Second Hand Books

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2017. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's ...

Synopsis The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Adding...

Synopsis Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021. Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020. Winner of the Women's Pr...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2019. "They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I ...

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for July 2018. Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club. Shortlisted for The HWA Debut Crown. In 1627, B...

Synopsis 1468 . . . dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fa...

Synopsis From the Whitbread Award winning author of: A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award winning Restless, a sweeping, electrifying new novel ...

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019. Winner - Highland Book Prize. Somerset, 1809. A ravaged soldier drags himself across the thr...

Synopsis Shardlake #5 England, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is prepari...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year 2020. To s...

Synopsis Cato & Marco Book (Eagles of The Empire) Book #14 Now a Sunday Times bestseller! Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a c...

Synopsis With an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Shusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiec...

Synopsis From the creator of Downton Abbey. Now a major ITV drama. This is the story of a secret, A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors...

Synopsis Manchester, 1819. Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform. Mill-w...

Synopsis 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian ...

Synopsis All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of s...

Synopsis Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long ...

Synopsis  A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Theo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his earnest younger sister Maud step off the tr...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, Fools & Mortals takes us into the heart of the Elizab...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Bestseller. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by tell...

Synopsis Cromwell Trilogy #2 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. Winner of the Costa Book of The Year 2012. Bringing Up the Bodies is a historical...

Synopsis Winner of the 1970 the Lost Man Booker prize. Troubles is a modern classic by a superb writer. Insights into 20th Century life in Ireland,...

Synopsis A special 10th anniversary edition of the standalone bestseller, Winter in Madrid, by the author of the much-loved Shardlake series, C. J....