Secondhand Books

Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems...

- the expedition had been trapped for months in the ice, watched their ship being slowly crushed, walked in appalling conditions to the edge of the ice sheet and in...

'Isabel Allende's wonderfully sexy new book, is a marvellous concoction. Enjoy it.' Carolyn Hart, Marie Claire This book of recipes, sensuous stories, aphrodisiacs and lovers' spells is an irresistible fusion...

Hailed by Virginia Woolf and many others as the all-time great letter writer, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle, is not as well known today as she should be....

Edited by his son, this is a collection of the letters of the American novelist and short-story writer, John Cheever, a winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize....

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle,...