Modern Fiction - Secondhand

'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...

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....

A mesmerizing otherworldly tale about love, memory and redemption from a masterly Australian storyteller The crumbling marble angel is Vega's most ambitious restoration project yet, but she thinks she can...

Twilight in Kuta explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives, their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of...

1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An award-winning exploration...

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving...

It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a relationship gone wrong, Alan West returns to the small town in the valley where he...

What did it mean? The note with the hieroglyphs was found in the pocket of a man lying dead in an alley. The only other item of interest on him...

May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it...

Venice, 1756. One of the city's brightest young actors has been brutally murdered: nailed to a cross in the theatre where he was due to perform, with his eyes put...

Libby has a good life with a gorgeous husband and a home by the sea. But over time she is becoming more unsure if Jack has ever loved her -...

'As Lewis's eyes adjusted to the light, what appeared at first to be a can of ivory-coloured sticks and stones proved to be a can of disarticulated bones, some like...

A WONDERFUL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING TRADITION OF NICHOLAS SPARKS AND ANITA SHREVE They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF WE ARE FAMILY Friends. You can't live with them - and you can't live without them. Or so Matt is discovering. His best mate is getting...

It is early 1956 and the British Empire is crumbling. But for nine-year-old Ella, living with her parents at the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, the walls of class,...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days...

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes...

From the author of THE ORIGIN MYSTERY - the trilogy with ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. En route from London to New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in...

From the acclaimed author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Children and Fire , a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times--"epic, daring, magnificent, the product of...

The diaryarrived addressed to me, bearing a message: We live forever through ourstories. Tell ours. And so began the author's journeyinto the life and legends of the Naga a forgotten...

A kooky, quirky, cheeky US debut. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her...

'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot...

The winter of 1799 is falling fast on the small Ohio Territory settlement of Hugh's Lick. Food is scarce, and relations with the Delaware tribe are strained, but things are...

In the highly anticipated follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller, Nan returns to New York City after 10 years away. Discover how she--and the city--has changed in her...

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world except for her greedy, bitter...

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic...

Cara Gayle is one of life's pleasers. A young, country school-teacher in 1960s Ireland, she spends her life looking after her philandering husband, Oliver and her pious mother, Maggie. When...

The only relief Hannah has from her husband's tyranical company is his absence on a Thursday evening. Then she meets David, a man she begins to think of as her...

A brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo, Revenge centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually preordained. Handsome, confident,...

Dave Nelson was fiercely ambitious. First in line for the top job on a magazine, he had every right to feel lucky. So when Willie Strayte was offered the job...

A scathingly brilliant new novel from TV scriptwriter J.D. Barrett, author of THE SECRET RECIPE FOR SECOND CHANCES, that explores sex, love and all the stuff in-between. What happens when...

Lambda Literary Award Winner and Ferro-Grumley Literary Award finalist. "Malone is back with another story that takes us deeper into the shadowy depths of the mind and heart with every...

'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious' Holly Bourne 'A sexy swagger of a debut' Emma Straub 'Full of drama, heartbreak, ambition and desire' Katherine Webber Tsang _________________ I...

Victoria Stratford's birthday party for her husband David is a resounding success. It shows off their beautiful Wimbledon house, their wonderful children, their perfect lives, and it conceals the tensions...