Modern Fiction - Secondhand

'I am the person I always should have been,' says Amy, 'except for a brief but total, unfathomable lapse of judgment in my youth.' Dubbed the 'Long Island Lolita', Amy...

We think of our lives as linear, with a clear beginning and middle and end. The line is inexorable: time itself. Betty's death stopped time. The line dissolved and life...

Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick, And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of, Being slow. -...

'Clever and compulsive' LOUISE CANDLISH 'A fantastic read' JAMES DELARGY 'I loved it' LEE CHILD 'It's everything you could want from a crime novel' SARAH WARD 'A bold and brilliant...

Fever casts a brilliant light over the life of a figure once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America'. Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, is...

Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters,...

This is a magnificent book, a story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance. It is full of sparely depicted but fully fleshed characters and...

Colin Thompson's first, highly autobiographical, adult novel. He has created an intense, moving, yet funny story about losing and then retrieving sanity. It is the story of a young man...

'The knives are out for you, always. But that is the mission you accepted, David. So you have to face the knives, with fortitude. Just as we ask of the...

Still Life is a darkly shining gem of mystery, terror, and Indian magic.

Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room, a dark, compelling story of human desire, wartime horror...

'Fima is surely his best book, a celebration of human complexity, and his testament to its achievement' - Scotland on Sunday Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a...

Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years NOW AN APPLE TV SERIES 'Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' Observer Midnight, New Year's...

From the extravagant escapades of London's high society to the opulent elegance of the rural upper crust, this is an epic tale of wealth, greed and passion that catapults you...

This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for...

**Shortlisted, Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2025** After living in a Singapore dog shelter for five years, Gucci a vaguely Dalmatian-like crossbred is losing hope of ever being rescued. One...

'He took up the book and opened the battered cover. It had swollen with age, humidity and use, the pages rippled together like seaweed in a current, like billowing grasses,...

Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her troubled family behind. But an unusual request from her mother just as her own life is spinning out of control has Cara heading back...

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope...

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams - you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of...

The long-awaited novel by the acclaimed author of "Fabulous Nobodies". Berenger, a nineteen-year-old supermodel nicknamed The Wraith, is found dead in her New York apartment, and it looks like murder....

Colton Cowboy Hideout - Carla Cassidy After years in hiding, Josie Colton has her life back. But to settle a family promise, she must find an old clue buried at...

What happens when the bond between mother and child is broken? When distance and circumstance make for an enforced separation? Carol Mara explores this theme as it occurred for many...

The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. Eve Hardy is exactly where she wants to be in...

The heartwarming new rural romance by the bestselling author of Brumby's Run. Christy Peacock is devastated when an unfounded scandal throws her life as a drama teacher at a prestigious...

Mrs Harriet Wallis is found guilty of the murder of her husband in London. It is 1953, the same year as Elizabeth's Coronation, and this woman is set to become...

In this blistering evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, a roguish loser sets out to write the best-sellingest best seller of all time. When he actually pulls it off,...

Born in 1859 in Norway, Knut Hamsun is the author of Mysteries, Victoria, The Wanderer, The Women at the Pump, Tales of Loss , and more. Growth of the Soil...

Hollywood wives laid bare...

The health and wellness retreat promises total transformation, and nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete...

'A clear-eyed, warmly funny tale.' Kirkus Reviews This novel is the story of a lie. But it is also a story of laughter and tears, of life itself. When her...

Set in the blistering heat of Singapore, THE MAID'S ROOM follows the lives of two Filipina maids - sisters Dolly and Tala who are working hard to send money back...

' The World at My Feet brought me to tears. What a beautifully written and incredibly moving novel' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare and The Switch 'A bittersweet, beautifully...

When private investigator Izzy Spellman is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as an occupational hazard. She's been keeping surveillance on her new next-door...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train You think you know her... But look...

From the dazzling coastline of the French Riviera to the haunting beauty of Fairhead Rock in County Antrim, Roisin McAuley takes the reader on a gripping, twisting, turning journey to...

Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known...