Second-hand Books

Right round the edge of the Australian continent, we re all lining up shoulder-to-shoulder to get our bit of land with a water view. And at every opportunity we throw...

Here s another collection of Andrew Daddo s hilarious short stories that sold straight through their first print run for Christmas 2001, and generated a fantastic publicity campaign. Anyone who...

Growing up in a big boisterous family, Andrew Daddo has had a lot of fun being a kid and being around them. So with stories about football fishing, camping, holidays,...

The Remnants are on a mission to promote peace but the Blue Meanies have created a horrifying weapon, and the peacemakers are in grave danger. Yago's plan to rule has...

When Tobias, Jake, Rachel, Marco and Cassie were given the ability to morph, they were also given one very important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two...

Science with the squishy bits left in! 'Blood, Bones and Body Bits' will get right under your skin! Are you dying to find out where your food goes? What happens...

Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. The spy who's...

Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? Why can't we live forever? Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how...

A trip to see Professor Ampersand and his niece and nephew is about to become the most amazing holiday of Sam Carnegie's life . . .Ampersand is one of The...

An unforgettable trip to the further shores of lust, snobbery and adultery, Summer Things is the best new, best-selling comedy by one of Britain's funniest novelists. With a whirlwind plot...

Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers and physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory-...

AN UNWINNABLE WAR Cocaine is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. It causes misery, poverty and death. And...

A novel by the author of "Closed Circle". While out walking Robin Timariot encounters a woman, with whom he has an unforgettable conversation. On his return home, Timariot discovers the...

Three guys from the Briar Academy fencing team went up to the cliff that night for a hazing ritual--but only two came back alive. Now Luke's best friend, Hayden, is...

In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive. Now that best friends Louisa, Rosie, Evelyn, and Maddie know the truth --...

Dive deep into the vivid underwater world of Dark Life! The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to...

The acclaimed author of The Music of the Spheres works literary alchemy in this latest novel set in 1609 London, where the quest to turn lead into gold drives men...

Another magical, funny and fabulously illustrated story from the authors of FERGUS CRANE and THE EDGE CHRONICLES. Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and tongue-twisting terms? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as...

When Rinki's neighbours are pig-napped from their village he's determined rescue them, even if it means a treacherous quest through the forest...But it's not long before Rinki crosses paths with...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons...

This is the diary of 12-year-old Kitty Lumsden, the daughter of Bloody Tower diarist, Tilly Middleton, who now lives with her family near the Thames, not far from her old...

Geography with twice the gritty bits! Dive into the murky waters and scream as you peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall. Defy death by tucking into a poisonous...

You've probably heard of a few pirates...Horrible Henry Morgan and his flaming fire ships; Awful Anne Bonny and her flaming temper; and Barmy Blackbeard and his - er - flaming...

When Pegasus, the majestic winged-stallion, crashes on to her roof in the middle of a storm that blacks-out New York City, 13-year-old Emily's life becomes that of legend: epic battles...

Olly Christie and Josh Welles are on an archaeological dig in Egypt, with Olly's father who is searching for the first of the Talismans of the Moon - the Tears...

Bryn Mancini was born under a lucky star. As he celebrates his silver wedding, he rejoices in a beautiful wife, handsme grown-up children and the house of his dreams overlooking...

Back in 1988, a young author emerged onto the crime scene with a fresh and inspiring New York crime series starring a young aspiring film-maker - Rune. The series quickly...

Someone is killing people in Sacramento Valley. Seemingly unrelated, the deaths are perpetrated by a murderer who knows everything there is to know about the victims - who can kill...

1922, Tokyo Harry Niles is a 'wild child', an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents. So Harry begins to lead his own life in the...

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: they succeeded in changing the world, and the world has repaid them by enshrining their names. But what of those others...