Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged...

Ruby White has no job, no direction in life, and just enough money to last a month - if she eats only rice and her cat catches his own meals....

'...so taut you may need to remind yourself to breathe.' - Sun-Herald'...packed with suspense and insight. If you enjoy reading Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, this is a novel which...

Rosie O'Shea dreams of seeing the world. But right now, the outback hotel she inherited from her husband is falling down around her ears, her bank account is empty and...

the breakout novel from the award-winning Colombian author of Leopard In the Sun. Full of wit and intelligence, tragedy and compassion, the Dark Bride takes us deep into the Colombian...

A remarkable true story of heroism, courage, and faith

Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.

When young Thomas Kendall was convicted of theft and transported to Australia for a period of seven years, he could not have known that he would fall in love with...

A laugh-out-loud romance from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls...

Sandy, the youngest boy, swans through life with his movie-star looks, never taking responsibility for his actions. And Lucy, the youngest, must find her own path in the shadow of...

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox -- one of our foremost storytellers. It is 1902. Emily is sixteen years of age and blissfully in love with John, two years...

So, to get to the point, if it's a ripping yarn you're after you should give up now. Just put the damned book down and find something more satisfying, a...

Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...

A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller. Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble...

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children...

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh's Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and...

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season,...

Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the...

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Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from...

In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a...

When a marriage meets a therapist... Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes...

Four women, Judy, Kate, Pagan and Maxine, are summoned to a New York apartment where they are asked which one of them is the mother of the host. As they...

Renowned abstract artist, the curmudgeonly octogenarian Giles Paumen, is the head of a family of artists, each of whom he considers less talented than himself. His son Laurence is a...

Jazzy Lou, aka the Queen Bee, is back and she's busy juggling life as wife to Michael, mother to Fifi and boss to the busy Bees. The PR game is...

When mild-mannered mail clerk Bertie Jones tries his luck as an Elvis Presley impersonator, his whole world gets shaken up. His doting mother doesn t approve, for a start. But...

A literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, in which a love triangle turns murderous. An atmospheric literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood...

A witty, playful, intriguing and ultimately very moving novel of identity and loss. 'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking,...

'You won't find a more passionate voice-smart, punchy prose - a smashing combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious' - Vogue Thelma is six years old. Life at home is...

Public relations spin, religion, environmental disaster and offshore outsourcing are entrenching globalisation worldwide. Three power brokers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Moses Halligan, and Ted Earnstie are all fighting for greater...

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker....

'You are the Wordsmith now. Are you ready for the challenge?' The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth. To make sure humans avoid the mistakes of...

Shouldn't every story have a happy ending? The Starlings comes with the publisher's promise- love it or your money back! (See back page for details.) It's March 1985 and Nicky...

A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of...

I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there....