Second-hand Books

It is 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London is in turmoil, particularly at the dead centre, Trafalgar Square. Here, the angry unemployed gather daily to protest...

Sex should be good for everyone. Slutdom argues for a world without sexual shame where you can get what you need - and deserve. 'When women are enjoying better sex,...

Combining her trademark charm with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian...

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit , Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her...

From the acclaimed author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Children and Fire , a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times--"epic, daring, magnificent, the product of...

Dashiell Hammett's classic The Thin Man introduced the world to Nick and Nora Charles, further made famous by the popular Thin Man films. With a new introduction by Denise Mina....

A country-western singer disappears in a northern wilderness at the height of her fame--in a masterpiece of murder and survival of the fittest from the author of the critically acclaimed...

This is a collection of fun and educational games, projects, interesting facts and things to do with the grandchildren, aimed at grandparents and published in the vein of "The Glorious...

All four Our Australian Girl- Poppy stories in one beautiful hardback edition, with a bonus new chapter by author Gabrielle Wang at the end! It's 1864 . . . and...

These are some of Australia's finest thinkers analysing the key issues that have had a major impact on Australia over the last turbulent decade, collated by our most influential think...

With step-by-step instructions, detailed lists of equipment and beautiful illustrations, The Curious Girl's Book of Adventure is a journey into the delightful world of girlhood crafts and outdoor larks. Get...

A gripping account of a key moment in the history of science, set against a revolutionary age. In the final decades of the 1700s, as the threat of revolution began...

This Wall Art colouring book is Manga themed, showcasing the super-popular style found in Japanese comic books and graphic novels. Delicately detailed and absorbingly inspiring, this creative colouring book is...

Thirteen and Underwater is an emotionally-charged true story, based on a young man's dark journey of anxiety. Told with a mother's insight, Thirteen and Underwater divulges a life full of...

The children of Paradise have found their place in Illaria, but are paying a heavy price for their freedom. Rilla's increasingly unstable power puts her in constant danger. Arishen lives...

The diaryarrived addressed to me, bearing a message: We live forever through ourstories. Tell ours. And so began the author's journeyinto the life and legends of the Naga a forgotten...

In celebration of Menu Magazine turning 10 years old, publisher Scott Arnold-Eyers marks the milestone by putting together a second recipe book featuring recipes from some of the best cafes,...

Local writers Libby Hathorn and Elizabeth Cummings were unusually busy during Covid, exploring the coastal wonders of some of the eastern coastline of Sydney. They responded in poetry to time...

In the late 20th Century, Perth was known as the city of mining magnates. But it started the new millennium breeding a new dilettante - the dining magnate. Inspired by...

Passion, free will, choice, spontaneity. It is also awareness, dreams, compassion, nourishment, safety. It's having somewhere that truly feels like home.

The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time....

Ever wanted to know the size of the biggest shark? Ever thought where in the world the tallest rollercoaster is? Or wondered astronaut has spent the most time in space?...

Lily Parker is new to St Sophia's School for Girls, but she's already learned that magic can be your best friend ... or your worst enemy. So they say absolute...

A fantasy of three companions, a singer, assassin and warrior who join forces to save their beautiful world from the fire-born demon. The first book in her fantasy trilogy.

Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous...

A girl returns to her exclusive east coast boarding school and finds that she's no longer one of the cool kids on campus in this second novel from the author...

"Combine equal parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Chine Mieville's Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you'll get some idea of this...

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. he isolated and eerie stillness in which she...

This charity anthology of powerful, entertaining and original short stories includes some of the finest female contemporary writers such as Kate Atkinson, Eleanor Bailey, Claire Calman, Mavis Cheek, Candida Clark,...

A deliciously terrifying and wickedly funny Gothic tale, Count Karlstein is the first-ever children's book by Philip Pullman, winner of the Whitbread Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Fiction Award...

Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything. Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything....

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, bestselling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America...

In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later,...