Modern Fiction - Secondhand

What if a tragedy occurred and you only had yourself to blame? How do you move on from the past? Alex Foster lives a quiet life, avoiding the home she...

Alex Devereux, former cavalry Major and hardened mercenary takes on a mission to raise a private army and attack a diamond mine in Africa - and in doing so, comes...

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other "lucky" girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively...

Super senior sleuth Ivy Malone is spunkier than Miss Marple, with a curiosity that just won't quit. That inquisitiveness has gotten her into plenty of trouble, including murder, mayhem, and...

Daniel X works alone. Having watched from the shadows as the brutal murder of his own parents unfolded before him, he has been forced to make his own way in...

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When actress Jodi Ludlum returns to the Dublin village of Bakers Valley to raise her young son, she's determined to shield him from the media glare that follows her in...

A captivating debut about the lure of the 1930s Hollywood, in all its dangerous glamour. Irving snapped his fingers, so loudly that it echoed through the room, over all the...

Some love stories never end. One evening Sophie Brady kisses her husband, Ollie, and young son Freddie goodbye, closing the door on number thirty-three. At ten pm she's with her...

Dance with the Devil is the impassioned story of a brilliant Hollywood director haunted by his past, searching for his soul, and obsessed by the beauty and fierce spirit of...

The final volume in a trilogy begun by GREEN HARVEST and SUMMER SONG, set in Kent at the turn of the century. A young widow struggling to leave behind her...

It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life," says Haley Ellyson in this captivating novel about first love...

This book is an experiment. We're experimenting together. You are part of the experiment, if you'll agree to it. Normally I don't let my subjects choose to be subjects. If...

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior...

Meet Scarlett O'Hara - wedding planner extraordinaire who's famous for making dreams come true. From scuba-diving ceremonies to flamingos at the reception, her colour-coded checklists make everything look simple. Scarlett...

Kate Forrest is invisible...Ned, the husband she adores, doesn't seem to know she's alive, and her two charming children have grown into stroppy adolescents. Her boss is suddenly shunting her...

Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends...

' The Split meets Apple Tree Yard . Sharp, clever and wildly addictive... the ultimate summer page-turner ' Sunday Times bestseller B P Walter 'The best kind of up-all-night page-turner...

A moving literary debut from a prizewinning young writer - a story of the joys and tragedies in everyday lives. A Times bestseller 'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page....

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries seances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One 'ghost' appeared more than any other, the Katie King spirit. A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious...

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political...

How far would you go to live forever? Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely,...

Faking It With The Firefighter - Rachel Dove Fake dating friends... to forever? Following a dramatic break-up, becoming lead paramedic at New York's Firehouse 17 is the ideal fresh start...

Jet-Set Escape With Her Billionaire Boss - Andrea Bolter From New York to Thailand... into the tycoon's arms! Spa manager Esme has sacrificed too much to let her career stall...

2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father....

Clara's been away for too long. So, after ten great years in London, and with boyfriend Matthew in tow, she arrives home in small-town Castlemoy. The family welcomes her with...

Three women rent a holiday house in Cornwall for the summer. Each brings with her children, baggage (in every sense) and expectations...Imogen, who organised the holiday, is frighteningly capable and...

How would you feel if your best friend at work betrayed you? Was secretly having an affair with an influential colleague? Did you out of a coveted promotion, then teamed...

Sally, a successful actress, returns to her house in Goatstown from a European tour, just wanting to rest and to see her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's...

First novel in the spine-tingling De Beers series; Wealth, extravagant parties, celebrity status were things Willow De Beers could only dream of - until now. After discovering deep family secrets...

It is the sixties and times are changing. Hemlines are getting shorter, stockings are being discarded and women are doing it for themselves. At the advertising agency of Bofinger, Adams,...

Laced with sparkling wit and compassionate insight - nobody does it quite like Marian Keyes. Jojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with...

A collection of short stories and poems by members of Scribes Writers. Covering a range of topics this engaging collection brings to life the lives and histories of both the...

Did someone try to kill me or am I going mad? When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend s girlfriend, Jenny, back at...

For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership...

A timeless love story set in New York's Russian emigre community from a stunningly gifted young novelist. Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They first meet as children...

Lily's epilepsy means she's used to seeing the world in terms of angles -- you look at every surface, you weigh up every corner, and you think of your head...

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. i> fter his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to...

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal...

Downtown, wartime Auckland. Victoria Park is swamped by a vast American military camp and Ponsonby Road is a sometimes wild place of bars, drunken soldiers and brothels. Peter Sokel is...

When Julie Farina walks into the tent at the Barnstable County Fair to see Millroy the Magician her life is transformed. Millroy performs miracles in front of her spellbound eyes....