Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: J.G. FarrellBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA satirical historical novel, The Singapore Grip chronicles the tumultuous...

Author: Maurice GirodiasBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe Frog Prince: An Autobiography chronicles the extraordinary life of Maurice...

Author: Nadine GordimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Discoloured and chipped DJ with tanning to front, back...

Author: Nadine GordimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discoloured, faded and lightly chipped spine of DJ. Minor denting to spine of...

Author: Colin JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson , 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and discoloured DJ with some ripping...

Author: John UpdikeBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Witches Of Eastwick chronicles the lives of three unconventional women in a quaint New England...

Author: Richard GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light foxing to back of DJ, tanning and foxing to pages.Richard Gordon's Doctor In...

This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.

Having found the sort of man who only comes along once in a lifetime, Lucy Hatch is head over heels in love and lust. But just as the future seems...

Winner of the Prix Renaudot, this literary novel about a murder straddles the line between the tragic and the absurd-- from the author of the plays "Art" and "God of...

"Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel...

Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are...

Last-of-line scions of a prominent American family, Harriet and her twin brother, Michael, have so far resisted the whirligig of adulteries and diplomatic cocktail parties that seem to be their...

A fresh, funny and captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from wildly different worlds In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance... As editor-in-chief of New...

Author: John UpdikeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Modern Library, New York, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis literary collection presents two seminal works from a celebrated American author, offering a...

Beautiful, wild and wanton but do they really lead Charmed Lives? Kate Leonard is a high-flying young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a...

Author: Beverley FarmerBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic, this...

Author: Randolph StowBinding: HardbackPublished: Macdonald & Co., 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed page edges, chipped, rubbed and torn DJ....

Author: T. WignesanBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Blond with Rayirath (Raybooks) Publications, London/Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1964Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsBunga Emas: Contemporary...

Beth has forgotten the core truth of her own life. In a cruel move, her dead mother is about to remind her. A wise and ultimately warm-hearted story about self-discovery,...

An uplifting and heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest. 'Josephine Moon just gets better and better. The Cake Maker's Wish is my favourite of her novels...

Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's...

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an...

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...

From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general trade. The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov's story of...

David Hagberg's latest novel, "Burned", is inspired by the true story of Yvonne Bornstein. Kidnapped in Russia in the 1990s by Islamic terrorists, she and her husband were held for...

Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker,...

Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney in his late thirties with a beautiful wife and son. Some would say he has it all, but, by the merest of chances, one...

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Fran aise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is...

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for...

Young Dublin actress Deirdre O'Dare has justlanded her first big role and desperately wants toshine - and to impress David, the director she hasfallen madly in love with.But while Deirdre...

Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction ( New York Times ), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. Growing up in Delhi in...

The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides...

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to...