Movies are born of great storytelling which is why so many great movies’ first incarnations were as books. So many classics, fiction, non-fiction, thrillers and children’s stories have been translated…
Category: Books – Used
It’s currently Freedom to Read Week in Canada. Taking place this year between February 26th and March 4th, it’s “an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm…
Backbeat has the books you want! Secondhand here doesn’t mean second-rate. We love to source relevant, of-the-moment secondhand titles that grab your attention and keep you reading. No musty, dusty…
It’s been far too long since we’ve posted pictures of giant towers of books! Here’s just a sample of what we’ve just put out today. We expanded our used fiction…
Last week, we showed you the one-of-a-kind Tree of Codes die-cut wonderpiece by Jonathan Safran Foer. Today, we bring you three more super unique books all currently available at Backbeat.…
The best thing about secondhand shopping is the potential for discovering treasures. On that note, our latest special addition (or is that edition?) to our rare books section is this…
We’re all about keeping things fresh over at Backbeat, so today we’re spending the day pricing loads more secondhand books for the shelves. This is such a great haul –…
When you travel, how many books do you bring? I went home for the long weekend and brought along no less than five books for four days, two of which…
When you shop for books, do you usually have something in mind or do you prefer to browse and see which books call out to you? When a customer is…
We’re all about encouraging reading, so we’ve made room for some sale racks. While we already think we have pretty great prices on our used books, you can find even…
Our famous surprise book packs are back! In brown paper packages tied up with strings, each contains a classic paperback – or three – so you can now choose just…
We’re spending today pricing and putting out a whole whack of secondhand books for you. Yes, you! This is a particularly great haul, so although the picture shows just a…
You never know what you may find inside a brown paper package. In this case, it was a copy of The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
When you own a shop that sells secondhand books, you come across a lot of treasures and fun things that the previous owners left inside them. We’ve come across old…
We’ve got the reggae pumping loudly today while pricing this latest selection of secondhand books for you! The hardest part is choosing…will it be Ruby by Cynthia Bond, The Illegal by Lawrence…
We haven’t done a music and book pairing in a little while, so we thought today would be a good time to do another one. As we all know, it’s…
Check out these stacks of secondhand books we just brought in! There are too many titles to list, but we’ve filled out our Mystery/Thriller section with lots more recent titles,…
Tired of the same-old, same-old when it comes to books? There is an endless sea of award winners, bestsellers, top tens, the lists go on and on…and while there’s nothing…
It’s time for another Backbeat music and book pairing! This week, we’re featuring Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by the multi-talented comedian, punk rocker, feminist, actress, and riot-grrrl Carrie…
Do you like getting things for free? (Of course you do!) Are you part of our loyalty program for secondhand books? (If you’re not already, you should be!) For every…
We’ve been stocking up on lots of goodies here lately – take a look at this amazing selection of secondhand books that we just brought in today! Just taking a…
It’s hard to believe, but we’re at the point now in the year when we’re really getting down to the wire when it comes to special ordering in new books…
There are only 13 days till Halloween. Feel like getting your spook on? Lucky for you, this little shop is full of horrors and we have lots of freakishly good…
It’s that time of year again…Banned Books Week! Go ahead, be a rebel and read whatever the hell you want! And savour every challenged word between the covers…
