Modern Fiction - Secondhand

After her mother's death, Eleni tries to get away from it all in Byron Bay, hoping to deal with the loss and rebuild her confidence. On her return the family...

In her first novel, Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and wit. She is the author of two collections of stories and another novel, including Self-Help, Like...

The Dwelling Place by Catherine Cookson (1972) is a historical novel set in 1830s County Durham, following 15-year-old Cissie Brodie. After her parents die of cholera, she fights to keep...

31st December 1942. In the middle of the North Atlantic, the deadly 'gap' where aircraft cannot protect them, a destroyer and 4 corvettes are shepherding a convoy of ships from...

1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best...

Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood - blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood in its physical sense as the transmitter of...

Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that his niece, Caroline, has been found brutally murdered. Cross vows to hunt down the...

Lose yourself in the magical world of No.1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern. Are you taking your life for granted? Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other stuff: friends' lives,...

All the stories in Tales of the Night take place on the night of the 19th March 1929. All show different facets of love -love as violence, love as redemption,...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery returns to Blackberry Island with the poignant tale of two sisters on the verge of claiming their dreams. Small-town nurse Nina Wentworth has...

At Four Corners Ranch, sometimes love is found in unexpected places... There are two things Bix Carpenter is good at: making moonshine and surviving. However, now that she's officially out...

Year's Happy Ending Could she settle for less than love? Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He scorned her future as a trained nanny, spending her life caring...

These fascinating cousins share a secret that's been handed down through generations - a secret that sets them apart... Charmed Her legacy had been as much a curse as a...

Rancher's Law One night in his arms changes everything... For Amelia Rose Grayson, there is only one love. And when Cal Hollister, a captain of detectives, is wounded, she's there...

Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family...

When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an...

Perfect lives. Perfect lies. The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil...

Michael, an aspiring writer who has recentlyfinished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, LucianClarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives...

The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker winner Julian Barnes, this is a thrillingly original novel about truth, history and thinking for ourselves The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Winner of...

For anyone who loved the tales of ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes an inspired re-imagining of the 'real' Alice's tumultous life beyond the looking glass. I didn't want this story to...

The novel to truly capture the comedy and tragedy of our times Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and...

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder. At...

'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to...

It's time for a w(h)ine "God, she's funny" - Jilly Cooper 'Oh, for f*ck's sake' muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could...

A novel of love undaunted by obstacles, from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives. "You'll shed a few tears as the women try to forge a new life,...

From New York Times -bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI , a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares...

With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a...

On a peat and heather island off the West Coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each...

From the Number One bestselling author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and NINETEEN MINUTES, Jodi Picoult 'She is a master of her craft ...and humanity is what she does best' Telegraph...

This is a novel about how Lawrence of Arabia honed his expertise and cultural understanding to become one of the most pivotal figures in the Arab revolt of World War...

'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing...

From Lake Como in Italy to Oxford, a wonderfully compelling novel about lost love, fate and second chances from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Lake Como - beautiful, enchanting, romantic......

When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, a divorced father of two, and begins a new job. She's looking forward to a fresh...

Five friends on life's journey of challenges, survival and love Five children meet on their first day of school, one bright September morning. Drawn by that magical spark of connection...

A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She doesn't know what she's doing there - or even who she is. She...

The agent Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss Mark... The bestseller Jojo's...

A memorable night of passion refuses to stay just a memory in this sizzling and scandalous romance from bestselling author T L Swan. I was upgraded to first class on...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday Times Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill... Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham,...

`Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although...

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox -- the country's favourite storyteller. Home is where the heart is - but it's also where the pain lurks! After a tragic accident...

Lewis Cole, a resident of tourist town Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, turns sleuth when prominent community members are marked for death and a beautiful girl is found hanged.

It's 1913 and Cameron McKenzie, a young Scotsman, has come to Broome hoping to find a pearl that will make his fortune. And he does, but it is stolen the...

Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of...

' Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel , a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in' - Sunjeev Sahota,...

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Caroline Overington comes another thought-provoking and heart-rending story, that reaches from the heart of Bondi to a small village in Tanzania. Shortly after 9.30...