Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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...

A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the enduring splendour of the natural world. During a sweltering South American summer,...

Author: Monica DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Mayflower Books / Heinemann, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed edges, some minor...

Author: Nadine GordimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: significant tanning to dust cover; significant tanning...

Author: Ronald KirkbrideBinding: HardbackPublished: London; Tom Stacey, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: minor wear and fading of external dust cover; tanning of spineDavid Jordan: The Great...

Author: John UpdikeBinding: HardbackPublished: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: sun bleaching of dust cover, minor tearing; minor...

Author: John Le CarréBinding: HardbackPublished: ALFRED A KNOPF, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: minor wear to external dust cover; in otherwise good conditionA masterful work of...

A dark and compelling work by a new voice in Australian - and world - literary fiction A nomad swallows poison and drowns himself. Resuscitated by a paramilitary bandit named...

Author: Irving WallaceBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear, chipping and tanning to external dust jacket; tanning of edges of...

By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her...

Author: Christina SteadBinding: HardbackPublished: D. Appleton-Century Company, New York, 1934Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: minor wear to dust jacket, some fraying; cloth cover in good condition;...

Author: Henry LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Lloyd O'Neil, Australia, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJoe Wilson's Mates: 56 Stories From The Prose Works Of Henry Lawson presents a compelling collection...

'Manages something only a few books achieve: it makes you happy' Munich Mercury 'A clear-eyed tonic in troubled times' Guardian On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western...

AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 _______________ 'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR 'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT ' In enviably elegant prose, she manages...

A thrilling new suspense novel from the bestselling author of The Perfect Murder that fans of Jayne Ann Krentz and Laura Griffin won't want to miss! A cold case is...

FIRST HE TAKES YOU. THEN HE BREAKS YOU. The 13th adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller . . . 'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways,...

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut of a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 'It is, simply, perfect' Irish...

In the follow-up to the 'bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful' (NYTBR) bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less , the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America....

Justice has been served . . . unless the accused is innocent. In this gripping legal drama, Whitlow expertly weaves themes of grace, faith, and the law with a plot...

In this mesmerising, wonderfully moving queer cozy fantasy, an immortal ghost hunter must confront his tragic past in order to embrace his found family. Find an angry spirit. Send it...

For fans of Alice Hoffman and Sarah Addison Allen comes a powerful debut with a magical twist about one woman's discovery of her family's secret healing abilities - they can...

Author: Roald DahlBinding: HardbackPublished: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis satirical novel My Uncle Oswald chronicles the outrageous exploits of a charismatic and utterly amoral bon...

Author: Alexander TherouxBinding: HardbackPublished: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAn Adultery: A Novel presents a compelling narrative that uncovers the intricate emotional landscape of illicit...

A bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier's house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he's not sure he wants to be reacquainted with. Weldon...

August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager...

It's 1969, and Judith "Denny" Denham has just begun an affair with Dr. Ernest Wright, a psychology professor at Wellspring University, who just happens to be her boss. Meanwhile, Ernest's...

A collection of short stories that veer from the psychological to the slapstick, and from surrealism to satire. This collection covers 16 stories which flaunt Boyle's astonishing range. There are...

Run away to the circus with this book by award-winning Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard. A world of wandering mushroom tents, spawning on bare paddocks beside some small town and...

The classic by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As...

Jean Barrie is an enormously successful, award-winning singer who spends her time in self-imposed retreat in her huge, dark St. John's Wood home. Here she wanders around the empty rooms...

The book titled La Divina by the author Anne Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sally Quinn's richest, wisest book yet--the story of two extraordinary women who've had it all and want more: real love, real passion, real commitment, the best of life beyond the...

When a local down-on-his-luck landowner asks Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, to value some paintings, Clay suddenly sees the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a...

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether...