Second Hand Books

Synopsis Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coas...

Synopsis Have you ever felt like something is holding you back? That other people seem to breeze through life, but self-doubt and insecurity prev...

Synopsis From eyewitness accounts of the first post-war operations in Malaya in the 1950's to a controversial blueprint for the organisation's fu...

Synopsis In a world of Google Earth, in which it is easy to believe that every discovery has been made and every adventure already had, Off the M...

Synopsis A Song of Ice & Fire (A Game of Thrones) - Book #4 A Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven novels in the epic fantasy series A Song o...

Synopsis Subtitled : Recipes & Reflections From The Isle of Skye's World Famous Restaurant. Photographs by Alan Donaldson. Award winning chef...

Synopsis A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson. Calvin and Hobbes are at it again, and this time, our irrepressible friends are taki...

Synopsis Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick. Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It ...

Synopsis A Radio 2 Book Club Choice. Shortlisted for 'Best Novel' in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards. "Three hostages, one cafe and a man on the brink ...

Synopsis International Bestseller. Subtitled : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Dramatic & revealing real life cases - illness, surge...

Synopsis Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne on behalf of his exiled father ended with one of the quickest defeats in hi...

Synopsis From the bestselling author of The Midnight Library and The Humans, Reasons to Stay Alive is a touching and warmly humorous reflection o...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops....

Synopsis A novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter...

Synopsis Subtitled : Who Decides Right from Wrong ? Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Condu...

Synopsis Ever since people first took to the water, boats and ships have had a unique influence on our history. Ship unveils the drama, splendour...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with Britain's Most Evil Serial Killer. In February 1983 civil servant Dennis Nilsen was arrested after body p...

Synopsis Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful ...

Synopsis 4 x Blood-and-thunder Victorian mysteries (with just a touch of steampunk) from a genius we’d sell our souls to write like. Sally Lockha...

Synopsis Unsheltered is a 2018 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It follows two families living in the same house at two separate time periods in Vinel...

Synopsis You never forget the one that got away, do you? Nell Mason is extremely happy with her life - or at least, that’s what she tells herself...

Synopsis Cosmic Interruptions is a collection of speculative fiction by Joe R. Lansdale. The stories here have been grouped as part of a four par...

Synopsis Film Tie-In Edition. Based in Part on "Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and es...

Synopsis Subtitled :  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit ...