Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Discover the precious present and find yourself! A simple story, engagingly told, The Precious Present does more than capture the heart; it is a valuable gift for anyone seeking a...

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller-a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world's most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever....

One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven creeps out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear to tree, and...

In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax. People (Page-turner of the week) He slips into homes at night...

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing...

When Tam's brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked up, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let him down but he is transported to...

As history reaches a tipping point, the forces unleashed by the Transition threaten to bring the future crashing down in ruins. Will Hitler and Tojo finish their race towards an...

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one...

'A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it' Sunday Telegraph...

The haunting, romantic lesbian retelling of Cinderella and modern queer classic by award-winning author Malinda Lo -- now with an introduction by Holly Black, a letter from the author, a...

Powerfully told, elegantly wrought, George P. Pelecanos 's The Big Blowdown is a knockout. Washington DC, 1946. For Joey Recevo and Pete Karras, two kids from one of Washington's rougher...

A collection of ten previously unpublished stories written between 1938 and 1945 by the Nobel Prize winner examines the sad effects of war on ordinary people's lives.

March 1939 Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape. Christa, an only child,...

Max and Tine arrive on the Greek island of her childhood holidays. Both are in their mid twenties and this is their first serious relationship. Max is relatively inexperienced with...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either...

The gripping new international thriller, racing between the US, Russia, Israel and Australia Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country's dominance on the world stage at any price....

The Spy tells the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was...

In A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin's vision of feminine sexuality is expressed with a ferocious dramatic force. Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York-...

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A...

A delightful tale of love among friends from number one bestseller Elizabeth Noble They say the friends you make at college are with you for life, and for Tamsin, Reagan,...

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules, simply because she...

There's something as raw and frightening and egotistical in these men and women as Homeric heroes Levinson's world is acetylene hot' Edmund White

Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the...

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her...

Time is not what it seems ... As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know...

Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012. Justin and Angela Kennedy have money,...

Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads of to the consulting room of a miniature...

'Reading Houellebecq is like being caught up in a tropical storm- you are blown away by the ferocity of his imagination' Observer From the author of cult favourite Atomised 'Reading...

'You may never read a novel crafted with more wonder and mystery' - Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. The year is 1957 and the place is Paris,...

Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today- saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen...

A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. Can you imagine what it must be like to take the souls of others? Marcello Mansini...

What If . . . You Were Handed a Ticket That Could Magically Start Your Life Anew? In what is sure to become a classic, Brendon Burchard has crafted a...

Majestic . . . superb. . . . A stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky.--New York Times Book...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love, a little boy's journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author...

No-one thought she had the courage... Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a...

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out...

Nicci Morrison was always the first of her friends to do everything... But she wasn't meant to be the first to die. Saying goodbye is never easy, but at least...

The powerful new besteller from the country's number one storyteller. In a 1930's setting, Live The Dream tells the story of three people caught up in a tangle of love...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...