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Author: Nick Hornby
Condition: 10/10
Published Date: 2005

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has , in his own words, 'messed his life away'. And on New Years Eve he's going to end it all... But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.

Author: Graham Lord 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 1997
Pages: 470

"Laugh? I burst the buttons off my bodystocking."
Val Hennessy...Some people will go to a house party. Some to a restaurant. Maybe celebrate with friends or spend it with family. There is a myriad of options for New Years Eve 2000. Stella Barrett, editor of Celebrity magazine is not going to settle for any of these choices. She will host the most spectacular party the world has ever known. She plans to invite 2,000 Top celebrities to join her, and her magazine, to welcome in the year 2000.

'Hornby's sharp observations and his quirky comedic instincts ensure that our journey is entertaining, funny - and occasionally affecting' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.

Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 225

Atomised tells the story of two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions.

Author: Nick Griffiths
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 288

Dalek I Loved You looks like it's going to plough the same well-worn material as other seventies memoirs, such as those written by Andrew Collins. Actually - this one is far superior to any of the others in this genre. It's funny, genuine, and Griffiths comes over as a really decent bloke who can't believe his good fortune to be earning a living writing about stuff he loves.

Author: Laura Zigman
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 1999
Pages: 247
In her hilarious and heartbreaking new novel, Laura Zigman, bestselling author of Animal Husbandry, explores what happens when the life we've chosen isn't that life we expected it to be. And at this point Ellen Franck is rethinking all her choices.

Author: Kate Atkinson 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 402
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2003

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is illuminated , which won the national Jewish book award and the Guardian first book award, and extemely loud and incredibly close. He is also the editor of A convergence of birds, a tribute to the work of the American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. He lives is Brooklyn, New York..

Author: Imogen Edward-Jones
Condition: 10/10
Published Date: 2004

Author: Ayelet Waldman
Condition: 8/10
Published Date: 2006

Falling in love with Jack was so easy, I had assumed that falling in love with his son would be just as effortless ...

Who says you have to love you step - child?

Author: Bob Graham
Condition: 8/10
Published Date: 2005

It's not easy being the son of flying superheroes- you're suppose to hover... and hurtle... and swoop like a bird.

Max, it seems, is just an ordinary boy. Will he ever be ready to fly?

Author: Stephen Clarke
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 381

Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him crossing the USA in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Adding to the crush in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend Jake whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.

Author: Olivia Lichtenstein 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 307
Here's the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner (with a delectable accent). Add a craving for adventure plus a few drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in Olivia Lichtenstein's sparkling and sharply observed comedy of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be deliciously volatile.

Author: Michael Snyder 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 368
In his debut novel, Snyder offers a hearty dose of lad lit. Russell Fink sells copiers—a job he hates—and is engaged to a controlling wannabe actress he doesn't love. He still lives at home, has lost faith in his televangelist, miracle-working father and occasionally doses the family dog with alcohol from his mother's stash.

Author: Alasdair Gray 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1992
Pages: 316

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean.

What strange secret made beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter,  irresistible to the poor medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her queen origin in the home of monstrous Godwin Baxter, the genious whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of love and scientific daring storms through Victorian operating theatres, continental Casinos and a Parisian brothel to its happy end in a decent, old- fashioned Scottish marriage. 

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Author: Nalie Maclean 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 279

Author: Adriana Trigiani
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 387
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and home decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale of a small Italian American town poised for a makeover it never expected.

Author: Anholt/ Robins 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2002
Pages: 63

This collection of seriously silly stories puts a new - and very, very funny - spin on some tales that we all know and love. Will Cinderboy get to the Cup Final? Will Eco-Wolf manage to prevent the three pigs building luxury homes in his peaceful valley? And will the Emperor dare to be bare once again? With easy-to-read text and black and white illustrations that make the stories even more entertaining, Seriously Silly Stories, by the award-winning author Laurence Anholt, provide the ideal introduction to the pleasure of books for young readers.

Author: John van de Ruit
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages:341

Note: Read once, well looked after.

Hilarious, bitter-sweet, tragic and real, join Spud as he takes another tentative step forward while all around him the madness continues... ' Triumphantly funny! A scintillating sequel to Spud that will make you weep with laughter and read passages out loud to all your friends.'