New Hardback Books

Anna-Marie Crowhurst / The Illumination of Ursula Flight (Hardback)

Born on the night of an ill-auguring comet just before Charles II's Restoration, Ursula Flight has a difficult future written in the stars.Against the custom of the age she begins an education with her father, who fosters in her a love of reading,...

Jyoti Patel / The Things That We Lost (Hardback)

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE***Nik has lots of questions about his late father but knows better than to ask his mother, Avani. It's their unspoken rule.When his grandfather dies, Nik has the opportunity to learn about the man he...

Zoe Somerville / The Night of the Flood (Hardback)

An atmospheric literary thriller set in north Norfolk in the shadow of the Cold War, in which a love triangle turns murderous.Her heart beat hard. There was a crazed beauty to the storm. It was almost miraculous, the way it took away the mess of life,...

Harriet Tyce / The Lies You Told (Hardback)

In the playground it's the law of the jungle But at the school gate, there are no rules at all... When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled...

Clara Kumagai / Catfish Rolling (Hardback)

Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation.There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls.Sora hates the catfish whose...

William Anderson / Face of Glory Creativity Consciousness (Hardback)

When William Anderson published his study of the image of life known in the West as the "Green Man", he foresaw the environmental movement's identification with his subject but not that the "Green Man" should be embraced as it has been, especially in the...

Louisa Young / Twelve Months and a Day (Hardback)

A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them together because although love changes form, it never dies.Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time.Rasmus and Jay,...

Victoria Gosling / Before The Ruins (Hardback)

'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' Sarah WatersAndy believes that she has left her past far behind her. But when she gets a call from Peter's mother to say he's...

Lianne Dillsworth / Theatre of Marvels (Hardback)

Crowds gather at Crillick's Variety Theatre, where curiosity is satisfied with displays of intrigue and fear. They're here for the star of the show—the Great Amazonia warrior. They needn't know this warrior is in fact Zillah, a mixed-race actress...

Arin Murphy-Hiscock / The Witch's Book of Self-Care (Hardback)

Self-care and magic work together in this guide to help you become the best version of yourself. You’ll learn how to nourish your body and spirit with herbal remedies, spells, and rituals inspired by witchcraft in this unique, enchanted guide to...

Caroline Scott / Visitors (Hardback)

From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost , a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923...Esme Nicholls is to spend the summer in...

Sophie Berrebi / The Sharing Economy (Hardback)

Three Women meets Crudo : a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam.‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why not give the other sexual freedom, as a gesture...

Salena Godden / Mrs Death Misses Death (Hardback)

Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled...

Marina Kemp / Nightingale (Hardback)

Marguerite Demers is twenty-four when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large...

Monica Hughes / Devil on My Back (Hardback)

When the slaves rebel against the rigid social order imposed on the colony by the all-controlling computer, Tomi, the son of the colony Overlord manages to escape beyond the computer's reach and discovers what it is like to be free.   This book is...

Westall / Kingdom by the Sea (Hardback)

Twelve-year-old Harry struggles to make it on his own after his family is lost in a German air raid. But as he and his dog companion journey along the northern English coast, there is never enough distance between them and the terrible war.   This...

Karen Raney / All the Water in the World (Hardback)

A stunning debut novel about a teenage girl and her mother, as they grapple with first love, family secrets, and tragedy.Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she’s unusually close, a father she’s never met, devoted...

Monks of Glenstal Abbey / The Glenstal Book of Prayer (Hardback)

The Glenstal Book of Prayer is a rich, nourishing resource on the dark, mysterious, but exciting journey that is prayer. It draws on things both old and on the wisdom of the Bible, enshrined in Benedictine liturgy, on the experience of modern monks, and...

Jeff Abbott / Downfall (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...

Pope Benedict XVI / Questions and Answers (Hardback)

Life can be successful only if we have the courage to be adventurous ... Pope Benedict XVIDiscover the Pope s insightful, personable, and refreshingly accessible responses to the questions we all want to ask.Live audiences of children, clergy, young...

Thilo Wydra / Grace (Hardback)

Thirty years ago, Grace Kelly was tragically killed when her vehicle tumbled forty meters from the serpentine roads of Monaco. She has since become a myth, a style icon existing between the glamour of Hollywood and the royalty of Monaco. As Hitchcock's...

Paul Charles / Family Life (Hardback)

  As the Sweeney clan gathers at Liam Sweeney's farm in County Donegal to celebrate his birthday, the banter and storytelling are abundant. But with the arrival of Inspector Starrett it becomes clear that all is not well with the Sweeneys as the...

Scott Westerfeld / Leviathan (Hardback)

  Shelf wear to the dust jacket, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday. 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...

Tommy Krappweis / Ghostsitter: Geister geerbt (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...

Paul Zindel / The Pigman (Hardback)

A Most Unusual FriendshipWhen sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the...

Kari L. Lampikoski / Igniting Innovation (Hardback)

Far from setting down hard and fast rules for organizational innovativeness, the authors introduce the concept of situational innovativeness recognizing that depending on the strategic objectives, conditions, and business environment companies face,...

Jim Mattis / Call Sign Chaos (Hardback)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former...

Rebecca Godfrey / Peggy (Hardback)

A "beautifully imagined and superbly written" (Jenny Offill) novel about Peggy Guggenheim, a story of art, family, love, and becoming yourself, by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, soon to be a Hulu limited series."Godfrey brilliantly...

George Drower / John Hume: Peacemaker (Hardback)

  This biography of John Hume, based on interviews with friends, foes and colleagues, charts his political career from his early years in the Derry civil rights movement, to his decisive role in the Peace Process. This book is second hand, and while...

Adam Hamdy / Private Rome (Hardback)

A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one suspect.Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of a new local Private office, when the party takes a deadly turn. Private agent Matteo Ricci is found at the party standing over the body...

Gary Fishgall / AGAINST TYPE (Hardback)

A profile of the career of Burt Lancaster chronicles his impoverished East Harlem childhood, 1946 debut with The Killers, three marriages, and achievements in more than eighty films. 25,000 first printing. Tour.   This book is second hand, and while...

Mark Greaney / Armored (Hardback)

A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored.Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent--a professional bodyguard--and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is,...

Frank Muir / The Walpole Orange (Hardback)

  Frank Muir's first novel features the bizarre members of a gentlemen's club. In his capacity as secretary of the Walpole Club in St James's, William Grundwick is duty-bound to arrange whatever function the Events Committee decides is appropriate...

W.B. Yeats / Letters to the New Island (Hardback)

From 1888 to 1892 W.B.Yeats contributed a series of essays on literature and Irish folklore to two American newspapers, the Boston Pilot' and Providence Sunday Journal. These pieces show his intense engagement with current books, plays, personalities and...

Tom Quinn / Barking Mad (Hardback)

Barking Mad taps into the British passion for dogs by bringing together a unique collection of extraordinary, touching and sometimes bizarre but true stories covering sporting dogs (and hounds), military mascots, eccentric companions, war heroes and...

Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk (Hardback)

In this edgy, fast-paced and incredibly moving account, Chris Hunter chronicles the remarkable journey of a teenager with few hopes and limited prospects who went on to become one of the most successful counter-terrorism operators in Britain. Hunter...

Paul Preston / Comrades (Hardback)

A bravura new interpretation of the course, causes, and characters of the Spanish Civil War, still the twentieth century's bloodiest internal conflict. Analysis of the Civil War has always focused on victors and vanquished, but what of those who eschewed...

Andrew J. Byrne / Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne (Hardback)

A collection of memoirs that tells the tale of an Irish life and provides a contemporary record of pivotal moments in Irish, British and American history. It also tells of how the author crossed the Atlantic Ocean eight times and accumulated ten years of...

Lucy Hawking / George's Secret Key to the Universe (Hardback)

Stephen Hawking, one of the most celebrated and honored modern physicists (as well as author of the multi-million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time), and his daughter Lucy explain the universe to readers of all ages. George's parents, who...

Mohsin Hamid / The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hardback)

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America...

Anna Funder / Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life (Hardback)

Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own, and when she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's...

William D. Eggers / Delivering on Digital (Hardback)

What if you could file your taxes or open a business online in mere minutes? It's already possible in Estonia. So why are some US government agencies still running software from the 1960s with no upgrades in sight?When HealthCare.gov went live in October...

John Grehan / Western Front 1917-1918 (Hardback)

From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense,...

Emma Forrest / Busy Being Free (Hardback)

  'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games What happens when your story...

Danielle Steel / Ball at Versailles (Hardback)

t’s the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty...

Dolores Gordon-Smith / A Hundred Thousand Dragons (Hardback)

  The latest ‘Jack Haldean’ mystery, set in the Roaring Twenties - A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky . How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back (Hardback)

If it can go wrong, it will--thus Murphy's Law. Science journalist Edward Tenner looks more closely at this eternal verity, named after a U.S. Air Force captain who, during a test of rocket-sled deceleration, noticed that critical gauges had been...

Gail Godwin / The Good Husband (Hardback)

As a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, midwestern seminarian, who has devoted his life to taking care of his charismatic wife...

Joseph D. Faria / Want to Read Buy on Amazon Rate this book The Statue Of Liberty & Ellis Island (Hardback)

Describes the history of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and includes links to online sites for further information.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Linda Spalding / The Paper Wife (Hardback)

With her beauty and happy home, Kate had everything that the penniless Lily desired for herself. The girls became intimates, yet even at university Lily still coveted what belonged to her friend. Then a feckless, but appealing young man presented her...

Brown Watson / Princess Olivia (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...

Wendy Richard / My Life Story (Hardback)

This is the life story of Wendy Richard, star of many classic television series. Her career has spanned over 30 years, appearing in shows such as "Dad's Army", "Are You Being Served?" and "Eastenders", she has also had a number one hit with Mike Sarne's...