New Hardback Books

Gunter Grass / Too Far Afield (Hardback)

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen...

Michael March / Description of a Struggle (Hardback)

Gathers together prose from ten countries which seek cultural integration with the rest of Europe and brings to the fore the vitality and range of fiction from these Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia,...

Wayne Johnston / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Hardback)

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions.Joey...

Gerald Stern / This Time (Hardback)

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal...

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Peter Nadas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service...

Slavenka Drakulic / S. (Hardback)

A Bosnian woman who was repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in 1992 recalls the events as she prepares to give birth to a child conceived through their abuse of her.   This book is second hand, and...

Dubravka Ugresic / The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Hardback)

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former...

Jerzy Ficowski / Regions of the Great Heresy (Hardback)

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one...

Pavel Kohout / I Am Snowing (Hardback)

When Petra Marova is asked to help Professor Victor Kral, a returned exile and economic reformer, clear himself of charges of collaborating with the secret police, what she finds out causes her to...

Caroline Graham / Camilla (Hardback)

  The story of the secret affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Matthew Kelly / Off Balance (Hardback)

The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and...

Chloe Dalton / Jak wychowac zajaca (Hardback)

Historia kobiety i dzikiego zająca, który nauczył ją żyć inaczej.Wyobraź sobie, że trzymasz w dłoni małego zająca i karmisz go z butelki. Mieszka pod twoim dachem i nocą wpada w podskokach do twojej...

J.R. Moehringer / The Tender Bar (Hardback)

In a place that inspired Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, young J. R. Moehringer lives with his single mother and mercurial grandfather in a cramped home with a rather-too-colorful cast of strident...

Philip Reeve / Kevin vs the Unicorns (Hardback)

Max and his best friend Kevin, the only roly-poly flying pony in Bumbleford, decide to enter the Magical Pony Club Steeplechase. Kevin is not particularly keen, as the other participants are all...

Karen Casey / Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow (Hardback)

  Thirty years ago best-selling author Karen Casey (Each Day a New Beginning) wandered into a support group and learned there was only one thing she could change--herself She found a group of people...

Julie Garwood / Mercy (Hardback)

Julie Garwood created an electrifying tour de force in her suspense-charged bestseller Heartbreaker, a "crackling good thriller" "(New York Post) that pitted a relentless FBI agent against a madman...

Tian Tao / Huawei (Hardback)

The inspirational business story of how to go from start up to world leader in two decades… With over 170,000 employees in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than one-third of the...

David Zinczenko / The 8-Hour Diet (Hardback)

In The 8-Hour Diet, bestselling authors David Zinczenko and Peter Moore present a paradigm-shifting plan that allows readers to eat anything they want, as much as they want—and still strip away 20,...

Tess Gerritsen / I Know A Secret (Hardback)

I have a secret.And someone wants to make sure I never tell . . .In a house decorated with horror movie posters, a young woman's body is found. She lies on her bed, two bloodied objects clutched in...

Eleanor Cooney / Death in Slow Motion (Hardback)

"Azheimer's is death in slow motion," says Eleanor Cooney in this jarring and unsentimental memoir about caring for her mother, "and it has the ability to kill love while the person you love still...

Amanda Foreman / A World on Fire (Hardback)

In "A World on Fire" Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded Britain's support...

M.M. Vaughan / The Ability (Hardback)

Delve into the extraordinary abilities of the twelve-year-old mind in this thrilling start to a middle-grade series that expands the possibilities of power.No one has any confidence in...

Tim Pears / In the place of fallen leaves (Hardback)

Selected by BOMC as a candidate for the Best First Fiction Award of 1995, this stunning novel has received wide acclaim. This captivating debut novel roams the dry valley or a rural English village...

Kate Bottley / Have A Little Faith (Hardback)

In her first book, the nation's favourite vicar Kate Bottley reveals the surprising truth about what faith means to her and how, ultimately, it is the key to happiness. As a vicar she is often...

Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation (Hardback)

In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present...

Robert E. Litan / Trillion Dollar Economists (Hardback)

A detailed look at how economists shaped the world, and how the legacy continues Trillion Dollar Economists explores the prize-winning ideas that have shaped business decisions, business models, and...

Jennifer Craig / Yes Sister No Sister (Hardback)

A trainee nurse in the 1950s had a lot to bear. In Jennifer Craig's enchanting memoir, we meet these warm-hearted yet naïve young girls as they get to grips with strict discipline, long hours, and...

Charleen Hurtubise / The Polite Act of Drowning (Hardback)

The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers 'The Polite Act of Drowning is a beautiful and captivating novel, lyrical and sensuous, a precise and faithful evocation of the...

Gavin Lambert / Mainly About Lindsay Anderson (Hardback)

This is the story of Lindsay as a man and as movie director, film critic and documentaries. Famous for the 1968 movie "If" and "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Lived from 1923-1994.   This...

Neil Powell / Amis And Son (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...

Shylashri Shankar /Blood Caste (Hardback)

Is Jack the Ripper at large on the streets of Victorian India?Hyderabad, India, 1895. When three bodies are discovered with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to the Ripper’s Whitechapel...

Ted Simon / Rolling Through The Isles (Hardback)

From the bestselling author of 'Jupiter's Travels' and 'Dreaming of Jupiter' comes the inspiring story of Ted Simon's brand new adventure. Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted now rides through...

Lisa Williams / Life Among the Dead (Hardback)

The medium host of Lisa Life Among the Dead describes how her childhood in England was marked by her clairvoyant abilities, shares behind-the-scenes facts about her popular show, and describes her...

Bernard B. Kerik / The Lost Son (Hardback)

An intimate portrait of the courageous and honorable fortieth Police Commissioner of New York City details his mission to fight the injustice around him and to solve the mystery of his own mother,...

Randall Gibbons / In Their Own Words (Hardback)

Combines the autobiographical writings of the world's most famous writers, philosophers, poets, and national leaders including Julius Caesar, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, Charles...

J. Leigh Bralick / A Dark So Deep (Hardback)

Beloved prince, rebel, traitor……Tarik brought his country to the brink of war.Can he now bring peace before he loses his own sanity?With Hayli in the grips of the Science Ministry and his allies in...

Karen Grace Kassy / Health Intuition (Hardback)

"Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Health Category "A simple, straightforward guide for improving health and well-being by learning to hear and heed intuitive knowledge and...

James Atlas / My Life in the Middle Ages (Hardback)

Striving children, aging parents, job pressures, financial anxieties, physical ailments, generalized hope and dread―a memoir of middle age that is both literary and confessional What is the most...

Victor Gilbert Beers / Early Readers Bible (Hardback)

The Early Reader's Bible will have your child not only saying, "I can read it myself!" but also, “I can’t wait to read it again!” as they read the 64 beloved Bible stories. Using child-friendly words...

Robert Wilton / The Spider of Sarajevo (Hardback)

"From the secret archives of the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey. Summer 1914: Europe is on the brink. As Britain's enemies grow stronger, the Comptroller-General must confront the man...

Arnaldur Indridason / Strange Shores (Hardback)

Published now in twenty-six countries around the world, Inspector Erlendur joins Maigret, Morse, Wallander, and a handful of other world-famous policemen who provide must-reading for suspense fans...

Daniel Abraham / Blade of Dream (Hardback)

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure. This is Garreth’s.Garreth Left is heir to one of...