Modern Fiction - Secondhand

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times 'Moving and exhilarating' Spectator 'Evokes the messiness and fragility of everyday life...

Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He is promised an ally against his wife Indu, whom he regards with...

The book titled Portrait in Shadows by the author John Wainwright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled False Colours by the author Miriam Borgenicht. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A cry for help will tear a family apart... 'What a brilliant book - so many rollercoasters, emotional, funny and sad' Netgalley reviewer Another gripping and dramatic family drama from...

A young crofter from a Scottish island comes to the mainland in search of a wife. His life is turned ups ide down as he becomes involved with poachers, the...

After fearlessly ferrying Hurricanes and Spitfires in World War II, Tamara moves to the most westerly tip of Ireland to begin an intense affair with Niall, a charismatic Irishman. Niall...

The Death Dealer by Heather Graham Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer. Now, a new menace is stalking...

Adam Athelstan grows and sells-and sings to-very rare flowers.Where once the whim of the Hebrew God determined the fate of that tribe's greatest heroes, in Waxed Exceeding Mighty it is...

A tender and gorgeously written novel of a marriage in crisis in the tradition of Revolutionary Road, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD by Stephanie Bishop was an Australian bestseller...

Ian Paine has spent his life running away. He's drunk too much booze, taken too many reality warping drugs, gotten high too often to numb the painful memories of his...

The book titled One Thousand Stars and You by the author Isabelle Broom. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled War Machine by the author William Leonard Marshall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Con Man by the author Alfred Draper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Are love and devotion enough to create a happy family? When Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loved but also the chance to be a mother,...

The book titled Wild Justice by the author Lesley Grant-Adamson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Nathan Stein -- once an attractive, cultured lawyer -- has stipped into the dark world of his powerful father's corrupt practice. After one too many shady deals, he finds himself...

The million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller "To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it...

A dark, chilling and brilliantly written thriller set in the canyonlands of Utah. Thomas Harris territory, by a British writer Karen Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco psychologist, thought she understood...

CCC Kontum, a US Special Forces unit, runs top-secret cross border reconnaissance missions. The President denies their involvement, and the public are unaware of their existence. Any method is permissable,...

A romantic comedy with a twist from the bestselling author of Yes Man A heartwarming everyday tale of boy stalks girl... My name is Jason - and I have just...

In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed nearby is a regiment of Czech...

But when tyrannical patriarch Leo 'Big' Chao is found frozen to death in the family's meat freezer, scandalous events force the community to turn its attention to the three Chao...

The book titled Absolution by the author Olaf Olafsson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1994 Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996 a splendid, moving book - Andrew Riemer Born into a strict Christian family in Sydney...

Joan Collins to damned famous bases this riveting novel about a beautiful woman and a disastrous passion on her own marriage to Peter Holm.

Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage...

'Ghosts live in the sunshine too.' For most of her adult life, Laura has lived in the UK, her ties to her Brisbane upbringing all but severed. When her parents,...

One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide. Returning to the village where he grew...

Valerie Rochelle was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but as she grows up she is made to feel like an outsider always looking in at the perfect...

The book titled Call of the Lion by the author Christopher Sherlock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life. Mary...

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

Sweet, bookish Neve Slater always plays by the rules. And the number one rule is that good-natured fat girls like her don t get guys like gorgeous, handsome William, heir...

In the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouths the world help. Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic...

"We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us. Look around you and behold us in our greatness. Greatness is an African...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER- Can love outwit death? A heartbreaking epic story of two lives sustained by the memory of love THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A...

It is the summer of 1932, the year the Japanese conquered Manchuria, China's northeast region. Three children meet and become best friends for the summer, and blood brothers for a...

"The Dive from Clausen's Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things...

Two men, sworn enemies, come face to face on the battlefields of France.When Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a brave...

The book titled Larksleve by the author Patricia Wendorf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, "Williwaw" was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at 19 when he was first mate of a US Army freight supply...

Reminiscent of the novels of Milan Kundera and Nabokov this is the mesmerising, universal story of what happens to our dreams when we grow up. Stepping out into the dusk...

Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne...