Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Fern has taken a raincheck from her everyday routine. Abandoning work, her studies and any human contact, she holes up in her room, haunted by strange dreams and the creeping...

The new classic from the queen of contemporary fiction A brand-new book from the Number One bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a...

One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever... Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled...

A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer...

Bramble House contained a matriarchal empire headed by Emma Funnell. The house had been built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick and, now in her 70s, Emma continued...

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for...

Isabel, a young woman in flight from the ravages of the Great War, throws herself headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor, and Oxford graduate....

Happy to Be Here is a collection of short stories by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1981. It is Keillor's first published full-length book. Many of...

He was out of her league. e was out of her depth. On the bookshelf of Miranda Brown's life, romance is always out of reach. In the fast-track of Burnt...

For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school as soon as she could and taking a job as a railway secretary in the city made perfect...

"It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grass's] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box...

A thrilling, beautifully written, novel about a young man's quest for a lost city in Peru - comparable to Alex Garland's THE BEACH. Invalided out of the army at barely...

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fianc, and her own Search...

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' private school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him...

The stunning new unforgettable novel from the hottest international talent to reach the UK in years Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her...

Sarah Patrick is being forced to take part in a deadly mission by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation. John Logan - a man...

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted....

Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body...

After more than 20 years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook) is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his...

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary...

The New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer's rapturously reviewed comic-tragic novel about a family's search for a home 'Terrific ... Combines comic brilliance with a poignant portrait of a family...

In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the...

When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, and a manhunt begins, but the letter A...

At sixteen Edie knows things. She knows that her mother is charming and beautiful, that her sister Stella is the golden girl, and that her father - clumsy, quiet Vic...

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss...

A witty and frolicksome romp set in Venice Nina Porter seems to have it all- husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row...

What happens when a holiday romance becomes serious? The Sunday Times besteller from the bestselling authors of fun romantic novels and entertaining family sagas including The Seven Year Itch and...

In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the...

When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother has cancer, her father insists that Ellen come home to look after Kate. Ellen has always been the special child, the high achiever,...

Jack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days - that he is lucky to be alive. His face...