Second Hand Books

Synopsis Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and ex...

Synopsis After crashing and burning during his PhD viva, Mason Ambrose is offered a large amount of money to come to the Isla de Sangre to instru...

Synopsis A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001. 'T...

Synopsis When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty ...

Synopsis This impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best-known thought ...

Synopsis Translated by Christina MacSweeney. Winner Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-monde (2012).Winner Insular Book Award (France, 2012). It was...

Synopsis The Witch of Portobello is a fiction work by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho published in 2006, about a woman born in Transylvania to a Roma...

Synopsis "I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all . . ." This is the story of two brothers - one impassioned and one reserved...

Synopsis The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #3 The Prisoner of Heaven is a 2011 book written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Originally published in Spanish, it...

Synopsis What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who th...

Synopsis A novel about love and grief, music and myth, and about the way society treats its least fortunate. Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his ...

Synopsis Pål has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to repay on his modest civil servant sala...

Synopsis This book 'transitions' the split between Iain Banks' non-sci-fi output & Iain M. Banks' vast space operas, presenting a sci-fi tale w...

Synopsis Winner - Booker Prize 2018. In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwante...

Synopsis Winner of the August Prize for Fiction. Jonas Hassen Khemiri has crafted an enthralling jigsaw-puzzle of a book. Part love story, part ref...

Synopsis Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not here. I...

Synopsis No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman....

Synopsis Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a hi...

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 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 The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. Winner of the Man Booker Prize in literature. A Sund...