Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and...

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. 'Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent...

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. "I...

The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho -- a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a...

Selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Observer , Stylist , Cosmopolitan , Red and the Daily Mail Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her...

The haunting story of two people linked by disaster and a desire for the truth, set amid the physical and emotional devastation of a post-earthquake Christchurch. A love story. Of...

" The Seas t ook me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a...

The book titled The Conversations at Curlow Creek by the author Malouf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As the new Superintendent at Callan Park Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Peter Cyren must perform medical alchemy - turn diseased minds into healthy ones. But in the case of his own...

'I fell hopelessly in love with John Cheever last year... He was, and his fiction is, extraordinary. I love the way you never know what on Earth is going to...

Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in...

Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more so than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a...

A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House...

Zero is the latest craze. Young, sexy and brilliant, he is a multi-hyphenated (singer-songwriter-rapper-producer) superstar for the digital generation. According to his publicist at least. He's also a narcissistic, insecure,...

A Strange and Sublime Address , Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping...

Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series began with The Quilter's Apprentice and continues with Round Robin --the name for a quilt stitched by many hands in turn--a poignant story...

Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is...

A breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The...

This is a jointly-authored film treatment, found in one of Huxley's old trunks. The story is set in the 1920s and involves a ranch worker who has the power to...

The epic tale of an outback Australian family, The Sundowners has sold more than three million copies worldwide. the Carmodys travel the countryside shearing, droving, making ends meet and looking...

From the bestselling author of Anna Story comes an unputdownable novel of women friendship and tough choices. Helen and Jemma have been best friends since childhood, when pale, quiet Helen...

The book titled The Cold Six Thousand by the author James Ellroy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A road trip in a metallic-finish Tangerine Symphony in which every Torana is customised and the jukebox plays Chisel's Flame Trees, just the way it would. These people, their voices,...

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head...

As far back as she can remember, Codi Noline had felt an outsider in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Her dispassionate father - 'an obelisk of disapproval' - had always...

The book titled Chekago by the author Natalya Lowndes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Name of the Rose by the author Umberto Eco. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest...

From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace , 'a moving story of lost childhood' ( Sunday Telegraph ). After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers...

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground- dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appal...

The new edition of Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel. 'Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities...

From the award-winning author of 'Clear 'comes an epic novel of startling originality. If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be...

Meet Roxy. For fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones's Diary comes "just the kind of comic novel we need right now" ( The Washington Post ) about...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, four of the master's most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. "Black...

The book titled The Twisted Sword by the author Winston Graham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled James Herbert: "The Fog", "The Spear", "Sepulchre" by the author James Herbert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now...

Charity Selborne, a lovely war widow, and her irreverent artist friend, Louise Cray, arrive in the South of France expecting a conventional holiday. The vistas of Provence delight them, and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN 2018 'Brilliantly paced, moving, thoughtful and sharp. Loved it.' Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer 'Bitter, yes, but also sweet - and moving, and searching,...

MEET THE 'KEEPER OF LOST THINGS' Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects, trying...

Babe Walker, centre of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a minor rage issue, a weakness for Jimmy Choos and hundreds of thousands...

FOR RICHER OR POORER, IN BUSINESS AND IN STEALTH. Can IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway break up a clever ring of tax cheats who love money, dishonor the IRS, and...

Do you ever wonder where your life is going? Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning and suddenly be old? You are not alone. Story (that's...

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 "stunning" portrait of life and love inside an insular Jewish community that "reads like an Orthodox Pride and Prejudice . . . Rewardingly delightful" ( Bust ). London, 2008....

Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked...