New Hardback Books

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem self-evident in their importance. But behind the...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the 1950s to the Buddhist revival of the seventies...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   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...

Peter Nadas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend.   This book is second...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600.   This book...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service. They survive the chaos of communism by becoming part of a...

Slavenka Drakulic / S. (Hardback)

A Bosnian woman who was repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in 1992 recalls the events as she prepares to give birth to a child conceived through their abuse of her.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Dubravka Ugresic / The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Hardback)

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world of a group of characters...

Jerzy Ficowski / Regions of the Great Heresy (Hardback)

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic...

Pavel Kohout / I Am Snowing (Hardback)

When Petra Marova is asked to help Professor Victor Kral, a returned exile and economic reformer, clear himself of charges of collaborating with the secret police, what she finds out causes her to doubt the professor's innocence and to begin her own...

Caroline Graham / Camilla (Hardback)

  The story of the secret affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. 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...

Matthew Kelly / Off Balance (Hardback)

The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and professional development for the past twenty years has been...

Chloe Dalton / Jak wychowac zajaca (Hardback)

Historia kobiety i dzikiego zająca, który nauczył ją żyć inaczej.Wyobraź sobie, że trzymasz w dłoni małego zająca i karmisz go z butelki. Mieszka pod twoim dachem i nocą wpada w podskokach do twojej sypialni, bębniąc łapami o kołdrę, gdy chce...

J.R. Moehringer / The Tender Bar (Hardback)

In a place that inspired Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, young J. R. Moehringer lives with his single mother and mercurial grandfather in a cramped home with a rather-too-colorful cast of strident aunts, down-on-their-luck uncles, and their...

Andrew Michael Hurley / Saltwash (Hardback)

ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, IF ALL CAN BE FORGOTTEN.The dilapidated seaside town of Saltwash isn't a place that Tom Shift would have chosen to come to at all, let alone on such a bleak November afternoon. But his new friend, Oliver Keele, has insisted on...

Philip Reeve / Kevin vs the Unicorns (Hardback)

Max and his best friend Kevin, the only roly-poly flying pony in Bumbleford, decide to enter the Magical Pony Club Steeplechase. Kevin is not particularly keen, as the other participants are all unicorns, and everybody knows that unicorns are quite...

Karen Casey / Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow (Hardback)

  Thirty years ago best-selling author Karen Casey (Each Day a New Beginning) wandered into a support group and learned there was only one thing she could change--herself She found a group of people who had adopted this concept--and she joined them...

Julie Garwood / Mercy (Hardback)

Julie Garwood created an electrifying tour de force in her suspense-charged bestseller Heartbreaker, a "crackling good thriller" "(New York Post) that pitted a relentless FBI agent against a madman in a frenzied race for one beautiful woman. Now, in this...

Tian Tao / Huawei (Hardback)

The inspirational business story of how to go from start up to world leader in two decades… With over 170,000 employees in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than one-third of the world′s population, how does entrepreneur Ren...

David Zinczenko / The 8-Hour Diet (Hardback)

In The 8-Hour Diet, bestselling authors David Zinczenko and Peter Moore present a paradigm-shifting plan that allows readers to eat anything they want, as much as they want—and still strip away 20, 40, 60 pounds, or more.After visits to...

Laurie Winkless / Sticky (Hardback)

An exploration of the amazing world of surface science from the author of Science and the City.In Sticky, physicist Laurie Winkless brings the amazing world of surface science to the popular science market for the first time. Atoms and...

Tess Gerritsen / I Know A Secret (Hardback)

I have a secret.And someone wants to make sure I never tell . . .In a house decorated with horror movie posters, a young woman's body is found. She lies on her bed, two bloodied objects clutched in her palm. Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic...

Eleanor Cooney / Death in Slow Motion (Hardback)

"Azheimer's is death in slow motion," says Eleanor Cooney in this jarring and unsentimental memoir about caring for her mother, "and it has the ability to kill love while the person you love still breathes."When it was all but certain that her...

Amanda Foreman / A World on Fire (Hardback)

In "A World on Fire" Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded Britain's support. British volunteers fought on both sides; British guns and...

M.M. Vaughan / The Ability (Hardback)

Delve into the extraordinary abilities of the twelve-year-old mind in this thrilling start to a middle-grade series that expands the possibilities of power.No one has any confidence in twelve-year-old Christopher Lane. His teachers discount him as a liar...

Tim Pears / In the place of fallen leaves (Hardback)

Selected by BOMC as a candidate for the Best First Fiction Award of 1995, this stunning novel has received wide acclaim. This captivating debut novel roams the dry valley or a rural English village during the summer drought of 1984, revealing lushness in...

Kate Bottley / Have A Little Faith (Hardback)

In her first book, the nation's favourite vicar Kate Bottley reveals the surprising truth about what faith means to her and how, ultimately, it is the key to happiness. As a vicar she is often greeted with the phrase 'I'm not religious, but... I love...

Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation (Hardback)

In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in...

Robert E. Litan / Trillion Dollar Economists (Hardback)

A detailed look at how economists shaped the world, and how the legacy continues Trillion Dollar Economists explores the prize-winning ideas that have shaped business decisions, business models, and government policies, expanding the popular idea of the...

Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life (Hardback)

An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture...

Jennifer Craig / Yes Sister No Sister (Hardback)

A trainee nurse in the 1950s had a lot to bear. In Jennifer Craig's enchanting memoir, we meet these warm-hearted yet naïve young girls as they get to grips with strict discipline, long hours, and bodily fluids. But we also see the camaraderie that...

Charleen Hurtubise / The Polite Act of Drowning (Hardback)

The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers 'The Polite Act of Drowning is a beautiful and captivating novel, lyrical and sensuous, a precise and faithful evocation of the tumult and trauma of family life, and of emergence into...

David Gillick / The Race (Hardback)

The Race offers an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at the cut-throat world of elite athletics. With vivid recall, David Gillick, one of Ireland’s most celebrated 400m sprinters, describes the sacrifices, triumphs and devastating setbacks that...

Gavin Lambert / Mainly About Lindsay Anderson (Hardback)

This is the story of Lindsay as a man and as movie director, film critic and documentaries. Famous for the 1968 movie "If" and "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Lived from 1923-1994.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Neil Powell / Amis And Son (Hardback)

    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 may damage it, so we refrain...

Shylashri Shankar /Blood Caste (Hardback)

Is Jack the Ripper at large on the streets of Victorian India?Hyderabad, India, 1895. When three bodies are discovered with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to the Ripper’s Whitechapel victims, Chief Inspector Soobramania – known as...

Ted Simon / Rolling Through The Isles (Hardback)

From the bestselling author of 'Jupiter's Travels' and 'Dreaming of Jupiter' comes the inspiring story of Ted Simon's brand new adventure. Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted now rides through the British Isles rediscovering the country of his youth...

Lisa Williams / Life Among the Dead (Hardback)

The medium host of Lisa Life Among the Dead describes how her childhood in England was marked by her clairvoyant abilities, shares behind-the-scenes facts about her popular show, and describes her work as an investigator of haunted houses and other...

Bernard B. Kerik / The Lost Son (Hardback)

An intimate portrait of the courageous and honorable fortieth Police Commissioner of New York City details his mission to fight the injustice around him and to solve the mystery of his own mother, who abandoned him forty-one years ago.   This book...

Randall Gibbons / In Their Own Words (Hardback)

Combines the autobiographical writings of the world's most famous writers, philosophers, poets, and national leaders including Julius Caesar, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and Queen Victoria.   This book is second hand,...

J. Leigh Bralick / A Dark So Deep (Hardback)

Beloved prince, rebel, traitor……Tarik brought his country to the brink of war.Can he now bring peace before he loses his own sanity?With Hayli in the grips of the Science Ministry and his allies in hiding, Tarik must wrestle his own demons...

Karen Grace Kassy / Health Intuition (Hardback)

"Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Health Category "A simple, straightforward guide for improving health and well-being by learning to hear and heed intuitive knowledge and wisdom.For more than a century, Americans relied heavily on...

James Atlas / My Life in the Middle Ages (Hardback)

Striving children, aging parents, job pressures, financial anxieties, physical ailments, generalized hope and dread―a memoir of middle age that is both literary and confessional What is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age,...

Victor Gilbert Beers / Early Readers Bible (Hardback)

The Early Reader's Bible will have your child not only saying, "I can read it myself!" but also, “I can’t wait to read it again!” as they read the 64 beloved Bible stories. Using child-friendly words that beginning readers can read on...

Robert Wilton / The Spider of Sarajevo (Hardback)

"From the secret archives of the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey. Summer 1914: Europe is on the brink. As Britain's enemies grow stronger, the Comptroller-General must confront the man with whom he has struggled for a generation - a man he...

Arnaldur Indridason / Strange Shores (Hardback)

Published now in twenty-six countries around the world, Inspector Erlendur joins Maigret, Morse, Wallander, and a handful of other world-famous policemen who provide must-reading for suspense fans everywhere.In this latest puzzle, Inspector Erlendur...

Daniel Abraham / Blade of Dream (Hardback)

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure. This is Garreth’s.Garreth Left is heir to one of Kithamar’s most prominent merchant families. The...