Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. ____________________________________________________ A FALLEN ROCKSTAR. ONE LAST CHANCE...

A furry festive miracle who's there for you with a helping paw. Percy definitely isn't just for Christmas... Percy is homeless, abandoned by his owner at an animal rescue centre...

A controversial, throught-provoking and witty novel about the pursuit of perfection - the perfect appearance, relationship and life, from a young, hot talent. Sunny Weston is bright, breezy and fun....

A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie Driver Jessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an...

Watch out Bridget Jones and Ally McBeal - Johnathan Burlip wants you to know his side of the story! For Johnathan Burlip, solicitor and virtuoso shirt ironer, nothing is ever...

The book titled Winter Hawk by the author Craig Thomas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every 'wish-you-were-here' travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form. Gerald Samper is all about...

A tragic death. A family divided. Only truth can set them free. Banjo Murphy is killed on the night he finally walks away from his wife, Jade, after twenty-five years...

Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade, is it now time to let it go? A chance meeting with the charismatic geneticist, Anthony Blake, reawakens...

It is 1980's Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger to "get you into pictures" and suddenly finds himself behind the movie screen in...

'I'm going to kill her. You'd better come if you want to save her.' Lorraine - 'Rainy' - lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine...

Some love stories seem right out of a fairytale, but real romance can come true! Cindy And The Prince Cindy Territo cleans offices after hours to put herself through school,...

The book titled The Flower Boy by the author Karen Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be...

A wayward son, a dutiful daughter, a family caught between two cultures -- the first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker for Hogarth ** The New York Times bestseller ** 'To...

Kim tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance...

From the author of the Costa Prize shortlisted The Good Guy 'Susan Beale's writing is alive with subtlety and flair. Her stories unspool with a confident voice, a relish for...

* Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazine's #1 Book of the...

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM* For elderly churchwarden Arthur Calderbank, there's no place like home. His home just so happens to be a graveyard. He keeps...

The book titled One Small Boy by the author Bill Naughton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Last Magician by the author Janette Turner Hospital (University of South Carolina). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the story of Hanns Scharff the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War...

Spanning five decades of Chinese history, Wives of the East Wind is an epic tale of friendships, love, and idealism betrayed. Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Laoyin...

Daniel Cambridge is a thirty-three year old compulsive-obsessive. He knows the exact wattage of the bulbs in his flat, and will panic if the wattage isn't kept constant. This makes...

An impetuous character, Judith Paris arouses feelings of both tenderness and despair in those around her and excites the passions of two very different men: the sturdy, affectionate Reuben, her...

Peony is the cherished only child of the first wife of a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Yet she is betrothed to a man she has never met and as her sixteenth...

The Skallies, a row of tumbledown houses built on the windlashed coast, was a wild and curious place. A place for people down on their luck. A place where people...

New York City 1867: repulsed by the revelation that the conversion of black souls into merchandise has not ceased after the Civil War, a veteran finds himself drawn into the...

It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to...

In 1961, the Metropolitan Museum in New York paid $2,3000,000 for the painting "Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer" by Rembrandt. It was the highest price ever paid for a...

The book titled The Blue Suit by the author Richard Rayner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Posessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tahsi, an African tribal woman. Told in Tashi's voice and the voices of the people who knew and loved her, it...

The River House is a spellbinding debut novel, resonant of childhoods past and the beauty of the Australian countryside. It is the late 1940s, and the Broody River runs through...

Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics-a new topic for Coetzee-and explores the role of the writer in our times with an extraordinary moral compass. J.M....

First time in Modern Classics and for Penguin to publish one of the great American writers of the last 50 years Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured...

The Betrayal is the sequel to Helen Dunmore's hugely successful historical novel The Siege, set in Stalin's Russia. Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school...

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from...

The conclusion to the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte, the original Woman of Substance , and the powerful Harte clan... Love, passion, duty and honour collide as the members of...

A rousingly romantic Mediterranean tale of love and war. Palermo, 1946. Carlo Terzo, a retired military strategist who has never seen combat, is teaching young Salvatore Dragonara military history while...

Author: Monica McinerneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 2004Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis heartwarming contemporary novel chronicles the lives of three sisters, Anna,...