Second Hand Books

Synopsis The Winner of The Orange Prize 2012. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of Ki...

Synopsis From bestselling author Colleen Hoover, comes a novel about risking everything for love - and finding your heart somewhere between the t...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Bestseller. Woman & Home Book Club Choice. Ambition can be deadly! On a beautiful private island off the coast of t...

Synopsis A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret betw...

Synopsis The New York Times Number 1 Bestseller. On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palac...

Synopsis Introduced by Hilary Mantel. In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2020. Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts ...

Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his belo...

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

Synopsis A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. In the Eternal City, no secret stays hid...

Synopsis The New York Times Bestseller. Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated that his intention...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis A magical story of motherly love and the bonds of love between us from the number one bestselling author of Songs of Love and War. Celeste...

Synopsis A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart . . . the stunning novel of love and secr...

Synopsis Winner - The Sunday Times Young Writer of The Year. Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student ...

Synopsis Spread over two generations, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata is based in the English Colony of Hurlingham in Argentina and in Dorset from the 194...

Synopsis Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf's exquisite final novel, is a deeply affecting love story, adapted into a film starring Jane Fonda and Robe...

Synopsis A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of...

Synopsis "In the chaos of our family's self-destruction he had quietly and unassumingly made himself present and though I could hardly recall a con...

Synopsis After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy Fre...

Synopsis Almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Tristão Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Le...

Synopsis Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a magical fable about learning ...

Synopsis “This is not a story about old people,” Bernard MacLaverty told the Guardian, “It’s the story of two young people who got old and they hav...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...