December 2024

David Burn / How to Survive Your First Bridge Tournament

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

M. Mitchell Waldrop / Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

How has the universe created such complex structures as galaxies, planets, plants, animals and brains? Why does the economy work in unpredictable ways which cannot even be explained by economists? How can we account for such wonderfully intricate...

Gregory Chaitin / Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely...

Robert Axelrod / TheEvolution of Co-Operation

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in this age...

Nick Lane / Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

How did life invent itself? Where does DNA come from? Why do we die? Over the last decades, groundbreaking new research has provided vivid insights into the makeup of life.Drawing on this wealth of new scientific knowledge, biochemist Nick Lane...

Terence Reese, David Bird / The Hidden Side of Bridge

In this much-awaited reissue of one of the most original bridge books of the last ten years, a selection of some of the most intriguing hands are analyzed by two of Britain's best bridge writers.         All of our books...

Robert Byron / The Road to Oxiana

In 1933-4 Robert Byron went to Persia and Afghanistan. The result was , a wonderful record of his journeys, full of vivid reporting, exact observation of people and places, and very funny dialogue.         All of our books are...

Alan Moorehead / Cooper's Creek

The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but...

Rixi Markus / Aces and Places: International Bridge Circuit

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Simon Conway-Morris / The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals

In The Crucible of Creation , paleontologist Simon Conway Morris describes the marvelous finds of the Burgess Shale--a fantastically rich deposit of bizarre and bewildering Cambrian fossils, located in Western Canada.Conway Morris is one of the few...

David G. Wells / The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers

First published in 1986, this mind-boggling and entertaining dictionary, arranged in order of magnitude, exposes the fascinating facts about certain numbers and number sequences - very large primes, amicable numbers and golden squares to give but a...

Jeremy Flint / The Winning Edge

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Emily Herbert / Katie and Peter: Too Much in Love: The Inside Story of Their Break-Up

When Katie and Peter met in the jungle, sparks instantly flew. Their whirlwind romance soon developed into something more permanent and led to a lavish wedding at Highclere Castle in Buckinghamshire. The couple also chose to share the ups—and...

Lois McMaster Bujold / The Sharing Knife #3 Passage

Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have...

Harry Dowdell / Cycle Touring in Spain: Eight Detailed Cycle Tours

A guidebook to eight multi-day cycle tours across Spain. The routes range from 5 to 12 days in length, suitable for novice through to keen cyclists, with options to shorten, extend or go off-road. The tours extend from the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa in...

Sandra Brown / Slow Heat in Heaven

The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall left Heaven, Louisiana, a brokenhearted girl. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make...

Lynn Erickson / Night Whispers

The Prey: Anna Dunning is walking a fine line between security and mind-numbing terror. The phone calls are becoming more frequent -- a stranger whispering horrible, obscene promises. She knows he is watching her...stalking her. And he's getting closer...

Jack Altman / 1001 Dreams : An Illustrated Guide to Dreams and Their Meanings

1001 Dreams is a fun and revealing guide to your unconscious mind. Discover how to remember your dreams more clearly, how to answer particular questions in life, how to choose between possible meanings and how to tell if a dream is encouraging or...

Heather Graham Pozzessere / Slow Burn

Faced with the brutal murder of her husband, Spencer Huntington demands answers from the one man who should have them--ex-cop David Delgado, her husband's former partner and best friend. And her former lover. Spencer and David are bound by a...

William Leith / Bits of Me are Falling Apart: Dark Thoughts from the Middle Years

One morning, William Leith wakes up and realises that something is wrong. He is alone and at the end of his tether. Bits of him are falling apart. With his trademark darkly humorous mix of personal story and social commentary, Leith attempts to...

Anna Dean / Dido Kent #3 A Woman of Consequence

On a visit to the ruins of Madderstone Abbey, Penelope Lambe suffers a bad fall and before she slips into unconscious, manages to say 'I saw her, it was her'. Some take these words to mean that Penelope saw the Grey Nun, the ghost reputed to haunt...

Judith McNaught / Paradise #3 Night Whispers

Night Whispers – Unabridged - 11hrs 36min – Barbara PinoliniA policewoman in a small Florida community, Sloan Reynolds knows that her modest upbringing was a long way from the social whirl of Palm Beach, the world inhabited by her father...

Elizabeth Moon / The Legacy of Gird #2 Liar's Oath

Paksenarrion was the finest paladin her world would ever see. But she could never have fulfilled her destiny had it not been for one who came Gird, the Liberator. When Gird leads his peasant army against their mageborn rulers, he knows that his sworn...

Bruce Elder / Ireland Travel Guide

A user-friendly and simple introduction to programming in Java 2, the language which powers the Internet, this guide teaches the core skills necessary to produce coherent, maintainable code to enhance web sites and build interactive pages. It...

Stuart Hollingdale / Makers of Mathematics

This is an account of the history of mathematics as it is revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art, such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton and Einstein. In...

Deon Meyer / Thobela Mpayipheli #1 Heart of the Hunter: A Lemmer Novel

“This guy is really good. Deon Meyer hooked me with this one right from the start. Heart of the Hunter is a thriller with some weight attached, and that is a rare find.” ―Michael Connelly Six-foot five-inch Thobela "Tiny" Mpayipheli was...

Elaine Levine / Men of Defiance #2 Audrey and the Maverick

Virginia financier Julian McCaid has put his troubled past behind him. His plans for the future don't include Audrey Sheridan, the extraordinary frontier woman he met just once. But it's because of her that he's come to the Dakota Territory to...

Naomi Ragen / A Woman Under Suspicion

Beautiful, fragile Dina Reich, a young woman in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox haredi enclave, stands accused of the community's most unforgivable adultery. Raised with her sisters to be an obedient daughter and a dutiful wife, Dina secretly yearned for the...

dennis hamley / The Railway Phantoms

Rachel is on holiday with her railway-mad father. Could anything be worse. Then there are the dreams. Cold fog. A man crying out, a train, a crash. It's so real. She has visions of two pale children in strange clothing. What do they want and why are...

Simon Pasternak / Death Zones

In the lawless killing fields of the Eastern Front, SS Oberleutnant Hoffmann is on a mission to find a murdererBelorussia, July 1943. As the Battle of Kursk rages to the east and the tide turns against the Nazi offensive, large swathes of White...

Neale Donald Walsch / Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life Into an Extraordinary Experience

Life was meant to be happy. Do you belive that? It's true. I know it doesn't seem like it when you look around, but it's true.Life was meant to be happy. "You" were meant to be happy. And if you "are" happy, you were meant to be happier. Even if you're"...

Henry Handel Richardson / The Getting of Wisdom

Laura Rambotham, clever, precocious but naïve, leaves her home in the country for boarding school in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. She wants to fit in, but her artistic spirit chafes against the stuffy confines and minds of the ladies school...

Carrie Duffy / Diva

A hugely entertaining and glamorous book, from an exciting new voice in young women’s fictionStunning and sexy, Dionne Summers is a girl who speaks her mind. Brought up on the mean streets of Detroit, she is determined that nothing will stop...

Blaine Harden / Africa : Despatches from a Fragile Continent

Journalist Blaine Harden reveals the darker, unsightly picture of Africa which is beginning to emerge in the media.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson / Mismatch: The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb

Our bodies evolved to allow our ancestors the best chance of survival as hunter-gatherers in the Savannah. Our brains, on the other hand, have allowed us to develop complex societies, cultures, and lifestyles, far removed from those of our ancestors. As...

Louisa Jepson / Harry Styles: Every Piece of Me

Harry Styles is 1/5 of the global boy band sensation that is One Direction. Made up of bandmates Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Harry himself, 1D came to prominence in the 2010 series of X Factor UK. Since then they've...

Michael Hoeye / The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures #4 Time to Smell the Roses

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Lila Castle / The Star Shack

Pete and Annabelle always believed they were a perfect pair-until junior year, when Annabelle became obsessed with astrology. Now they can hardly stand each other. Pete thinks Annabelle has become a total flake; she thinks he's an uptight jerk. To prove...

David-Torrance / EU Referendum 2016: A Guide for Voters

Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This is the question we will have to answer on 23 June, when we head to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a...

Julia Bell / The Dark Light

'Ten minutes to midnight!' Jonathan shouts over the sound of the blazing fire. Sparks rise into the sky and mingle with the stars. 'Only ten minutes!' Bevins says, falling down on his knees. 'So it begins.'Rebekah has lived on the island her whole life,...

Alex Marsh / The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu

Who wants a respectable retirement anyway?Not Ted Prescott, genial visitor to Mailliot le Bois, here on an impulsive mission to seek out his past whilst heroically diminishing the sleepy French town's stocks of red wine.But once the locals discover Ted's...

Isabelle Carmody / The Obernewtyn Chronicles #3 Ashling

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Shauna Reid / The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego,...

Peter Cope / Teach Yourself Digital Video and PC Editing

Desktop video or PC-based digital video is regarded as the next big thing for desktop computers in the consumer market. Following on from the adoption of personal computers for DTP and digital photography, desktop video offers the general consumer...

Almudena Grandes / The Wind from the East

In a small seaside suburb two strangers arrive - Juan Olmedo, accompanied by his mentally disabled brother and his young niece, and Sara Gomez, an enigmatic woman in her 50's. Both have their reasons for fleeing the city. The lives of these two people...

Elliott Hester / In-Flight Entertainment : Tales of Sex, Rage and Queasiness at 30, 000 Feet

In-Flight Entertainment is a classic humour book, an air steward's account of fourteen years' worth of airline incidents, reminding us of the absurdities of flying. This wonderful collection of over 30 eye-opening true stories Lechery at 30,000 Feet;...

Jane Mullen / Sea Light

A woman channels the support of a famous deceased author through letters and diaries to help deal with her divorce.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

David Isby / Leave No Man Behind: Liberation and Capture Missions

If the big wars of the 20th century were about saving civilization and countries, small wars are about saving people. Instead of defeating Hitler, they are concerned with the capture of international pariahs like General Noriega, Radovan Karadic, or...

Terri Fleming / Perception

Perfect for fans of Pride and Prejudice, Perception continues the adventures of the Bennet sisters in the Regency world we all know. For lovers of Austen and sequels Longbourn and Thornfield Hall, to reimaginings...

Thomas Christopher Greene / Mirror Lake

My name is Nathan Carter. Let me say that even though this story does not concern me - not directly anyway - I feel an obligation to tell it, because it was told to me, and it is the type of story that needs to be told...So begins this powerful tale of...

Isla Dewar / Briggsy

Minnie is fascinated by the unusual Briggsy, who arrives in town with the fair. This is a sparkling, intelligent story about growing up, friendship and learning what's important in life. Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling...

Mark Kurlansky / Battle Fatigue

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