Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Jetty Road is an amusing and insightful novel about women of a certain age, kids and oldies - about life actually, and how we never really grow into it. The...

A long-overdue new edition of Paper Nautilus , Nicholas Jose's bestselling novel. Richly evocative of postwar Australian life, Paper Nautilus subtly illuminates the complexities of ordinary people and the surprising...

Falling in love allows for only two possible futures. In one, love is honoured. In the other, love is betrayed. Tracing apparently insignificant fault lines between Nick and Chloe -...

Jane Clifford is in her early thirties, smart, attractive, and seemingly kitted out for life with a Ph.D., a job as a popular teacher at a midwestern college, and an...

Against the backdrop of Japan's invasion of China in the late 1930s to the Tokyowar crimes trials in 1946 a drama of comples human relationships unfolds. Meira Chand's new novel...

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

'The best book I've ever read . . . Every time I feel low, I turn to this book and it offers me so much comfort. It's funny, real and...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Always the Sun is a brilliant novel about parenthood What do you do when your son is bullied? How far will you go to...

Courtney's boyfriend has just gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. She couldn't be happier. And with her super-organised sister, Norah, to help her plan...

Margot is a grifter, making her living preying on the weaknesses of men. She is an avenging angel, shattering marriages and draining bank accounts. Exploring what drives her quest to...

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were...

'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced Schindler's Ark . Giles Foden, Guardian Artem...

She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the...

Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.

'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...'...

From its opening line, American Adulterer explores the life of a habitual womaniser in hypnotically clinical prose. The subject regards his high libido as physiologically normal;if he goes without a...

Sally, who married young to escape her appalling childhood, is often left to bitterly reflect on the hand she has been dealt. She is, on the whole, happy caring for...

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall , Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the...

From the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris's fourth novel is a gripping, passionate story of one woman's battle with the secrets surrounding her family. A...

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and...

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten document in an old desk in need of...

'A truly original, brilliant novel' - Daily Mail 'Very special indeed . . . your world will be a better place for reading this story' - Joanna Cannon What if...

In this sparkling romance, two professors with a complicated past get a second chance to prove history won't repeat itself. Assistant professor Clara Fernsby is nothing if not driven. She's...

' The Echoes of Us has just broken me . . . if you love The Time Traveler's Wife or One Day then you'll love this' EMMA COOPER ?? 'Spellbinding...

Neef has always been a storyteller and her story now, working in a cafA (c) in London, is that her name is Jennifer. Jennifer never knew a boy called Danny,...

* Winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas * 'A novel crafted like a Coen Brothers' movie' Le Monde 'A strange and hypnotic novel' France Info 'Mysterious and enchanting'...

Things I will never forget- my name, my made-up birthday...The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother's face, when she was young. Things other people will forget- where they...

One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time and place where he is supposed to detonate a bomb that will end his life and that...

At once unsettling and emotionally riveting, Hawk Mountain vividly depicts the turbulence of coming of age and the violence of repressed attraction. It offers a compelling look at how love...

'Some books read as if they are touched by magic, so wondrous and astonishing is the experience of immersing yourself in them. That's how I feel about The Wonder Lover....

From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese...

In London in 1865 Lydia Frankland finds a love letter written twenty years earlier by her late stepmother, Jane, to a natural historian at Port Arthur, Louis . In the...

'Coldness is something you can nurture. Same as love or warmth. You can cut the strings holding you, not easily, but ruthlessly. Sever the tendons, peel back the fat and...

From the author of BOMBORA and WHAT FALLS AWAY. A stunning, moving novel about faith, love and family, and what happens when the heart stops believing. Elizabeth has fallen in...

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school....

From the acclaimed author of All Involved and Kung Fu Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses),...

Longlisted for the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize 'Alan McMonagle possesses a style that is all his own and I found his first novel compelling from start to finish. Read it.'...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM! When a soldier with a troubled past and a struggling songwriter agree to get married for the military benefits, neither expects much after saying "I...

Naomi Cottle is an investigator who finds missing children. But the one child she has never been able to find is her sister. The two were abducted when they were...

'An amazing debut . . . All the characters are brilliant, but Del is the best ' Daily Mail 'A droll, poignant debut with one-liners to bring the house down'...

A small community on New Zealand's Tasman Bay is suddenly overwhelmed by a bloodthirsty madness. There are fourteen survivors. Trapped in by a strange force-field called the 'no-go', cut off...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction, Fox Evil is the bestselling thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD ON AN ISLAND OFF THE EDGE OF THE MAP, BOYS ARE DISAPPEARING. The day the tall men come from the mainland to...

For fans of Bella Mackie, Laura Jane Williams and Sophie Ranald. With little over twelve weeks until race day, three women are trying their hardest to focus on their ultimate...