Second Hand Books

Synopsis Subtitled : The Day-by-Day Story. A chronological list of events in The Who's career. The introduction describes it like this: "Virtually ...

Synopsis Book of The Year - National Book Awards. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of b...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Essential Guide To The Scottish Referendum. A truly important book. It offers a huge sweep of history and deals with recen...

Synopsis Sub-Titled : The Zoo Quest Expeditions. The Sunday Times Bestseller. In 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was of...

Synopsis Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', `Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from a...

Synopsis Antonia Fraser - Editor. In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and...

Synopsis Patricia Nicol - Sucking Eggs . . . What your wartime granny could teach you about diet, thrift & going green. In our age of globalisa...

Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis Following on from the critically acclaimed Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland, Iain MacWhirter casts hi...

Synopsis Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yo...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Fully Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Fishing. Hundreds of tips and illustrations help the novice or advanced angler select ...

Synopsis Think what is at stake. The right we have to speak and think freely . . . all that would be destroyed. That is worth fighting for, don’t y...

Synopsis A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smil...

Synopsis Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. A comprehensive history of cancer - one o...

Synopsis Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Bri...

Synopsis Tracing its origins back to the great Somerled, Raymond Campbell Paterson charts the steady ascent of Clan Donald to the zenith of its pow...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston...

Synopsis Subtitled : Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon. Running to the limits of human endurance. For those who are not content to run mer...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Big Yin on the ultimate road trip. Scotland's best-loved comedian heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an...

Synopsis Border Trilogy #1. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the...

Synopsis The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once alr...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...