Welcome to the home of C L Hawley Books. We have been supplying out of print and hard-to-find books to academics, libraries, collectors and readers since 2000. We pride ourselves on our customer service, our knowledge of our specialist stock, and our well packaged and promptly posted parcels of books. Our aim is to provide a service where out-of-print academic material in our specialist areas can easily be found, as well as finding new homes for children's books and local history.

We are always looking to buy literary criticism, other academic books (including history, psychology, philosophy, linguistics and biblical languages), children's poetry and fiction, and local history books. Please contact us if you have books you wish to sell.

Newly in Stock...

Recently catalogued are a selection of books by Georg Lukacs.

There's quite a few new items in stock on the 1890s and decadence, plus we've also quite a few things by and about Arthur Symons in stock.

We've a also quite a few books in that focus on the literature of the thirties or the forties, as well as a range of books on key writers of those deacdes such as W. H. Auden.

We've catalogued a lot of books recently on religion in literature.

Newly listed stock includes books about Elizabeth Gaskell, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Thomas Hardy and the artist and poet David Jones.

Newly listed and part way through being photographed are a selection of books by and about Graham Greene.

Visit our book blog Juxtabook

We have a  book blog called Juxtabook . You can also follow Juxtabook on Twitter. Catherine, and a number of other booksellers contribute to the blog Books4All which you might also enjoy.

Did you know?

As well as browsing our categories, other selections can be viewed as a group via the keywords Literature in Translation providing a selection of novels, poems, drama, literary criticism and other matter translated in to English; similarly the keywords Dual Language bring up a selection of en face or interlinear translations usefully combining the orignal text with the translation. The categories of such items will be their geographical literary category eg Russian Literature or African History and Literature but they can still be viewed together as a group using the keyword search.

Payment Options

We are now accepting all card payments via either Nochex or Paypal. You can select either at the checkout to pay by most credit or debit cards. You do not need to have a Nochex account to pay us via Nochex. If you wish to order by phone you can still do this and pay by sterling cheque or ask us further about what paying by nochex or paypal involves. Other options including bank transfer and sterling cheque are also available at the checkout.