Second Hand Books

Synopsis Subtitled : A journey to the cultural heart of Denmark. From Lego to Lund . . . a short introduction to the state of Denmark. Denmark was ...

Synopsis A no-holds-barred, no-filter look at what social media is doing to us as a society, and how we can deconstruct the online fantasy to chang...

Synopsis Winner - The Orwell Prize 2018. People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Lo...

Synopsis A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Housekeeping and Lila, now including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with...

Synopsis From the rule-breaking authors of international bestsellers Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, this is the ultimate guide to how to Think...

Synopsis Edited by Dermot Bolger. Letters from the New Island comprises of a number of essays and opinion pieces all published as part of the pamph...

Synopsis Yunus posits that the panacea to poverty is a new business paradigm. Social business, he calls it. As you read his description of it, the ...

Synopsis What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less ...

Synopsis In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a...

Synopsis Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams. The tragi-com...

Synopsis Updated Edition. Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament mad...

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

Synopsis The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currentl...

Synopsis The phenomenal international bestseller - 2 million copies sold - that will change the way you make decisions. Why are judges more likely ...

Synopsis When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a ...

Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. The Audacity of Hype brings togeth...

Synopsis An international team of geographers and cartographers has complied and edited an immeasurable amount of information for this volume. Stru...

Synopsis Will Hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be ordered. To understand the global eco...

Synopsis The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives Why do so many of us love o...

Synopsis It's all in here . . . the ultimate reference book for it's time (2000). The Physical World, The Political World, The Continents, World Ec...

Synopsis This is an exploration of the 21st Century. On the surface nothing seems to be changing, but behind the façade of normality the future is ...

Synopsis Two of Scotland's leading political voices vivisect Scotland's psyche. Tom Brown and Henry McLeish demand that a country in crisis take ra...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...