Modern Fiction - Secondhand

The book titled Busconductor Hines by the author James Kelman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her family's narrowboat, proving she's the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and...

Following the sudden end of her marriage, Annabelle Beck returns from Melbourne to the sanctuary of her old family home in North Queensland. There, on an archaeological survey, she discovers...

John Updike's new novel is an audacious and compelling look at postwar American art - and the relations between men and women, and women and women. SEEK MY FACE takes...

WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF A LOOK-ALIKE STRANGER STOLE YOUR NAME, USURPED YOUR BIOGRAPHY, AND WENT ABOUT THE WORLD PRETENDING TO BE YOU? In Philip Roth's extraordinary new book,...

An Australian novel about a plain-speaking and impassioned young heroine Ellie McAdam. A "greenie" before her time. An Australian dreamtime of long summer holidays in shacks at the coast, at...

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013 An enchanting and grimly comic tale about love, loss, family and unlikely friendships WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013 Today is Christmas...

This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their...

The second novel in the Dirty Diana trilogy - a story of desire within marriage from the stars of the hit feminist erotic podcast Dirty Diana ... Diana has her...

Shortlisted for The Australian Vogel's Literary Award, Locust Summer celebrates the wide-open beauty of Australia's regions while exploring the heartbreaks that come from living on the land. On the cusp...

A tender, thoughtful story about a woman's journey back to her home town - and the painful moment that changed her life forever. After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline...

A historical fiction novel set amongst the turmoil, loyalty and violent betrayal of the gold rush era. San Francisco, 1849- a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men...

When Daniel, a young Australian lawyer based in Los Angeles, is called back to his family's farm, he has to contend not only with a philandering father and a sick...

Carrots and Jaffas tells the story of two red-headed identical twins whose oneness is ruptured when one of them is kidnapped. Their startling intimacy is both a strengthand a fault...

It's build-up time in the north-western town of Ransom, just before the big wet, when people go off the rails. In the midst of a bitter custody battle, an eight...

Berlin, New Years Eve. A young architect abandons the apocalyptic heat of a Melbourne summer for the streets his grandfather once walked. Barely off the train, a blind woman invites...

One street. Three couples. A world of possibilities. In 1989 the Newcastle earthquake opens up faultlines in the relationships of three couples who reside in adjoining terraces, changing their lives...

When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year old Torres Strait Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate's own mother has a...

This is a wonderful collection of short stories, sparkling with wit, passion and the Australian ethos, yet revealing the shadowy side of human interactions. These captivating stories take you into...

In the summer of '76 Toby turns seventeen, his parents split up and his relationship with the adult world changes forever. Ocean Road is a quiet, profoundly moving study of...

'A humble book. A generous book. Perhaps his best.' - The Guardian Australia *Selected as one of the Best Australian Fiction titles for 2023 by Readings Books* No life is...

Ted McCall is a legend among Bondi lifesavers. When he is killed in a surfing accident, his death exposes long-held family secrets and sets in motion a series of revelations...

Between Two Worlds brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this...

SHORTLISTED, Commonwealth Writers' Prize SHORTLISTED, NSW Premier's Literary Awards SHORTLISTED, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards LONGLISTED, International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 'Exquisite...a rich, meditative novel that explores the connectivity of...

'The Road Behind' is a roller coaster ride through the seventies, eighties and nineties, as protagonist Mark Kidman traces a circuitous route from his childhood, in New Zealand and England,...

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

The book titled Family Lore by the author Gerard Windsor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Blood may well be thicker than water, but in some families, money runs thicker than blood.' A story of the darkness of the human soul, the twists of fate that...

For readers of thought-provoking literary fiction, this is a novel that challenges the boundaries between snooping and surveillance. It's a story that asks, is it better not to know? For...

From one of Australia's most talented writers comes a moving and compelling novel about the loss of innocence and living on the edge. Arriving in the city with little money,...

A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced...

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

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

The book titled Woman at the Window by the author Marian Eldridge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Evening under Lamplight: Selected Stories by the author David Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This early work by the Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions the corruption of innocence and forms it into a compelling contemporary narrative set in...

The book titled Compulsively Murdering Mao by the author Bill Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

The book titled Medium Fliers by the author Penelope Nelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

The book titled The Pure Land by the author David Foster. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

AIDS is killing John Freeman. But before he dies he wants to understand himself - both as victim and killer. From the aptly decaying grandeur of the Hydro Majestic Hotel...

'A compelling plot, fully-imagined characters, and beautifully-observed settings. Butson gently guides the reader on a journey marked by pain, secrets and guilt to a place of forgiveness, acceptance and peace....

A heartfelt, bold and honest novel from the author of Boy on a Wire (longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award) about one man's life and the loves that defined...

Foreword by Fiona Wright When a whale washes up on the shore of a beach there is only one surety: it must explode. Sometimes a bystander, anticipating the inevitable, pokes...

Ruth Black is an English novelist left widowed by the mysterious death of her husband during the Great War. She immigrates to Australia and settles in the sleepy coastal town...