Modern Fiction - Secondhand

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the...

Fast paced, funny and ferocious, The Manuscript is a novel about a novel, and the unexpected ways that life smacks you in the face. When author Edith Scott finds herself...

A Catherine Cookson novel spanning the years of change leading into World War II. It explores the many facets of a marriage based on initial passion, and opens the hearts...

August 1997. As the century grinds to a close, Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the princess....

By the author of American Wife, a sharp and witty novel about a young woman's romantic fantasies colliding with the realities of adult life. From the Sunday Times bestselling author...

In the villages and on the mountains of County Tyrone, in the heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade, the golden rule is 'Hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing'....

"People" magazine crowns him "a master." "The San Francisco Chronicle" calls his bestselling novels "compulsively readable." And Larry King hails his legal thrillers as "spine-tingling." In "The Oath," John Lescroart...

A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth. With the coming of the Great Flood-the mother of all disasters-only one family was spared, drifting on...

Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the...

Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy...

Their holiday brochure said 18-30 . . . But they've just turned 35. After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants...

Mandy is turning 30 and has a lot of love to give, but that special person has so far eluded her. Then, at her birthday party with close friends at...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

A lost notebook is discovered, its pages filled with an array of entries about snow. Leafing through each item in turn, it becomes apparent that the selection is not as...

She thought she'd got away with it . . . In the opulent rooms of a Sydney specialist, Nina and James Wilde are waiting. Waiting to learn whether the rare,...

TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a very close following...close enough to kill. She thought she'd found safety. In front of the camera, as anchorwoman for KEY Evening Headlines, she's savvy,...

When Chloe Adams' fiance dumps her - the night before their wedding - two girlfriends from her book group decide a little adventure is in order for the three of...

The Bear Boy is a story specific to time and place, and about the dislocation of time and place too. It is set in 1935 at the only moment in...

Nareen is out of sync with her world in Rahimgani, where her mother, a progressive poet and a feminist, gave her in marriage. She had hoped to spare her daughter...

Meet Chris StarkaEURO*six-feet-four weighing a healthy 300 poundsaEURO*a former player of American football who as he himself is the first to accept think pretty good but don't talk that great...