My Swordhand is Singing (Sedgwick Marcus)(Paperback / softback)

My Swordhand is Singing (Sedgwick Marcus)(Paperback / softback)

An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie

Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Demonstrates that theory of evolution by natural selection discovered by Charles Darwin - is only answer to biggest question of all: why do we

Playbook - Suit Up. Score Chicks. Be Awesome (Stinson Barney)(Paperback / softback)

It. Is. On. The latest book from bestselling author of THE BRO CODE, Barney Stinson, THE PLAYBOOK is like Niel Strauss's THE GAME for Bros

Timeline (Crichton Michael)(Paperback / softback)

An old man is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery that will catapult a group of

Child of God (McCarthy Cormac)(Paperback / softback)

McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters' Village Voice

Phantom - Goodking Terry

Sputnik Sweetheart (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about

Baudolino (Eco Umberto)(Paperback / softback)

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading

Kindly Ones (Littell Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern

English Assassin (Silva Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings -

Post Office (Bukowski Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The

Hotel New Hampshire (Irving John)(Paperback / softback)

John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry

Children of Hurin (Tolkien J. R. R.)(Paperback / softback)

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts, this is the first complete, standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak Boris)(Paperback / softback)

Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the

Family (Puzo Mario)(Paperback / softback)

Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy - but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death. Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden

Atomised (Houellebecq Michel)(Paperback / softback)

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, and a man with no erotic life to speak of. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. This novel tells the stories of the two brothers

Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald F.)(Paperback / softback)

Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires

Essential Hemingway (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

This collection comprises: 'Fiesta', Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from 'A Farewell to Arms', 'To Have and Have Not' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'; 25 complete short stories; and the Epilogue to 'Death in the Afternoon'

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers Dave)(Paperback / softback)

‘Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I’d say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too’ Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times ‘Is this how all orphans would speak – “I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know” – if they had Dave

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Kriwaczek Paul)(Paperback)

This is a portrait of a civilization which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on history. Paul Kriwaczek describes the development, over the centuries, of Yiddish language, religion, occupations and social life, art, music and

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things (Fulghum Robert)(Paperback / softback)

This is a collection of Robert Fulghum's favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings

Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas - René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé

Focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of little Nicolas on vacation

Complete Short Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Judgement', are well-known; others are mere jottings

Shogun - The First Novel of the Asian saga (Clavell James)(Paperback / softback)

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. Starting with his shipwreck on this most