Second Hand Books

Synopsis Robin Oakley shares 40 years' worth of stories and anecdotes from his life as one of Britain's best-known turf enthusiasts. Join him as ...

Synopsis Subtitled : How nearly dying made me a better intensive care doctor. Dr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospit...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2009. Subtitled : A Life in Mountain Rescue. In Cairngorm John (his call sign when in contact ...

Synopsis Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden a...

Synopsis The Times Memoir of The Year. The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Cor...

Synopsis The New York Times Number 1 Best Seller. This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gi...

Synopsis 31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island discs. Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, N...

Synopsis In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Ma...

Synopsis Isabel Allende describes in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than...

Synopsis Subtitled : My Life With The Greatest Rock Band of The 20th Century. Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of r...

Synopsis Edited by Charlotte Mosley. The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and...

Synopsis There are five races of tiger on our planet and all but one live in tropical regions: the Siberian Tiger, Panthera tigris altaica, is the ...

Synopsis On 22 July 2012 Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. 10 days later at the London Olympic G...

Synopsis By turns fascinating, shocking and funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator. M. ...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the National Book Awards. Longlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Autobio...

Synopsis 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't eve...

Synopsis Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly f...

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 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 'In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Travels Through My Childhood. Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent ...

Synopsis Memiors #2 Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. I...

Synopsis On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Pa...

Synopsis Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book ...