Fiction

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have endured with such grace and ferocity as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's razor-sharp portrait of manners, matrimony, and self-deception...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most savage and brilliant works of satirical fiction ever written, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels chronicles the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver — ship's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet along the banks of the River Floss in rural England, The Mill on the Floss chronicles the turbulent life of Maggie Tulliver, a fiercely intelligent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA masterwork of savage wit and unflinching psychological realism, The Way of All Flesh is Samuel Butler's searing semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles four generations of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOn the wild and desolate moors of Yorkshire, a love story unfolds that is as brutal as it is transcendent — Wuthering Heights chronicles the all-consuming,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the cold, unforgiving silence of deep space, survival is never guaranteed — and in Breathing Space Only, Wynne Whiteford crafts a taut, atmospheric...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when a brilliant, manipulative mind decides to test the strength of human love and moral conviction? Published in 1970, Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the quiet English village of Cranford, where propriety reigns supreme and genteel poverty is worn with dignified grace, a cast of indomitable women navigate the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works of English literature match the sheer ambition and elegance of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the...

Edition: 2026100012244Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: light foxing on the book blocks and prelims; Nevil Shute began his career as...

Secondhand Bernard Knight Crowner John Bargain Book Box SP4124 Fourteen Bernard Knight Crowner John mysteries in the Pocket Books editions with the illuminated covers: Sir John de Wolfe, coroner of...

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4116 Twenty-one SF paperbacks across forty years: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars, Hal Clement, Barrington Bayley, Haldeman, Lafferty, two Amtrak Wars, Lawhead’s Empyrion omnibus,...

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4117 Twenty-four fantasy paperbacks with a strong 1980s spine: all six Thomas Covenant books from Lord Foul’s Bane to White Gold Wielder, four C.J. Cherryhs...

Secondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP4149 Twenty-one literary paperbacks, most in vintage Penguin Modern Classics: Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson’s Ultima Thule, Patrick White’s...

Secondhand Penguin Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4289 Fifteen vintage paperbacks, mostly Penguin and Pelican, on sagas, sex, zen and the Scots: the Vinland and Laxdaela Sagas, the Bhagavad Gita, Alan...

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4285 Eighteen recent literary novels in near-new condition, several of them publisher’s proofs: Colson Whitehead twice (The Nickel Boys proof and Crook Manifesto), Patricia...

Secondhand Young Adult Fantasy & Adventure Bargain Book Box SP4281 Fifteen YA novels: The Hunger Games, two Percy Jacksons, Ranger’s Apprentice book one, The School for Good and Evil, Maximum...

Secondhand Vintage Hardback Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4101 Twenty mid-century hardbacks, all in dust jackets: John Fowles’s The Collector, Irwin Shaw’s Lucy Crown, Harold Robbins’s 79 Park Avenue, two Kathleen...

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4287 Seventeen fantasy paperbacks with the big names of the 1990s and 2000s: Tolkien’s Fellowship, Two Towers and Silmarillion in the black Harper editions, four...

Secondhand Language & Reference Bargain Book Box SP4286 Fifteen books about words, most hardback: Brewer’s Phrase and Fable 18th edition, the Concise Oxford Quotations, Penguin Modern Quotations, the New Oxford...

Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4288 Twelve picture books, mostly paperback and mostly recent: two Julia Donaldsons (Tyrannosaurus Drip and The Paper Dolls), Nick Bland’s The Wrong Book, Leila...

Secondhand Poetry & Drama Bargain Book Box SP4155 Twenty volumes of poetry and plays, with six Shaws and Eliots in the original Penguin and Faber editions, Four Quartets in the...

Secondhand Vintage Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4145 Twenty-four paperbacks, nearly all vintage Penguins and Sun Books from the 1960s and 70s: Greene’s Travels with My Aunt, Updike’s Rabbit, Run, Steinbeck’s...

Secondhand Romantasy Bargain Book Box SP4107 Fifteen romantasy novels in near-new condition, most hardback: Samantha Shannon’s Among the Burning Flowers, R.F. Kuang’s The Dragon Republic, two Rebecca Rosses, two S.F....

Secondhand Horror Bargain Book Box SP4118 Eighteen horror paperbacks, with six Stephen Kings including It, Cujo, The Green Mile, Desperation and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Peter Straub’s Ghost...

Secondhand Drama & Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119 Twenty-four Penguin plays and classics: Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinter, Miller’s Crucible, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Wilde, Ben Jonson, Thornton Wilder, Richard II, three volumes of...

Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4140 Twenty classics and Australian titles in mixed editions: Patrick White’s Voss, Henry Kingsley’s Geoffry Hamlyn, We of the Never-Never, Castaneda’s Don Juan, du...

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4139 Twenty recent novels, nearly all in near-new paperback: Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft, Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women,...

Secondhand Mary Higgins Clark Bargain Book Box SP4137 Twenty-three Mary Higgins Clark paperbacks and hardbacks, from her first book While My Pretty One Sleeps through to the Alafair Burke collaborations...

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4133 Twenty-seven fantasy paperbacks and hardbacks: the complete Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales; A Game of Thrones and A...

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4134 Twenty-four fantasy paperbacks with a 1990s spine: four Katharine Kerr Deverrys, four Jean Auel Earth’s Children, three L.E. Modesitts, three Stephen Lawheads, R. Scott...

Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4103 Thirteen picture books, nearly all hardback, with Jackie French and Bruce Whatley’s three Australian disaster books (Flood, Drought, Cyclone), the Beatrix Potter Treasury...

Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4112 Twelve picture books with a comedy streak: Mums Don’t Fart, Okay!!, Do Not Open This Book Ever, Smelly Bill Stinks Again, Nick Bland’s...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: gift edition in slipcase; illustrated endpapers; appears unreadIn a world where magic is hidden in plain sight, an orphaned boy sleeping under...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodWhat if the sharpest critic of Georgian England were not a native son, but a fictional Chinese philosopher writing home with bemused, devastating wit? First...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon can claim the enduring power and vivid humanity of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales — a magnificent collection...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodThere is a particular art to the after-dinner story — the perfectly timed anecdote, the slow-burn wit, the punchline that lands like a well-placed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: good for age - worn and frayed boards with some discolouration; pages -...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn and frayed boards with light soiling; binding fragilel...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodNew York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the sun-scorched island of Crete lies a labyrinth said to be the prison of the Minotaur —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the blood-soaked landscape of the First World War, two young people discover that love and loyalty are...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark of American literature, A Boy's Own Story is a luminous and achingly honest coming-of-age narrative set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched deserts of Central Asia, a vanished city holds the secrets of an entire civilisation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA king undone by his own pride — Shakespeare's Richard II stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet the Ruggles — a boisterous, warm-hearted working-class family living on One End Street, where Mr. Ruggles is...