Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the sixth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship that will see the world brought to its...

The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell. A brilliant and moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago. LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 The final novel from...

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in...

A heartbreaking American masterpiece of the 'Roaring Twenties' by the author of The Great Gatsby **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** It is the French...

'These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found...

Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the goings-on at the church in which he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste...

Eagerly awaited new novella by the much -acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Advertures of Kavalier and Clay.Eastbourne, Sussex, 1944. An 89-year-old man, somewhat eccentric, a...

For readers of Judy Nunn's Spirits of the Ghan ... When a newcomer blows into the mining town of Kalgoorlie she unwittingly uncovers a web of lies and a heartbreaking...

Huxley mocks the fads, foibles and spirit of his time with an unsurpassed wit and brilliance WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MALCOLM BRADBURY Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited...

With her trademark fresh and funny tone, Lily Malone returns with a captivating new romance set in the heart of the Australian outback. For Jaydah Tully, the country town of...

The book titled Ladder of Years by the author Anne Tyler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The electrifying globe-trotting love story - now a major film starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME. BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS. At thirty-nine,...

Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street as a ferocious blast rips through the neighbourhood. A townhouse owned by an internet magnate explodes into flames, three...

'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' The New York Times'Eliot-like ... . It is simultaneously a joke, a homage, and a provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a...

Ethan Frome is a poor New England farmer who lives a downtrodden existence with his wife in this story of pessimism and tragic waste from one of America's great authors.

The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America - but behind the facade of fame and glamour lies a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and murder... When...

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and...

'He did kill . Kill and kill and kill .' Tess 's number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy . But splitting up with Poppy's father Jason...

Eve Sylvester is young and broke and needs a job fast. After years of foster homes, backpacking and a sailing trip across the Pacific Ocean, she has lost contact with...

Teresa's passionate love for Maurice fills her mother with dread. During the long hot summer, Pauline finds herself remembering the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her...

These Royals will ruin you... Ella Harper is a survivor-a pragmatic optimist. She's spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends...

Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy with her life. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at boarding school and she's enjoying a...

Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says...

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard...

A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO...

Escape to Vegas with this hilarious and feel good rom-com from the bestselling I Heart series. Angela Clark loves her life in New York. She a Brit who's conquered the...

Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the mighty Iron Ore State. Floodtide is the story of Mike, Spud, Pembo and Murray, and the friendship that binds them over four...

In the perfect family, there's a thin line between love and hate, especially when there's so much to hide...The Keelers are one of those families that seem to have everything....

'The tension is delicious . . . I was absolutely consumed by these characters ' - ELSIE SILVER Dishonestly Yours is the hotly-anticipated new gritty romance from TikTok sensations and...

Miri's daughter is dead and her husband has been unfaithful to her. Lost in her grief, she flees to her Cuban grandmother's old house in a town where outsiders and...

As the rangers and staff of a luxury lodge in Etosha National Park, Namibia welcome the last guests of the season, thoughts are predominantly on the three-month break ahead. Except...

From the international Number One bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes - thirty years after Lila's father ran away to Hollywood, he's back to wreck - or save - her...

A reissue with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with...

Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately...

WINNER OF THE PATRICK WHITE LITERARY AWARD Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but...

After more than 20 years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of THE NOTEBOOK) is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his...

Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that...

Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives,and continues to do so even now...

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects...

The compelling new novel from the international number 1 bestselling author Coronation Day, 1953. Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations and makes a shocking discovery- her friend Cassie is...

Allende is a wonderful teller of tales and through the story of Eva Luna we enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge.

Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one that got away. When she turned down his proposal three years ago, she broke his heart. Now that Sophie is...

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold...

Sometimes serendipity comes knocking, and life leads us to the most surprising places ... It's never too late to find your true self. While very pretty, the tiny town of...