Second Hand Books

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 Running to the limits of human endurance. For those who are not content to run merely 26.2 miles, there is ultramarathoning. Some of the b...

Synopsis Scotland's best-loved comedian heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an unforgettable journey through America. Having alwa...

Synopsis Life at the heart of New Labour. Mandelson's past is explored from his early days as a child and how his grandfather as a Labour politicia...

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 Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski - moviegoers either love the C...

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...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis Mary Bergen is a successful clairvoyant who, along with help from her brother Alan and husband Max, aids the police in murder investigatio...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...

Synopsis Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plan...

Synopsis The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a pro...

Synopsis Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to wor...

Synopsis Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 19...

Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...