Second-hand Books

'I really feel for Neil Fisher-just finding his feet as a new curate, but whenever he trips up, it's in full public glare!... I love a book that moves you...

South takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South - and still they...

Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists respond? Are we truly post-truth? John Lloyd answers these questions and more in...

'But I suppose Steven and I knew something about broken things--that sometimes you just couldn't mend them. Never stopped trying though. Because you can't-until you do: stop and leave the...

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink...

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving...

Somewhere in the city of Cork, a woman's cry echoes through the rainy streets. On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a burly man lies dead. A terrified girl...

A superb conspiracy thriller set in Venice, from a Sunday Times bestseller. ******** The girl in the feathered mask was just another Carnival reveller, dancing in the streets at midnight,...

A superb conspiracy thriller set in Venice, from a Sunday Times bestseller. ******** He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice's most popular...

Botanical charts are experiencing a resurgence in interest, both as pieces of art and as objects of scientific and historical significance, and Wall Flower documents this extraordinary convergence of disciplines...

It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his...

A new psychological thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Gilly MacMillan for readers who loved THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and THE CHILD. 'Dark, tense and very clever... One of the...

Want to be an astronaut or a rocket scientist? - 50 brilliant stories of women who have blazed the way for space travel. From small steps to giant leaps, A...

Jan Fabel is a haunted man. Head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, Fabel has dealt with the dead for nearly two decades, but when a routine enquiry becomes a...

Dr Siri's bagged himself a holiday: an all-expenses-paid trip to the northern mountains of Laos. What's more, through a bit of skilful bartering (well, blackmail) he has wangled it so...

Klaus-Pierre is the love-child of a young Frenchwoman and a senior, married German officer. Klaus-Pierre never knew his father, who was killed before he was born, and his mother was...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of...

'Jane Halifax out of her depth and at her best. I could not put it down.' Rebecca Gibney, television's Jane Halifax JANE HALIFAX IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE GRITTY UNDERBELLY...

Numerology has continually fascinated people since ancient times, from Egypt to the Roman Empire, India and Scandinavia. Numbers are a universal language that can help make sense of the seemingly...

Twenty-one years after selling the company that I founded, Com Tech Communications, for an enterprise value of over $1 billion - arguably Australia's first tech unicorn - I decided to...

Shut up and listen. In exactly one minute and fifty three seconds a solar flare will strike the earth 'setting off a chain reaction incinerating every living creature on the...

"Think of the one thing you might not be able to live without. Now imagine sacrificing it ..." Galen is gorgeous, with striking violet eyes and a toned body that...

It's been one disaster after another lately, and things aren't slowing down. During talent show rehearsals someone trashed the stage and set a penguin loose. (Seriously!) Now I'm on the...

Am I my body? Am I my mind? Who am I? A journey into deepest inner space, for anyone who has ever paused to wonder exactly who is wondering.

Kelvin Klosmo isn't just the new kid at school-he's the new kid in the galaxy! Sci-Fi Junior High is an inter-galactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells...

Since his elevation to Red Bull in 2014, Daniel Ricciardo has cemented himself as one of Formula One's most exciting talents. He has established a reputation for brilliant one-lap speed,...

Some things lie beneath the surface. Invisible. With the power to change everything. Joy Malone wants it all-power, freedom and the boyfriend who loves her. Yet when an unstoppable assassin...

There's no stronger power than a mother's love... Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl. Which is why her mother, Janine, reluctantly agreed to let...

They just happen to be the four human souls living inside him. One can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can possess other bodies, one can foretell the...

As the secrets of the O'Neill family are brought to light, Her Mother's Shadow explores how the dark corners of the past can be illuminated by the hope that truth...

What role should Australian literature play in the school curriculum? What principles should guide our selection of Australian texts? To what extent should concepts of the nation and a national...

Already Dead is another heart-stopping ride of sheer suspense from the author of the bestselling Beyond Fear. Already Dead is another heart-stopping ride of sheer suspense from the author of...

Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the...

Enigmas Medieval features over a hundred enigmas to solve, as well as logical puzzles, magic squares, brain teasers, riddles and more to wake up, perk up and bend your grey...

The girls' hair fanned out prettily along a bed of moss, as though carefully arranged. You could see the dark gashes in their throats, but the garlands were camouflaged -...

Magenta is consumed by enormous sadness after losing all she loves to the hands of fate. Unable to locate her joyous self again, she pursues a mission to find it....

The Hamilton Triplets - Madison, Park, and Lexington - are accustomed to living in the public eye. Heiresses to a billion-dollar media empire, they have been raised in New York's...

A Million Little Pieces meets What Men Don't Talk About -- a raw, heartfelt memoir and a poignant insight into the emotional life of men A Million Little Pieces meets...

Barry Noodles is so good he can do Two Minute Noodles in a minute and a half. He's the world's best violin player (in his dreams). And he's called MathDude,...

Only one man can uncover the sins and secrets of three generations of Pierron women... Lily Pierron: In sultry New Orleans, any sin can be had for a price. For...

TO Catch A Killer Alex Kava THE SOUL CATCHER A group of young men commit suicide in a secluded cabin. A politician's daughter is found strangled. FBI criminal profiler Maggie...

Led Astray by Sandra Brown The black sheep of the family, Cage Hendren was the opposite of his brother in every way. He was all rough edges, with a soft...

The woods of Transylvania have always been full of whispers, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning-beware those who would...

Juliana Holcott grew up poor in a joyless household. Only nicholas Barre, the orphaned heir to the estate, ever treated her kindly. But wild, rebellious Nick left home while they...