Second Hand Books (Condition - Very Good)

Synopsis 'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of...

Synopsis The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is...

Synopsis One of the great minds of the 19th Century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was responsible for some of the most impressive engineering feats of h...

Synopsis Book of The Year - National Book Awards. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of b...

Synopsis Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', `Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from a...

Synopsis Antonia Fraser - Editor. In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and...

Synopsis Patricia Nicol - Sucking Eggs . . . What your wartime granny could teach you about diet, thrift & going green. In our age of globalisa...

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 A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smil...

Synopsis Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. A comprehensive history of cancer - one o...

Synopsis A scorching hot global thriller with more suspicion than Homeland and more twists and turns than Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Red Sparro...

Synopsis Tracing its origins back to the great Somerled, Raymond Campbell Paterson charts the steady ascent of Clan Donald to the zenith of its pow...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston...

Synopsis Running to the limits of human endurance. For those who are not content to run merely 26.2 miles, there is ultramarathoning. Some of the b...

Synopsis The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once alr...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis Subtitled : How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read. Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever publ...

Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...