Recent Releases
This is a complete list of the new books which have arrived on the site within the last month. See This Month's Highlights for a selection.
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Add to BasketMa, I've Reached For The Moon An I'm Hittin The Stars
£6.79
- Paperback - Mainstream Publishing
'Never again will I let myself plunge so low, it nearly cost my life then ended in the mad house', Martha vows, as she sits back in the taxi. A young Russian monk from the mental hospital has proposed marriage. Then she receives a shock. A letter from Father Ralph Fitzgerald, the man who rescued her from the streets. -
Add to BasketMapping The Railways
£14.44
- Paperback - Collins
Follow the development, decline and revival of Britain's railways through a unique collection of old and new maps, commentaries and photographs. Charting the rich history of Britain's railways from 1819 to the present day, this compendium shows how trains have played an essential part in British life for nearly 200 years. -
Add to BasketMeeting The English
£14.44
- Hardback - Picador
Struan Robertson, orphan and 17, leaves his native town of Cuik and arrives in London in the fine summer of 1989. His job is to care for Phillip, dumbfounded and paralysed by a stroke. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming and passions. -
Add to BasketMosi's War
£5.94
- Paperback - Bloomsbury
Patrick is happy living with his mum. Then Patrick meets Mosi, a quiet, polite boy who, along with his parents, is waiting for his asylum application to be processed. He discovers Mosi is terrified of someone. But who is it? Patrick and Mosi strike up an unlikely friendship. In trying to help each other, they will face situations that are both terrifying and dangerous. And Patrick will find out that there is much, much more to Mosi than at first appears. -
Add to BasketA Mother's War: One Woman's Fight For The Truth Behind Her Son's Death At Deepcut
£11.04
- Hardback - Mainstream Publishing
Yvonne Collinson Heath will never forget the telephone call that changed her life for ever. On 23 March 2002, her elder son, James - a private with the Royal Logistic Corps - was found dead in mysterious circumstances at the notorious Deepcut barracks. He had a single gunshot wound to the head. It was a tragedy that to this day raises questions. 'A Mother's War' recounts Yvonne's anguish at losing her son, a boy who dreamed of serving his country but died before he had even reached his 18th birthday. -
Add to BasketNatural Causes
£6.79
- Paperback - Penguin Books
A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim. -
Add to BasketNova War
£7.64
- Paperback - Tor
Found adrift near a Bandati colony far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso find themselves prisoners of the Bandati. It becomes clear to them that the humanity's limited knowledge of the rest of the galaxy - filtered through the Shoal - is direly inaccurate. -
Add to BasketOnce Upon A Time: The Lives Of Bob Dylan
£7.64
- Paperback - Mainstream
This text draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal. -
Operation Sunshine
£6.79
- Paperback - Sphere
Evie needs a good holiday. So when her employers - two high-powered plastic surgeons - invite her to attend a conference with them in the south of France, she can't believe her luck. It's certainly the holiday of a lifetime - but not quite in the way Evie imagined! -
Add to BasketSacrifice
£11.04
- Paperback - Century
Afghanistan, 2008. A helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. The CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd squad to rescue their lost operative. But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict.
