Modern Fiction - Secondhand

When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, a famous merino stud, she expects to be staying in a gracious homestead with the rich and celebrated...

Cody is an intelligent but alienated high school drop out who doesn't know where she fits. Kylie is a pretty young wife whose great, though intermittent, sex life with her...

The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris...

From one of Greece's most popular novelists comes this story of a 65-year-old actress, from her childhood in a provincial Greek town to her life as a pensioner. As a...

Reissue of a novel originally published in 1958. A novel of life in the suburbs of an Australian industrial town. Emily Lawrence, growing up in neglected fashion in a seedy...

Philip McLaren gives us a view of the world through realistic, yet highly individual characters, in a journey from earthy country town to city rhythm and the wonderful harbour of...

The book titled Spider Cup by the author Marion Halligan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Close Ups by the author Alan Gould. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The new novel by the author of award-winning The Glade Within the Grove. In The New Country is a comic novel about small-town Australia. How can three very different cultures...

'I'm a great fan of Rohan Wilson - and this is his best novel yet.' - Favel Parrett, bestselling author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes 'It's...

"With sharp, evocative prose and utterly absorbing storytelling, McDonald takes the reader on a journey that makes us question what it means to be a mother." Sally Hepworth, bestselling author...

The thought was coming more often. That wherever he was, he was at the centre of a cage. He couldn't have said when the notion first entered his head. Some...

"Midalia's skill at presenting big ideas through everyday experience demonstrates how powerful good writing can be" - The West Australian Feet to the Stars, Susan Midalia's third collection of short...

Susan Midalia's second collection of short stories offers us a compelling variety of characters,all of them 'travellers' in search of connection and belonging. Tourists in Moscow and Vienna confronted by...

When young mother Madeline Henderson joins Dr Paddy Jones in his project to find the funnel web spiders of Australia's high country, her estranged husban's escalating jealousy enmeshes her in...

Sold takes a fly-on-the-wall look at Melbourne's real estate industry. Set in the leafy, prosperous inner suburbs, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of three agents as they jostle,thrive and...

This entertaining collection includes a romp of a novella called The Rattler, as well as short stories and micro fictions all set in and around contemporary Melbourne. Sometimes serious, sometimes...

From medieval Europe to outback Queensland, from war-torn Bosnia to China and on to the shores of the Aral Sea, The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles...

'A flawless evocation of the literature machine, a witty remodelling of a crime caper, a perfectly formed entertainment.' Genius never dies - it just needs a good editor. When one-time...

What happens when the daughter you never thought you would see again turns up 20 years later? Dania's arrival at Splashes Caravan Park in search of her mother forces the...

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

With a brilliant cast of memorable characters, DOG DAYS has all the ingredients to become a book club bestseller. An uplifting, heartwarming novel about turning points, new beginnings, and unexpected...

Jacaranda Vines had been one of the wealthiest corporations in Australia. Now Joseph Witney, the tyrannical head of the family is dead, and Jacaranda Vines is at crisis point. Joseph's...

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

A poignant debut novel by a fresh Australian voice,The Promise Seedwill move and mesmerise you. To tell you the truth, I kinda felt sorry for the kid. There was something...

A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbour crash in...

When culture and faith collide . . . nothing is sacred In the Aboriginal missions of far northern Australia, it was a battle between saving souls and saving traditional culture....

AN UNEXPECTED LETTER from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier. May's father won the...

This lively debut novel tells the story of five very different men and women who share a busy inner-city bus route but who are on very different journeys. Featuring an...

Whimsical, vibrant, and memorable, this astonishing narrative is filled with a host of quirky characters caught in a collision between reality and dreams. A lonely junkmailer with a thirst for...

The book titled The House in the Rainforest by the author Sophie Masson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Real Lies by the author Craig McGregor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For years Sebo, the powerful healer and sorcerer of the Gewa people, has been a thorn in the side of the missionary Richard Wakely. When at last Richard finds an...

A 'Pinnochio for the ipod generation'- a dark, tender fairytale spiced with devilish humour by French singer Mathias Malzieu Edinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen,...

The long-awaited new novel from award-winning Australian writer, Joel Deane. What happens when the future falls as dark as your past? When all that you have seduced and betrayed, rises...

The book titled Tales from Firozshah Bag by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a...

Leonie Smith and Anne Mack, the two narrators, investigate the intimacy and secrets of family and community. They discover facets of madness, murder and adultery; embrace some of the esoteric...

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

The book titled Intimate Strangers by the author Katharine Susannah Prichard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Little Hotel by the author Christina Stead. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

Jacinta Halloran's acclaimed debut novel is re-released with a striking new cover in anticipation of her new book Dr Anna McBride's life is starting to unravel. The mother of two...