Second Hand Books

Synopsis At 19, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman at the University of Texas with $1,000 and has since built an industry powerhouse. I...

Synopsis Will Hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be ordered. To understand the global eco...

Synopsis Baedeker's France - A very comprehensive A-Z gazetteer of towns and places of interest in France, with locations and opening times. The bo...

Synopsis Recently discovered, and with an introduction by Johnny Depp, this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel: ...

Synopsis With an Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley F.R.S. The sequel to Born Free - the astonishing 2nd part of the story of Joy Adamson's friendsh...

Synopsis Dr. Phil D' Amato returns following The Silk Code, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, with another bl...

Synopsis This is an exploration of the 21st Century. On the surface nothing seems to be changing, but behind the façade of normality the future is ...

Synopsis In the best tradition of The Book of Lists, and enhanced by contributions from commentators from the footballing world, footballers themse...

Synopsis Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband's work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990's, she re...

Synopsis Code to Zero is a fast-paced, espionage thriller from number one bestselling author Ken Follett, author of the Kingsbridge series. Three d...

Synopsis The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote ...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis Amazon revolutionized the way the world buys books. And now, after having toppled the bookselling giants (and mostly everyone else) on-lin...

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...

Synopsis After revealing his incredible achievements in the bestselling Cold, Sir Ranulph Fiennes reveals what it's like to live - and survive - in...

Synopsis The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate guide to East Africa's best known destination. From the live music in Nairobi to the Turkana over...

Synopsis Two of Scotland's leading political voices vivisect Scotland's psyche. Tom Brown and Henry McLeish demand that a country in crisis take ra...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

Synopsis Yambo, a sixty-ish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever...

Synopsis One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific...

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...