New Paperback Books

Tom Standage / A History of the World in Six Glasses

New York Times Bestseller From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history. Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than simply quench our thirst. As...

Gregory Claeys / Marx and Marxism

An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it...

Peter Cave / The Big Think Book

What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from...

Emmanuel Carrere / Other Lives But Mine

Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary 'Compelling... Carrère has the gift of speaking simply and...

Peter Taylor / Operation Chiffon

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to...

Primo Levi / If This Is A Man/The Truce

Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary. Featuring a new introduction from the author of Jews Don't Count, David...

Deborah Baker / The Last Englishmen

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019 An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. John Auden was a...

Martin Gilbert / Kristallnacht

One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of World War II - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population...

Alan Bullock / Hitler and Stalin

A comparative study of the lives and careers of Hitler and Stalin. Alternate chapters on each serve both to draw contrasts and highlight parallels. The author gives his reasons for believing that the...

Stendhal / The Charterhouse of Parma

The French literary master's work depicting young Fabrizio's struggles to keep his love for Clelia a secret in the small court of Parma     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Richie Tankersley Cusick / Teacher's Pet

Kate loves to be thrilled and is fascinated by horror. But she get more than she bargained for when she goes on a week-long writing conference. First, her teacher, William Drewe goes missing. Then...

Ian McDermott / NLP and the New Manager

An accessible and practical guide to NLP - one of today's most increasingly used management tools. NLP is the study of exceptional talent; it is a method of coding and reproducing excellence that...

Jane Casey / The Secret Room

The new latest thrilling detective crime mystery novel from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Laurence Gane / Introducing Nietzsche

Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of...

John Strawson / The Battle for Italy

One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic history It could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John...

Ferdinand Mount / Full Circle

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world - its institutions, its...

Richard Greene / Russian Roulette

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Paul Glendinning / Maths in Minutes

Both simple and accessible, Maths in Minutes is a visually led introduction to 200 key mathematical ideas. Each concept is quick and easy to remember, described by means of an easy-to-understand...

Peter Jones / Eureka!

The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of...

Charles T Powers / In the Memory of the Forest

Set in a small Polish village, this novel revolves around the aftermath of a violent death in the hushed woods beyond the town. It tells of one town, one death and one man's tireless search for the...

Claude Simon / The Flanders Road

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant...

Noel Mostert / The Line Upon A Wind

In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland and by 1815, established dynasties and kingdoms were overthrown, the United States had been established as a world power and a new age was...

Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Modern Library prides itself as ''The modern Library of the world s Best Books''. Since 1917 its paperback series has featured treasured classics, major translations of great works, and...

Robert Endeacott / Dirty Leeds

1961. Dirty Leeds is a struggling industrialised city in the north of England. Dirty Leeds is the city's club, sometimes called a football team; its home ground Elland Road, rarely called a stadium...

Sebag Montefiore / Catherine the Great and Potemkin

'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Dunkirk

* * * S pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the...

Emil Draitser / Agent Dmitri

A sailor, artist, lawyer and writer, fluent in many languages, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the World Wars. He was a...

Bram Stoker / Bram Stoker's Dracula

Step into the chilling world of Count Dracula, the legendary vampire who haunts the shadows of Victorian England. Dracula is a Gothic horror masterpiece that unfolds through a series of diary...

Mark Ryan / The Hornet's Sting

The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum's action-packed career as a British-run...

Sam Kean / The Bastard Brigade

New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb     This book is second hand, and...

Richard Collier / The Sands of Dunkirk

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian...

W. B. Bartlett / The Dam Busters

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings. It was widely regarded as a precautionary measure,...

Lyn Smith / Heroes of the Holocaust

In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Lost in Shangri-La

An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...

Barney White Spunner / Partition

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Chris Petit / Mister Wolf

The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Butchers of Berlin, soon to be a TV series Berlin, July 1944, a world of illicit jazz clubs, sexually generous young women, suspect art...

Theodor Storm / Hans and Heinz Kirch

Three of Storm's novellas. The early love story Immensee, is grouped with first English translations of Journey to a Hallig, a complex, lyrical story of an outer and an inner journey, and the title...

Radek Sikorski / The Polish House

An intimate history of Poland told through the personal experience of restoring a house in a village plagued by invasion and disaster. In 1989 Radek Sikorski returned home to Poland, having spent 8...

Dinah Jefferies / The Greek House

escape to Corfu with the emotional, gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

John Parker / Royal Marines Commandos

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Donald Calloway / 10 Wonders of the Rosary

In this easy-to-read introduction to the wondrous power of the holy Rosary, internationally acclaimed Mariologist and speaker Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, shares some of the greatest triumphs and...

Erich Von Daniken / Chariots of the Gods

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Alasdair Cross / The Spitfire Kids

A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire     This book is...

Peter Padfield / Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the...

Grigory Rodchenkov / The Rodchenkov Affair

***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times 's 'Fifty people who shaped the...

Akwaeke Emezi / The Death of Vivek Oji

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Mark B. Smith / The Russia Anxiety

'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both...

Michael Macrone / Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

Most people can quote from the works of William Shakespeare whether they know it or not, but how many people know that it was Othello who first assumed a "foregone conclusion", or Mercutio who went...

Sebastian Haffner / The Meaning Of Hitler

A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. 'Dazzlingly brilliant' OBSERVER...

Heinz Knoke / I flew for the Fuhrer

Heinz Knoke won Germany's highest award for gallantry: the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Joining the German air force on the eve of the Second World War, he fought throughout the conflict in a...

Lucas Paul / Gestapo the Story Behind the Nazis Machine of Terror

The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler...

David Ross / The Irish Writers: W B Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. A writer of verse since his teenage years, it was the publishing of The Wanderings of Oisin...