Second-hand Books

Investigative journalist Ray Moynihan examines just why health care has moved from being a profession to an industry. What are the pressures on our doctors and why are they there?...

How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid...

Holly is feeling on top of the world - celebrating a new promotion and dying to pop the champagne with her best friend Roz. But is Holly just imagining things,...

Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a nautical origin. This pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases...

" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in...

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by...

In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a...

In Me, international superstar and Grammy-winning Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences...

In his new collection, While I Was Gone, Andrew Cull returns from the woods with more tales of terror. Written in Andrew's signature cinematic style, these stories combine filmic thrills...

This is a collection of short stories set in the goldfields of central Victoria in the 1870s. They are pioneering tales of Aboriginal Yurgama Jacobs and his dingo pet Marakorpa....

"Framed" blows the lid off one of Melbourne's most puzzling secrets: Who stole Picasso's Weeping Woman from the NGV in 1986. Written by the brother of the brilliant artist who...

A beautiful anthology of poetry featuring celebrated mystic poet Chelan Harkin alongside selected poet-friends from across the globe. "Poetry is an invitation for soul liberation. It offers a platform for...

** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust...

He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the...

Four Tiny Tales in one GREAT-GREAT-GREAT gift edition! Featuring My Treasure Hunt Trouble!, My Great Big Birthday Bash!, My Playful Puppy Problem! and My Really Wheely Racing Day!, younger Humphrey...

What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, poet...

An unforgettable and powerful novel - when a hurricane strikes New York City, lives are changed in an instant... As Hurricane Ophelia bears down on New York City, millions are...

Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only the reporter s swift action saves his...

It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny...

Living communities are continuously changing, both as a result of natural processes and the activities of Man. It is essential for us to have effective biological and ecological monitoring programmes...

The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through powerfully realized characters. Selling more than 300,000...

Preserved in China for more than 2,000 years before it was brought to the West by the French, this compact little book is widely regarded as the oldest military treatise...

Set in an alternate nineteenth century, muskets and magic are weapons to be feared in the first "spectacular epic" (Fantasy Book Critic) in Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns series. Captain Marcus...

New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur has been hailed for her "smart, sexy"* urban fantasy novels. Now, she continues her Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger...

Fourth in the Epic Dark Tower Series... Wizard and Glass In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has been the same since....

After a car crash, writer Paul Sheldon is saved by his number one fan. She brought him home, splinted his mangled legs, and all he had to do in return...

Contains 600 multiple choice questions and associated answers arranged in 30 mock examination papers. Allows candidates preparing for clinical part of the FCA exam to time themselves answering questions similar...

What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would...

'Predator's Gold' is the spellbinding sequel to 'Mortal Engines'. Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Where in the world can you: Tuck into a poisonous pufferfish? Spot some perilous pirates? Explore the savage seabed?

From New York Times bestselling author Sylvain Reynard comes the first novel in the Gabriel's Inferno series, a haunting, unforgettable tale of one man's salvation and one woman's sensual awakening-NOW...

Fifty years ago, the town of Gouldens Falls was submerged under 200 feet of water. Now, a journalist is investigating what lies beneath--only to unleash something irrevocably evil.

Distrusting Educational Technology critically explores the optimistic consensus that has arisen around the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book...