Thriller Collection

Secondhand Thrillers


A good thriller does one thing above all, which is to make you turn the page when you know you should be asleep. Sometimes the danger is a long way off, in a cold war handover or a courtroom that has gone quiet, and sometimes it is much closer than that, in a house where everyone is behaving perfectly normally. Every book here was loved by someone else first, and each is photographed exactly as it is, so what you see in the listing is what arrives on your doorstep. Browse action and adventure, psychological thrillers, historical and wartime, spy and espionage, or legal thrillers

UK postage from £2.75. Free UK delivery on all orders £15 and over.

Featured Thrillers

UK postage from £2.75. Free UK delivery on all orders £15 and over.

Recently Added

Bird Box

Josh Malerman

Very Good
£2.00

Action and Adventure

Chases, escapes and the ticking clock

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Frederick Forsyth

Very Good
£2.00

The Veteran

Frederick Forsyth

Very Good
£2.00

Avenger

Frederick Forsyth

Very Good
£2.00

The Afghan

Frederick Forsyth

Very Good
£2.00

Psychological Thrillers

The danger is already in the house

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Very Good
£2.00

Our House

Louise Candlish

Very Good
£2.00

Historical and Wartime Thrillers

Tension with the past behind it

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Spy and Espionage

Cold war handovers and quiet betrayals

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Trust Me

Jeff Abbott

Very Good
£3.50

Cosy Crime

Murder, but make it a nice village

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What Our Customers Say

29 Aug 2026

A treasure of a shop

What an incredible find! As a teacher, I always find it hard to update our class reading area and keep within a reasonable price. Often, cheap books are battered and in poor condition, but not here. Thank you so much for helping restock our classroom with exciting new books that the children had asked for! I will definitely be back again for more!

— Lauren O’Donnell

25 Aug 2026

Variety of Books

Arrived quickly in great condition. Children's books I ordered were generally less than £1 and the grown-up fiction books I purchased were only a small percentage of the number of books available. I bought a sweet valley high novel. Hadn't seen them in years. They were a favourite when I was a child.

— Fiona Johnson

15 Jul 2026

Great service

I was so pleased to receive six books very quickly after ordering. They were all in good condition and I am looking forward to reading them

— Jean Skelly

From the Bookshelf

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Never Miss Your Favourite Author Again

Tell me who you love to read and I'll email you the moment a book of theirs turns up in the shop.

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Found in a Book: The Things Previous Owners Leave Behind (Part 1)

From a Red Cross bookmark to a Garfield gift tag, these are the unexpected things found tucked inside secondhand books. Part 1 of an ongoing series.

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Blog

How to Tell a First Edition from a Reprint (Without Being a Collector)

Not a collector but curious about an old book? Learn how to spot a first edition from a reprint using the copyright page, number line and a few simple clues.

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