Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Returning to her home town in Fife in 1921 as a newly qualified doctor is hardly the triumph Jeannie Macdonald imagined. It soon becomes clear that many of her patients...

An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings...

Actress Annie Mitchell is devastated. Her husband Max has run off with her best friend, leaving her with a stack of unpaid bills and the self-esteem of the last sandwich...

It's almost Christmas. But for Ali, the season of good cheer is the anniversary of her baby's death. As she stands at her son's grave, she is poignantly aware of...

Charlize ''Charlie'' Edwards certainly knows what it takes to lead a successful and happy life. She owns a nice house in LA's trendiest neighborhood, has a group of glamorous and...

Attorney Paul Madriani has reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan,...

Empathy is a luxury few people can afford. Malcolm, an ageing hairdresser whose love for his Alzheimers-victim lover is fading fast, is too oppressed by his domestic life to notice...

From the author of the much-loved Knowing Sophie and Dear Henry comes a story of two women, the price of friendship, and how there are no choices when it comes...

From the outside, Josh's life looks perfect: he has a loving wife, a beautiful son, money in the bank and a career he is passionate about. But on the inside,...

Charlotte Blair achieved rare success for a woman in 1911 - her own flower shop. Her ambition was to be a floral decorator, transforming the houses of aristocracy. She moves...

A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Little Warrior is...

For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His mother and father, Josie and Tom, have divorced amicably enough, and are set to pursue their separate paths. But other people have...

An early bestseller from the author of the fabulous Shopaholic series At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that...

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature...

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his...

A woman coming of age during World War II becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage--Provided by publisher.

Eleven-year-old Isabelle hasn't spoken in nine months, and as December begins the situation is getting desperate. Her mother has stopped work to devote herself to her daughter's care. Four psychiatrists...

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when...

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with quite unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat...

We have all witnessed and/or experienced a little of Jay thompson's working life. The clash of personalities, the flirtations, the mundaneness. An office environment under the microscope and at its...

Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old - or so...

'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where...

GHOST MOTH will transport you to two hot summers, 20 years apart. Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine must choose between George Bedford - solid, reliable, devoted George - and Tom McKinley,...

Under Lock and Key by K.D. Richards The man who broke her heart is back... Maggie Scott has worked hard to become an assistant curator at the local museum. But...

In these parts, he's the law The cowboy code is Matt Granger's trademark as a rancher and law enforcement officer. So when a serial killer targets students in his small...

Cold Case Scandal by Nicole Helm He'll risk everything to keep her safe When Mary Hudson meets Walker Daniels-under gunfire, no less-the cautious cold case investigator becomes entrenched in his...

Crash Landing By Janice Kay Johnson Escaping was just the beginning... After surviving a crash landing and the killers gunning for them, Rafe Salazar and EMS paramedic Gwen Allen are...

Big Sky Deception By B.J. Daniels He'll risk anything to save her life...again He'll risk anything to save her life...again Jones Driscoll has spent half his life in war zones....

Closing In On Clues By Julie Anne Lindsey He's the one man she never forgot When her newly sober sister goes missing, Nicole Homes turns to her former lover, PI...

Resolute Investigation By Leslie Marshman His childhood crush is in danger believes that she's innocent-and not just because he's had a crush on her since they were teenagers. As they...

Daniel Mapplethorpe and Polly Bening are pupils of the enigmatic ballet teacher Romy Lambard. Daniel becomes an internationally acclaimed dancer while Polly chooses to teach Latin. She marries Tim Miller,...

Over the years, readers of Golf magazine have come to know and love Major General (Ret.) Sir Richard Gussett, the raucous imaginary uncle featured in David Feherty's column "Sidespin." In...

Unique novella that captures the mood of Cold war Berlin like no other - worth considering connecting publication in some way with 9th November anniversary of fall of the Berlin...

A moving, powerful and ultimately uplifting story about a family coming to terms with the loss of a child for fans of The Shock of the Fall and Me Before...