Second Hand Books

Synopsis Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelv...

Synopsis When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and glori...

Synopsis For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then doze...

Synopsis Published to coincide with a major BBC series, Faulks on Fiction is an engaging and opinionated look at the psychology of the British thro...

Synopsis With introduction & chronology. Full of beautiful illustrations, this book is an indispensable guide to the rich mythical world of Mid...

Synopsis The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible...

Synopsis Antonia Fraser - Editor. In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and...