Second Hand Books

Synopsis A guide to 52 days out in Scotland, with over 200 things to do and places to go. Written by the Broons family, its full of wee stories, p...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014. 'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dre...

Synopsis A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism ...

Synopsis A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Theo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his earnest younger sister Maud step off the tr...

Synopsis Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall for The Reader on the 6.27 comes Jean-P...

Synopsis Hugh Whittington has gone missing - reported dead while filming near Mount Everest. Determined to find him, his brother Charles embarks on...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life. Sticklers unite! The Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern ma...

Synopsis Olive Kitteridge is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. It presents a portrait of the title character and a number of recurring c...

Synopsis Subtitled : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in ...

Synopsis Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma...

Synopsis Comic novel about old age and the trouble which such a state brings. Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis...

Synopsis Pål has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to repay on his modest civil servant sala...

Synopsis Subtitled : A journey to the cultural heart of Denmark. From Lego to Lund . . . a short introduction to the state of Denmark. Denmark was ...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by American author George R.R. Martin. It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River, beginnin...

Synopsis A Delicate Truth is a 2013 spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2008 and 2011, the book features a British/American covert mission in Gibral...

Synopsis This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith. In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlic...

Synopsis The Twelve is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Cronin and is the second novel in The Passage trilogy, following the novel The Passage. In his...

Synopsis Amazon's #1 Book of the Year 2014 & New York Times Bestseller. Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inher...

Synopsis Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal h...

Synopsis Introduced by John Burns. A lesser known Science Fiction Classic. This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bomb...

Synopsis There are five races of tiger on our planet and all but one live in tropical regions: the Siberian Tiger, Panthera tigris altaica, is the ...

Synopsis Author : Peter Kent. Subtitled : And a reference for the rest of us. Why do some sites pop to the top when you search? How do you make you...

Synopsis Consultant : Dr. Alan Watkins. Information needed to solve or live with asthma and allergies is offered in this guide. The issue is exami...