Second-hand Books

"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety" (Guardian) A journalist disappears while covering a protest at Sellafield. When his wife sets out...

Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.

This is the third of three volumes of musical criticisms by Bernard Shaw reflecting his great breadth of knowledge of the works of Wagner, Bach and Mozart to more contemporary...

Felicity and her friends set off for the sailing holiday of a lifetime in this fabulous colour special with three short stories. Sailing Success Felicity and her friends explore the...

If you ve ever wondered what effect video games have on your children s minds or worried about how much private information the government and big companies know about you,...

Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano in the end of school concert. But only one girl can be chosen and her rival Arabella is practising hard! Elizabeth knows Arabella...

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to...

A super-smooth sci-fi satire by acclaimed author Dyan Sheldon writing under the pseudonym D. M. Quintano. Light years from now, on another planet...Lucia, the exquisitely beautiful daughter of a prominent...

Maximum City is the biography of New York City. It has an exact purpose: to use the past to understand how New York came to be New York, and what...

An ambitious young woman with the power to control minds seeks vengeance against the royals who murdered her family, in a Caribbean-inspired fantasy world embattled by colonial oppression. Sigourney Rose...

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea....

Excerpt from Heart of a City: Play in Three Acts Gert. Second number started. [she enters] Here's the Empress you asked for, Miss. [toni rises, takes paper, puts down lip...

Do you want to be stronger, more optimistic and creative? Want to be better at grasping opportunities, pursuing goals and facing set-backs? Do you want to FLOURISH? You may think...

From international bestselling author and the QUEEN OF TEEN CRIME Karen McManus comes a brand-new, explosive YA thriller. The new mystery thriller from the author of One of Us Is...

How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book...

Seventh in the enormously popular Emily Eyefinger series. A charity is raising money to help save the rainforest by selling rides in a hot air balloon. Emily and her friends...

Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...

Author: George HicksBinding: PaperbackPublished: Allen & Unwin Sydney., 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDrawing on official documents and other original sources, Hicks...

Author: Joseph A. RisseBinding: PaperbackPublished: Howard W. Sams Publication, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive technical guide, Know Your...

Author: Alan MooreheadBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the transformative voyage of Charles Darwin aboard...

Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Moliere play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy,...

Life can be hard when you're crammed into a tiny caravan with your noisy family. Pippa's looking forward to moving into their new home above the Beach Shack Cafe, but...

Striking new cover look for one of the UK's top 3 bestselling girls' authors. Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she...

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life...

Lesley Pearse is one of Penguin's premium brand authors with total sales 10 million copies worldwide When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she...

Author: Ivan SmithBinding: PaperbackPublished: Melbourne; Sun Books, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis poignant narrative chronicles the final moments of a beloved...

Helen Dunmore writes poetry, short stories and novels both for children and adults and she has received widespread acclaim for work. All ten books of her adult fiction have been...

From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful guide to understanding and predicting the stock market Paulos offers a hillarious account of how the stock market both follows...

Author: Walter ChamberlainBinding: PaperbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive manual instructs readers in the intricate processes of...

Author: Janet HolmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hesperian Press, 2004Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJanet Holman's Legend Of The Kimberley transports readers to the rugged,...

An anthology containing a selection of George Chapman's poetry and plays, including Bussy D'Ambois, All Fooles, and the Widdowes Teares. In the PENGUIN DRAMATISTS series.

Author: Bob Lunney; Illustrated by Gardoll, DianeBinding: PaperbackPublished: R. Abbott, Australia, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection of autobiographical tales and...