Second Hand Books

Synopsis The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable as...

Synopsis The International Bestseller - over 300,000 copies sold. A delightful and quirky story about Monsieur Jean Perdu’s Literary Apothecary: a ...

Synopsis The Number 1 International Bestseller. Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and ...

Synopsis Subtitled : How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read. Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever publ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Stories And Transcripts Of The Moments That Made History. Introduction : Simon Sebag Montefiore. Speeches that Changed the...

Synopsis This new Rough Guide To Superheroes brings you the mind-bending truth about the fantasy world's bravest and baddest, telling you all you n...

Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis From the classic Greek origins of the world map, through the elaborately decorated manuscript maps and printed maps of the seventeenth and...

Synopsis The Girls' Bicycle Handbook is for women cyclists everywhere who need practical no-nonsense advice and information on cycling, and cycling...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...

Synopsis Tort, noun : a harmful act, or failure to act, which justifies legal action and the possibility of paying damages . . . The Office of the ...

Synopsis In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, o...

Synopsis The Global Number 1 Bestseller. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. Rachel catches the ...

Synopsis John Grisham's 1st foray into Non-Fiction crime writing - an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the major league dra...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Bestseller. A richly moving novel - the first since the author’s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, Th...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Booker Prize. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -...

Synopsis An anthology of Scottish fiction, ranging from the traditional to the modern. James Kelman, Alasdair Gray and Candia McWilliam have been j...

Synopsis Humanity's Fire #3 The future hangs in the balance as conflict rages across the planet's surface and, in the skies above, interstellar pow...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...