Modern Fiction - Secondhand

WINNER, Australian /Vogel Literary Award SHORTLISTED, Western Australian Fiction Award SHORTLISTED, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Award Diana Kooper runs from a car crash in the heart of Sydney,...

It's their party... Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he's still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she...

A novel of great strength and imagination, The Lonely Hunter is a journey into evil and redemption by one of Australia's most original and passionate writers. A novel of great...

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The...

No.1 bestselling writer Josephine Cox is 'hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson' ( Manchester Evening News ). Love Me or Leave Me is...

'Brilliant and unforgettable' Karen Russell 'A tantalising and satisfying mystery' Claire Fuller 'Mind-bending and soul-altering' Jessamine Chan 'An unputdownable book with a haunting twist' Angie Kim 'Mesmerising' Publisher's Weekly 'An...

'Finished in one sitting. Had no idea where it was going but knew there was something lurking. Incredible twist. Ends with a final lap of the ride when you think...

Have you ever imagined a different life? Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided? Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar? From much-loved, international bestseller...

Gayle and Sonya are a study in contrasts: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their very different lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively...

From the author of His Other House How far would you go to protect a child in danger? When a new family moves in next door, it takes Anna just...

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Evangelista's Fan 'goes on resonating in your memory after you have shut the book' Independent 'A master class in the art of...

Millie Cameron is not at all pleased when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo who recently died. She hardly knew her aunt and...

'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...

'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,...

Courting Catherine Catherine 'C.C.' Calhoun is determined to keep her family's estate, the Towers, in the family. The cost of maintaining the crumbling mansion is expensive, so when arrogant hotel...

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,...

If only they'd said no . . . Clementine is haunted by regret. It was just a barbeque. They didn't even know their hosts that well, they were friends of...

Grace Marchant marries Charles Bennett at the beginning of the second world war,and loses him before she has really begun to know him-or even herself. In the five years while...

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...

Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking in surprise. And yet...

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...

From Australia's foremost comic novelist comes a hilarious satire of the art world, based on a true story. From Australia's foremost comic novelist comes a hilarious satire of the art...

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...

Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail....

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....

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...

New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace , The Shark Net , Our Sunshine and Walking Ella . Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch,...

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...

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...

Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body...

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...

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...

1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best...

Rancher's Law One night in his arms changes everything... For Amelia Rose Grayson, there is only one love. And when Cal Hollister, a captain of detectives, is wounded, she's there...

Perfect lives. Perfect lies. The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil...

Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebire and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from...

With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a...

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It...

The new killer read from the author of Popcorn and Inconceivable One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday Times Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill... Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham,...

Set in an English seaside town, this bracing, funny crime novel begins with the murder of Marilyn Monroe; a beach donkey found with its throat cut. PI Grace Smith is...

Seven powerful, gripping short stories from bestselling author, Amanda Prowse. 'If you have not discovered Amanda Prowse yet you are in for a real treat... Full of incident and real...

' Breaking Point is raw, compelling, and ground-breaking; Coffey puts the life of working mothers under a microscope. To say I loved it is an understatement, I expect it will...