Second-hand Books

For a little puffin, life outside the warm, safe burrow can be very scary. There are gulls ready to swoop, but there are also new friends to find. Puffling must...

Bettina, Vince and Aiden are to be looked after by their awful Aunt Marsha while their parents spend three weeks in Paris...How are they going to survive? Ages 9+.

Full of easy maintenance advice, planting ideas for evening fragrance, colour, lighting, design, and attracting wildlife, this is a book for how people garden now which will inspire everyone to...

The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...

The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...

This expertly-written comprehensive guide to the wines of the world features detailed background information on hundreds of wines.

The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...

An anthology compiled by Richard Briers and his wife Anne. It is a celebration of the best that food, wine and good fellowship have to offer - from barbeques to...

With many practical examples and case studies, this book brings new insights to the dilemma of reconciling corporate consistency with local conditions as business life rapidly internationalizes. In 1991 Fons...

It is every woman's right to be beautiful, and since time immemorial, Indians have striven to achieve and celebrated perfect beauty. This text invites the reader into this exotic world,...

From the author of the bestselling 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind', comes a breakthrough book on the future of learning. The new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone...

Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times...

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers! When Maddy first...

Terrifying secrets, torn loyalties, love versus duty, the gripping story of a young actress caught up in highly dangerous events in 1930s Berlin... Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe...

When the old king dies, a Duke and Earl find themselves in competition for the Kingdom. Their vanity and greed sees them locked in a futile battle, which impacts the...

This Way, That Way is an endlessly inventive and interactive flip-and fold book, sure to entertain and intrigue. Simple smiling circles, rectangles and triangles explode into a riot of colour...

This delightful series of picture books expresses the humour, frustrations and profundities of the parent/child relationship through two endearing insects, Poka and Mia. Despite their multiple limbs and cellophane wings,...

Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and...

"Dear valued recipient, My late father was Gold and Diamond merchant and he has merchandise (250kgs Gold Dust) for safe keep. I am here seeking an assistance of a reliable...

More and more people are cutting out wheat, gluten and dairy from their diets, and the number of alternative ingredients available in supermarkets is growing rapidly to meet the demand....

Beck Granger goes Down Under, in the fifth book in this exciting adventure series from survival specialist Bear Grylls. A gripping Australian adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real...

While the Jolley-Rogers are enjoying a day at the beach, little sister Nugget toddles into a cave. When she doesn't come out again, Mum goes in to find her. And,...

Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father set out to teach the boys everything about the paranormal...

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a home. One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him...