Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and instant food, has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least...

Away is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America...

Shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Fellowship of Australian Writers awards On a promontory in a lake within a city built by the famed architect Walter Burley...

The only child of two famous but self-absorbed artists, Zelda Steele is adopted by her parents' patrons when she is just a baby. Great things are expected of this privileged...

A long-defunct gay activist group seems to be threatening radio shock jock Jay Plankton. As The J-Bird, the man's hate-filled rants offend Strachey deeply. Among the subjects Stevenson tackles in...

Rising newspaper reporter Hope Jensen uncovers the secret behind the "Christmas Jars"--glass jars filled with coins and bills anonymously given to people in need. But Hope discovers much more than...

How on earth did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia's Ten Most Wanted Criminals list for bestiality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right-wing...

A young man has been brutally murdered. The gay son of a wealthy family has disappeared. Now it's up to private dick Don Strachey to get to the bottom of...

Abandoned at birth because he has the face of a "prize boar," the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as...

A Royal Vow Of Convenience The whirr of helicopter blades announcing the return of her new boss sends Sophie scurrying back to the kitchen. Little does she know that fleeing...

Adding Up To Family - Marie Ferrarella When widowed rocket scientist Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious ten-year-old, The Matchmaking Mamas assign Becky Reynolds....

Based on a real-life scandal that gripped England in 1864. From the bestselling author of Room , Emma Donoghue's The Sealed Letter is a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal, and...

The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning THE GLORIOUS HERESIES. 'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted...

'People like to think that money and love are opposites. Anna Moore, tax inspector A2 Grade, has come to be less sure ...' John Law is Anna's latest client, and...

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unknown to...

Author:  David Hewson An ancient ritual. A modern-day crime. A body is found in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes...

Cinderella's Night In Venice - Clare Connelly When Ares Lykaios insists that Bea Jones accompany him to a gala, she wants to refuse - if just to put the arrogant...

The Lawman Lassoes A Family - Rachel Lee A deputy daddy? After her policeman husband died in the line of duty, Vicki Templeton has sworn off lawmen - both for...

Meet Sabina Keshkesh, keeper of secrets. Sabina has owned her beauty salon offering all the usual hair, body and nail torture for twenty years. It is over Sabina's small nail...

When Chester Farlowe's father is killed, Chester is forced to leave the vast cattle ranches of New Zealand's central volcanic plateau for the badlands of urban Auckland. Henry Stroud, proprietor...

This is a bawdy and joyous novel. It's a throwback to the British novels of two decades ago - messy and offends everyone (over-the-top language and insults about race, sex,...

On a night train from Munich to Vienna, Helen Martin discovers, quite literally, that she is losing her senses. Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste - all are disappearing, and her...

By The Award-Winning Author Of "The Last Crossing "And "The Englishman's Boy" Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death...

Two women from different worlds, betrayed by the same man - they soon discover just how sweet revenge can be . . . Lita and Rebecca's lives couldn't be more...

Set in the aftermath of the Gulf War, Dominique Sigaud's first novel tells the story of an American soldier, a casualty of the war, through a series of linked episodes...

THE NEW RECTOR, TALK OF THE VILLAGE and VILLAGE MATTERS are the first three volumes in the Turnham Malpas series. Rebecca Shaw's novels have been described as 'The Archers with...

Belfast, the 1960s. When Tess Maguire and her best friend Agnes Quinn get free tickets to see the Rolling Stones, there is nothing that will stop them from going to...

This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of...

In occupied Paris, Karl Bazinger, a German officer, has realised that he can no longer ignore the war. An adventurer, traveller, the perfect guest, Karl has always avoided politics for...

Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through...

Bartolomeo Di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. So when the renovation of the town cathedral is up for grabs, he hopes there...

Can your guiltiest secret ever be buried? Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life: the party that led to the sudden, shocking death of...

In a marketplace in Afghanistan, a son watches his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Karis Mazari knows he must flee his homeland if he is to have...

Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the modern world. A magnet for eccentric characters, the island paradise soon becomes a hotspot...

From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia. When the traveling cinema comes to...

This is the story of Jamie Ray Griffin, a young black man who by virtue of his talent on the football field, finds himself suddenly thrust into a white world...

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control...

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the...