Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Jack Lear is a predator driven by unbridled ambition. He makes a great fortune as a pioneering radio and television broadcaster, founds a network, and marries two beautiful socialites, but...

"A fine new novel... The great pleasure of reading Louis Begley [is] his exceptional literary intelligence". The New York Times Book Review "Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the...

Thirty-four years ago, Harold Robbins enthralled millions of readers with what is arguably the most popular novel ever written--The Carpetbaggers, a story of family conflict and turbulence set in the...

The book titled The Grotesque: A Novel by the author Patrick McGrath. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda...

'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.'...

A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New...

When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to...

Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with...

One Tuesday in May, the lives of Blair Albert and Bunny Marie Heath were to change course forever. Recently separated in a pioneering and desperately risky operation (the boys were...

A passionate, powerful novel by the acclaimed author of For the Sake of Elena. A young woman, distraught at not being able to bear a child, meets a vicar by...

Idioglossia- A secret language between a few people, a private language; a lalallation; the babble of babies or the murmur of lunatics. Bolshy, demanding, eccentric, Great Edie is a Jewish...

Dick, I need a war, Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He's retained Dick Pender to perception...

From the bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a novel about four friends who share a passion for a beloved British television show that will change all of...

Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas...

In About Schmidt, Albert Schmidt, last of New York's white shoe lawyers, was almost down for the count. After the untimely death of the wife who was the anchor in...

One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a disillusioned local...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans...

Life begins at fifty . . . Well, it certainly does for Hope, though not at all as she had planned. She reluctantly hits her half-century on New Year's Day...

Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a...

The last time Ree saw her father he didn t bring food or money but promised he d be back soon with a paper sack of cash and a truckload...

The book titled The Bone Collector by the author Jeffery Deaver. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and...

Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system to which she has given her life. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to...

Something Borrowed is the smash-hit debut novel from Emily Giffin for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship. Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working...

Responding to widespread criticism that SUM is really the State University of Men, departments across campus have been scrambling, under orders from the administration, to demonstrate their sensitivity to women's...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation...

The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection- the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur...

Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day, America's premier author of provocative fiction, delivers two novels from Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Mills & Boon. AFTERBURN The realization that Jax...

The book titled Love Among the Haystacks by the author D. H. Lawrence. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets...

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

The Waterfords and the Oxfords are two fairly ordinary families, with one significant exception: they are the inventions of a depressed writer who now seems unable to control them: 'I'm...

In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the...

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

The book titled Building on Sand by the author David Parker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'I've had this secret inside me. Your secret. You've always been good at keeping secrets.' Gaby and Connor seem to have a loving marriage - one that is built on...

A poignant and compelling novel about the little acts of kindness that can reunite a family and rekindle a marriage Annie and Tom's marriage is having a mid-life crisis They...

The brilliant new novel from Hari Kunzru, one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists, 2003. There's a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer...

The book titled O, How the Wheel Becomes it! by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An extraordinary debut novel - The Virgin Suicides for a new generation Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighbourhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady...