Modern Fiction - Secondhand

A noirish Hollywood murder mystery, from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line A Hollywood screenwriter is brought to write up the grisly murder of a middle-aged,...

In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised...

Bumbling Mangoland academic, Professor Dr Grafton Everest, has been elected to the Australian Senate, without really knowing why, and due to the influx of weird Independents, finds himself holding the...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. From his village in post-war France, Brodeck...

An impressive debut from a major new voice in American fiction. Days after his ex-girlfriend's suicide, Wayne flies to San Francisco for her funeral. When he learns that she aborted...

When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped...

You can take the WAG out of Luton but you can't take Luton out of the WAG.... Tracie Martin is back! But this time everyone's favourite Wag is in LA,...

Welcome to the world of the WAGs... 32-year-old Tracie Martin is Luton Town FC's longest-serving WAG - for 12 years her husband Dean has kept her in raccoon hair extensions...

In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein's Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition...

Ever since 'the incident' two years ago, Isabelle has been stuck in a dead-end job and has struggled to find her feet. It takes all of her determination to ward...

Coral Kendall is torn between Jack Buckley, a handsome British officer, and Dr. Ethan Boswell, who has helped Coral set up a school for the untouchables on her silk plantation.

'Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.' Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Even...

The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family's journey through a medical crisis, laying bare...

A wealthy elderly man knows that he is dying. Haunted by memories of a woman whom he loved, had a child by, but never married, he goes through a secret...

It isn't until her boyfriend Tom heads off for his year abroad that Holly realises just how much she's going to miss him. But Tom's left her with rather more...

How is a woman supposed to act at the bedside of her husband in a coma? Caroline's son points out that dying her hair, right there in the hospital, is...

Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the previous twenty-eight years,...

Laila is desperate to escape life in the longhouse in her Malaysian village. Desperate enough to travel alone to Australia to marry Jim, a fruit-picker living in Renmark, South Australia....

Growing up in hard-scrabble coal country with a drunk father and a runaway mother hasn't been easy for teen brothers Kyle and Klint. And when their dad smashes his truck...

A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Don't Tell Me...

Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his...

Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced...

After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed...

On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...Ellie is in a dying marriage. She knows this. After...

Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to...

A tale of the unexpected from Orange Prize shortlisted Xiaolu Guo, also named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013. Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth...

A #1 bestseller in France, this modern masterpiece by the distinguished author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being presents a tremendously entertaining, wickedly funny satire on contemporary life. Simultaneously telling...

An intimate portrait of London intellectual life, the breakdown of a marriage and the friendship between two women, 'What You Will' draws the reader into a spellbinding world of beauty...

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold...

In this emotionally charged thriller, detective Merci Rayborn faces the challenge of a lifetime - a high-profile murder case that points to her lover as the main suspect. A riveting...

Reeling from his wife's death, cardiologist Charles Anderson is looking for meaning and purpose in his life. He volunteers to work as the doctor at a refugee camp, in a...

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that...

From the author of The Playground Mafia and The Battle for Big School, a brilliantly funny tale of a summer holiday gone mad ... In school playgrounds across the country...

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