Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The searing new novel from million copy bestseller Robert Goolrick. A heart-stopping tale of obsession and forbidden love. For fans of The Help, Tigers in Red Weather and The Great...

He's coming to get you. The fifth thriller in the compelling Byrne and Balzano series from the Sunday Times bestseller. It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of...

"Reading Marcy Dermansky's Bad Marie is like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller, older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you've just...

A sexy tale celebrating the strength and creativity we inherit from our mothers (Glamour), Inventing Memory is Erica Jong's mesmerizing, beautifully written saga of modern womanhood and the struggle for...

A tense cat-and-mouse game and a brilliantly realised story of hope in a seemingly hopeless place Percy is sixteen and used to her mama disappointing her. But this time her...

THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR 2008. Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best...

A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittery world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare. Take one wealthy businessman...

An epic tale of an enigmatic land - Korea - and one woman's search for her past. Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has...

A magical story of forbidden love, a 1990s Far Pavilions, the debut of a major storyteller. Of Marriageable Age follows three people across three decades and three continents, in a...

The eighteenth century witnessed a number of momentous happenings - the birth of the British Empire, the American War of Independence, the French Revolution - and the horrific 'reign of...

Passions flare, secrets unravel and love blossoms in the heart of the summer season. As summertime flourishes, it's time for new beginnings... Heartsease House is in desperate need of renovation....

The critically acclaimed psychological chiller from a powerful new voice in Irish literary fiction. The critically acclaimed psychological chiller from a powerful new voice in Irish literary fiction. SHORTLISTED FOR...

In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ambulance driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer under the command of Mountbatten....

A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with a plot that keeps you in its thrall until the last word. A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with...

A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your...

A dazzling, illuminating translation of three plays demonstrating Marivaux's range, subtlety and genius. False Admissions and Successful Strategies premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1983. Cast sizes: 8, 8,...

From the acclaimed author of Tarzan Presley, a new novel about the things that really matter. Responsibility is a darkly comic thriller set in contemporary Berlin. Martin Rumsfield, an international...

Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling... so she became known as Star and no...

After years of being moved from place to place Greg has finally put down some roots and he likes his life just as it is. He works hard in his...

Alone in his New York loft our hero, the private detective Kinky Friedman, reflects on friendship and why his friends are out of town. The phone rings. It's Kinky's old...

This novel begins in the 1960s in a small Wisconsin town, when a young boy, Mac, finds out that his beautiful handicapped older sister, Madeline, is in fact his father...

New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope...

Meet George Mahoney, designer of refrigerators and a real middle-of-the-road kind of guy. Even his wife describes him as "passive-passive." What changes all this is the arrival of a new...

Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as "Frank theFib." He's a liar - but one who always tries to tell...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work...

Jules de Goncourt (1830 -1870) was a French writer. First published in 1864 Germinie Lacerteux is the best-known novel of Les Freres Goncourt. It is a story based on the...

This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.

Having found the sort of man who only comes along once in a lifetime, Lucy Hatch is head over heels in love and lust. But just as the future seems...

"Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel...

An off-limits temptation... fit for a royal! Though Crown Prince Gabriel Montroy hates the media, he was raised to always put his kingdom first. When his political opponents rile up...

An engagement for show. A chemistry they can't fake. Since being jilted on the eve of his wedding, tycoon Jago Wilde won't entertain marriage or commitment. Except he'll do anything...

Payback against Her Highness starts with 'I do'... As scandal and debt threaten the throne, widowed Princess Bettina is being forced down the aisle once again . Worse still? Her...

They will be wed... and they're the last to know! Having had a front-row seat to his parents' toxic relationship, Adonis Aetos knows what he wants from marriage - and...

One ring... to secure two royal heirs! King Octavio must marry a princess to protect Castilona's crown or risk civil unrest. Meaning a single wild encounter with cleaner Phoebe James...

Reunited by chance... bound by his royal heir! Believing the accident that stole her memories also left her son fatherless, Eden Moss has fought to survive. Penniless, she's waitressing at...

To love, honour... and royally desire! After suddenly ascending the Thalassos throne, scandalous spare Adonis needs a wife to secure the crown. He doesn't expect to inherit his late brother's...

He's discovered her secret... and taken her as his bride! Since her night of pure, indulgent passion with Jackson Visconti, Brielle Hughes has been a devoted single mother. In Bree's...

His billion-dollar takeover... comes with a baby! PA Phoebe Copeland was married once - never again. But a steamy vacation encounter with a stranger she'll never see again? More than...