Modern Fiction - Secondhand

It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The...

'A splendid work...superb' - Marilyn French Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call...

By the bestselling author of The Godfather. Alexander moved over to his favourite chair in the corner of the large chamber. 'Sit, my children, sit with me,' he gently ordered...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one... Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live in the small village of Shadbagh. To Abdullah, Pari, as...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started...

After being dumped by the man she thought she would marry, Australian cafe owner Alex pours all of her energy into creating the perfect Christmas for her customers - until...

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MOST GREAT LOVERS IF THEY LIVED TODAY WOULD BE CONSIDERED JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. AND SO IT IS WITH BROWNIE AND LOLA, TWO DISPLACED TEENAGERS WHO FIND THEIR HOMES IN EACH OTHER....

For Richer For Poorer is a compelling family drama about a woman who faces losing everything she has worked for and has to rebuild her world from billion-copy bestselling author...

Will they get a second chance or will it be goodbye forever? An emotional and heartfelt rural romance from bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro. Jessica Sabatini had everything she ever...

With unerring insight into the hearts of men and women - and into the soul of the artist - Danielle Steel takes us into a world of glamour and genius,...

A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive...

From New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree - the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series. 'A fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ......

Lost at sea . . . with your one-night stand 'Feels like a brand new version of romance . . . I drowned happily in this book' Jodi Picoult 'I...

IT'S 1948 AND HANORA SPARROW and her teenage daughters, Aria and Rosy, have fallen on tough times. With little more than the suitcases they carry and a few pounds between...

After a family tragedy, Lara ran away to the big smoke to pursue a business career, but now her career is at a crossroads, her romance is in ruins and...

The life of a good priest in Ireland over the past 50 years provokes one of John Boyne's most powerful novels yet Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISIN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over...

A delightfully heartwarming story of four or more funerals and at least one wedding, from the bestselling author of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year 'There are a lot of...

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

Barnes & Noble's April Book Club Pick An Amazon Top 10 Editors' Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for...

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS, TRANSLATED FICTION OR JAPAN The two phenomenal international bestsellers now in one beautiful, foiled gift edition A beautiful, collectable hardback that brings...

Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan. The normalization of violence...

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...

A captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Fern...

Les Norton is back - wearing ten-hole Doc Martens ... Les is quite happy resting up after the flu, when Warren has to tip him into an earn. Norton's mate...

The international bestselling romantic comedy "bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and...humor," ( Entertainment Weekly ) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love. The...

A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction. Prue is about to turn thirty and feels like everyone else is living their best life....

'With her renowned clever wit and masterful (mistress-ful) wordplay, Lette delights us all yet again. Read this and know you are in the hands of a wise feminist who makes...

NEW WORK BY CELEBRATED NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST NICHOLAS JOSE, SET AGAINST THE TURMOIL OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMOR Set in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead...

A new thriller from Barry Eisler featuring Japanese-American assassin John Rain

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

The number one bestselling author returns with an irresistible new standalone about the perils of burnout - and the joy that awaits when you set yourself free... Sasha is well...

The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now. Ever since the day her...

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Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick, And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of, Being slow. -...

Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the midst of the Great Depression. Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie...