Modern Fiction - Secondhand

A beautifully-written and acutely-observed novel of relationships, of ordinary lives under extraordinary pressures. Disgraced Tory politician, Max, is unable to shake off the whiff of scandal following the suspicious death...

A young architect in San Francisco awakens one day to find a woman in his closet--a woman with the ability to appear and disappear at will, who claims that her...

Imprint. A mesmerising historical novel of art and obsession, centered around the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka, from the author of The Mourners' Bench.

A sharply hilarious but very human new novel by the author of A Mortality Tale. Morty Hacker hooked himself up to his portable oxygen bottle whenever he left home, which...

When the elliptical new drama teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Stellar Plains, New Jersey, chooses for the school play Lysistrata the Aristophanes comedy where women stop having sex...

In January 1914, Jonathan Crane returns home to his tiny village in the north of England with a rare thing a beautiful, glamorous American bride. So different from the bright...

Nell McDermot is devastated when her husband's cabin cruiser blows up. Not only is she shattered by Adam's sudden death, but she is wracked with guilt, because the last time...

Author:  Jeannie Brewer Eric Moro, a first-year medical student who loves women, was born to be a surgeon. But when he first enters Alexandra Taylor's life, he is nothing more...

It is the 1970s and henpecked family man Tom Ripple is happy to wryly watch the world from his perfectly ordinary life in a perfectly ordinary suburb. But when his...

A novel based on the BBC1 comedy series of the same name, featuring an eccentric elderly couple and their bizarre assortment of relatives and friends.

"The Land of Summer" is the brilliant new novel from Transworld's very own Queen of Romance. Spanning two generations this is a love story about overcoming the odds and escaping...

Growing up, Roxanne, Del, and Alice tested the limits of their friendship with cruel and often dangerous games - safe in the knowledge that they were bound together forever. Now,...

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him...

Oliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12 Wagner Rise. His sudden...

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig 'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' Guardian ENGLISH ANIMALS is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in...

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four...

The fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious second novel from Ned Beauman, author of the acclaimed and prizewinning BOXER, BEETLE. HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER When you haven't had sex...

It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation Nothing should have come of it. A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts...

"A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family . . . This novel is so full of wonders that it leaves you haunted,...

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank...

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what...

A romantic comedy with a spiritual twist, Never the Bride will appeal to women readers who enjoy the humorous, girl-in-crisis focused novels of Kristin Billerbeck and Tracey Bateman and classic...

Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt and grandmother, Evelyn is still...

The comedy of domestic manners gets a delightful update in this intoxicating novel that suggests a latter-day "Pride and Prejudice" transplanted to an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Well-meaning but domineering...

A brilliant, witty thriller set in the world of English classical music in the early years of the twentieth century. The night before brilliant but erratic composer Charles Jessold's opera...

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. In this tense and chilling thriller that will see her travel...

Lissy Jablonski was fifteen years old when her father ran off with the red-haired bank teller. That same summer, Lissy and her mother embarked on an adventure of their own...

On a hot, dry day a four-year old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six. 'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric,...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The...

'Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.'...

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan...