Adventure

Frank Barnard / Blue Man Falling : A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

 Capturing the startling contradictions of a time when people were at their best and their worst, Blue Man Falling brings to life the exhilaration and fear of aerial warfare with astonishing power...

James Patterson / The 5th Horseman (Hardback) ( Women's Murder Club - Book 5 )

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki's mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. It looks like she's had a stroke and Yuki starts to...

James W. Huston / The Shadows of Power : A Novel (Hardback)

 Lieutenant Ed Stovic, an F/A-18 pilot, is vectored to intercept Algerians who are defending their newly claimed two-hundred-mile territorial limit. During a dramatic, high-stakes dogfight, the...

Wilbur Smith / King of Kings (Hardback)

 An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.Cairo,...

David Masiel / The Western Limit of the World (Hardback)

  At fifty-nine, Harold Snow has seen his share of death. Now serving on a decrepit tanker whose papers are as suspect as its seaworthiness, a weary Snow feels the end is creeping closer than ever...

Michael Marshall Smith / The Lonely Dead (Hardback)

 Grotesquely arranged corpses are turning up in remote locations across America: is it the work of a bizarre sect or a solitary serial killer? An electrifying thriller from the author of The Straw...

Wilbur Smith / Vicious Circle (Hardback)

  When Hector Cross's life is overturned, he immediately recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before. A terrorist group has re-emerged -- like a deadly scorpion from...

Jodi Compton / Sympathy Between Humans (Hardback)

  On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the...

James Patterson / Sail (Large Paperback)

  As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes...

Jeffery Deaver / The Twelfth Card : Lincoln Rhyme Book 6 (Large Paperback)

 Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless...

Scott Mariani / The Martyr's Curse

 THE ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermottAN ANCIENT CURSE. A...

Val McDermid / How the Dead Speak

Don't miss the electrifying new Karen Pirie thriller - STILL LIFE is available to preorder now___________________The eleventh book in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, from No. 1 bestselling...

Chris Ryan / Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard Target : Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier (Large Paperback)

 The first book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series.Former SAS Warrant Officer Joe Gardner has fought the Regiment's deadliest enemies, in some of the most desolate places on earth. And he's always won...

Douglas Preston / The Wheel of Darkness : An Agent Pendergast Novel

  Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the...

Bernard Cornwell / Warriors of the Storm (Last Kingdom Series - Book 9 )

 The ninth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.A fragile peace is about to be...

Kenneth Gregory / The Polaris Whisper : The Steel of the Norse, the Faith of the Christian White Cross Followers - a Path to War

 [This is] a consistently entertaining debut that fuses together some understated, but well crafted, fantasy elements with a compelling historical adventure. This will be a favourite winter read of...

Alexander McCall Smith / A Conspiracy Of Friends

 Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring.Barbara Ragg makes an...

S. J. Morden / One Way

 EIGHT ASTRONAUTS. ONE KILLER. NO WAY HOME.A blend of classic mystery, Orange is the New Black and Andy Weir's The Martian, One Way is a science-fiction thriller like no other. 'A rip-roaring...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Nautical Chart: A Novel of Adventure

 Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination...

Charles Brokaw / The Temple Mount Code : A Thomas Lourds Thriller

 From the author of The Atlantis Code comes a dramatic quest to locate an ancient scripture with a powerful secret . . .

Eoin McNamee / Resurrection Man (Hardback)

  This is a novel about violence taken beyond society's bounds and how that society confronts it. The novel follows the career of Dessie Kelly, the resurrection man, a violent and ruthless...

John Gilstrap / Nathan's Run (Hardback)

  A media frenzy erupts when a 12-year-old boy kills a guard at a detention centre. He calls up a radio station to give his version of events and America and the media believe his claim of...

Sara Keays / The Black Book (Hardback)

  The House of Commons holds many secrets, but the biggest secret of all is the Black Book, where scandalous information about the Members of Parliament is kept. Jo is working for the Chief Whip,...

John T Phillifent - The Man from UNCLE No 8 : The Mad Scientist Affair - Vintage PB

Cooraclare Castle, County Clare is the unusual setting for this adventure, which finds Solo and Kuryakin, UNCLE's top pair of crime busters, caught up with a crazy scientist. 'He has invented a beer...

Wilbur Smith / War Cry (Hardback)

 `That time is upon us. I can feel it coming. That evil barbarian will not be satisfied until he has engulfed the whole world in war and death. I fear for us all.'In a triumphant return to his...

James Patterson / The Lake House (Hardback)

  Frannie O'Neill's life turned upside down when six incredible children blew in on the wind. Rescuing them from the school that created them took all her courage and cunning, but the children...

Joan Brady / Bleedout (Hardback)

  Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from...

Wilbur Smith / The Triumph of the Sun (Hardback)

 In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Mahdi...

John Grisham / The King Of Torts (Hardback)

 Reluctantly, Clay Carter takes on what seems to be the mundane case of a young man charged with a random street killing. But when digging into his client's background, he stumbles upon a horrendous...

Dick Francis / Second Wind (Hardback)

 Meteorologist Perry Stuart's weather knowledge and accuracy has given him high status among forecasters. When he is offered a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small plane he learns more secrets...

Jeffery Deaver / The Twelfth Card : Lincoln Rhyme Book 6 (Hardback)

  Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless...

Wild Horses (Hardback)

  This thriller by the author of "Decider" concerns a case of mistaken identity set against the background of the making of a film about racing.       All of our books are second hand, and...

Dick Francis / Field of Thirteen : Short Stories (Hardback)

  This is a brilliant collection of thirteen short stories, written by the Master of Crime. Although some of the stories have been published before, all but one of them have had a very limited...

Ben Coes / Coup d'Etat

 Ex-Special Agent Dewey Andreas has retreated to rural Australia to escape the turbulent forces he once fought against. US National Security Advisor, Jessica Tanzer, has her own reasons for wanting...

James Patterson / Judge and Jury (Large Paperback)

  It's the trial of the decade -- Dominick Cavallo, the modern-day Godfather, has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make it certain he'll be convicted. Heavy security...

John Grisham / The Summons (Large Paperback)

 Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton,...

Andy McNab / Recoil (Large Paperback)

  Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, exdeniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But when his private life starts to...

Jasper Fforde / Something Rotten : Thursday Next Book 4

 The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good...

David Donachie / The Contraband Shore

 1787. Captain Edward Brazier, recently paid off from his frigate and comfortably off with prize money, he is headed to Deal to propose marriage to the young and lovely widow Betsey Langridge. He...

Steven Galloway / Ascension

 From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novelAs a young Romany boy in Transylvania in the early years of the twentieth century,...

Jason Bradbury / Dot Robot

 'Congratulations, Jackson. Welcome to MeX.' Dot.com billionaire Devlin Lear, founder of the top-secret defence f

Jon Robinson / Anywhere (Nowhere Book 2)

 'We're miles from anywhere, and we don't have a clue where we're going' Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn, Jes,

Charlotte Lamb / Deep and Silent Waters

 Laura would never have gone to Venice had she known Sebastian would be there: despite his animal magnetism, the director of the film for which she's been nominated best supporting actress - and her...

Robert Fabbri / Arminius : The Limits of Empire

 One man's greatest victory.Rome's greatest defeat.A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius...

Amanda Robson / Guilt

 'Another brilliant read from Amanda Robson. A dark, addictive and compelling page turner!' B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORSThe number 1 bestseller is back!Your sister. Her secret...

John Matthews / The Last Witness

  Elena Waldren has a secret that she's built fences around for the last twenty-nine years and kept from everyone. Through her work with an aid agency, her fears about the plight of a young girl...

John Farrow / City Of Ice

  A bomb explodes in a busy Montreal street. A mob lawyer blown apart, an innocent child murdered. Watching and powerless to provent it is Montreal's most illustrious policeman - Emile Cinq-Mars...

Gabriel Tallent / My Absolute Darling

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR'The year's must read novel' The Times'One of the most important books you'll pick up this decade' Harper's Bazaar'An...

Scott Mariani / The Babylon Idol

 FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR`Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermottTHE HUNT IS ONWhen a sniper leaves Ben Hope's...

Suzanne Glass / The Interpreter

  IT ALL STARTED WITH HER VOICE. NOT HER WORDS, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HERS. . . SO IT BEGAN NOT WITH WHAT SHE SAID OR HOW SHE SAID IT, BUT WITH SOME QUITE INTANGIBLE QUALITY IN HER VOICE. The...

Lindsey Davis / The Graveyard of the Hesperides

 Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem: At the Garden of the Hesperides a barmaid went missing years before;...

Wilbur Smith / Those In Peril (Hardback)

 Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel...