Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Peter UstinovBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann : London, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis satirical novel chronicles the misadventures of an American police chief who...

Author: Norman CollinsBinding: HardbackPublished: COLLINS LONDON-SYDNEY, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markings'Bond Street Story' presents a vivid tableau of post-war London life,...

Rufus Waters has had enough of being labelled a loon. Enough of medication and therapy. Enough of pitying looks and nervous changes of subject. Enough of being stood up and...

Nick Davis first saw Daniela Simonici in the American Bar of the Athenee Palace Hotel in Bucharest in June of 1940. He couldn't take his eyes off her. The city...

Aron Smart is orphaned early and brought up by his grandparents who impress on him the virtues of education. When they too die, his only support comes from an anonymous...

No.1 NYT-bestselling YA author Renee Ahdieh's adult debut novel, about a young lawyer who gets pulled in to manage a crisis with her firm's biggest client, a family whose Korean...

Author: Jerome WeidmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1976Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: ex-library sticker on inside cover; minor tanning of internal pages; in otherwise...

Heaven and Earth is a novel about sisterhood in its many guises, about how social reality appears to a 25 years old activist called Sarah and to her artistically gifted...

Author: Louis AuchinclossBinding: HardbackPublished: Franklin Library, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling novel chronicles the intricate lives of a prominent New England family, tracing their lineage and the...

Author: Hermione LeeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Phoenix, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: minor wear on external cover; noticeable marking...

Author: Xaviera HollanderBinding: HardbackPublished: Aidan Ellis Publishing, London, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed external dust coverThis compelling narrative chronicles the audacious life of a woman...

Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing...

Author: Stephen KingBinding: HardbackPublished: Cemetery Dance , 2013Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis chilling work of dark fantasy chronicles the terrifying encounter with a malevolent entity that stalks...

Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be...

Investigative journalist Jenn Barrett never intended to return to Dungirri, the small town she escaped as a teenager. But startling revelations about local man Mark Strelitz have reopened the investigation...

The book titled Walk to the End of the World by the author Suzy McKee Charnas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Double Planet by the author John Gribbin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and...

The book titled The Innocent by the author Ian McEwan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Mary Wesley Omnibus: "Jumping the Queue", "Camomile Lawn", "Harnessing by the author Mary Wesley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This is a novel of a modern-day cosmetics empire and the dynamic family dynasty behind it. Stephen Birmingham is the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction...

The God of Animals is the story of the coming of age of 13-year-old narrator Alice Winston: lonely, unloved and eager to escape her dysfunctional family and small-town life. Her...

It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. It's further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but...

Contains 47 microstories or tales of less than 1000 words, most of which were originally commissioned for publication in 'Australian Book Review'. Includes contributions by Australian writers such as Marion...

The book titled Warrior Marks by the author Alice Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

' A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping . Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a...

`Big-hearted, earthy and funny... A rattlingly good story' Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating...

A fabulous pastoral-romantic-suspense novel that HarperCollins are getting behind in a big way. A couple are seeking to move from the city to the country. The wife, Gally, is an...

Deep in the forests of Moran, far from civilization, live families of woodcutters and shepherds. A remote and beautiful world, it is a place where madness still reigns, murder occurs,...

Danny Russel, precocious child of Scottish emigrants, is a born survivor. He soon goes native in working-class Elizabeth, South Australia's new model city. In the dusty streets and playgrounds of...

The poignant story of a man who finds he can reach out to his younger, troubled self through a very familiar bookshop in his home town. 'Underhill's tender, innovative debut...

Emigrating alone from Paris to New York after World War II, a young girl Gazala befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala's beloved brother Samir joins her in...

p>This story honours Isabelle who has shown great courage, heroism and bravery in circumstances of extreme adversity. It is both a remarkable true love story spanning 50 years and several...

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is...

Suburban wife and mother, Julia Flanagan is good to a fault. She always plays by the rules, does what she s told and puts her family first. To be honest,...

Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter of Pepina and Erminio Carrozza, a farming family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At sixteen, Maria's life is limited...

From the bestselling Australian author of The Hating Game, now a major motion picture, comes the clever, funny and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant...

I am not writing this to be sentimental. I am just trying to find an answer to a story... An artistic girl in Renaissance Venice, quietly rebelling against the constraints...

The book titled Past Secrets by the author M.a. Innes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Passage Home: A Novel by the author Alison McLeay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Max Boyle was hoping for a quiet life after the rough-and-tumble of World War II, but "my life with Professor Stubbs had been nothing more than one damned murder after...

The book titled Trial & Retribution #1 by the author Plante La. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories the...

Gossip Girl meets Succession in this steamy romance about a tenacious Indian-American heiress who's ready to prove she can lead her family's business, and her best friend's brother, a CEO...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated...