Second Hand Books

Synopsis This is a fascinating, extremely well written and nuanced explanation of the Spanish Civil War. Amid the many catastrophes of the twenti...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of 1111 Years & One Day. A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. At the end ...

Synopsis Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed bestseller, now in paperback, James Hawes tells the story of Europe's mo...

Synopsis Winner of The English Pen Award. Translated by Marta Dziurosz. A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Brexit & The Politics of Pain. With a New Afterword : Amity Island: The Unsettling of a Nation. A fierce, mordantly funn...

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops....

Synopsis Subtitled : Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940. Part of The Pelican History of Art Series edited by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Profes...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the spring of 1993,...

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

Synopsis Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan P...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis Subtitled : Venice in The 19th Century. An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice l...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People. Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery...

Synopsis Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James first published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over ne...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

Synopsis On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armoured Division crossed the River Our and entered Hitler's Third Reich - th...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis Full Title : The Somme - The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs. The offensive on the Somme took place between July a...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2018. A Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2019. The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland dur...

Synopsis It all started with a long distance cycle ride. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their ...

Synopsis The British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2017. Winner :Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.JQ-Wingate Literary Prize.Hay Fes...

Synopsis Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while ignit...