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A unique secondhand book browsing experience.

We love secondhand books. And we love transparency. We provide photos of the actual books for sale, including front and back cover photos, as well as detailed descriptions of their condition.

Based in Fife, Scotland, we ship to anywhere in the UK. We have a selection from almost every genre, with a focus on art, non-fiction, science fiction, and fantasy (and we are always open to requests!).

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

-Ursula K. Le Guin

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We also love plants!

We sell a variety of plants at our market stalls, keep an eye on our social media for dates!

Market Details Coming Soon!

Kind words from our Customers

Love my Hockney Art Book. Wonderfully and thoughtfully packaged. Impeccable service with an environmentally friendly outlook. I would definitely recommend.

Su

Excellent selection of books and an easily navigable website. Super friendly service and fast reliable shipping with beautiful packaging! So over the moon happy. Highly recommend supporting this small business.

Brittany

Wonderful website! So fun looking through all the categories of great books. I struggled to control myself from having the hugest order of books. The delivery was quick and I loved the note and business card.

Dayle

Great curation of books on the site I struggle to find elsewhere. Fast and communicative service which handles orders with care. Five Stars.

Callum

I ordered a lovely book from this bookshop when I had covid, and it arrived within two days. The selection of books available is absolutely beautiful. Can not recommend highly enough.

Natalie

Sterling collection, super quick delivery and a high quality book in my sticky little fingers! Thank you!

Alli

Books you might not have heard of, but should read

Companion Piece

"A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.

Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history?

What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other?

What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?

Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting."

Read more about our nightmarish now

The Ballad of Beta-2 & Empire Star

The Ballad of Beta-2: An epic space mystery first published in 1965, featuring generations-long space travel to distant stars, missing colonists, a ship covered in shimmering green fire and a spooky clue the form of a poem.

Empire Star: The main protagonists name is Comet Jo, so you know this is going to be some sci-fi goodness. Includes a devil-kitten, complex crystalline entities and an urgent message to Empire Star. First published 1966.

A double-feature Delany treat!
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”

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Hardback, very good condition. Minimal wear to jacket edges. Sun-fading on spine. Cover and pages are in excellent condition.

Published by Delacorte Press, 2012. First printing of this edition (first published 1969).

ISBN: 9780385364133

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