All books 2026-09-07

Michael Rosen / The Incredible Adventures of Gaston le Dog

A funny and fantastical adventure from former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and award-winning illustrator Viviane Schwarz. Gaston le Dog longs to return to the beautiful beach he remembers from...

Milovan Djilas / Conversations With Stalin

A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain This extraordinarily vivid...

Elaine Heney / Saddlestone Connemara Pony Listening School | Sinead and Strawberry

Nine year old Sinead lives in Waterford with her much loved Irish Connemara pony Strawberry. After falling off Strawberry yet again, her parents decide that Strawberry is too dangerous and will have...

Steve Cole / Cows in Action 10

Genius cow Professor McMoo and his trusty sidekicks, Pat and Bo, are star agents of the C.I.A. - short for COWS IN ACTION! They travel through time, fighting evil bulls from the future and keeping...

Esther De Waal / God Under My Roof

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Lucinda Hawksley / Lizzie Siddal

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from...

Darren O'Sullivan / The Price

The utterly gripping emotional psychological crime thriller by the bestselling author of The Husband     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Anne Digby / The Naughtiest Girl Saves The Day

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book seven, the school's strawberry...

Morgan Robertson / The Wreck of the Titan

First published in 1898, a novel about the sinking of a supposedly unsinkable ocean liner. This fiction contains a series of parallels to the real-life sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but is...

Various / The Dead of Winter

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Henry James / In the Cage

Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As...

Gerhard Durlacher / Drowning

It is 1934 in Baden-Baden: silk-clad women come and go, as do the Mercedes in front of the plush hotels. A boy grows up and comes to consciousness at the same time that the red-and-black flags are...

Alasdair Gray / The Ends of Our Tethers

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last...

Mark Galeotti / The Vory

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in...

Andrey Kurkov / The Bickford Fuse

A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Michael Martin / RMS Lusitania

Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created which over time became the accepted truth of the incident. Many people today...

Edward Marston / Murder on the Lusitania

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage...

Owen Matthews / Overreach

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Rushton Rosie / Jessica

Jessica lives in a remote Welsh village, a place not conducive to a fourteen-year-old girl's social life. Dependent on her mobile phone and her parents' car, Jessica longs for a proper date with a...

Kevin Crossley-Holland / SHORT! A Book of Very Short Stories

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Geoffrey Megargee / Barbarossa 1941

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theatre. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts...

Zac Marks / The Crafty Coach

The Ferndale Foxes are in trouble. With no coach, the team will fold. Jed needs to act fast! He can't imagine life without football. But saving the team is going to be tough: he has to find a way to...

Lucette Matalon Lagnado / Children of the Flames

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel...

Nevil Shute / Marazan

Spine Wear Top And Bottom With Creasing. A Little Creasing To Covers, Pages Yellowed     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Nevil Shute / Pastoral

Set during the turmoil of World War II, this novel tells the story of a brave young fighter pilot, Peter Marshall, and a pretty WAAF officer. The author's other novels include "A Town Like Alice" and...

Nevil Shute / Ruined City

To the professional eye of a wealthy London banker, the forlorn northern shipyard town of Sharples is at the end of the road. But then Henry Warren meets the woman whose faith in the town's industry...

Josef Skvorecky / The Cowards

The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in...

Glenn Skwerer / The Tristan Chord

2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation 'Succeeds brilliantly... a gripping and disturbing portrait of the young Hitler' Simon Mawer, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Glass House...

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...

Al Pacino / Sonny Boy

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He...

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...

Caroline B. Cooney / The Perfume

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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

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Anne Applebaum / Twilight of Democracy

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall,...

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...

William Taubman / Gorbachev

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev,...

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...