Second-hand Books

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his 'critical discourse analysis' framework which...

Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...

ONE SINGLE ACT OF KINDNESS BECOMES AN ENDLESS REIGN OF TERROR... Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had...

Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The year, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And...

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed, immediately sets him on a search for her killer.

Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise -- a change of dress, a change...

A river cruise through ancient desert lands becomes a mysterious adventure when Bill disappears! While Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack are desperately searching for Bill, they become trapped beneath a...

Surely a peaceful holiday in the Welsh mountains will keep the children out of trouble! But the mystery of a rumbling mountain soon has them thirsty for more adventure. Philip,...

Who are the two strange pilots, and what is the secret treasure hidden in the lonely valley where the children land? Nothing could be more exciting than a daring night...

Why is everyone so afraid of the castle on the hill, and what dark secrets lurk inside its walls? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah,...

As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes...

Ellen Kirby is "Liberty" - American idol and ballet superstar. She has fame and fabulous wealth, but the darkness of her past threatens to overwhelm her. To escape the memories...

Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night...

Superb and luscious gothic science fiction charting the struggle between vulnerable innocence and dark forces of overwhelming power. On the planet Latent Emanation, human beings are the humblest class -...

It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, killing over 300 people and leaving only one survivor. Now the dead were buried and the town of Eton...

"Rex" is the BLOCKBUSTER autobiography of one of Australia's best-loved and most colourful personalities Rex Hunt. First published in 2002, it has established itself as one of Australia's biggest-selling memoirs....

Book III of The Bitterbynde Trilogy.Once upon a time the great Faeran High King, Angavar, became trapped in mortal Erith along with his twin brother-and nemesis-Morragan the Raven Prince, when...

But the story is not hers alone. Betty describes her many encounters with others who have tried to escape similar situations, telling their dramatic stories.

Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in...

Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body...

Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigued by the brutal murder of a left wing priest, particularly when he discovers that an emissary from the Vatican had...

Hornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved series, "the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were...

Over 10 million copies sold! Fierce teen Maximum Ride takes flight to discover the truth about the mysterious genetic experiments that gave her and her friends wings, in the high-octane...

R. W. Apple Jr. was celebrated for his political writing at "The New York Times" as a correspondent and bureau chief. But whenever possible - especially on assignment - he...

Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale...

A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow...

A passionate exploration of language, censorship, and exile by the celebrated Romanian writer Norman Manea "Manea demonstrates that he is an indispensable analyst of what it means to be a...

In 1675, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, an unlearned haberdasher from Delft, placed a drop of rainwater under his microscope and detected thousands of tiny animals in it. Leeuwenhoek proceeded to examine...

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary...

It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard...

The controversial subject of this work is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of...

The Return of the King is the third part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings , soon to be a major movie. The armies of the...

Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of...

The New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer's rapturously reviewed comic-tragic novel about a family's search for a home 'Terrific ... Combines comic brilliance with a poignant portrait of a family...

YA Romance Debut about family, fame and first love- For fans of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry (for the juicy secrets and blackmail), Gossip Girl (for the elite school...

Lunch with the FTis a selection of the best- 52 classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. From Angela Merkel to Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Martin...