Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Brooklyn after the Civil War, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision...

__________________ 'Splendid' - Mail on Sunday With an introduction by Lord Mouser-Hunt, this is the journal of Mrs Chippy, the cat who accompanied the carpenter Harry "Chippy" McNeish on Ernest...

In this spellbinding new novel, bestselling author Alan Gold re-creates one of the most notorious stories of the Bible. Seductive, passionate and surprising, Jezebel's story is like no other. For...

The book titled The Dying Trade by the author David Donachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries....

Named a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new...

'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT 'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL --- Whispers haunt the...

2020's bestselling cult novel, narrated by a mammoth, now in B format. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric...

The book titled The Heart of the Continent by the author Nancy Cato. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into...

While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna's chronic infertility. Following his father Sergey's footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

1982 and Sami is far from home, trapped in war-torn Beirut, a city under siege by the Israelis. All he wants is to go home to his family in Sri...

Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. For most people in the wider community, the area...

The book titled Jorvik by the author Sheelagh Kelly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The highly anticipated final volume in the Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy In this gripping tale of passion, politics and conflict, King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed...

Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe from 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar- out of the...

'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from...

A saga of the Viking Ranald Sigmundson, his life on Orkney and his voyage to Vinland, the settlement in North America. He visits America as a young man with Leif...

The sweeping saga of the noble Wakefields and the lower-class Morgans continues with this compelling account of the Spanish Armada during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Two families-the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans-are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking...

'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados....

'Sublime, elegant and exciting... beautifully written and entirely gripping. I'm a big fan of Susan Allott' CHRIS WHITAKER 'The lovechild of Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests and Lisa Jewell's The...

From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very...

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for...

It is 1702, and in the lawless Caribbean sea young Matthew Loftus determines to captain his ship, the Cornelius, by honest trade rather than piracy and plunder. But his crew...

Book One in the Praire Winds Series Captured by Indians, Jessie King learns to suvive when unexpected lessons of friendship ans love sustain her.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her...

A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw,...

A powerful debut from an authentic new voice for the Doubleday list. THE BOOK OF ECHOES is a sweeping, uplifting and inspriational story of how a boy from Brixton and...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller `March', `Year of Wonders' and `People of the Book'. Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native...

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

August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager...

In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by...

When everyone lies, who can you trust? Judy Hudson has no idea of her power, or vulnerability. Adrift without purpose, or ambition, all she knows is fear and suspicion. That...

An impetuous character, Judith Paris arouses feelings of both tenderness and despair in those around her and excites the passions of two very different men: the sturdy, affectionate Reuben, her...