Second Hand Books

Synopsis “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part o...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...

Synopsis Subtitled : Why the world looks the way it does. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, b...

Synopsis The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas fa...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Orange & Booker prizes. First in a series of 3 novels. Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001. The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. In outward f...

Synopsis Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Les...