New Paperback Books

Janet Frame / Faces in the Water

When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to free herself from them, the result was Faces in the Water, a powerful and poignant novel. Istina Mavet descends through increasingly...

Iain Pears / Death and Restoration

Jonathan Argyll #6 Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. A tip-off without any names and a theft with no obvious motive...

William Sloane / The Craft of Writing

“One of the delights of the year is this wise and witty book. . . .For writers of fiction and nonfiction, beginners and pros, [it] will concentrate the attention most wonderfully on the hard-won techniques that go into good writing.”...

Madhumita Murgia / Code Dependent

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI   AI is changing what it means to be human. This is the unrivalled investigation into the impact of AI on how we live now.'The intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, and it...

Jane Travers / Tweet Treats

Tweet Treats: 140 characters, 140 celebrities, recipes for every occasion   Tweet Treats is a recipe book with a difference - all recipes fit into one tweet' of up of 140 characters!Conceived on Twitter, the book is a collaborative project,...

Stuart Powers / Buy to Let

Buy to Let the Key Steps     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 second hand book...

Kathryn Petras / "Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day."

Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras   "Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day.": Finding Joy in Every Moment A book of inspirational quotations, Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day presents hundreds of reminders from some of the smartest...

Lisa O. Engelhardt / Acceptance Therapy

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Michael Shurtleff / Audition

Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part   When Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there.Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows...

Manuel J. Smith / When I Say No, I Feel Guilty

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy The best-seller that helps you say: "I just said 'no' and I don't feel guilty!" Are you letting your kids get away with murder? Are you allowing your...

John Laffin / The P.L.O. connections

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Kenneth Atchity / Sell Your Story to Hollywood

Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business   This pocket guide will help you expedite the transformation of your show business dreams into realities.This little book aims to help you figure out how...

Jessie Stephens / Heartsick

'Thought-provoking, highly original and beautifully nuanced. Jessie Stephens' journalistic skill shines as she weaves together true stories with a narrative as compelling as any novel.' Jane Harper'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we...

Lou Marinoff / The Big Questions

Helps answer central questions of modern existence. This work uses specific case studies to show how wisdom from the great thinkers can help us define our own philosophy, and thereby reclaim our sense of well-being.       This book...

Rex Wade / The Last Orphan

The truth is that I never did know my mother – my mum – and now I don’t even know what happened to her after she had left us, what became of her – even whether she is now alive or dead. She gave life to me and, not long after,...

Santa Montefiore / Shadows in the Moonlight

To settle the restless ghost haunting an English manor in the present day, timeshifter Pixie Tate travels to the Victorian era to solve the mystery of a missing child. There, she accidentally meets the love of her life. C.J. Cooke’s The Ghost...

Christopher Fowler / Hot Water

At a beautiful villa in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instructions never to speak to the guests, she blends into the background – but she sees everything. Including the mistress Summer, lounging by the pool...

Ian Schott / World Famous Gangsters

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Christian Jennings / Midnight in Some Burning Town

Midnight in Some Burning Town : British Special Forces Operations from Belgrade to Baghdad   Man for man, the British Special Forces are regarded as the best in the world. Since the mid-nineties the British government has deployed them...

Harry Hill / A Complete History of Tim

Tim The Tiny Horse #1-2 One very small horse takes on the world of radio, has a go at reality TV and ponders the meaning of life . . . He falls in love for the first time with a lady fly who doesn't appreciate him, so he acquires a pet greenfly...

Kathleen Stock / Material Girls

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our...

Matthew Fort / Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa       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...

Dale Peck / Now It's Time To Say Goodbye

Two gay men abandon New York City for a poor, racially polarized village in Kansas, where a cast of characters--including a gay black prostitute, a hermitic white artist, and a budding scholar--responds to a girl's kidnapping and rape...

Tim O'Brien / July, July

At a thirty-year reunion, a group of old friends tell the story of their lives – and the story of a generation – in this brilliant new novel from one of America’s most celebrated writers.What happened to all those hopes and ideals?...

Peter Kerr / From Paella to Porridge

From Paella to Porridge: A Farewell to Mallorca and a Scottish Adventure   The Kerr family say goodbye to their orange farm in Mallorca, and put it up for sale after three years of hard work. The Mallorcan experience comes to an end...

Angela Murrills / Hot Sun, Cool Shadow

Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc   An unabashed celebration of the joys of food and cooking, Hot Sun, Cool Shadow follows the story of award-winning food-writer Angela Murrills and the...

Louisa Scarr / Memorial Park

PC Lucy Halliday #2 Every family’s worst nightmare…Three-year-old Rosie Logan is missing. Her mother, Maria, turned away for just one moment and now her life is changed forever. It falls to PC Lucy Halliday and her police...

Roger Fisher / Getting It Done

Roger Fisher, Alan Sharp Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Let's face it. In this chaotic world of teams, matrix management, and horizontal organizations, it's tougher than ever to get things done. How do you lead when...

Paula Sharp / Crows Over the Wheatfield

This is the story of Melanie Ratleer, a judge who is approaching the peak of her career with the anguished awareness that she has long since abandoned herself to the comforting impersonality of her work. Paula Sharp is the author of "The Woman Who...

Elizabeth Jane Howard / Mr. Wrong

A short story anthology of thrills, chills, and the impulses and longings that drive us, from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.In this dazzling collection, author Elizabeth Jane Howard mines the rich terrain of the heart with her...

Sarah Weinman / Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genreMurderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One...

Cate Tiernan / Blood Witch / Dark Magick

Wicca #3-4 This is a bewitching bind-up of stories to feed your desire for all things magick...This title is perfect for Twilight fans.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Chris Chibnall / Death at the White Hart

From the internationally award-winning creator of Broadchurch comes a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English villageThe villagers of Bradcombe like to think of it as one...

Cate Tiernan / Book of Shadows / The Coven

Wicca #1-2 Sixteen-year-old Morgan is not who she thought she was... Something is happening to Morgan. She sees things, feels things in a new way. She has discovered a power inside her that normal people don't posses. A dark magical power. And...

Tobias Wolff / The Night in Question

Written by the author of 'The Barracks Thief', 'This Boy's Life' and 'Hunters in the Snow', this collection of stories looks at how people rewrite their own histories, and examines how revenge, as another urge to put things right, can take curious...

Laura Preble / The Queen Geek Social Club

If you're somebody like Shelby Chappelle, a smart, witty, pretty geek army of one, you can't just put a poster up at school and advertise for somebody to be your best friend. But now freakishly tall Becca Gallagher has moved to town, with her dragon...

Marjorie Graham / Up in Lights

Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl.‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill...

Mary Gribbin / The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

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Aidan McQuade / The Undiscovered Country

'One is struck by its mordant wit and fierce intelligence' Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian 1920, the Irish War of Independence. Amid the turmoil of an emerging nation, two young IRA members assigned to police a...

Mark Morris / The Dogs

This book is suitable for reluctant readers of 13-16 with a reading age of eight years. It is printed on cream paper, which is proven to be more restful on the eye. The font is specially designed to encourage a smooth and easy read. There are...

Alice Cavanagh / The House That Made Us

One Day meets Up : The House That Made Us is a love story – and a life story – told through a series of photographs and inspired by a true story When Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of them outside their...

Katy Wix / Delicacy

Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative, and profound, underpinned with moments of startling humour that shatter the darkness - all beginning with a single...

A.J. Grainger / In Your Light

Are you still a sister, if one of you is missing?Sixteen-year-old Lil’s heart was broken when her sister Mella disappeared. There’s been no trace or sighting of her since she vanished, so when Lil sees a girl lying in the road near her house...

Laurent Gaude / Our Europe

Our Europe: Banquet of Nations       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 Ricketts / You Don't See Me

Ros has finally found Eddy, the girlfriend they’ve always wanted. But Ros can’t tell her the that they are trans, and want to live in a male body.At a party Ros’s classmates “discover” they’re a lesbian – but...

Larry Baker / The Flamingo Rising

Set in the 1960s, in Jacksonville, Florida, this "great American tale" ("Atlanta Journal & Constitution") tells a compelling story of living, feuding, fireworks and an extraordinary family whose home is the biggest drive-in theater in the world...

Angela Phillips / The Trouble with Boys

A challenging and highly original look at the socialization of boysthe process that is creating the men of the future.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown...

Robert Bridges / A Choice of Bridges's Verse

Poems deal with nature, the past, mortality, childhood, grief, dreams, sadness, the English countryside, storms, windmills, love, and hope       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Kevin Stevens / Song for Katya

In a bitter winter at the height of the Cold War, jazz pianist Drew Fisher travels from New York to Moscow as part of a government-sponsored music tour. His playing is superb, but he’s haunted by the demons of past addiction and personal...

Tony Humphreys / Work And Worth

Work And Worth: Take Back Your Life     Does our work control us, or do we control our work Is our sense of worth too closely tied to our work Are we becoming addicted to work at the expense of our personal lives How responsible...

William Cook / Goodbye Again

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are the greatest double act that Great Britain has ever produced. This collection of their works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that Cook and Moore ever wrote together - from the beginning of their...

Watson Brad / The Heaven of Mercury

Finus Bates - reporter, radio host and obituary writer - aims to have the last word on Mercury's from obsequious undertaker Parnell Grimes to Euple Scarbrough, local encyclopaedia of useless knowledge. Loyal to elegant Birdie Wells for 80 years,...