Non-Secondhand Books

"A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale - On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King ... Deeply affecting." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Longlisted for an Andrew...

A brilliant conductor and BBC music producer, Clive Wearing was at the height of his success when illness struck. A virus completely destroyed the memory part of his brain. For...

A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash...

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon...

Hands, face, space. Curfews. Don't drink. Bend your knees. Conform, obey, comply - surrender. British life has become infested by bossiness. Boris Johnson won power as one of life's free-wheelers...

'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM,...

Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the...

When she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory . . . Twelve...

Snobbish Tarquin Winot sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. As he travels, he introduces his life through...

This new book from James Alison has all the brilliance, wit and panache that have made him one of the most influential contemporary Catholic writers. Celebrated for his firm but...

Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of capital cities. The twenty-two...

The gripping new international thriller, racing between the US, Russia, Israel and Australia Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country's dominance on the world stage at any price....

After a regrettable incident at the office Christmas party, up-and-coming fashion editor, Winnie Cherry, is banished to coastal South Australia to set up a beach lifestyle magazine - 300km from...

What do men and boys long for, agonise over, aspire to? Why are men often silent in dark and difficult situations? Why do so many find it hard to express...

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

The thrilling story of mystery, betrayal and love. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life...

Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012. Justin and Angela Kennedy have money,...

When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the...

'You may never read a novel crafted with more wonder and mystery' - Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. The year is 1957 and the place is Paris,...

In print for over twenty years, this remains one of the best and most revealing portraits of John Pilger's homeland, Australia. Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his...

A fascinating history of World War I in the words of those who were there - 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' Stephen Fry This unique landmark oral history uses...

For fans of Ghosts and Hilo , New York Times bestselling author Cullen Bunn and acclaimed artist Cat Farris deliver a fun, spooky, full-color middle grade graphic novel about a...

From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes a laugh-out-loud animal space adventure. Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would: - make rude noises from BOTH ENDS... - pick...

Op-Center is the nation's heart of intelligence and crisis management. Sometimes, it's the only place our government can turn.

Invite all of your favorite witches, wizards, and Muggles to your next Harry Potter (TM)-inspired event with this stunning invitation set. Bring the magic of the Wizarding World (TM) to...

Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train , a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion. From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson...

Celebrate your love of the HARRY POTTER (TM) films with this beautiful journal featuring a stunning graphic of HOGWARTS' (TM) HUFFLEPUFF (TM) house. This journal lies flat when open and...

An "engagingly written" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations...

From her signature red lip to her endless list of chart-topping hits, Taylor Swift if a force to be reckoned with. Every blank space in The Book of Tay-Tay has...

I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn t hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided...

The debut cookery book from Ireland's leading Indian chef- over 100 easy, fresh recipes to make everyday Great Indian food is about making food come alive from a handful of...

Dogs are our best fiends, and yet we can't tell for sure what happens when they go to sleep, until now. With this book, narrated by a dog, you can...

*** THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'A master storyteller ' - GUARDIAN 'A writer at the top of his game... Sanctuary is a superlative chase thriller' -...

Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an...

'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray leads the pack' JAY RAYNER A colourful history of one of our most loved and ever-changing public spacesThe modern-day cry is that...

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...

If no one ever died, what would happen then? Experience a major literary universe in the making from global bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. 'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't...

A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales...

Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric,...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death. Life Before...

Vintage Heroes & Villains- A lineup of literature's most dastardly, devilish and daring characters London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb...

A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the...

The highly anticipated sequel to Mary Higgins Clark's iconic bestseller Where Are The Children? , featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, all grown up and again in peril. In Where...

"A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists." -Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston The Haunting of Hill...

"Expertly told, the plot crackles with life" DAILY MAIL "Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read" SUNDAY EXPRESS "Exciting and disturbing" LITERARY REVIEW ********************************************************************************** THE GIRL WITH...

A captivating spy thriller taking the reader from 60s sex scandals to the Vietnam War, by a former special forces officer w ho is 'poised to inherit the mantle of...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild , comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. I llustrated with over thirty original...