Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Rosie and Cray chuck in city jobs for Margaret River while Liza, Ferg and Sam have been there forever, working the family farm. Under pressure from developers, the families unite...

An anxious sighting marks the re-appearance of high-school friend Jason Bunt in Mike Planner's orderd life as a court-room sound recordist. Fear of Tennis is a novel about the impossibility...

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

Set against a red desert landscape, Attempts to Draw Jesus follows the lives of two teenagers in unfamiliar surroundings. In his gran's day, jobs weren't a problem. But when Jack...

A bushfire in Dell's childhood still haunts her. She dreams up new starts, but her spilling stories cannot over-write the past. Evvie dances into Dell's life. She has run as...

Secrets, lies and crying babies, everyone has a breaking point. It's 1969 and mankind has leapt up to the moon, but a young mother in small-town Australia can't get past...

Every year, Sleepers assembles a motley crue of new and established (but mostly new - mostly never heard of) writers for their critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (with occasional...

'Adventurous, witty and compelling' Library Journal (starred review) The hugely anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing The statutes disappeared the...

If you came across AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING at 3 a.m. in New York City . . . Would you keep walking? Or do the one thing that would change...

The 2016 Margaret River Short Story Competition anthology presents the finest emerging and established voices in Australian literature. These are stories to be felt, read and remembered. They cover births,...

Joe has had a great life, untroubled by career or monogamy. He's convinced that whatever he is doing, he'd still really rather be having sex - if only middle age...

This is satire at its irreverent best. Bernard Cohen is back with a novel that makes Australian politics interesting again. A witty, irreverent and intelligent satire of Australian politics. A...

Winner of the 2016 David Unaipon Award. 'When he was in gaol, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliams ......

The book titled Small Ecstacies by the author Moya Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Struggle of Memory by the author J. Dugdale. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

We'll Stand in That Place and Other Stories is the latest anthology in the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. In this latest collection, contemporary concerns, such as climate change,...

Lizzie's life seems pretty damn perfect, until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded 4-0. Losing her job to a younger journalist is not the only ingrown pube in...

The book titled Victoria Challis by the author Chester Eagle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jenny and her sister Emmy are bound together by the needs of their incapacitated father. Both long to escape from their domestic drudgery, and over the course of a single...

Everyone has their cross to bear - their swag, their shiralee - and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who...

In the basement of a large Victorian house in London, Charles Cleasby painstakingly re-enacts the great sea battles of his hero, Horatio Nelson. He is also writing a faithful biography...

'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning...

If you loved A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, you'll love The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother Loretta Boskovic may have fantasies about dumping her two kids in...

Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve...

Following a sudden break-up, Englishman in New York Nick Braeburn takes a room with the elderly Peacock sisters in their lavish Upper East Side apartment, and finds himself increasingly drawn...

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick "A love story like no other, and this one...will have you gripped from page one." --Vogue "An unabashed ode to living with, and despite,...

A town that doesn't want to be found. A countess who rules over the memories of an entire community. A hole in the earth that threatens to drag them all...

The Buckwater family live side-by-side with their Ceylonese staff in a house nestled in the lush hillside tea estates of '30s Ceylon. Premawathi is their cook and housekeeper. She has...

Stockholm, 1999. Madam Zoia, the enigmatic painter on gold, is dead. The last-known survivor of the Romanov court, she leaves behind a house full of paintings, a collection of private...

At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer....

______________ 'This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel' - Sunday Times 'An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships' - New Yorker...

From the author of The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots and The Maxwell Sisters comes a captivating novel about best friends, family and fighting for what you want, against all odds....

Husbands and Other Lovers is the gripping story of the two Agnew brothers - and the women who love them. James Agnew, a brilliant City lawyer, is married to Susannah....

Riding on the melody of its language and the power of its story, Very Old Bones is a climatic work in the Albany Cycle from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of...

'One of the best novels of the year so far' The Times A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It's...

It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air. She...

Andrew Hood, Award-winning Australian writer has released a breakout novel to rave reviews and hunger for the next book... The book follows the death of a man, Isaac McGlynn, who...

After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives....

Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student?The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night?...

Every summer, Samantha Wheland joins her childhood friends, Isabel, Kendra and Mina, on a vacation somewhere exotic and fabulous -- this year it's a beach house in Honduras. But for...

When it comes to love, Beauty Editor Gaelle is careful. But when it comes to friendship, her heart betrays her in unexpected ways. Fleeing her life with little more than...

"I've striven to be the perfect mother, wanting to create a perfect childhood for my child. Yet something has gone wrong..." Catriona has the life she's always dreamed of: a...

Magic is murder when dying is part of the act Down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson is booked for a string of cabaret shows in Berlin and hopes his luck is...

A compelling, exuberant story of love, loss and survival, Hide & Seek is a startling debut that will make you cry and laugh out loud. 'The grown-ups held an inquiry...

"T he Man Who Loved Dogs , by Cuban author Leonardo Padura, is a stunning novel, chronicling the evisceration of the Communist dream and one of the most "ruthless, calculated...

"Gestern has an amazing way with words." - San Francisco Book Review "Will make readers want to open that old box of photos and look again." - Minneapolis Star Tribune...

He tells you he loves you all the time. That he's going to get you out of the hostel, away from the drugs. He better not be lying to you.