Modern Fiction - Secondhand

A warm, joyful novel that fizzes with humanity and love of language - by the bestselling author of The Accidental 'There once was a man who, one night between the...

The book titled The Balkan Trilogy: The Great Fortune; the Spoilt City; Friends And by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Family begins with a capital eff. I'm wondering how many more f cking 'phases' I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society? It seems...

In Eva Carter's How to Save a Life, saving a life is only the start of the story . . . 'I couldn't put it down until I reached the...

Haunted by his wife and son's brutal abduction and murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs to the ends of the earth to recover and to hide. But even there he is...

'It's messy, hilarious, painfully real - and by the end, I was actually in tears.' Reader Review ????? 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.' When Alexis Spencer...

The book titled Cold Warrior by the author Mangold. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Doctor Criminale by the author Malcolm Bradbury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

'Heart pounding action, delightfully madcap humor, and a swoony romance to lose your head over . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!' JENNA LEVINE, author of My Roommate...

The book titled Battlefields and Playgrounds by the author Janos Nyiri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Collects Ethan Frome and three short stories: The Other Two, The Dilettante, and Xingu.

Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas...

The book titled The Fisher King by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized...

A young woman goes missing... On the threshold of World War II, a young woman from a titled family in the south of England disappears, seemingly without a trace. An...

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures of its...

Man of Water centres around the main character of Watt, a writer in middle-aged decline with a string of failed relationships behind him. Having successfully secured a postgraduate scholarship to...

Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in...

Orestes' mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas for Orestes and the rest of their brood. After another fraudulent election and the disappearance of his younger brothers Castor and Pollux, he takes...

A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater...

On a recent journey across Japan, the author meets a series of remarkable personages, including an invincible Aikido Master, a modern sennin (forest sage) who offers him the tea of...

It's the spring of 1943, and the tiny hillside village of Santa Cecilia is about to be overrun by German soldiers. But Vito Leone has his own personal campaign to...

The book titled The Visit by the author Amy Witting. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Torbruk 1941: The Desert Siege by the author Timothy Hall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books...

The book titled The Log of a Cowboy: Narrative of the Old Trail Days by the author Andy Adams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Airport by the author Arthur Hailey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Adrian Mole from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries - The First Ten by the author Sue Townsend. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains -...

On Auburn Avenue, downtown Atlanta, a person can get just about anything life has to offer. You can buy groceries, get your teeth fixed or cop a vial of crack...

A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic...

Robert works on the buses and lives in a no-bedroomed Glasgow flat with his wife and child. His job is boring, the weather is lousy, and he's becoming increasingly aware...

On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at...

Shakespeare: the most famous writer who ever lived; a man whose career arouses heated controversy. Stanley Wells, described as the world's leading Shakespeare scholar, chats with the Bard about life,...

Two sisters growing together and apart into their emerging selves, one pulsing with curiosity and risk, the other watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of...

A moving, funny and topical novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society that is still coming to terms with thirty years of violence...

'A sparkling debut, full of tenderness and mischief. It's as if Roth and Narayan had a baby' - Aatish Taseer It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma,...

Set in a grand hotel as Milan shuts down in early 2020, this is a classic story of a man's emotional reckoning and the unexpected kindness of strangers From the...

A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2016 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2016 They used to be inseparable. They used to be young, brave and...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, the powerful fourth novel from multi-award-winning author of The Spinning Heart. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Costa Novel...

Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year' A celebration of what it is to be human' Spectator Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home....

A dazzling collection of hilarious and heart-wrenching stories united by a groundbreaking theme: each is a sidelong glance at the lives of women who - either by choice or by...

'Sita Walker's powerful debut novel In a Common Hour follows a diverse group of kids and teachers as they deal with the fallout from a student prank.' - The Age...

'I am deadly, desirable and delicious!' This is Alice's mantra as she hilariously negotiates her way through the rocky terrain of singledom. Alice Aigner is successful, independent and a confirmed...

In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow...