Modern Fiction - Secondhand

'Once again Harper leaves you gagging to know who did what' Evening Standard 'Places Harper in the elevated company of the authors she most admires: Val McDermid, Gillian Flynn and...

She has an easy life - but makes a living from pretending otherwise. She has a husband who hates the spotlight - but can't step away. She has a million...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a...

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma. Now, almost 150 years later,...

An editor receives a manuscript purporting to be the lost diary of history's greatest lover, Don Juan. An orphan left on the steps of a covent, Don Juan grew up...

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - it's real. Not only is she savagely...

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left...

Kelly O'Mara is relentless in her pursuit of excellence. In her late twenties, she's an outstanding junior doctor preparing to sit her specialist paediatric exams. She will sacrifice friendships, a...

Three women and the healing power of friendship, an uplifting story for readers of Rachael Johns and Joanna Nell. A heartwarming and evocative novel of love, friendship and family, where...

Recently widowed Halley Holbrook has spent decades building a career as a bestselling novelist. Now in her fifties, when she was a child, Halley was physically and mentally abused -...

Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the...

Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life...

When Heather Delaney is injured in a shocking act of violence, her life is thrown off course. Struggling to return to work, she is haunted by the incident. Was it...

Lou Samuels is going home for the first time in twenty years. To the mother she can never forgive, the boy she can never forget, and a rural town that...

A fresh new edition of the 2024 No. 1 bestselling Australian title. No one believes a prediction. Until it comes true. 'Off the scale brilliant' - Marian Keyes If you...

'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller. Above Suspicion blew me away - it grabs you and doesn't let go until the last page' KARIN SLAUGHTER The first book in...

The epic tale of the outback Australian family, the Carmodys. The Carmodys live in the outback, travelling around, shearing, droving, making ends meet and looking for that one special place...

In this collection of stories from Lake Wobegon, the author takes us to a place that is everyone's home town - where the women are strong and the men are...

Don't miss this warm and witty novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Fern Britton. The perfect Cornish Escape! A lifetime of friendship. A lifetime of secrets. Greer Clovelly...

The fantastic new edition of the bestselling second novel from the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater have only one thing in common. And that's Peter...

A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old...

Cinderella's Desert Baby Bombshell - Lynne Graham From substitute bride... to carrying the royal heir! For her family's sake, penniless Tatiana Hamilton must marry Prince Saif after his original bride,...

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends...

A thriller from the author of CONTAGION in which an American forensic pathologists investigation into the murder of a notorious underworld figure, leads him to the jungles of equatorial Africa....

Easy is a New York Times bestseller - a must-read in the New Adult genre for everyone who loves Slammed by Colleen Hoover or Breathe by Abbi Glines. Deeply romantic...

In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad,...

Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel - the story of one woman's intoxicating journey from suburban mom to award-winning screenwriter... and all...

A partially autobiographical novel telling the story of Jean, a lovely and likeable young Sydney woman with literary aspirations. When it was published in 1896, rumours began about the novel...

A haunting, hypnotic and enticing novel of grief and desire, by one of Australia's finest, most assured novelists. Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2017 Three years ago, Shelley's lover,...

Know your enemy - or be defeated AD 2204 An alien shipwreck is discovered on a planet at the very limits of human expansion - so Security Director Feriton Kayne...

From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a taut and twisty psychological mystery perfect for readers of Sally Hepworth and Nicola Moriarty. Bestselling author Marnie...

Seismic changes are about to take place in Ave Maria's life. Her daughter, Etta, barely eighteen, is married and living in Italy; the health of her husband, the gorgeous and...

Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar...

From the author of The Circle, the brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from...

A sassy, spicy and hilarious sports romcom for fans of Emily Henry and Meghan Quinn. Miss Congeniality meets the Superbowl! 'A really fun, spicy read...I'd recommend it to anyone who...

The East End, 1939. When war comes to London, the bright and irrepressible Georgia Smith is torn from her tight-knit family and packed off as an evacuee. She moves in...

In Paris, love never goes out of style... It's a mystery that has passed into fashion legend: the perfect evening gown that was to be created by couture star Elisabeth...

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband,...

Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue. Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as...

From the award-winning author of The Hunted comes a fast-paced, nail-biting outback thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Pushing fifty and reeling from an ugly...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 For an unnamed woman, every minute, ideas about sex, violence and comedy intertwine. little scratch is a fierce, bold and wryly moving depiction...

Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic...