Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The novel takes us to celebrations of our National Day in a Brisbane surburban backyard, surrounded by the deadly waste and wreckage of Queensland's recent floods. This year's Australia Day...

Introduced byPeter Goldsworthy Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature 2003 She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the...

'What you staring at?' he said, looking quickly into the rearview and touching the place his eyebrow might have been. 'You're not exactly Marilyn Monroe yerself.' Short stories from Goldie...

Gin, the albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum. Toad, a little man who wears corsets, marries to prove his manhood. Together they are freaks - feared and...

This is a novel of friendship, love and corruption. Set in Brisbane during the disastrous 1974 flood, two very different men, the immunologist Mark and the charismatic 'Prince of Spice'...

What happens when the war against global terrorism also destroys individual integrity and personal freedom? This is the bold, disturbing theme of Manfred Jurgensen s The American Brother. Harry Greene,...

Claude Boon and Henry Luck, young poets in quest of their muses, cut a swathe through the cultural capitals and byways of Europe and Asia towards the end of the...

This is the second book by new author Elenor Gill, and follows her first book In the Shadow of Trees, published in May 2006. Set in the UK, the story...

Jagose's prose is sophisticated and descriptive, a litany, in places, of words put together exquisitely and often unexpectedly. ELIZABETH JOLLEY, THE AGE 'And not just any chimpanzee, which would have...

Alexander Otto has it all - eminence as a surgeon, admiring colleagues, a loving family. Yet from the opening lines of this modern tragedy, he is a man on the...

Shortlisted, Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1994 Shortlisted, Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award 1998 Friendship and fidelity intertwine these intriguing, yet deceptively simple novellas, Bombora and The Chiming of Light. Set against a...

THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE TRILOGY.LATA FINALLY MAKES HER DECISION & THE WHOLE ENDSAS IT STARTED WITH A WEDDING.

THE SECOND PART OF THE LATA SAGA- WILL SHE CHOOSE AMIDST THE TURMOIL OF HER COUNTRY ENTERING A NEW ERA AFTER PARTITION.HER SISTER SAVITA DIVERTS MRS MEHRA'S ATTENTION BY GIVING...

It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence...

The darker the secret, the brighter the spotlight . . . Clickbait is a sharp, propulsive thriller about ruthless ambition and the dark side of fame. 'We're not famous anymore....

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE...

Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'Superb' Independent 'Exact and unflinching' Guardian Catching...

*** As read on Radio 4 *** 'You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that' Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house...

The heartfelt new second-chance romance by the internationally award-winning author of The Life Swap. Two different dreams Since their bitter divorce, Lisa and Rolf have forged new and separate lives....

This is an affectionate, insightful story about embracing life's speed bumps to find new meaning in everyday life. Life sucks when you are a vacuum cleaner-salesman facing redundancy, and your...

Lismore resident Rob - a happily married empty-nester, enjoying his late middle age - has always defined himself by the quality of the roof over his head and the state...

Ted 'Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron - a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback - as the darling of Australian...

The runaway bestseller that has taken the world by storm1935: As turmoil brews in Europe, Sira Quiroga's carefully mapped-out life is thrown into chaos, first by love, then betrayal. Abandoned...

WINNER, Age Book of the Year Award WINNER, NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and People's Choice Award Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom,...

Four young men at the Sorbonne--two Germans, a French-Algerian scholarship student, and an American--share an apartment on the Rue de Fleurus and an idyllic life in Paris, until Europe begins...

' I have goosebumps just talking about this story ' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Smart, funny - and furious' MARIE CLAIRE ' Genre-busting ... A c lear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems...

Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three...

'She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion' Bernardine Evaristo 'Do you know why lifeboats have an axe in them?' 'To chop down...

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass...

A brave new novel that sensitively explores one woman's experience of sexual violence and the silencing of those who feel compelled to speak out. What happens when a young woman...

One-time celebrity personal assistant to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles is now settled and living in the south of France with her doting boyfriend Christian and their...

The book titled Feral Palit by the author Robin Wallace-Crabbe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Between the Flags by the author Jane Hyde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced...

Blanche Greypaull is a wild, independent beauty, her hopes high as she sets out for London. Leaving behind her the years of poverty in Taunton's slums and her unhappy childhood,...

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

The book titled Smithereens by the author Susan Taylor Chehak. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Descant for Gossips was Thea Astley's second novel, released in 1960 in England and Australia. In 1983 it was successfully adapted for television by the ABC. In this classic...

Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award for his novel The Day of the Dog in 1980, he has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing....

When a newborn baby is found abandoned in a backyard, this dramatic event pierces the lives of three very different women. Laura has returned home for her mother's funeral after...

Twenty-five years later, Wilson's nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath his own family's silence. He finds a letter, written before he was born, by a...

The best of Carey's short fiction features here, drawn from work published previously in his two anthologies "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes".

Jules Van Erp has presence. After a devastating road accident, he can still effortlessly create such architectural masterpieces as the Pavilion of Flight, but he cannot face the emotional legacy...

The bone flute she wore at her neck.He touched the crescent-shaped curio. "You are Ilois," he said.It was the first time she had ever heard him use the word. The...

The book titled Nice Work by the author David Lodge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Running Backwards Over Sand by the author Stephanie Dowrick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A beautifully crafted debut novel from a compelling new voice in Australian fiction. For the past seven years, Clare has been living in London. She works for a judge on...