Fiction

Diana Leatham / They Built on Rock (Hardback)

"They Built on Rock" tells the stories of the men and women who brought light and hope to the world of the Dark Ages.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Dinah Jefferies / The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Hardback)

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE Dinah Jefferies' stunning new novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds... 1952, French Indochina...

Ana Menendez / In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (Hardback)

A collection of short stories explores the hopes and heartbreaks of exiled Cubans trying to build new lives in the United States     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Keith Thomson / Twice a Spy (Hardback)

On the heels of Once a Spy , which PW hailed as a ?wildly original debut [with] an action-packed story line,? Keith Thomson returns with a breakneck thriller that?s twice as explosive as the original...

James Patterson / Along Came a Spider (Hardback)

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video! Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology...

Sarah Quigley / The Conductor (Hardback)

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays...

Robert Rankin / The Da Da-De-Da-Da Code (Hardback)

Robert Rankin, the world's Master of Far Fetched Fiction, takes us on a roller coaster ride in his brand-new bestseller, which focuses on the biggest conspiracy theory in the world, ever. Here, in...

Christopher Hope / The Love Songs Of Nathan J. Swirsky (Hardback)

In the early 1950s in Badmington, a suburb suspended in time somewhere outside Johannesburg, comes Swirsky, opening a pharmacy. With his talk of exotic places and his gleaming bottles and jars, the...

Fidelis Morgan / Fortune’s Slave (Hardback)

Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess...

Penelope Lively / City of the Mind (Hardback)

Penelope Lively's story of a London architect's struggle for identity in love and career     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Seth Morgan / Homeboy (Hardback)

Joe Speaker is a barker at a strip joint who has a heroin habit. After a botched robbery and the violent murder of a prostitute, Joe is thrown in jail. This story of murder and retribution was...

Ian Pattison / A Stranger Here Myself (Hardback)

In his inimitable style Rab C. Nesbitt tell us his life story - no holds barred - in a novel by his creator, Ian Pattison. From opinionated foetus to fiercely proud father, Rabs has a wealth of...

Tarquin Hall / The Case of the Missing Servant (Hardback)

Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty...

Linwood Barclay / I Will Ruin You (Hardback)

An explosive psychological suspense crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Take Your Breath Away and The Lie Maker     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Loretta Rothschild / Finding Grace (Hardback)

'Shocking, stylish, elegant, and twisting. A truly stunning debut' Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark 'One of the best books I've read this year' Jodi Picoult SHE...

Sarah Bird / Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (Hardback)

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock,...

Lolly Winston / Happiness Sold Separately (Hardback)

Discovering that she and her husband are unable to have children, Elinor Mackey finds her carefully ordered world falling apart in the wake of her husband's subsequent affair with a young mother, the...

Simon Winchester / Atlantic (Hardback)

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." — Kirkus Reviews...

Talat Abbasi / "Bitter Gourd" and Other Stories (Hardback)

The 17 short stories in this collection are focused on the social structure of life in Pakistan and of Pakistani in diaspora: such a focus covers each strata of society centered round daily small...

J. A. Sutherland / Where Was Rebecca Shot? (Hardback)

From the novel of the best selling Is Heathcliff a murderer? an ingenious book of puzzles in 20th century fiction. The novel is today stronger than it ever was. 'Classics', boosed by a hugely...

Colin Stagg / Pariah: Colin Stagg (Hardback)

Wrongly jailed for the murder of Rachel Nickell, Stagg speaks powerfully in Pariah, a hard-hitting account of his flawed trial, agonising imprisonment and failed attempts to rebuild life after his...

Libby Purves / A Free Woman (Hardback)

Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, who are very different. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent...

Ronald Tierney / Nickel Plated Soul (Hardback)

Private eye Howie Cross is badly beaten by a couple of thugs, but doesn't know why. Out of action, he asks Deets Shanahan to take on his one current case, but it's far from straightforward. Hugh Dart...

Robert Swindells / Last Bus (Hardback)

Andy knows a great way to spend Saturday - riding buses on a Day Rover ticket. At first Chris is happy to go along with him, but he begins to feel uneasy when he realizes that Andy is stealing things...

John Maddox Roberts / Spqr XI: Under Vesuvius (Hardback)

Decius discovers the dark side of his position as Praetor when he is asked to investigate the killing of a priest in a town near Vesuvius, while protecting the young boy who has become the prime...

Paula Cocozza / Speak to Me (Hardback)

*An Elle Summer Read 2023* 'Cocozza's writing is addictive... her sharp observations steal the show ' Joanna Cannon, Guardian 'Searing, perceptive, shattering' Observer 'Charming, very touching and...

John Maddox Roberts / The Year of Confusion (SPQR) (Hardback)

"When Dictator Caius Julius Caesar rankles the public by bringing in foreign astronomers and astrologers to revise the Roman calendar, overseer Decius finds himself investigating the murders of two...

Wilbur A. Smith / Pharaoh (Hardback)

Worldwide #1 bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns to Ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times. EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK. Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally...

John Maddox Roberts / Oracle of the Dead (SPQR) (Hardback)

Enjoying the good life in southern Italy, Decius Caecilius Metellus, Roman magistrate for cases involving foreigners, becomes caught in the middle of a bitter rivalray between the priests of Apollo...

Richard Mason / The Drowning People (Hardback)

James Farrell murdered Sarah, his wife of thirty years, yesterday. He killed her at Seton Castle, her ancestral home - which should have passed to her cousin, half American, bewitching, mysterious...

Dr Paul Doherty / The Year of the Cobra (Hardback)

At the end of THE SEASON OF THE HYAENA, the previous book in this trilogy, Mahu had just been recalled to court because the young Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, was suffering from a serious mental illness...

Minette Walters / The Scold's Bridle (Hardback)

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned with a crown of nettles. What could have driven her to such a...

Katy Birchall / Awesomely Austen (Hardback)

A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Emma Woodhouse is pretty, clever and rich, and sees no reason why she...

BBC / Bob The Builder (Hardback)

Each of these small format books is based on the exploits of one of Bob's machines - together, they create an appealing library.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Samantha Downing / He Started It (Hardback)

SOMEONE ALWAYS TAKES THINGS TOO FAR . . . 'So addictive it should come with a warning' Alice Feeney *** No-one knows you better than your family. They know the little things that make you smile. Your...

Layne Fargo / They Never Learn (Hardback)

From the author of the &;raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless&; (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly...

Thomas W. Young / The Mullah's Storm (Hardback)

A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan. For two people-navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant...

Lauren Beukes / Afterland (Hardback)

Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown...

Carol Shields / Collected Stories (Hardback)

For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In...

Caitlin Rother / Twisted Triangle (Hardback)

Praise for Twisted Triangle "This book will haunt you. It will move you to look at some of the harsh realities of life in a new way. A powerful story-and masterfully written." -Aphrodite Jones...

Mary Maher / The Devil's Card (Hardback)

One May morning in 1889, the inky, already-bustling offices of the Chicago Tribune are electrified by the story of the year: the disappearance of prominent Irish doctor P. H. Cronin - and the...

Håkan Nesser / The Inspector and Silence (Hardback)

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fug of heat. In the beautiful forested lake-town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge’s tranquil existence is shattered when he receives a phone-call...

Amit Chaudhuri / Freedom Song (Hardback)

"An immensely gifted writer....Crammed with breathtaking sentences, sharp characterizations, comic set pieces, and melancholy grace notes." --"The New York Times Book Review " Freedom Song--which...

Jane Rogers / Promised Lands (Hardback)

A novel which has two narratives. First there is William Dawes travelling to Australia with the first fleet, charting the first years of the Botany Bay settlement. In parallel and mirroring this...

A. K. Larkwood / The Unspoken Name (Hardback)

'An astounding debut . . . unlike anything I've read before' - Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld Does she owe her life to those planning her death . . . Csorwe was raised by a death cult...

Takashi Matsuoka / Cloud of Sparrows (Hardback)

Emily Gibson has come to Japan as a missionary, to start a new life. In America her beauty drove men wild. In Japan she possesses no beauty at all. Matthew Stark speaks like a missionary but wears a...

Hannah Rothschild / High Time (Hardback)

'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping 'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace WHEN THE STAKES...

Chris Skidmore / Death and the Virgin (Hardback)

Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 a 25-year-old virgin - the most prized catch in Christendom. For the first ten years of her reign, one matter dominated above all others: the question of who the...

Jonathan Lee / Who is Mr Satoshi? (Hardback)

"One afternoon last October, on the concrete of her patio garden, my mother had a fall...That was the last time I really had any options." Reclusive photographer Rob Fossick has come adrift both from...

Steve Cavanagh / Witness 8 (Hardback)

WHAT IF THE ONLY WITNESS TO A MURDER IS MORE TWISTED THAN THE KILLER? 'The very definition of a page-turner!' IAN RANKIN 'Enthralling' SUNDAY TIMES, THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'Steve Cavanagh's twists hit...

Barbara G. Walker / Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (Hardback)

A comprehensive reference on mythology, anthropology, religion and sexuality from a feminist point of view.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Fern Britton / A Seaside Affair (Hardback)

You will love this wonderfully warm and witty novel from Fern Britton, the Sunday Times bestselling novelist. When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their much-loved...