by millions of parents, Annabel knows what children like to eat and how to make family meals as trouble-free as possible. In this collection, Annabel...

Henry Kissinger / On China

In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique...

Gordon Jarvie / The Genius

An anthology of modern short stories from Northern and Southern Ireland, with traditional stories by Michael Mac Liammoir and Liam O'Flaherty and contemporary stories by Clare Boylan, Edna O'Brian and Bernard Maclaverty, among others...

Anne Dickson, Henriques Nikki / Menopause

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Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel / The Haunting of Sunshine Girl #1 The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Based on the wildly popular YouTube channel, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl has been described as “ Gilmore Girls meets Paranormal Activity for the new media age.” YA fans new and old will learn the secrets...