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For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * "Intimate and illuminating and, as is true of most anything Quindlen writes, well worth the read."- People "A compelling and...

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal...

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero , published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder...

In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity...

A sweet, funny and romantic novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. It's been a while, but Lara Carson's back in Bath and lives are set to change as...

Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to...

Maggie Tulliver's quick imagination is stifled by the claustrophobic constraints of family life in a provincial town. Her parents suppress her natural intelligence and instead focus on her brother Tom....

From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. 'It should be read by all' VOGUE 'My father died eleven years ago. I was only...

A love story in 3 generations, this is also about hope and despair, and about the survival of the human spirit. On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below...

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous...

Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a...

'Absolutely brilliant ... impossible to put this book down! ... A must read' The Quiet Knitter If the Night Stalker is watching, you're already dead... In the dead of a...

The book titled Janey's War by the author Barbara Murphy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An army intelligence captain is to be court-martialled for having kidnapped and set free a Viet Cong officer. This forces him...

The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of...

Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English...

Susannah Misselthwaite was gazing up at the brightness of the blue sky when the deer leapt in front of the car. She never knew what happened. Her husband Guy, Professor...

One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a...

Promise Whittaker is the diminutive, cartoon-voiced acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art. Her mentor, the previous director, is now lost in the Taklamakan desert. Her favourite curator...

It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But Frank's behaviour is so odd...

_________________ THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JOHNNY DEPP _________________ 'Remarkable - a genuine, 100% proof discovery of great literary importance' - Mail on Sunday 'Hilarious, utterly...

_______________ 'In a literary age of diet and dearth, Tartt invites us to feast ... the opening tragedy strikes a note of rich, flamboyant Southern Gothic that resonates throughout' -...

The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY DONNA TARTT 'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a...

_________________ 'The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic - beautifully made' - New Yorker 'Truly remarkable ... one of the best novels I've read this year. Don't miss it...

The beloved novel that spawned the cult classic film. Embark on a tale of true love and swashbuckling adventure like no other. Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed...

The book titled Darkness Falls from the Air by the author Nigel Balchin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into...

The book titled Operation Deathwatch by the author Leo Kessler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Having escaped her overbearing family in Mexico, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin seeping in through...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable and...

The book titled Safety of Objects by the author A. Homes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Eagle Has Flown: A Novel by the author Jack Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of a small boy's obsessive fantasy life and how it brings together four unlikely people in an afternoon spent unravelling each other's lives - past, present and future...Ted's...

In the theatres and the restaurants of the celebrated City of Kisses, timid actor Felix Dern is famous and admired...for his looks...for his voice...and for his unblemished private life. But...

The book titled The Very Model of a Man by the author Howard Jacobson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'- Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain, and Felicia's Journey all appeared on national bestseller lists - The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

Jay Golden has an unerring talent for being sacked. His hilarious deadpan diary takes us on a tour through minimum wage land: Al's Golden Donor Kebabs, telesales, McDonalds, Molden's Lawnmower...

Bran's Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother abandons her and joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her 'common-law stepfather' on Bourdon Farms - a...

A novel about adolescence and first love, about English nature and the profound changes affecting rural landscape, The Harvest is a contemporary and unsentimental elegy for an entire class and...

The book titled Love and Longing in Bombay by the author Vikram Chandra. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and Sils, her best friend from childhood, as they take their...

In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marks Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How...