Second-hand Books

We are now at the dawn of the urban century. What does it mean that half the earth's people now live in cities - and that two billion more will...

Rock and jazz drummer Max is dead.Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that...

YEARS 7 - 10 "The Quest Series" has enjoyed immense popularity with students and teachers of New South Wales junior history. It represents the source-based inquiry approach to history. *...

From a new voice in crime fiction, this focuses on Timothy Waverly, once professor now professional gambler, who after seven years in prison, returns to face his former lives there....

The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and...

The book titled A Personal History of Thirst by the author John Burdett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the bestselling author of The Empty Chair comes the suspenseful story of a computer hacker--code-named PHATE--on a Silicon Valley killing spree. Hot on his trail are ex-hacker Wyatt Gillette...

The book titled Menacing Groves by the author John Sherwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Question of Guilt by the author Frances Fyfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities...

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of...

The 'world atlas of warfare' provides an in-depth chronological survey of military history from the neolithic era until the present day, with special emphasis on csritical turning points in the...

John Abernethy has seized life with both hands. A man of the land and the sea, he fought in Vietnam, started a successful fishing charter business and owned a horse...

This book tells the true story of a couple who in 2010 set out on a long walk through Britain which led to a second unplanned internal journey. The physical...

When the daughter of a senior police officer is abducted and brutally gang-raped in Australia's Snowy Mountains, it's the final straw for some highly trained Vietnam veterans. They've lost children...

Penny Olsen will discuss her new book about early European impressions of Australia's curious mammals on Thursday 4 November, 4.00 pm, National Library of Australia - Conference Room. This free...

The book titled Before the Day After: Can N.A.T.O.Defend Europe? by the author Laurence Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it...

The book titled Fair at Sokolniki by the author Fridrikh Neznansky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A detective novel set in medieval Oxford and featuring real historical figures. Town and gown are at loggerheads as the barons prepare to challenge Henry III's authority, and the university...

The book titled The Hammer of God by the author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories by the author Janwillem van de Wetering. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Questions of Identity by the author Bob Cook. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Botanist at Bay by the author John Sherwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A sparkling cocktail . . . Hamilton is back and better than ever.' Samantha Shannon, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree 'M ore-than-magical ....

Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought...

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and...

A female corpse is found in the town of Lotingen. The girl's neck has been ripped open, all the blood drained from the body. Hanno Stiffeniis hastens to investigate a...

Tired of traditional reality shows, the television audience wants blood, literally. One day, while out taking a walk in the Jardin des Plantes, Pannonique finds herself piled into a cattle-truck....

It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicans and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere -...

The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on...

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu, his first work of fiction in five years. Mr Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy...

The book titled A Taste for Death by the author P. D. James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A unique and often hilarious travel memoir covering Dan Kieran's satirical 'crime spree' around the UK as he uncovers fascinating and disturbing truths about the state of post-Blair Britain. Originally...

In 1876, three US Army scouts leading an infantry column arrive at the scene of the Battle of Bighorn on the morning after General Custer's defeat. They are the first...

Today, television interviewer Mavis Nicholson regularly rubs shoulders with the famous. As a girl in the 30s and 40s she dreaded her friends finding out how closely she rubbed shoulders...

Set in the dark underbelly of contemporary London, this is both an unputdownable crime thriller and a shockingly powerful, parabolic work of contemporary fiction. Eugene Burnside joined the Firm before...

'A case study in suspense' Washington Post A rare object has been found deep in the ice at the Arctic Circle. And Rachel Sexton is called to verify this game-changing...

They want you. And they want you dead. The Richard & Judy book that made Simon Kernick a star. The tense, twisting thriller you will not want to put down...

The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he fnds work in a London theatre. There, his family...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendship In the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family...

Biography of one of the outstanding characters of Australia's earliest days, showing us Marsden in all his strengths and weaknesses and in his many roles, including valiant missionary in New...

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the...

This book tells the story of the development of ideas about natural history as seen through the lives, observations and discoveries of nearly forty great naturalists, from Classical times to...