Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The book titled Darkness Falls from the Air by the author Nigel Balchin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into...

The book titled Operation Deathwatch by the author Leo Kessler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Having escaped her overbearing family in Mexico, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin seeping in through...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable and...

The book titled Safety of Objects by the author A. Homes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Eagle Has Flown: A Novel by the author Jack Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of a small boy's obsessive fantasy life and how it brings together four unlikely people in an afternoon spent unravelling each other's lives - past, present and future...Ted's...

In the theatres and the restaurants of the celebrated City of Kisses, timid actor Felix Dern is famous and admired...for his looks...for his voice...and for his unblemished private life. But...

'- Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain, and Felicia's Journey all appeared on national bestseller lists - The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

Jay Golden has an unerring talent for being sacked. His hilarious deadpan diary takes us on a tour through minimum wage land: Al's Golden Donor Kebabs, telesales, McDonalds, Molden's Lawnmower...

A novel about adolescence and first love, about English nature and the profound changes affecting rural landscape, The Harvest is a contemporary and unsentimental elegy for an entire class and...

The book titled Love and Longing in Bombay by the author Vikram Chandra. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and Sils, her best friend from childhood, as they take their...

In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marks Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How...

The book titled The Trap by the author Dan Billany. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of friends at Cambridge form a private club that scales the university colleges by night, until one day they take their daredevil activities one...

The wartime love story between a young English widow and a refugee from Nazi occupied France. In 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to...

This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten...

Excellent examples of American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, these stories have been chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity. Arranged in chronological order, they include Herman...

MY ANTONIA(1918) is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia,who has settled in Nebraska.Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden,the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative...

The book titled The Gift of Stones by the author Jim Crace. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Polly by the author Freya North. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Change by the author Maureen Duffy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams , Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers "a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" ( The Wall...

Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman...

Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in...

In Pyae Moe Thet War's electrifying and heartfelt new rom-com, a writer's attempt to find inspiration for her new novel is sabotaged by a vacation gone horribly wrong . ....

Chitra Divakaruni is well known for her highly acclaimed novel THE MISTRESS OF SPICES and her award winning short story collection ARRANGED MARRIAGE. In this new collection she weaves tales...

Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky...

A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON 'Read it now' URSULA K. LE GUIN 'Quiet and thoughtful, playful and wayward, rich with exquisite worldbuilding detail. I only wish...

Gianluca has to admit his life is empty. His high-pressure City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over and...

The Second World War is over when Jock moves his family to Quebec, where he lives with his wife, Maura, and their three children in a small bungalow, complains about...

When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of...

It's the searing hot summer of 1989 and revolution is in the air - though not just for the Prys family... In 1989, the year of news, as London bakes...

An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter. V.S. Naipaul's first written novel, already displaying his humour, endless inventiveness and imaginative brilliance, won the Somerset Maugham Award on its...

A delicate and poignant love story set in London and an Irish seaside town.It is the 1960s and trainloads of holiday-makers spill out into the rain-washed sunshine of Portnew. When...

A first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares, losing himself in books and...

The book titled Wilt by the author Tom Sharpe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Slave of the Passions by the author Deirdre Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled This Moment is Forever - 3 by the author Nan Witcomb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.