Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The book titled Morality Play by the author Barry Unsworth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Shortlisted for the National Year of Reading 2012 Award January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government...

Lander, Alabama, 1904. When young Emma Scott claims she has been raped by a `black hobo', a chain of events is triggered that will affect generations to come. In modern-day...

Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me. **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda,...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR , The Washington Post , and Financial Times "No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more...

Long after the death of Christ, Mary Magdalene is married to a silk merchant, Leonidas. She lives a quiet and harmonious life until, one day, the apostle Peter comes to...

This is story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman....

Abigail, visiting her parents in a lost corner of Australia, discovers a mystery and a conspiracy spanning a century and more. But there is more in the balance than simply...

J.J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records , is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world's longest continuous kiss. He has...

Isoldes' time has come at last. The Queen of Ireland lies dying, passing power to her daughter. But on all sides Isolde faces opposition. Through all her trials, Isolde can...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

An astonishing literary debut that will quickly establish Carol Goodman as a promising literary talent. The tense dramatic atmosphere sparkles with a cracking pace combined with startling imagination and writing...

'Nastily good fun' Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and...

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...

' A beautiful, wry love story ' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY ' I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences ' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE ' One...

November 1979, the height of Northern Ireland' s Troubles. Kathleen Moran' s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast' s notorious Maze prison, where he...

Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments...

The dazzling twin daughters of the beautiful Lady Celia Lytton are born into the family's publishing empire and, at age eighteen, are beginning to take their charmed world for granted....

Brilliant, readable, lively essays on the problems of reading and writing biography. As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and...

The book titled Murder at the Masque by the author Amy Myers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Evelyn went to the third drawer down in her dresser. It was her drawer of things past . . . she had an item from each of her previous lives....

The brand new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of It's Always The Husband 'We were drawn in from the first page' Bella A young Harvard law student...

A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey. Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer...

Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate,...

This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the...

Every year Elisabeth Danzinger - an unassuming yet resolute middle-aged woman - travels to the Danish island of Mn to spend one week at a lavish hotel called The Tamarisks,...

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and...

Neef has always been a storyteller and her story now, working in a cafA (c) in London, is that her name is Jennifer. Jennifer never knew a boy called Danny,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 'Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original' Pandora Sykes 'A fierce and fascinating debut' Lily King I was told of an older woman...

The book titled Sherlock Holmes: Original Illustrated "Strand" Edition by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'The best thing you'll read this year' KILEY REID 'So beautiful' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'One of those books I will read again and again' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny, very touching...

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed...

A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would you do if the world was brought to a standstill? If...

American investment banker Ben Hartman, son of legendary Max Hartman, who built a financial empire up from next to nothing, is on holiday in Switzerland when he meets a childhood...

Perfect for fans of Barbara Pym WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 'This was a great read. A comforting, original story with a refreshing pace. I will be checking out more from...

When her beloved grandmother is hospitalised, Jennifer returns to the lakeside home where she spent a magical childhood. There she finds a package of letters addressed to her that tell...

It is 1953 in Canvey Island. Len and Auntie Vi are dancing, he in polished shoes and slicked hair, she in fur stole and long gloves. They move lightly, with...