Modern Fiction - Secondhand

In the midnineties, New York's Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and worked within...

Most Eligible Cowboy - Stacey Kennedy 'Yeah, cowboy, we've got a deal.' And a very real fake engagement! Being named Texas's Sexiest Bachelor is the opposite of fun for divorced...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the...

Brooklyn, the summer of 2015. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heatwave, accompanied by biblical rains, and now a mysteriously glowing mushroom infestation is threatening the city. As the...

Jan Vidor seems like the ideal houseguest for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive but not antisocial, the quiet American academic can be relied upon to entertain...

Does being nobody's fool mean that you're nobody's love? Colleen O'Rourke is in love with love...just not when it comes to herself. Most nights, she can be found behind the...

The Sleepers Almanac is a collection of short stories, with some cartoons and a dash of poetry to boot and showcases new and emerging writers alongside established authors.

THREE GENERATIONS. TWO CHICKEN SHACKS. ONE RECIPE FOR DISASTER. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share'...

'We have a new The Handmaid's Tale ... an exciting new literary voice with a dazzling imagination' EMMA KENNEDY 'Compelling, menacing and ultimately uplifting, I fell headlong into the world...

Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd ( After, Imagines ) could do. The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo,...

An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt; a suspenseful tale of a tangled love triangle in the long shadow of the war on terror. Manhattan attorney Sam Tahar...

Now a major ABC TV series, starring Brendan Cowell, Asher Keddie and Jemaine Clement, Plum is the roaring, raucous, funny and deeply moving story of a deeply inarticulate man who...

An American bishop gets kidnapped outside his cabin in the High Sierras one snowy morning in November 2008 by three liberation theologians who look like terrorists. They take him off...

Something strange has happened to Thomas Passmore. Waking from a warm Australian beach, he finds himself at Heathrow Airport on a winter's morning, only he can't remember getting there. Burdened...

'That's why aw this-' Cage lifts his lager can, sweeps it round 180 degrees. '-means so much tay a man.' The crowd stamps and claps, a hundred and fifty thousand...

Traps the reader from the first page with its political undertones and its undeniable charm. -- Isabel Allende This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist...

Allegra Goodman's first novel, relates American Jewish family life as lived during the summer of 1976 with its many relationships and intrigues. Allegra Goodman was the recipent of the Whiting...

Ray is not a bad guy. Sure, he's just cheated on his heavily pregnant wife. He secretly despises all of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is...

Having examined England's twin obsessions - violence and sex - in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and HEADHUNTERS, John King completes his trilogy with ENGLAND AWAY- sex and violence abroad, under the...

Third in the series of explosive thrillers featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of The Lucifer Network Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new...

The second explosive thriller featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of Fire Hawk TERROR KNOWS NO FRONTIERS A deadly secret whispered by a dying gunrunner on a lonely road...

Fearful of commitment after a dismal romantic disaster, Lexi James, a thirtysomething Philadelphia PR executive, seeks the advice of her best friends, the Council of Girlfriends--a group consisting of "Princess"...

To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an...

The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter 'It's our son, Sam... someone took him. Please help us' Emma hoped that...

The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio . . . and one...

What happens when you mix a shot of rum with a dash of charm? Audrey just wants to move on and rebuild from a marriage gone wrong. Now she's focused...

In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into...

This compelling debut follows one spirited young woman from the confines of Iran to the intoxicating freedom of America where she discovers not only an enticing new country but the...

In 1941, Larry Zagorski was a naive young writer of science-fiction. Seven decades on, he looks back on that crucial year and traces his place in a mysterious web -...

Once Lamour Harrington was a carefree little girl, following her charming, hard-up, writer father to Italy: first Rome, then the lovely Amalfi coast. Lamour will never forget the tiny cottage...

'A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging... beautifully rendered' JESSICA ANDREWS 'A deeply observant, perceptive writer' JOANNA CANNON 'Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant... deserves to be on...

A turbine-driven fantasy of love and revenge, values and morals: a witty and compellng elixir. Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. He's sold out to the Devil, in all his...

All the animals in the safari zoo are warned to stay away from the huge Rhino Neil. He is a very lonely rhinoceros until one day Tuscany the elephant arrives....

When old feelings resurface, will the truth bring them back together? Sweet Home Alaska Skylar Beaumont never wanted to return to Alaska. Still, when duty calls, she can't refuse. And,...

British debut novel for a new Australian author, "Flying Lessons" is about the continuities and contradictions of family, through which Australian society, past and present, is evoked. Susan Johnson has...

A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of...

Quite unlike her fair stepsisters, Lizzie is dark and secretive: 'Just like your father' says her mother. But what was her father like? Photos of him are hidden away; snatches...

In rich, ironic and revaeling prose Ginu Kamani depicts the lives of Indian women ranging accross class, age and attitude. JUNGLEE GIRL is a compelling and stimulating collection by a...

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life,...