Second-hand Books

Don't let the size of the books fool you. They many be small but they are packed full of information along with beautiful color photographs. The indispensable reference is a...

Country life is a well-established trope of luxury the world over. Ambitious types move to the city to make their fortunes before repairing to a private, well-appointed property away from...

You can follow the beaten path and call yourself an entrepreneur or you can blaze your own trail and really be one. When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn't...

Imagination can make ordinary things magical. Your imagination allows you to create something out of nothing. It helps you to come up with new ideas, to solve problems and to...

Abbey Hendrickson writes a blog called Aesthetic Outburst documenting her life in an old farmhouse in rural New York. In between DIY disasters, childcare catastrophes and cultural consumption, Abbey makes...

Most pre-cooked and pre-prepared food cannot be eaten by food allergy sufferers so preparing meals can become a time-consuming struggle, especially for people without specialist cooking skills and knowledge of...

New Zealand: Eye on the Landscape is a new book of high-quality landscape photography aimed at the top end of the New Zealand pictorial book market. The distinguishing feature of...

A pictorial memento of Perth, its surrounding suburbs and nearby attractions, providing images of all the key tourist sites. Except for a brief, informative introduction to Perth, the book is...

A wealth of ideas are offered on how to tran sform cheap furniture and accessories with minimal costs, us ing a comprehensive range of different paint techniques to d ecorate...

The inhabitants of the British Isles have played a decisive part in the development or rediscovery of ancient games in which there was competition between two sides for the ball....

Operation World is the definitive global prayer handbook that will help focus your heart and life towards God?'s passion for His glory. With over 1 million copies of past versions...

These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the end of the day. A Happy Poem to End Every...

Favourite Poems of England From the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather. Ode to England...

In Heartbreak, Craig Raine's startingly moving, intellectually nimble, sexually candid, wickedly funny first novel, the central character is not a person, but an invisible metaphor: heartbreak. Through the stories of...

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She...

Mr Shaw works for an insurance company, at a desk, in an office, in a city. One year, during his family summer holiday, his world is turned upside down when...

Who is she? What is she hiding?'I haven't read anything this good - this embracing, unflinching and alive - for a long time.' Nicole Krauss, author of A History of...

This companion volume to T. F. Torrance's Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ presents the material on the work of Christ, centered in the atonement, given originally in his...

On a sunny day in summer, the pages and squires were gathered around Master William in the courtyard of the castle to learn about the way knights behaved. 'Chivalry' began...

Bringing the award-winning Clarice Bean to a whole new audience, this full length novel will delight her fans old and new. The sparkling text and exuberant black and white illustrations...

There are few books that have had such a monumental impact in their field as The World Atlas of Wine; sales of the first four editions exceed 3.5 million copies....

Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. The...

The Pulitzer Prize has come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in news photography. Here, in one beautifully produced volume, is every Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph from 1942 to the present....

This is a beautifully illustrated collection of his most popular and enduring cartoons. Featuring over 200 cartoons from his remarkable life and career.

This beautiful guide will help you make the most of the wonderful range of food that comes from our oceans and rivers. Advice on how to choose the freshest fish...

From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book--replete...

A Prominent Theologian Explores What It Means to Be Human Preeminent scholar and theologian Ingolf Dalferth offers mature reflections on what it means to be human, a topic at the...

A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organization in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two...

The new picture book from much-loved duo Andrew Daddo and Jonathan Bentley What do you want to be when you grow up? A performer? An astronaut? A secret agent? From...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...

A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the...

Book 1 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory, Simon and Jared get acquainted with their new home but find many unexpected things. It all started when Jared Grace found...

Despite studying under Harnack, Holl, and old Liberalism, Sasse became a prominent figure in confessional Lutheranism by the time of World War I. A leader in the German ecumenical movement...

In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney s Annandale. Over the following two years the artists...

Based on the author's experience of teaching final-year actuarial students in Britain and Australia, and suitable for a first course in insurance risk theory, this book focuses on the two...

As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley--a consort...

In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during...