Modern Fiction (post 1945)

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the...

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man...

1912-1940 A generation fallen. A country that will never be the same again. Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the First World War and the...

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission...

David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted...

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation,...

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly...

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her...

'The Pesthouse finds the author not just on his own best form, but arguably the best form any English writer has shown in the last couple of years' Spectator A...

The book titled The Shoes of the Fisherman by the author Morris L West. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An episode of Porn Disco, the latest luxury Dermo Shower, a day s work at the Security Department and fistfuls of drugs- this is the daily life of Jensen Interceptor,...

A sharply humorous and fast paced first novel about the effects - some predictable, some widly unexpected - that an encounter at gunpoint have on a previously assured young woman....

A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian...

I didn't love her. But, I suddenly understood, it wouldn't take much. Cornelia and Clare haven't met yet, but they need each other more than they realise. Cornelia is drifting...

Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London's hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of...

Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997- New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry,...

Reissued in electric new backlist style, Everyman is one of Philip Roth's late masterpieces and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Everyman...

The sparkling, witty and enormously enjoyable new novel from the author of Asking for Trouble Caught up to anywhere you care to name with other people's dramas, Harriet has no...

From one of Australia's hottest writers comes a brooding novel of suspense and dark secrets, retribution and rock 'n roll. From one of Australia's hottest writers comes a brooding novel...

A special paperback edition with colored sprayed edges of this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make. "A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as...

The book titled Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by the author Meg Cabot. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The battle of the sexes hasn't ended - it's just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives...

This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who grew up in a small town outskirts of Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to an unhappy adulthood. When circumstances offer Brogan a...

Author: Arnold BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear to cover; spine significantly tanned; tanning of...

Author: John UpdikeBinding: HardbackPublished: ANDRE DEUTSCH in association with RIGBY PUBLISHERS, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Witches of Eastwick chronicles the lives of three unconventional women in...

Author: Patrick WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: previous owner message in FEPThe Eye of the Storm by Patrick...

Author: Agatha ChristieBinding: HardbackPublished: THE BOOK CLUB, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: general wear, bleaching and marks to cloth...

When a teenager runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that connects a cast of six characters who narrate Wonder Valley. There's Ren,...

A new, much anticipated collection of stories from the inimitable Kelly Link. 'These nine stories may begin in familiar territory-a birthday party, a theme park, a bar, a spaceship-but they...

A young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel to find a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money next to him, with only the haziest...

Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang, Stephen King, A.L. Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Ben Marcus, Lorrie Moore, Herta...

Here, by the highly acclaimed and bestselling author of Eucalyptus, is the perfect gem of a Christmas gift. The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an...

Author: Peter GreyBinding: HardbackPublished: World Distributors, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: cover, spine and first few inside front and...

Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What...

When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five interconnected narratives, which tell of her life at...

Author: Colleen McculloughBinding: HardbackPublished: Macdonald, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA compelling work of speculative fiction, A Creed For The Third Millennium chronicles a world grappling with profound spiritual...

Author: Spike MilliganBinding: HardbackPublished: TED SMART, 2002Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents the unparalleled comedic genius of a master humorist, compiling a selection of his most iconic...

A stunning work of art that bears no comparisons' the New York Observer wrote of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 'and this is also true of this magnificent new novel, which...

Author: W. Somerset MaughamBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, The Selected Novels: Volume One, presents the masterful...

THE SECOND ROMCOM IN THE THRILLING APEX RACING SERIES! Are they on a collision course - or could this be an accident of the happy kind? Notoriously hotheaded race car...

Author: variousBinding: HardbackPublished: ODHAMS BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection unites three distinct narratives, offering readers a journey through varied literary...

'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' The New York Times'Eliot-like ... . It is simultaneously a joke, a homage, and a provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a...

Author: VariousBinding: HardbackPublished: ODHAMS BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markings-

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and...