Fiction

It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is...

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and...

'In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real-life collaboration during the Second World War' - New Yorker Best Books of the Year In a grand...

Shlomo Libowitz and Anton Epstein, two Jewish prisoners subjected to horrific experiments in a Nazi concentration camp, survive the unimaginable. Decades later, their lives converge again as they hunt Hans...

'Flays the political moment. At all levels, it is a blast' Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby I'm a 32-year-old sex worker who just killed a politician. Please, please, please...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes...

Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard's fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery - a multimillion-dollar Basquiat. When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered,...

Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she declares that Chopin has dictated...

The sensational new novel from the author of the bestselling thriller, The Creeper, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2025. Deep in the mountains, secrets grow...

Isak receives an unexpected inheritance from his father on one condition: that he meet and make peace with the man at his remote island retreat. Once there, Isak finds himself...

An epic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. Extinction explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and...

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel...

Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious - and adventurous - appetite. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, fragrant cassoulets) to the heights of her career as a food...

Included in The Times Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale' The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the...

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2967 Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Pan paperbacks — three Hemingway titles, Tolstoy, Sartre, Austen, Wilkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Turgenev, Thomas Mann, Joseph Heller,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, treacherous world of 1920s Shanghai — a city where empires collide and fortunes dissolve overnight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the vast and unforgiving waters of the Indian Ocean during the Second World War, a British cruiser and her crew are thrust into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA road trip becomes a journey into the heart of fractured relationships in Eleanor Dark's Return to Coolami,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew novels have so perfectly bottled the wild, sun-drenched freedom of childhood as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the shadow of one of America's most storied cities, Upton Sinclair's Boston unfolds...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThe open ocean has always called to those restless souls who refuse to be landlocked — and no writer answers that call more compellingly than Alexei...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, restless world of late nineteenth-century Russia, three boyhood friends—Ilya Lunyev, Pavekin, and Grazhdanin—grow up side...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the smoldering years before and during the American Civil War, Thomas Dixon's The Man...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a storm-lashed night in the South China Sea, a young officer named Cyril Trewsbury finds himself adrift...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the greatest visionary minds of the twentieth century comes The King Who...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Top edge discoloured from tanning.What does it take to create the greatest...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedSet against the moral and social fabric of small-town Midwestern America, The John Wood Case is a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the bustling textile towns of early twentieth-century France, one family's relentless ambition to build...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most electrifying works in the American dramatic canon are gathered in this essential Penguin Plays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrank Moorhouse, one of Australia's most shrewdly observational writers, turns his satirical lens on the absurdity of institutional...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would it mean if the greatest playwright who ever lived were not a relic of the past,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA haunting and intensely personal narrative, A Voice Through a Cloud is Denton Welch's autobiographical account of his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA wry and incisive observer of mid-twentieth-century British life, William Cooper presents in You Want the Right Frame of Reference another of his characteristically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA relentless hunger for fortune drives men to the edge of reason — and beyond — in James Doughty's Gold in the Blood, a gripping...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the sweeping backdrop of Normandy across two world wars,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent decades following African independence, Richer Than All His Tribe charts the rise and catastrophic fall of Dinamaula,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedRobert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when a quintessentially British major attempts to decode the baffling mysteries of French life? In Major Thompson Goes French, Pierre Daninos returns...