New Hardback Books

Kenneth Steven / Island (Hardback)

Over the past 20 years, Kenneth Steven has become one of the country's most popular poets. Drawing on a quiet Celtic spirituality and a love of wild Scotland, his engaging poetry offers us something...

Ludwig von Mises / The Theory of Money and Credit (Hardback)

The Theory of Money and Credit integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh, new insights into the nature of money and its role in the...

William Ryan / The Holy Thief (Hardback)

Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated Church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dimitrevich...

Rhiannon Guy / The Shakespeare Companion (Hardback)

Within these pages are hundreds of facts and stories about the Bard of Avon. Discover, for example, the ongoing quest to translate his entire works into Klingon. Here, too, are memorable extracts...

George Theohari / The Cyclist's Companion (Hardback)

The history of cycling has had an immense influence on the technologies, industries and sports events of today and it still remains a popular form of transport."The Cyclist's Companion" is a...

Joss Ackland / My Better Half and Me (Hardback)

Rosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen. For the next fifty-eight years, through happiness and heartache, she continued to write. Even after the tragic onset of Motor...

Megan Hess / Paris: Through a Fashion Eye (Hardback)

Paris is an illustrated guide to one of the world's most-loved fashion cities by one of the world's most-successful fashion illustrators. In the second of her series of books on classic fashion...

Catherine Millet / Jealousy (Hardback)

Catherine Millet’s best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book—a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as “eloquent, graphic—and...

Catherine Saunders / Star Wars: The Story Of Darth Vader (Hardback)

Star Wars™: The Story of Darth Vader combines DK's new three-level reading scheme with the successful Star Wars brand, and will help children learn how to read - and learn to love reading. For...

John Mingers / Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems (Hardback)

  As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated...

Jacqueline Bellefontaine / Barbecue (Hardback)

This comprehensive and inspirational cook

Elias Canetti / Party in the Blitz (Hardback)

A stunning and unexpected new volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. A surprise gift to celebrate the Nobel Laureate's 100th birthday.Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, at 85, beset by the desire to...

Peter Leslie / Baltic Commando (Hardback)

Webster was reckless, unorthodox, a daredevil with no respect for authority and a tireless womaniser. But he got results, and as a Special Services major, that was all that mattered. His latest train...

Fabrizio Blini / Mamma Mia (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Dorothy Koomson / La hija de mi mejor amiga (Hardback)

When Kamryn "Ryn" Matika gets a call from college friend Adele "Del" Brannon, she reluctantly heads to the hospital where Adele is dying of cancer. The two had been odd couple friends (working-class...

Mary Higgins Clark / The Lost Years (Hardback)

In her long career as America’s most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if...

Tamar Adler / An Everlasting Meal (Hardback)

Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf — written in 1942 during wartime shortages— An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.Through the...

Tim Winton / Breath (Hardback)

A modern classic of Australian literature. A deep meditation on the entrance to adulthood and the broken promises of adolescence. Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the...

Joni Sensel / The Humming of Numbers (Hardback)

Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living...

Michael E. Gerber / E-Myth Mastery (Hardback)

The bestselling author of the phenomenally successful essential entrepreneur handbook The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entreprenuerial management and leadershipIn this practical,...

Gee & Mike Seabrook / Turf accounts (Hardback)

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John Lahr / Dame Edna Everage (Hardback)

In 1989, the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges in this title is an account of the act and a portrait of the...

AP / The Enchanted Little Egg (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Jean Trumpington / Coming Up Trumps (Hardback)

In this characteristically trenchant memoir, a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal...

Ivan Klima / Lovers for a Day (Hardback)

A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a...

Wil Tirion / Night Sky Almanac 2025 (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Michael Andre Bernstein / Conspirators (Hardback)

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of...

Justin Haythe / The Honeymoon (Hardback)

The first time that Gordon meets Annie they make love in a park. Soon afterwards, on the forty-fourth anniversary of D-Day, they are married. Gordon, though American-born, has never had a home;...

Tyler Anbinder / Five Points (Hardback)

Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln, and brings to...

Victor Pelevin / Homo Zapiens (Hardback)

In post-Soviet Russia, a man tamed Tartarsky is hired as a copywriter to help push new products on the populace. A former clerk in a shop, Tartarsky is overwhelmed by the success of his efforts, and...

George Klein / Elvis: My Best Man (Hardback)

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK...

Philip Davison / The Illustrator (Hardback)

Lawrence Butler, a commercial illustrator in London, is desperately seeking his wife, who has walked out on him, leaving behind a reminder to water the plants. Disconsolate, Lawrence designs British...

Eduardo Galeano / Hunter of Stories (Hardback)

This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez / The Secret History of Costaguana (Hardback)

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and...

Zsuzsa Bank / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater...

Martin M. Simecka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has b

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and...