Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The book titled Gods, Demons and Others by the author R. K. Narayan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An astonishing and unmissable debut from an exceptional talent. Set in a working class suburb of Seattle, Mathew McIntosh's devastatingly beautiful first novel, Well, charts the lives of a vast...

Written in verse, The Golden Gate was Vikram Seth's first novel, before the epic A Suitable Boy. Set in the eighties in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley,...

This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and...

Our narrator s life is slowly coming apart at the seams. The Pizza job looks shaky, the best friend Brainiac is getting depressed and the live-in girlfriend is increasingly restless....

The book titled Short Stories of Margaret Sutherland Ppr NZ by the author Margaret Sutherland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

* A European classic * Set in Rumania, Austria and Germany between the last century's world wars, this is the story of one man. Our hero tells of his childhood:...

Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel,...

Mortals constitutes the final element in Norman Rush's trilogy on the Western presence in contemporary southern Africa. Set in Botswana in the 1990s, it is a political adventure, a social...

The book titled Selected Short Stories by the author Brian Finney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 'A writer who has no equal...

Brilliant, readable, lively essays on the problems of reading and writing biography. As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and...

The book titled The Weather in the Streets by the author Rosamond Lehmann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by the author Nina Berberova. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Australian pulp fiction jostled with magazines and comics at newsstands. Tariffs kept the local industry cheap and viable and offered Australian writers national and international...

The book titled Behind the Scenes at the Museum by the author Kate Atkinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Quincunx by the author Charles Palliser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Death's Autograph by the author Marianne MacDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Twelve Red Herr/First Among (Duo) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. "The Laying On Of Hands" is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous...

The book titled Dying Day by the author James Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Christopher Unborn by the author Carlos Fuentes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

His whole life has been a fantasy. Who is Tom Houghton? As a boy growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Tom Houghton escapes the harshness of the schoolyard...

'I think what Darren's really good at, is that he sort of understands other people. Sometimes, even if I don't say anything, he seems to know what I'm feeling anyway.'...

An organisation called The Cleaners is making threats, days before the Australia Day holiday in Sydney. An Aboriginal protester was murdered the year before. Lost in the emotional quicksand of...

One of the most extraordinary novels to come out of Australia in recent years. Norman Swan, Late Night Live In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different...

A witty, racy account of the erotic mysteries of the soul, finding true love and the perils of the film industry. Sheila Power is a glamorous film producer from a...

'.eros, like art involves risk, the risk of pregnancy, the risk of disease - or commitment, the greatest risk of all. And like art, it will bring you to the...

The book titled The Book of Miles by the author David Astle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Crypt Orchid by the author Helen Barnes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water.' Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son,...

Anna lives in Brooklyn. But she didn't always. She grew up in Kielce, Poland, where the summers were long and the politics communist. When her parents were indicted for their...

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 for Multicultural NSW Award A woman who can't swim wades into a suburban pool. An Indian family sits down to an Australian Christmas...

A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife's voice. A poet...

The book titled Floating by the author Nancy Corbett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 2756 AC (2003 AD in Christian terms), magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the the banks of the Thames. As...

Rebecca is waitressing at Centrepoint Tower when a woman jumps from the tower with her young child. Losing her own grip on life, and sliding into sexual betrayals, Rebecca too...

The book titled Homecoming by the author John Clanchy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Regards to the Czar by the author Margaret Coombs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Book of Sei by the author David Brooks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A devastatingly moving and often very funny novel from a masterful voice. In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Willy Chandran's father stood at odds with the world...

As editor of McSweeney's ('America's most interesting publication' in the words of Time Out), Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA. At...