Modern Fiction (post 1945)

"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: 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...

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...

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...

A dark and bleakly funny fable from the author of Divorcing Jack. A little boy left for dead when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan...

Author: Jack GelberBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber., 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some minor tears and sun-fading to...

Author: W Somerset MaughamBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books London, 0000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCreatures of Circumstance which forms part of The Complete Works of Somerset Maugham. VG+ (light...

Author: L.P. HartleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, London, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Markings on slipcase. Harriet's And Sons presents a compelling psychological drama, chronicling the intricate...

Author: Jessica AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel presents a compelling narrative centered on a young woman navigating complex family...

Author: Kingsley AmisBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of Australia, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerKingsley Amis's Jake's Thing is a satirical novel that chronicles the misadventures of Jake Richardson, an aging...

Author: Henry CecilBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsFriends At Court presents a witty and insightful look into the...

Author: Henry CecilBinding: HardbackPublished: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSober As A Judge presents a delightful foray into the often-absurd world of British law, chronicling the experiences...

Author: Martin BoydBinding: PaperbackPublished: LANSDOWNE PRESS, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis novel chronicles the romantic entanglements and social intricacies within a...

Author: Doris ShannonBinding: HardbackPublished: SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsFamily Money chronicles the intricate lives of a family grappling with a sudden inheritance and the secrets...

Author: James JoyceBinding: HardbackPublished: GUILD PUBLISHING LONDON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsTitle: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young ManAuthor: James Joyce

Author: Virginia WoolfBinding: HardbackPublished: GUILD PUBLISHING LONDON, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA seminal work of modernist literature, Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway...

Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: GUILD PUBLISHING LONDON, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA satirical masterpiece, Decline And Fall chronicles the misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, an innocent Oxford theology student unjustly...

Author: Elinor GlynBinding: HardbackPublished: DUCKWORTH AND CO., 1912Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsElinor Glyn's Halcyone presents a captivating Edwardian romance,...

Author: Stephen R. DonaldsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ballantine Books, N.Y, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerStephen R. Donaldson's The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book Three: White Gold...