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Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. George Hennessey has always been proud of being Detective Chief Inspector at Micklegate Bar Police Station in the Vale of York. Until, that is, the body of ambitious newshound Cornelius Weekes is discovered, and what at first looks like a cut-and-dried case of suicide soon opens up a gruesome can of worms. But with the help of his faithful right-hand man, Detective Sergeant Yellich, London-born Hennessey is quick to get to the bottom of things.And eventually one apparent suicide leads to a whole host of unsolved deaths from the past: the murder of a mentally ill woman from a rich family, the bloody slaughter of another go-get-it journalist and the untimely end of a young man haunted by something just too murky for words.Hennessey and Yellich have their work cut out but, once they unravel the mysteries surrounding a wrongful conviction of a woman imprisoned for shooting dead her 'love rival', the pair start to see a frightening theme of corruption and greed emerge.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Where does creativity come from? And how do you harness it.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The second edition of this guide which contains tasting notes and a helpful rating system that classifies each malt according to its sweetness, peatiness and availability, thereby allowing the reader to compare malts in a way which means something. This edition has been expanded to include sections on Irish and Japanese malts.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood, from Times feature writer Ben Machell.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. From the boxing clubs and street-markets of 1970s East London to Hollywood's red carpets - the knockout autobiography by one of Britain's best-loved actors.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The exhilarating debut political thriller from BBC broadcaster George Alagiah.

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Who says youth is wasted on the young?Jasper wants to get on in the world, but he's got a lot on his plate: A-levels, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. Then there's his stepdad - the murderer. Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, Grow Up is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming-of-age novel. It paints a vivid portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches of growing up today. Funny, smart and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. If you knew a book was cursed, would you read it.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. A personal reflection on the crucial turning points in the history of music, from BBC broadcaster and musician Mark Radcliffe.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Long-forgotten scandals. Dark secrets. Hidden identities. Rona Parish investigates! An old school photograph in which someone has been deliberately blacked out marks the start of a new case for Rona Parish. Who was this person and why would someone want to hide his or her identity? Rona sets out to uncover the secret and soon finds that the school in question closed down many years ago due, it was rumoured, to a long-forgotten scandal. Could this be the link that will solve the mystery? Meanwhile, a visit to a a stage hypnotist results in more than Rona and her friends bargained for . . .…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then the local shaman is found dead and suspicion and terror engulf the little town.

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A widowed amateur sleuth shadows an international art thief from London to Bruges in this "sprightly second cozy" by the author of False Charity Bea Abbot doesn't do murder. The modest agency she runs from her Victorian home in Kensington is better at finding good domestic help and the best caterers. Yet how can she turn away her oldest friend? Velma's prodigal stepson Philip has vanished. So has a valuable pre-Raphaelite painting from the home of Philip's eccentric godmother, Lady Lucinda Farne. Seeing that Lucinda's been stabbed to death, she can't possibly clear Philip's name. But Bea can. At least that's what Velma hopes. Now Bea must locate a runaway bad boy, track down a valuable Millais, and solve a deadly crime. Of course, if Philip didn't do it, that means Bea and her wily young undercover assistant will be tangling with someone far more dangerous--a professional well-schooled in the art of murder.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The new Honey Driver mystery - When Lady Macrottie is found submerged in what should have been a therapeutic mud bath, the finger of suspicion points at the Beauty Spot Health and Beauty Clinic. Honey Driver, Bath hotelier and part-time Crime Liaison Officer, is booked in for Botox, beautifying . . . and a little snooping on the side. Daughter Lindsey is left to hold the fort at the hotel, and the worst possible thing happens: the Hotel Inspector arrives But the situation gets even sticker when he's found dead in the morning . . .…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. This book includes stories from all the major Scottish writers, both the famous and the unsung.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A sweeping, momentous novel that shines a light on war, and the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies, from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A wickedly dark, multi-award-winning noir novel in translation about corruption in the Argentine state.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 'Darkly compulsive, a beautifully written, if disturbing, literary thriller, in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith.' Kate Mosse, author of LABYRINTH and SEPULCHRE.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Late summer, 1590: the villagers toil to bring in the harvest - unaware of a murderer amongst them Thomas the Falconer has been loaned by his master to the impoverished Sir Giles Buckridge, who struggles with mounting debts and the inability to provide dowries for his three spirited daughters. Thomas is here to train a ramage hawk - a young, half-wild falcon - and to teach Sir Giles's young ward the arts of falconry. But no sooner has he taken up residence than Sir Giles's eldest daughter, Jane, vanishes. Small wonder if she ran away, folk murmur, since she was betrothed to a wealthy 60-year-old merchant, simply for financial reasons. Thomas is called upon to help find the missing girl, but as the body count rises and fear grips the land, the search turns into an increasingly dangerous game. Left with no option, Thomas finds himself pitted against the most fearsome adversary he has ever faced.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Caught in the melting pot of social injustice, revolution, war, and pacifism, this book gives an account of the experiences and struggles of a Glasgow family from the First World War and into the Depression at the end of the Twenties.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The new mayor of a small town in Illinois unearths a series of devastating secrets when he re-opens a 30-year-old murder investigation 17-year-old Betty Jo Dean was abducted and murdered thirty years ago. It took two days to find her body. She was found, fully dressed apart from her slacks, beneath a gnarled, stunted tree, shot in the back of the head. No one was ever charged with her murder. Now, following an appeal from one of his constituents, Mayor Mac Bassett has called for the case to be re-opened. But when the body is exhumed, it is revealed that the skull, found loose in the coffin, does not belong to Betty Jo. If Mac could discover why Betty Jo s head was taken, he would be one step closer to finding out who killed her. But no one in the small town of Grand Point is talking. Sheriffs, doctors, medical examiners: everyone seems to be warning Mac off. And then people start dying.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is an eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller - Henriette d'Entragues isn't satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess. But Henriette isn't one for giving up easily. All she has to do to achieve her ambition is to give Henry a son, and then do whatever it takes to set him on the throne . . .…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of humorous writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in October 2007. In a prolific forty-year career Alan Coren wrote for The Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Listener, Punch and the New Yorker, and published over 20 books including The Sanity Inspector, Golfing for Cats and The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin (he turned down an invitation from Amin to visit Uganda saying, 'I'll probably end up as a sandwich'). Even twenty years ago he estimated that he had published six million words, or ten copies of War and Peace.Coren was one of Britain's most prolific and now much-missed humourists, finding the comedy of life all around him and rendering it, hilariously and compellingly, in polished and witty prose which will be eagerly devoured by his loyal fanbase. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is an eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 'Belonging in a category with Tolstoy's War and Peace, Vassanji's saga is sweeping in scope . . . brilliant' - Janette Turner Hospital in The Globe and Mail.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. This book includes stories from all the major Scottish writers, both the famous and the unsung.