Modern Fiction - Secondhand

A hilarious novel from a great comedic writer, one of the founders of The Chaser's War on Everything. A hilarious novel from a great comedic writer, one of the founders...

Boys' homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again - and again. That's been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs...

A dazzling new novel from internationally acclaimed author Kirsten Tranter From the critically acclaimed author of the Legacy they were originally five. Elliot. Brian. tallis. Cameron. And Dylan - charismatic...

The book titled Claudius the God by the author Robert Graves. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Two yammering intellectuals ponder life and the fungus taking over one of their homes in a hilarious (and smart!) British comedy. In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled...

*Winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing* Middle-class,clever and white, Nick is a child of privilege while his best friend Andie isthe...

Carol Lefevre is an Adelaide-based writer whose book, The Happiness Glass, explores the imaginative terrain between essays and short fiction. The narrative takes us from remote NSW to New Zealand...

The Big Chill meets Wall Street as the rich and beautiful come out to play, each with something to hide. Andrew and Cathy are famous for their luxurious Nantucket parties....

Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk's Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to...

When 14 year old Alexandra meets Patrick, her handsome and notorious step-brother, she is confused and resentful as he shakes the foundations of everything she has ever known. Driving a...

Thecoast and dreams of being by the water are never far away in Kinsella's surprisingstories of Australian small town life. They summon in us both longing and fearat the recollection...

From the bestselling author of The Mistake comes a hauntingly powerful story about families and secrets and the dark shadows cast by the past. Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's...

In a suburb called Success, failure is not an option. Harry and Louisa look like an ordinary couple. They live in an ordinary house in an ordinary street in a...

The life of William Morris - poet, designer, socialist visionary - and the music of Bjork: are these the materials for a modern opera? The Inner West Creative Mime Atelier...

These are tales of fugitive lives: dazzling portraits of women and men on the run; from their present, their past, their future - from themselves... Here, finally, is the complete...

The book titled By the Way of Water by the author Phil Leask. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Night Parking by the author Laurie Clancy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the 1980s a young Leningrad writer moves to Sukumi, a resort on the Black Sea, to write a novel about Albert Eistein, Paul Ehrenfest and the nature of discovery....

Thailand in the late 1950s,and Southeast Asia moves inexorably towards the Vietnam War. In preparation for the war, American, British and Australian agents are moving in. Businessmen, diplomats, aid personnel...

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albanian...

This sparkling anthology offers 29 of the best marriages of comedy and fiction. A deliciously varied collection of comic short stories, representing the cream of twentieth century humour.

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear...

The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever... When Madeleine Belfield loses her family and her home in the Blitz, she is sent to love...

Teenage meat-packer Delia Chapman's claim that she has encountered a group of aliens is at first considered temporary insanity because of the stresses of her job. For how else can...

'East of Nowhere is a novel of wonderful surprises, an emotional see-saw that can be very funny, very sad and very brutal. This is a story about a love that...

Acclaimed author William Boyle, who has come to be known as the 'crime poet of Brooklyn', follows the lives of two sisters who become embroiled in an accidental murder and...

A haunting debut set in the harsh, beautiful landscape of Ireland's north coast. Patrick Jackson lies on his deathbed in Derry and recalls a family history marked by secrecy and...

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Caught between her ageing, ailing mother Frances, and her struggling daughter Louise, frequent user of Nancy's babysitting services, it...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW LITERARY AWARDS - CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 'a gloriously distinctive writer: brava, brava!'- Michelle de Kretser, Miles Franklin award-winning author of The Life to Come...

A lucida intervalla is a Latin phrase describing one of those startling 'lucid intervals' experienced by the insane. Lucida Intervalla, as imagined by John Kinsellathe Australian poet and novelistis an...

'Mysterious, compelling and almost unbearably tender.' Danielle Wood, award-winning author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark 'Is that the Big Dipper?' Mum asked. Her eyes were bright from the...

A stunning novel of terror, love and survival in the greatest wilderness on earth. A lyrical, heartbreaking epic debut. An isolated property in the middle of Western Australia, just after...

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? From...

Martin Westley has lost his memory and quite possibly his mind. He has a wife who despises him, a son who ignores him and a daughter who is drifting away....

Following the breakdown of a turbulent relationship, Frank moves from Canberra to a shack on the east coast once owned by his grandparents. There, among the sugar cane and sand...

Political Animals explores the inner workings of Canberra life: the mutually exploitative relationship between politics and the media; the factional infighting; the sexual tension; the political deal-making; the fragility of...

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

Two yammering British intellectuals travel to the American south to form a new religion-with Canadians The sequel to the 2010 hit Spurious-which was acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times, the...

Once you look at the world through Jimmy's eyes, you'll never see it the same again. Jimmy's world is a place where a boy can grow to be a man,...

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and...

Cecilia was certain that nothing could ever induce her to attend her high school reunion. Thirty years after leaving St Agnes Ladies College, she's a successful lawyer with no interest...

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence,...

Located in familiar Australian settings, this collection of stories brilliantly weaves together authentic characters and adverse scenarios. This is the final collection in the Long Story Shorts series.

Are we slaves to destiny or architects of our own fate? Bearings is about challenging the course of our lives as well as keeping a foothold during unpredictable times. In...

Set largely in Washington DC immediately after September 11, these are engrossing stories that tap into the zeitgeist of disconnection, isolation and the loss of meaningful identity after these world-changing...