New Arrivals - Secondhand

Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated ""nature"" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of thinking...

In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A vast network of...

From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines...

'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left...A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could...

DS Kerr and DCI Jacobson can discern no obvious motive for the murder of Dr Roger Harvey. He didn't do serious drugs, didn't have a criminal record, and he wasn't...

In her work as a researcher, Brodie Farrell has only one rule - no missing people. But when the request to find someone comes from Superindentent Jack Deacon, Brodie finds...

The brothers of the abbey of St Martin's-in-the-Marsh pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of...

Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and...

From Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer . . . With A Fall from Grace , Robert Barnard triumphs once again with a witty tale of family...

After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...

Following the success of his memoirs "The Time of My Life", Denis Healey turns his attention in this lively and penetrating collection of essays to the themes which underlie the...

An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in...

Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material....

A short account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation. The author argues that though there were trading and cultural interactions between the two during...

The book titled Linen: Hand Spinning and Weaving by the author Patricia Baines. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...

The book titled Sade My Neighbour by the author Pierre Klossowski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway by the author John Dunning. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Death Down Home by the author Eve K Sandstrom. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding-author of "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder"-here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two...

Traces the life of the influential British writer who paved the way for modernism, and discusses his ideas and their reception by his contemporaries.

The book titled Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the by the author Jack F Matlock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by the author Nina Berberova. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Turnaround: A Memoir by the author Milos Forman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching...

This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried. As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and...

The book titled Taming a Sea-horse by the author Robert B. Parker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Plants may live in places that provide too little rainfall, yet they thrive, either by evading drought, like the animals that live in deserts, or by tolerating the scarcity. There...

In the 1940s and 1950s, Australian pulp fiction jostled with magazines and comics at newsstands. Tariffs kept the local industry cheap and viable and offered Australian writers national and international...

This criss-cross study, the first of its kind, arranges a shotgun wedding between cliches and coinages - the old (that refuses to die), and new (that often quickly fades). Not...

The book titled Wycliffe and the Last Rites by the author W. J. Burley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937...

Richter's personal Journals constitute an unparalleled witness to the music of our time. These are the private thoughts of a nonconformist, one of the greatest performers of the century, yet...

The book titled Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury by the author William Urry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The study of oxygen transfer in animals and plants represents a large and diverse field of research, covering not only different levels of organisation ranging from the whole organism through...

The book titled Head First by the author William Leonard Marshall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Lenin and the End of Politics by the author A. J. Polan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera...

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Louis MacNeice by the author Reader in English Literature Jon Stallworthy (Oxford University). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Behind the Scenes at the Museum by the author Kate Atkinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece "Invisible Man." In 1953, Ellison's explosive story...

Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the twentieth century and his letters are a literary treasure-trove of the man and his world, as...

MAGIC. POWER. GREED. The ultra-rich control magic-the same way they control everything else-but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the...

The book titled The Quincunx by the author Charles Palliser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the story of how four people, grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above a greengrocer's shop on Shepherd's Bush Green in West London, launched a...