Staff Picks

Synopsis Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to wor...

Synopsis 85 Weeks on The Sunday Times Bestseller List. Multiple-Award Winner. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is t...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Seasonal Quartet #1. Man Booker Prize Finalist. A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian...

Synopsis When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a ...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller & Film Tie-In Edition. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now...

Synopsis Jack Laidlaw Trilogy #1 Winner of The CWA Silver Dagger. Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found br...

Synopsis "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22." With an introduction by Howard Jacobson. Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years...

Synopsis “This is not a story about old people,” Bernard MacLaverty told the Guardian, “It’s the story of two young people who got old and they hav...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...

Synopsis Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his litt...

Synopsis Nominated for The Hugo Award 2018. A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science ...

Synopsis Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story. Blending geography...

Synopsis Introduced by John Burns. A lesser known Science Fiction Classic. This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bomb...

Synopsis The Stones - their story - the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking...

Synopsis An international team of geographers and cartographers has complied and edited an immeasurable amount of information for this volume. Stru...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. In this, at the time, ground-breaking book, Alastair McIntosh's He...

Synopsis Subtitled : A People's Passion. This is an excellent account of the history of one of world football's most famous clubs, FC Barcelona. In...