Modern Fiction - Secondhand

'This is a novel about obsessional love. The fact that those involved are two women, and that their relationship is not that of lovers, but friends, only intensifies the book's...

Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all...

'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the...

A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is...

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very...

'Set against the backdrop of a Bachelor-style TV set, The One is fast-paced, with polished writing and zippy dialogue. Kaneana May is an author to watch. A highly entertaining read.'...

In a one year, daily devotional style, follow a fictional backpacker s journey of faith. Loneliness, fear and wonder confront him on the trail, as well as the demonic power...

From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George , come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel...

With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him. Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana,...

An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in...

The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a...

NINA X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years. Nina X has...

'You've disappointed me. You had all the potential in the world. You could have been so much.' William Adair, patriarch, doting father of three girls, Men's Tennis Club Champion from...

An unforgettable story of love and adventure set in one of the world s last unspoiled wildernesses. For Libby Bass, expert in whale and dolphin communication, the job in New...

If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...

New Zealand author William Brant's acclaimed debut is a hilarious farce about the film industry, ex-girlfriends and desperate measures. Frederick Case is a 42-year-old New Zealand film-maker failing in London....

Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe combine their truly scandalous imaginations with the secrets they know about life in the fast lane to bring you a book like nothing you've ever read...

Thisis the story of Augustus Rose -- half African-American, half Italian; journalist, lover, restauranteur, unlikely terrorist -- and his interrogator, Harper, a Grand Inquisitor armed with twenty-first century cruelty, clarity...

Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill...

Conveniently A Fortune - Michele Dunaway 'What if you married me?' Jacinta Gomez despairs in the face of an impossible mission: in six weeks, marry - or lose the family's...

Conard County Secrets - Rachel Lee When her past collides with her present he'll risk it all to keep her safe. Audrey Lang's aunt's house is the perfect safe hideaway...

The second book in the Agnes Browne trilogy, the basis for the BAFTA-award winning TV series Mrs Brown's Boys. Continuing the hilarious saga of the ups and downs, minor scrapes...

It had never been the best of marriages, yet in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson still presented an acceptable family facade to the outside world. There was...

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Jude Deveraux s eagerly awaited third novel in her blockbuster Nantucket Brides trilogy continues the spellbinding saga of the Montgomery-Taggerts, set on an island steeped in...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No...

He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker,...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is...

When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of...

'A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit' -Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her...

Otto Eisinger, an elderly German emigre living alone in Brazil, attempts to thwart a pair of armed robbers and is brutally beaten. When the Brazilian media get hold of the...

The Greek Claims His Shock Heir After learning of tycoon Eros Nevrakis's betrayal, personal chef Winnie Mardas walks out of his life, determined to never look back - or reveal...

Shooting for fame could end your career ... and your life. A sparkling mystery from a stylish new voice in crime fiction, in a book that will delight fans of...

One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. Bemused he races to the uppermost gallery and there beneath him on a...