Second-hand Books

Kipling never visited the jungles of Central India, yet his descriptions have a breathtaking imaginative power, and in Mowgli, the boy who grows up among wolves, he created one of...

Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth...

Ruby Lee has left home (a Chinese laundry in Brooklyn) and she hopes to leave behind the ancient disputes and bitter loving of her parents for a brash and sensual...

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss...

Allende is a wonderful teller of tales and through the story of Eva Luna we enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge.

Bill Gates, the chairman, chief executive officer and cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, is the principal architect of the "information super-highway" that will shape the future. It will affect everyone...

An "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft-edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map...

Now 18, Philippa, the adopted daughter of Maurice Palfrey, has claimed her birth certificate from the Register Office, and, with it, a terrible discovery. In another part of London, Norman...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more...

This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, to the eventual slide down.

This brilliantly funny novel revisits some of the characters from Nancy Mitford's earlier stories including Fanny, who is married to bumbling, absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. Fanny is content in her...

On the night of April 28, 1944, six weeks before D-Day, more than 700 American servicemen stationed in England were killed in a military exercise. Nigel Lewis uncovers the terrifying...

For undergraduate-level courses in Human Relations, Supervisory Practices, Principles of Management, Communications, and Career and Self Explorations. Helping students become aware of the strong impact that one's attitude has on...

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he...

James Patterson's hilarious story of perseverance and courage shows everyone's favourite troublemaker, Rafe Khatchadorian, learning to become a leader at long last. Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in...

Jack Morgan and his Private team face a deadly fight to save the 2016 Olympic Games We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret. We are...

'A stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia' Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971....

An extraordinary investigation into human nature, by one of the most eminent international human rights lawyers The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS...

'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the...

The compelling and moving new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of Too Close to Home, Behind Closed Doors, No Child of Mine and Don't Let Me...

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses and rival to East End twins the Krays, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death...

An irresistible love story set around the airfields of Norfolk during World War Two from the bestselling Katie Flynn writing as Judith Saxton Living on the edge of the beautiful...

'I do not see how there could be a more insightful, more erudite, biography of this remarkable man' Doris Lessing, Times Literary Supplement Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography,...

A brilliant romance novel set in 1930s Liverpool, from one of Britain's bestselling saga authors. Life is hard in 1930s Liverpool, and Biddy O'Shaughnessy is left destitute when her widowed...

A witty and frolicksome romp set in Venice Nina Porter seems to have it all- husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row...

Beautifully repackaged at a fantastic price for the limited print run Vintage Booker promotion Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been...

The first Virals Series novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, starring Tory Brennan, niece of the world-famous Tempe. Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and...

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has...

A sparkling debut novel about the stories we read and the ones we tell ourselves Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped...

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to...

Philip Pirrip - known more commonly as Pip - is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then...

The explosive new novel in the Daniel X series set in England, past and present The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission- to...

A brand new look for Wodehouse in Penguin, alongside the 120th anniversary publication of his very first novel, The Pothunters 'It seems to me that you and I were made...

A compelling and moving story of three sisters growing up in 1920s Yorkshire They loved. They lost. They lived. In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the...

New in paperback wo soldiers- Britain's most celebrated military hero and a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst...