Modern Fiction - Secondhand

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...

The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and still with...

A funny and moving love story, THE ACTUAL centres on Chicagoan Harry Trellman. After a lifetime of making money, Harry has become 'a first-class noticer', and realizes that he has...

The book titled I Want it Now by the author Kingsley Amis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The stories in this celebrated collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimism,...

The book titled Wildcat by the author R.F. Brissenden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his...

A tragi-comic family story set in his now fabled imaginary city of Ambergris Narrated with flamboyant intensity by one-time society figure Janice Shriek, and presenting a vivid gallery of strange...

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads...

The third book in the stunning Yinti series, this book is baed on the life stories of Jimmy Pike. Yinti has left his desert sandhills country to be a cowboy,...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 'Mme Lecault met Mme Berry after twenty-seven nights...

'Well-served by his excellent translator, Gerald Turner, his beautifully constructed fictions are full of life and colour, of observation as affecting as it is precise, and of a robust sympathy...

From one of Estonia's most renowned writers: " [Joan Kross] begins to look more and more like a prime Nobel Prize contender." - "Kirkus Reviews" Jaan Kross spent eight years...

Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful - the epitome of...

A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam...

'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this...

This is the first ever translation of a work by one of the most notorious figures of Renaissance Italy, followed by the fascinating account of Francesco Bibbone, Lorenzino's own murderer,...

Sian, tired of nightmares in which she meets a grisly end, decides she needs to get out more, so she joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey. What she finds...

The book titled Two Against One by the author Frederick Barthelme. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Post-colonial' is a poetic and wildly experimental account of cultural intrusion and appropriation from one of Australia's finest and most prolific writers. Questioning what it is that constitutes nation and...

The book titled Heat 2: Fitzroy to Freo by the author Ivan Indyk. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look 'This novel has the sparkle of sunlight on water...once more Rose Tremain beguiles you into suspending disbelief' Independent on Sunday 'A magical...

A novel of imposture and identity where no one is who he claims to be - and destinies hang on a game of chess. 1943: General Thadeus Dreyer, hero of...

The book titled Into Battle! by the author Robert Challoner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless,...

The book titled Fortune's Soldier by the author Dinah Lampitt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 'An amazingly vivid and joyful novel.' - The Times Alford, the youngest son of a poor farm worker, has risen above his class to...

The book titled The Peace of Carnage by the author Philip Trewinnard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, half gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant...

The book titled A Model World and Other Stories by the author Michael Chabon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Record of Sin by the author Jill McGown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sacred Hunger by the author Barry Unsworth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Summer in Baden-Baden is Leonid Tsypkin's beautiful and original cult classic -- a love story of the rarest intensity by a 20th century Russian master. One bitterly cold winter in...

'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman 'In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple...

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

The book titled To be a Unicorn by the author Robert Vavra. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled In a German Pension by the author Katherine Mansfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.