Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.

"Compulsively readable." - The New York Times Book Review "Inventive and thrilling. . . . I couldn't put it down." -Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The prince of the title is not the present incumbent but a neo-fascist layabout served by a court of booted hoodlums in a parody of the Arthurian legend...

A compelling parable of the modern inner journey leading to true self-discovery. Its time less message has the power to transform the reader.

An unforgettable journey through the experience of time and desire, where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who...

She was a slave. He was her master. Both of them long to be free... 1833 - The British Navy are conducting a survey of the Arabian Peninsula where slavery...

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across...

Clive and Martha have been together since they met at university; they have a young daughter, Eliza. Their marriage appears serene and content but when Eliza's adored new piano teacher...

Olivia has been in love with Daniel forever but, despite her best efforts, they've never been able to get it together. Their relationship has always been a series of mixed...

Sometimes the lessons you learn unexpectedly are the ones that affect you the most. Josie arrives in Paris in the hope of healing a broken heart. Riley, a lonely housewife,...

'You always forget this part, that life regenerates itself underground through the winter, that happiness comes back. You forget that your body has the capacity for joy, that it craves...