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Christmas Carol
Paperback,
07/01/2018,
£2.50
£2.25
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)
Paperback,
05/10/1989,
£19.99
£17.99
This is an omnibus collection of stories and novels about Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's inimitable manservant.
Death in the Night
Paperback,
16/11/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
The fourth book in the bestselling Hampstead Murders series.
Charity
Paperback,
03/03/2011,
£8.99
£8.09
Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is.
Infernal Devices
Paperback,
03/09/2015,
£7.99
£7.19
Wren longs to escape from Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to sea. But the object that she steals for him ignites a conflict that will tear the whole world apart... The third thrilling instalment of Reeve's critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet.
Ashland & Vine
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story.
Go Ask Alice
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£7.99
£7.19
Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage life. But as well as discovering new friends, dating and going to parties, the author of this diary discovers something else: drugs. This book was first published several decades ago as the shocking real diary of a young woman.
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Paperback,
29/01/2018,
£7.99
£7.19
The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet - Zanak.
Heritage
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Ruth Pennistan is a farmer's daughter, born and brought up in Kent. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even whilst Ruth becomes trapped against her will in a drama of love and tragedy with another man.
Family History
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles's love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims.
Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Hardback,
01/02/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son.
Roman Quests: Death in the Arena: Book 3
Paperback,
13/07/2017,
£6.99
£5.00
Third in a new historical adventure series from million-copy-selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian.
AEthelflaed: Lady of the Mercians
Paperback,
05/07/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
Published to coincide with the 1100th anniversary of the death of AEthelflaed, who ruled over the ancient kingdom of Mercia (English Midlands). The book examines her important place in history as the only woman who ruled one of the major powers of Dark Age Britain.
Time in Rome
Paperback,
06/03/2003,
£9.99
£8.99
Presenting an account of a time spent in Rome, the author describes its history, its architecture, its atmosphere, and the famous classical sites in the city.
Little Girls
Paperback,
27/05/1999,
£9.99
£8.99
In 1914 they had been eleven years old; three little girls at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and correct.
Bowen's Court: &, Seven Winters : Memories of a Dublin Childhood
Paperback,
27/05/1999,
£10.99
£9.89
Describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.
Virginia Woolf
Paperback,
02/10/1997,
£14.99
£13.49
A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within the Bloomsbury Set, and also as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist.
Virginia Woolf
Paperback,
18/02/2013,
£9.95
£8.96
Weaving together the life and work of Virginia Woolf, this book serves as an introduction to both. Following the chronology of Woolfs life, it gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife and shows why, seventy years after her death.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Paperback,
25/01/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
The Sunday Times bestseller
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon
`Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live
Annabel
Paperback,
01/06/2011,
£8.99
£8.09
In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.
Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Paperback,
22/04/1993,
£12.99
£11.69
Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego.
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1
Paperback,
26/07/2016,
£8.99
£8.09
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Kitschie and Audie awards, this is the stunning first instalment in a fantasy trilogy set in a world of volcanoes and earthquakes, where the power to control the earth is the most dangerous of all. 'Intricate and extraordinary' New York Times
Golden Legend
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike.
Spook Street: Jackson Lamb Thriller 4
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
The fourth novel in the 'finest new crime series this millennium' (Daily Mail)
Sight
Hardback,
22/02/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prize-winning An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
London Rules: Jackson Lamb Thriller 5
Hardback,
01/02/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
The fifth Jackson Lamb novel from the 'new king of the spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday)
Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1
Paperback,
27/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
'The most enjoyable spy novel in years' Mail on Sunday
Dead Lions: Jackson Lamb Thriller 2
Paperback,
01/10/2016,
£8.99
£8.09
Winner of the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Award
Real Tigers: Jackson Lamb Thriller 3
Paperback,
27/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The new novel in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Jackson Lamb series
Fly By Night: World Book Day 2018
Paperback,
22/02/2018,
£2.50
Fly By Night is the stunningly original, fabulously inventive debut novel packed with humour and wit from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge
House of Impossible Beauties
Hardback,
01/02/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Paperback,
01/03/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Coming with giant grass-roots support and extraordinary critical acclaim, When I Hit You has moved readers to laughter, to anger, to tears... and to action.
Sphinx
Paperback,
21/04/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.
Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929 - 1932
Hardback,
15/01/2009,
£30.00
£27.00
Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa. This title shows her thinking about the possibility of poeticising the novel.
Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold
Paperback,
05/06/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
An innovative collection of folk ballads re-told by professional storytellers. In association with the Society of Storytelling
Sentimental Journey and Continuation of the "Bramine's Journal
Hardback,
31/05/2002,
£68.95
£62.06
This sixth volume of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne contains scholarly editions of two works of Sterne's last year of life: "A Sentimental Journey" and "Continuation of the Bramine's Journal". The works are presented as clean texts, with all scholarly apparatus at the end.
Yurei: The Japanese Ghost
Hardback,
25/08/2015,
£17.99
£16.19
An eerie yet insightful exploration into the phenomenon of yurei, or Japanese ghosts, both past and present.
Dear Mr. M
Paperback,
29/06/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The thrilling, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool
Two Stories
Hardback,
22/06/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. With her husband, she started the Hogarth Press in 1917. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of 'Publication No 1', this edition takes the original text of Virginia's story, 'The Mark on the Wall' and pairs it with a new story, 'St Brides Bay', by Mark Haddon.
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