Modern Fiction - Secondhand

From the bestselling author of The First Wives' Club and Young Wives, a sparkling New York comedy about making plans for other people - and then tripping yourself up in...

Powerful, erotic, disturbing suspenseful novel set in Provence during World War Two, by acclaimed American author. Day of the Bees is a darkly erotic story of obsessive love between a...

Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since...

Your ordinary, average, suburban, extended, post-war immigrant Chinese family - steeped in tradition and old-fashioned family values. This is Lillie's story - their second daughter. Feisty, independent and unlike her...

How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...

Uproariously funny and achingly moving, this is a gripping debut novel about the Towards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In...

Cinderella's Scandalous Secret - Melanie Milburne Isla McBain's affair with Rafe Angeleri was meant to be temporary, a chance to explore their passionate connection...but now she's carrying the famous hotelier's...

'We are married. You are now a Princess.' And their connection is inescapable! Innocent Ilaria was wary yet willing to stand in for her aristocratic cousin on a date. She...

In 1839 John Harrington voyages 12,000 miles from Ireland into the unknown to take up a sheep-run in the southern regions of Australia. From a distinguished family of Anglo-Irish aristocrats...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 a vivid and engrossing novel. Patricia Rolfe, Bulletin...

A warmhearted and turbulent novel showing how the folk of one small Liverpool street are affected in the first year of the Second World War.

'...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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...