Second Hand Books

Synopsis Whitbread Award for Fiction Winner. A Scottish miner fights for a better life for his son . . . . . . 'His face made a fist at the world. ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Fol...

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 Ever accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while partaking in a spot of DIY? Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobb...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current ...

Synopsis Endorsed by Amnesty International. A young adult novel about two transgender teens who figure out how to navigate life with help from ea...

Synopsis A hypnotic, unforgettable Gothic page-turner. One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-...

Synopsis Edited by W. Gordon Smith. A collection of paintings by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, whose style calls to mind the days of Bogart's H...

Synopsis The turn of the Nineteenth Century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles e...

Synopsis Subtitled : Pancakes from around the World. Everyone loves pancakes and with Flipping Good! you can make them a regular occurrence, with...

Synopsis A compelling emotional drama of love and guilt that grips from the very first moments, by the UK's bestselling women's fiction author. Luk...

Synopsis Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard tim...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling st...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of The British Isles. A magisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day...

Synopsis Edited with an Introduction by Ian A. Gordon. "The Provost" is a novel written in 1822 by John Galt. He was a Scottish novelist and he h...

Synopsis Subtitled : Scienc-y Stuff Staring You In The Face. Let the brains behind the hugely successful Festival of the Spoken Nerd take you on ...

Synopsis 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving ...

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of ...

.Synopsis Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrifie...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City. Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are...

Synopsis Maestra #1. The Global Thriller Phenomenon. By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a ho...

Synopsis After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready - an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning com...

Synopsis Filled with advice on how to count calories effectively, this unique weight-loss guide features tables that reveal the nutritional value...

Synopsis A strange virus is sweeping the globe.Humans have become allergic to one another.Simply standing next to somebody could be a death sente...