New Arrivals - Secondhand

Ever since his first journey to Hollywood in 1987, director Mike Figgis has been intrigued by the workings of The System. As he progressed from his acclaimed US debut Internal...

A straightforward introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of the Earth.

Full of original contributions interviews and illustrations on one of the best-loved entertainers in showbiz Ronnie Barker is one of the best-loved and most celebrated entertainers in British television history....

Another compelling murder mystery set in the eighteenth century from the acclaimed author of The Grenadillo Box. Summer, 1765. The renowned portrait painter Joshua Pope is eager to escape London...

"Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."- The New York Times Book Review "Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival."-JAMES BALDWIN Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in...

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based...

The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020...

Idioglossia- A secret language between a few people, a private language; a lalallation; the babble of babies or the murmur of lunatics. Bolshy, demanding, eccentric, Great Edie is a Jewish...

CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new...

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris- the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the...

The sensational autobiography of the most successful and charismatic tennis player of all time Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the...

The new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine running, parked at the end...

Scandinavian crime at its best and most commercial. For fans of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. 'There is an icy, dispassionate grip to Jungstedt's writing that recalls Henning Mankell' Metro...

From the best-selling author of The Vanishing of Esme Lennox comes a spellbinding novel that shows there are no accidents, in life and in love. Frustrated with her parents' genteel...

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ( Wall Street...

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth , a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on...

Revolutionary flames ignite around Annie, Lee, and a brand new character in the follow-up to Fireborne --now in paperback! After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of...

People will protest- you can bank on it. The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The...

The frontier mythology of the early twentieth-century is epitomised in the stories of these two extraordinary-and very different-men. An elegant, original and very well written book, luminous with meaning, full...

A biography of the explorer John Oxley (1783-1828), third Surveyor General of New South Wales. Oxley undertook the earliest major expeditions west of the Great Dividing Range, believing the western...

Biography of one of Australia's most important Labor Prime Ministers by a distinguished biographer. This is an important classic biography of an Australian Prime Minister whose life still exerts an...

Manning Clark intimately reconstructs Lawson's agonising, and ultimately unsuccessful search for fulfilment of genius and happiness. Henry Lawson was a deeply divided man. He was a soul burdened with an...

Realism in the art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. Although not bound together stylistically or by a manifesto of intention, a common thread in realist art...

"Dr Livingstone, I presume..." Everyone knows Stanley's famous words. But what of the other great explorers of the mysterious interior of Africa? Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker, Kingsley: in the space...

A book like this is the essence of England's heritage - superb photographs of idyllic scenes, some of which are ruins, woven together with an informative and perceptive text. Buy...

In spite of all the changes in our values and beliefs, the art of the Middle Ages still speaks to us across the centuries. Not only do the great cathedrals...

Here is the most extensive illustrated single-volume dictionary of ancient Egypt in existence. From Aba to Zoser, from aegis to zodiac, this book will be invaluable to all those seeking...

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, successful in technical problems, could be used by managers to cope with the unfolding complexities...

This exclusive, official strategy guide, written with the full cooperation and support of Ensemble Studios and Microsoft Game Studios, features: strategies and tips straight from the game's creators; expert analysis...

Everything mammals ever wanted to know about the theory of evolution-but were afraid to ask This important new book by award-winning science writer Cynthia Mills clearly explains one of the...

On May 24, 1960, David Ben-Gurion, prime minister and founder of Israel, stood before the Knesset and made a startling announcement: ""I have to inform the Knesset that, some time...

Once a generation, the rift between the paranormal world and the human world opens, allowing supernatural entities to cross. Vampire, demon, or shapeshifter, they can save the world-or send it...

A courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of one man's life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife, and the inspiration for...

When cop-turned-attorney John Fiske comes to Washington to investigate his brother's murder, he unearths decades-old secrets and discovers the truth is anything but simple in this #1 New York Times...

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president-- a man who believes he...

ISLANDS covers the first half-century or so of Dutch settlement at the Cape, opening with a view from the inside of a Khoi nation, the Goringhaicona, under the leadership of...

From the bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a novel about four friends who share a passion for a beloved British television show that will change all of...

Attachment Theory is one of the most important theoretical developments in psychoanalysis to have emerged in the past half-century. It combines the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective...

Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means.

"A stream of visually arresting and magical stage pictures that make most conventional theatrical imagery look half dead." (Independent) Summer, Quebec City. Following the brutal murder of a young woman,...

A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additives, and organic and biodynamic growing methods....

Cat owners everywhere know the struggles of creating attractive living spaces that are both functional and stylish for owner and cat. In this book, the star of Animal Planet's hit...

Lynn Grodzki will be running a series of workshops in Australia in September. For more information please go to www.kassanevents.com.au

"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters.... These...

Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas...