The ThriftBooks Blog

By Hugo Munday • August 03, 2015

Academic publishing houses bankrupting students with the high price of new textbooks Some alternatives to financial ruin are out there e.g. thriftbooks.com Back to School promo' code, giving you 15% off used textbooks until Aug 16th, 2015. Code is TBTEXTBOOKS.

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By Hugo Munday • July 27, 2015

July 31st sees J. K. Rowling launch v.50.0. Happy Birthday to the creator of the legend of Harry Potter. Like or loathe these books, I think it is safe to say that she's done more to drive young adult engagement in literature than anybody else on the planet. We're celebrating her birthday by promoting her work and that of some of her most well-respected peers.

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By Billy Doux • July 20, 2015

We have never had so much choice when it comes to what we pick up and read. Added to time-honored institutions, such as libraries & coffee shops, we now have bucket-loads of content available from our phones, tablets, eBook readers PCs and even watches. So why are we better off buying good old used books?

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By Hugo Munday • July 13, 2015

What's special about July 14, 2015? It's the day that Harper Collins published Go Set a Watchman, which represents half the output of one of the most successful but unprolific authors of the twentieth century, Harper Lee.

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By Hugo Munday • July 06, 2015

We're about to hit the Dog Days of Summer, so it's time for a refresh of our Summer Reads list.

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By Paul Ryall • February 05, 2014

Is Charles Dickens the greatest novelist of all?

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By Mike Ward • August 30, 2013

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By Paul Ryall • June 27, 2012

As Rizzoli and Isles hits its exciting third sesason on TNT we thought we should point you in the direction of the classic thrillers by Tess Gerritsen that lie behind the series.

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By Paul Ryall • June 15, 2012

Len Deighton's Classic, The Ipcress File, is fifty years old- and yet the prose and the characters are still fresh, believeable and exciting. Check out the backstory and see some great clips of Sir Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.

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By Paul Ryall • May 30, 2012

From Winston Churchill to JFK and from John Lennon to Lady GaGa, Queen Elizabeth has met them all. As Britain celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, we take at a selection of books which might just tell you a little bit more about this remarkable woman and the Royal Family.

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