New Paperback Books

Morgan Robertson / The Wreck of the Titan

First published in 1898, a novel about the sinking of a supposedly unsinkable ocean liner. This fiction contains a series of parallels to the real-life sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but is...

Various / The Dead of Winter

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Henry James / In the Cage

Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As...

Gerhard Durlacher / Drowning

It is 1934 in Baden-Baden: silk-clad women come and go, as do the Mercedes in front of the plush hotels. A boy grows up and comes to consciousness at the same time that the red-and-black flags are...

Alasdair Gray / The Ends of Our Tethers

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last...

Mark Galeotti / The Vory

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in...

Andrey Kurkov / The Bickford Fuse

A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Michael Martin / RMS Lusitania

Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created which over time became the accepted truth of the incident. Many people today...

Edward Marston / Murder on the Lusitania

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage...

Owen Matthews / Overreach

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Rushton Rosie / Jessica

Jessica lives in a remote Welsh village, a place not conducive to a fourteen-year-old girl's social life. Dependent on her mobile phone and her parents' car, Jessica longs for a proper date with a...

Kevin Crossley-Holland / SHORT! A Book of Very Short Stories

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Geoffrey Megargee / Barbarossa 1941

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theatre. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts...

Lucette Matalon Lagnado / Children of the Flames

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel...

Nevil Shute / Ruined City

To the professional eye of a wealthy London banker, the forlorn northern shipyard town of Sharples is at the end of the road. But then Henry Warren meets the woman whose faith in the town's industry...

Josef Skvorecky / The Cowards

The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in...

Glenn Skwerer / The Tristan Chord

2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation 'Succeeds brilliantly... a gripping and disturbing portrait of the young Hitler' Simon Mawer, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Glass House...

Tom Standage / A History of the World in Six Glasses

New York Times Bestseller From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history. Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than simply quench our thirst. As...

Gregory Claeys / Marx and Marxism

An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it...

Peter Cave / The Big Think Book

What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from...

Emmanuel Carrere / Other Lives But Mine

Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary 'Compelling... Carrère has the gift of speaking simply and...

Peter Taylor / Operation Chiffon

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to...

Primo Levi / If This Is A Man/The Truce

Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary. Featuring a new introduction from the author of Jews Don't Count, David...

Deborah Baker / The Last Englishmen

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019 An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. John Auden was a...

Alan Bullock / Hitler and Stalin

A comparative study of the lives and careers of Hitler and Stalin. Alternate chapters on each serve both to draw contrasts and highlight parallels. The author gives his reasons for believing that the...

Stendhal / The Charterhouse of Parma

The French literary master's work depicting young Fabrizio's struggles to keep his love for Clelia a secret in the small court of Parma     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Ian McDermott / NLP and the New Manager

An accessible and practical guide to NLP - one of today's most increasingly used management tools. NLP is the study of exceptional talent; it is a method of coding and reproducing excellence that...

Jane Casey / The Secret Room

The new latest thrilling detective crime mystery novel from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Laurence Gane / Introducing Nietzsche

Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of...

John Strawson / The Battle for Italy

One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic history It could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John...

Ferdinand Mount / Full Circle

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world - its institutions, its...

Richard Greene / Russian Roulette

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Paul Glendinning / Maths in Minutes

Both simple and accessible, Maths in Minutes is a visually led introduction to 200 key mathematical ideas. Each concept is quick and easy to remember, described by means of an easy-to-understand...

Peter Jones / Eureka!

The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of...

Charles T Powers / In the Memory of the Forest

Set in a small Polish village, this novel revolves around the aftermath of a violent death in the hushed woods beyond the town. It tells of one town, one death and one man's tireless search for the...

Claude Simon / The Flanders Road

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant...

Noel Mostert / The Line Upon A Wind

In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland and by 1815, established dynasties and kingdoms were overthrown, the United States had been established as a world power and a new age was...

Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Modern Library prides itself as ''The modern Library of the world s Best Books''. Since 1917 its paperback series has featured treasured classics, major translations of great works, and...

Robert Endeacott / Dirty Leeds

1961. Dirty Leeds is a struggling industrialised city in the north of England. Dirty Leeds is the city's club, sometimes called a football team; its home ground Elland Road, rarely called a stadium...

Sebag Montefiore / Catherine the Great and Potemkin

'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Dunkirk

* * * S pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the...

Emil Draitser / Agent Dmitri

A sailor, artist, lawyer and writer, fluent in many languages, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the World Wars. He was a...

Bram Stoker / Bram Stoker's Dracula

Step into the chilling world of Count Dracula, the legendary vampire who haunts the shadows of Victorian England. Dracula is a Gothic horror masterpiece that unfolds through a series of diary...

Sam Kean / The Bastard Brigade

New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb     This book is second hand, and...

Richard Collier / The Sands of Dunkirk

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian...

W. B. Bartlett / The Dam Busters

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings. It was widely regarded as a precautionary measure,...

Lyn Smith / Heroes of the Holocaust

In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Lost in Shangri-La

An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...

Barney White Spunner / Partition

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Chris Petit / Mister Wolf

The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Butchers of Berlin, soon to be a TV series Berlin, July 1944, a world of illicit jazz clubs, sexually generous young women, suspect art...

Theodor Storm / Hans and Heinz Kirch

Three of Storm's novellas. The early love story Immensee, is grouped with first English translations of Journey to a Hallig, a complex, lyrical story of an outer and an inner journey, and the title...

Dinah Jefferies / The Greek House

escape to Corfu with the emotional, gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...