Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects...

The book titled Ticket to Ride by the author Dennis Potter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Winner of the John Creasey 'New Blood' Award 2012 - set in the American south where a young boy witnesses the murder of his young brother. A New York Times...

The book titled The Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club by the author Anthony Spaeth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Painted Lives by the author Max Egremont. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Spanning seven decades, 'Remember Me' is a story of pursuit - of stolen goods, missing years and one woman's forgotten history. Lillian likes to keep to herself. But when a...

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman...

When cartoonist Jane Harris's best friend Holly announces that she's eloping to the Italian Riviera with longtime boyfriend Mark, and asks Jane to be her maid-of-honour, Jane jumps at the...

National Bestseller A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman...

The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It...

This novel tells the story of two people who want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and a stable home. They are out of line with the fashions...

A heart-thumping journey into the violent and unpredictable world of post-Escobar Colombia, from the author of the international bestseller MARCHING POWDER. Blending fact and fiction, Colombiano is a powerful and...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman...

What if the one that got away was closer than you thought? When Kennedy's husband, Frank, ups and leaves her for his high school ex, a surfer named Sunny, then...

The book titled Reputation for a Song by the author Edward Grierson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The breathtaking new novel from Tim Pears, author of Landed Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh...

The powerful and richly evocative new novel from acclaimed prize-winning author Tim Pears. Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense...

The book titled Victims by the author Dorothy Uhnak. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A very funny and perceptive look at the plight of second-timers' Richard & Judy If you like Jane Fallon, Adele Parks and Candace Bushnell, you will absolutely love this hilarious...

'A vital work for our times' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family' BIG ISSUE 'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with' MARIE...

Don't miss this very special standalone novel in the Love Heart Lane series. Previously published as Evie's Year of Taking Chances but now rewritten and improved by the author! Love,...

'Superb. She had me at page one' Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven 'It's the artful pleating of this subtle, psychologically astute novel that sets it apart' DAILY...

The book titled The Bridge Over the Drina by the author Ivo Andric. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's...

Paramedic's Full-Throttle Fling - Alison Roberts A fling in the fast lane! Motorcycle paramedic Jules and new crewmember Louis are an unstoppable team. If her pulse races in the magnetic...

Although she hadn't seen her god-daughter for several years, Isabel feels duty-bound to help when Emily gets into trouble and takes her under her wing. To her surprise Emily is...

Zoya, a cousin of Tsar Nicholas of Russia, is made destitute in the Revolution. She flees to Paris, joins the Ballet Russe, and falls in love with a dashing American...

From the dazzle of a society party to the chaos of a makeshift hospital, from the pampered lives of rock stars to the quiet heroism of emergency volunteers.... On a...

The book titled Novels of Muriel Spark by the author Muriel Spark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by the author Peter Ackroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Focusing on Jennie Gerhardt, a poor young girl in Columbus, Ohio, Theodore Dreiser's novel depicts her inadvertently defying a host of conventions - of class, gender, family, and religion. Over...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the...

In his send-up of the academic world, the author poked fun at the British way of life, and gave post-war fiction a new and enduring figure to laugh at.

The book titled Vile Bodies by the author Evelyn Waugh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Picnic by the author Martin Boyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Seeds of Yesterday by the author Virginia Andrews. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It is 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, an exhausted British battalion marches into the searing summer heat of Catania, to be greeted by...

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in...

This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich...

Bomb-throwing assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911) is more topical than we would wish. Set in Czarist Russia...

Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves ...From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever...