Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Vladimir NabokovBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of short stories, "Details Of A Sunset And Other Stories," presents a series...

Author: J. B. PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, London, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBright Day chronicles the introspective journey of a successful screenwriter,...

Author: Patrick DennisBinding: HardbackPublished: Arthur Baker, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear, staining and tearing and is price clipped, page edges...

Author: Alan SillitoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner name insideAlan Sillitoe's "Out Of The Whirlpool" presents a compelling narrative set against...

Author: C.P. SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has light wear and pages slightly yellowedThis novel chronicles a high-stakes libel...

Author: Nadine GordimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerNadine Gordimer's "Burger's Daughter" presents a compelling narrative set against the tumultuous backdrop of apartheid South Africa....

Author: Dominick DunneBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping novel chronicles the scandalous lives of two women entangled in the opulent yet treacherous world...

Author: Howard JacobsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some general minor wear, previous owner sticker on back...

Author: Nino CulottaBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear and tears along edges and corners some small sections missingCop This Lot chronicles...

Author: John O'GradyBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear and tears (see photo), pages have yellowedThis comedic novel chronicles the misadventures of...

Author: Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel (trans)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Quartet, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Spine has crease line down middle, previous owner name inside, pages yellowedWhen...

Author: V.S. PritchettBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House Publishing, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn board with some silverfish damage. This collection, "Selected Stories," presents the masterful short...

Author: Frances Parkinson KeyesBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe captivating novel "The Gold Slippers" transports readers into...

Author: Bruce MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: London Constable & Co Ltd, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAll Glorious Within" presents a sharp, satirical...

Author: Irwin ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe novel "The Top Of The Hill" presents a compelling narrative that chronicles the intricate lives of...

Author: Gerald ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, wear to cloth cover and light tanning along spine (see photo)This compelling biography, "Capote,"...

Author: Judith KrantzBinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Boards have wear from general shelf yseI'll Take Manhattan" chronicles...

Author: Simun 'Sam' SardelicBinding: PaperbackPublished: by the author, Mandurah, 2004Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne Eye Crying" presents a poignant narrative...

Author: Florence HightowerBinding: HardbackPublished: Bodley Head, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis charming children's novel tells the story of young...

Author: Ruth RendellBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis gripping psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell, "Going Wrong," masterfully chronicles the obsessive and destructive relationship between...

Author: Richard GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some light wear and tear and price...

"Theranos but make it gay." - Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant...

"Theranos but make it gay." - Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant...

Combining "fast-paced historical fiction with a hint of suspense" ( Booklist ), this epic saga from Julia Kelly explores love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II. Liverpool, 1935:...

Summer 1966: When her father comes home with lipstick on his collar, ten-year-old Claire's life is turned upside down. Her mother heads to London, and Claire and her brothers are...

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one...

When a routine trip to the beach turns to tragedy, Julia Fearon's life becomes a heartbreaking search for the truth. When she arrives in Spain with fiance Charlie and their...

The #1 Kindle Bestseller returns with a gorgeous summer read about romance, family and the secrets we keep from those we love. 'The perfect holiday companion' - Heat 'The ultimate...

A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol in this "first great K-pop literary phenomenon" ( Debutiful ) that is perfect for fans of...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday Times Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill... Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham,...

The Winter Secret is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of Her Frozen Heart. 'My dear boy, the place is cursed. It always has been and...

The Cast is an irresistible celebration of the strength of women, finding the courage to persevere in life's drama of heartbreak and joy, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel....

NO ONE WANTED TO END UP AT MORGATE HOUSE. BUT THE GIRLS HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO . . . 'The thrilling, heartbreaking, and shocking story of dark secrets, twisted...

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Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the...

The enthralling new novel from the ten-million-copy, Number One bestselling author Is there a murderer across the street? It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by Gloria and the...

'A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you're surprised to find your eyebrows aren't singed' Mark Sanderson, The Times A town under...

Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Taiwanese-British photographer Sean flies to Taipei to seek oblivion. Lost in the neon heat of his parents' homeland, though, all he...

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother,...

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.'...

What is love? Is it s omething spiritual or wholly physical? Can our feelings be explained and quantified? Or are we all actually two halves of a whole? Ask Alice...

HE TRUSTS HIS LAWYER WITH HIS LIFE . . . HE SHOULDN'T. For fans of Steve Cavanagh, Linwood Barclay and Gillian McAllister, this is the latest novel from the master...

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST Sarah is the youngest daughter of William Thornhill,...

India. 1879. Lieutenant John Howard witnesses something so unspeakable it changes him for ever. His subsequent disappearance is never solved. Egypt. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard makes an astonishing...

Set in an English seaside town, this bracing, funny crime novel begins with the murder of Marilyn Monroe; a beach donkey found with its throat cut. PI Grace Smith is...

The blossom is out in the little Cornish harbour town of St Felix But Poppy Carmichael's spirits aren't lifted by the pretty West Country spring. Inheriting her grandmother's flower shop...

Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick since university. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time....