Modern Fiction (post 1945)

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . . 'Unforgettable' RED - 'Memorable ' OBSERVER - ' A family overflowing with secrets ' LOUISE HARE - 'Impossible to put down' CHRIS...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerRumpole À La Carte chronicles the further adventures of Horace Rumpole, the beloved Old Bailey barrister, as he...

Author: Ted GreenwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of Australia, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Boy Who Saw God presents a poignant narrative centered on a young protagonist's extraordinary spiritual...

A mouthful of glass recreates the sad and desperate life of a man who was never sure what he was and where he stood. One day, in 1966, in the...

Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad...

The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found dead on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is swiftly arrested, tried and...

Don't let the fact this blurb is unusual stop you reading this book there really are few books like it. Yes it has cooking as an underlying theme like many...

' The River Gum Cottage establishes Leonie Kelsall firmly in the stable of rural fiction writers - just the right amount of romance, community and intrigue.' Rachael Johns, author of...

On the surface, current affairs reporter Nicola Harvey has the world at her feet -- she's at the top of her profession, part of Australian television's celebrity A-list, has a...

From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH. One family, one year and a novel that reminds us what it means to be beautifully, messily...

Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2021' by Lit Hub and The Millions 'Astonishing - one of the best story collections I've read in a long time . . ....

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend,...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart , a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. 'On the afternoon that Esther...

Girl meets boy. They fall in love. There's just one problem... She wants him back. She wants you gone. Luke is The One. After everything she's been through, Georgia knows...

A feel-good story about friendship, family and finding your perfect fit... 'A book full of warmth and kindness. I loved it' Sarah Morgan 'A gorgeously romantic comfort read' Rachael Lucas...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson...

The second novel in the new romance Blacklist series from the number one bestselling author Sylvia Day Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she's returned to the unquestioning...

A delightfully funny and inspiring novel about a very modern pilgrimage, and one woman's chance to rediscover what she's lost. A delightfully funny and inspiring novel about a very modern...

"Tell me a story ..." Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore, 8 1/2 months pregnant, is a blue-blooded library scientist and founding mother of the American Society for the Preservation of Storytelling....

Molly Meredith is happy with her lot in life. She has a thoughtful, considerate husband in Joe, a house spectacularly decorated with her creative curtain making skills, and a gorgeous...

Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men...

When Claire inherits a house out of the blue - she thinks she's struck it rich! But while the word 'cottage' inspires images of romantic idylls and roses round the...

Bump number one - Just when Taz Norton's life is on a smooth upward glide - youngest sales manager at a flagship department store, own flat, cat and vintage motorbike...

Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. She senses that she would have...

It's not every nineteen-year-old who's door-stepped at their Hackney bedsit by a national newspaper. But that's what's happened to Geoffhurst, a young black teenager who's trying to forget that eight...

There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows:That being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old. That you...

Shall We Gather At The River tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and the rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan,...

Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling novel-a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life . ....

The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's entertaining and hilarious Professor von Igelfeld series Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professor - he is the author of...

Newly packaged and reissued alongside the paperback of In Office Hours Meet Martin Lukes, Director of Marketing, A&B Global (UK) Monday, July 12th - 9-00 AM - 10-00 AM Head-space...

Haunted is a novel made up of stories- twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at...

"Guys are in trouble these days," says Garrison Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might...

She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars 'Those who live in the...

`What was it about complaining that felt so good? You and your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed and tingling?' The first-ever...

From the author of The Kiss, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar. New Year's Day, St Petersburg, 1917. Divers pull the...

Lone Star is another unforgettable love story from the best-selling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Life isn't about the destination, but the journey... Chloe is weeks away from...

Finding Mr Right and saying `yes' was just the beginning... Nicole has a wedding to organise, but first she has a cake to bake. After listening to her closest friends'...

Each winter the sleepy fishing town of Bimbulla, on the southern New South Wales coast, is visited by the magnificent wandering albatross on its stopover to the Antarctic.Dig is a...

Shifting from the Caribbean to New Orleans on the brink of war, Queen of Swords picks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Indian daughter of frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner,...

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For more than a decade two East End families have been locked in a bitter war. On one side are the Mitchells, a notorious underworld mob from East London's Canning...

'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women...