Second Hand Books

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award. In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestsell...

Synopsis Eileen is sick of being 79.Leena's tired of life in her twenties.Maybe it's time they swapped places . . . When overachiever Leena Cotton ...

Synopsis On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are kill...

Synopsis The Book of Strange New Things is a 2014 science fiction novel by Dutch-born author Michel Faber. The work was first published in the Unit...

Synopsis Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The work was first serialized in Scrib...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Follo...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current gl...

Synopsis A hypnotic, unforgettable Gothic page-turner. One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-en...

Synopsis The turn of the Nineteenth Century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles eme...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling stor...

Synopsis 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving he...

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Br...

Synopsis A WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program. It's November 1944 - Wil...

Synopsis Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrified...

Synopsis Maestra #1. The Global Thriller Phenomenon. By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a ho...

Synopsis After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready - an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning commu...

Synopsis A strange virus is sweeping the globe.Humans have become allergic to one another.Simply standing next to somebody could be a death sentenc...

Synopsis Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Short...

Synopsis The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one volu...

Synopsis Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smouldering...

Synopsis In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barður,...

Synopsis In the debut novel Dreams & Shadows, screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill takes us beyond the veil, through the lives ...

Synopsis Head for the Edge, Keep Walking absorbs you into the eccentric world of Jill Beech, whose friends are finally getting their lives together...