Modern Fiction - Secondhand

In Jill Eisenstadt's savvy, heartfelt novel we enter the world of working-class kids in 1980's-era Rockaway, New York, a beach community where beer cans and cigarette butts stud the sand...

All the world's a stage--and nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair...

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book...

From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes this highly imaginative novel, "wonderful in scope . . . crammed with Danish history, social realism, satire, magic realism, high romance,...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE * In this hauntingly evoked portrait of rural life, Jim Crace skillfully unravels the delicate fabric...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K , J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in...

The book titled The Wings of the Morning by the author Patrick Garland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The stories in Julian Barnes long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents- of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is...

Summer 1970 a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual...

Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's...

The story-teller has always been an important figure in Welsh society, and this collection draws on a rich and varied literature to present twenty-five of the finest Welsh short stories...

Emily Iris looks forward to the times her parents welcome house guests to their family's unhappy home. As long as the visitors are there, her mother and father will put...

Described by the author as 'an offshoot rather than a continuation' of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, A COMPASS ERROR is set in under two summer months in a year...

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a...

A grand collection of Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories...

Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply...

Willy Muller has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, the suicide of his daughter Sadie and, most recently, a heart attack. While recuperating he finds himself drawn into the lonely...

Will Self's third collection of short stories takes his readers straight into the distorting hall-of-mirrors that is his fictional world. In one story a Londoner finds his house underpinned by...

The book titled The Afterlife: And Other Stories by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Last Lovers by the author William Wharton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Five cousins gather on their aunt s camomile lawn and talk about the coming war. It is the last summer of their youth. Over the next few years they remain...

A dark and haunting tale from the author of the bestselling Perfume Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick S...

The book titled The Lost Language of Cranes by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Man Made to Measure by the author Elaine Crowley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A...

Petterson's debut novel, about growing up and rancorous family life, published in English for the first time Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time Twelve-year-old Arvid and...

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but...

Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside - but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Iraq. By the IMPAC shortlisted author of The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack. Forced to leave the...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men. Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander...

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents...

'Provocative, enthralling... Truly, Moggach gets better and better' - Daily Mail From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold...

'Part love story, part Lonely Planet guide to Japanese customs, Blensdorf's first novel has skillfully written passages and artful observations' - Daily Mail Who is Sei Shonagon? The tenth-century author...

A big-hearted American novel for our times, by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls, about innocence and cynicism, families and growing up, and the secrets which define a community....

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

'One of English fiction's few twentieth-century masterpieces' John Lanchester, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS _________________________ The first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence:...

'She is a born storyteller and Turtle Moon is one of her best' Entertainment Weekly When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a...

In aid of Amnesty International, this is a brilliant 'serial' novel by fifteen of the very brightest talents in Irish writing. It begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank...

'Poignant, moving, hilarious...laugh-out-loud funny...the sort of book that might change your life' - Observer From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat...

The book titled The Shepherd by the author Frederick Forsyth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The critically acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad ("Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share" -Isabel Allende), Debra...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go...

'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...

'You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure' Scotland on Sunday 'A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human' Simon Pegg Set in a 2054 where humans...