Second-hand Books

From the acclaimed chefs behind the wildly popular Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookbook featuring personal stories and more than 85 recipes that celebrate the diversity of Middle...

"Autobiography" covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982 1987),...

The true story of Ruth Simmons, who, while under hypnosis, recounts her previous life as a nineteenth-century Irish woman-a fascinating exploration of consciousness and the power of the human mind...

Not long after 2 P.M. on June 21, 1943, nine men met in secret at a doctor's house in Lyons. They were summoned by the head of the French resistance,...

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf , set in American suburbia as two mothers--a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran--fight...

The book titled Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro by the author Irving Stone. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

' A deliciously sexy paranormal romance set in the Black South' Demi Winters, bestselling author of The Ashen Series 'With enough romantic tension to make Hell itself look like tundra,...

'Chigozie Obioma is a writer to watch' The Economist Umuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified...

'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for...

Walter is a young Australian who comes to England (falling in love with a beautiful and feisty schoolteacher on the boat journey) to follow his dream of being a scientist...

A beautiful novel by the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher. Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the...

The book titled An Unequal Marriage by the author Emma Tennant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sex and Thugs and Rock'n'Roll: A Year in Kings Cross 1963 1964 by the author Billy Thorpe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

In A POCKET FULL OF DREAMS, the first volume of THE definitive Crosby biography, award-winning music critic Gary Giddins chronicles the ascension of Bing's career. From his early days in...

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day...

For the first time, all 2,500 recipes from Larousse Gastronomique are available in a handsome, convenient, four-book boxed set. of full-color photos.

A beautiful photographic guide to British flora and fauna through the year and around the British Isles, from remote beaches to wetland centers, fens to forests, valleys to island and...

From the bestselling author of Eat Yourself Healthy, over 80 plant-powered recipes and expert advice to diversify your diet, help boost your gut microbiome and support your overall health When...

The book titled Trawler (Tpb): A Journey Through the North Atlantic by the author Redmond O'Hanlon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the first comprehensive thesaurus of current English to be published by Oxford University Press. Headwords are readily found in an A-Z listing, and a full synonym index enables...

Who were the singers, musicians, composers, instrumentalists, and conductors who made the music of the 20th century? What inspired Benjamin Britten to compose Peter Grimes? How did music save Malcolm...

For Maupassant, existence is what happens to us between two events which we cannot avoid: birth and death. The space between is filled with a compulsory programme of rituals which...

A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

'Just be sincere, and as a man of honour, Say nothing that does not come from the heart.' The plays in this volume - Cinna , The Misanthrope , Andromache...

The most powerful, astonishing debut you will read this year. It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between...

First time published individually in Modern Classics, alongside CLAUDIUS THE GOD Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius...

A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...

A fine collection of the greatest French tales about the legend of Arthur Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly...

The book titled Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft by the author Garry Disher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Dear Writer by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a literary tour de force, an invaluable, unforgettable and original portrait of Ernest Hemingway and his beloved boat, Pilar. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his,...

The book titled Contemporary Classics: The Best Australian Short Fiction 1965-1995 by the author Don Anderson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk , sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really...

"An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New...

Presents a collection of more than one hundred of the author's paintings, created from India ink on rice paper, that span his artistic career from the 1960s to the present...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

A brand new timeless romance with a sprinkling of magic from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 'A complete joy to read, and once I'd started I genuinely couldn't...

Hailed as 'a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel' (NRC Handelsblad), David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes's 'The Fatal...

The full sweep of the rich history of Avalon -- from the fall of Atlantis to the founding of a new temple on the mist-shrouded isle of Britain -- is...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning tens of thousands of years of human history, People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning is an extraordinary work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew women of the eighteenth century wielded a pen with such quiet brilliance as Frances Fanny Burney — novelist, diarist, and reluctant courtier —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of Victorian orthodoxy and radical dissent, Heretics: The London Heretics 1870–1914 chronicles the vibrant intellectual...