Modern Fiction - Secondhand

Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London, a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. Bron develops a fascination with the symbolist artist Paul Marotte, and uses his passionate...

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission...

'The Pesthouse finds the author not just on his own best form, but arguably the best form any English writer has shown in the last couple of years' Spectator A...

An episode of Porn Disco, the latest luxury Dermo Shower, a day s work at the Security Department and fistfuls of drugs- this is the daily life of Jensen Interceptor,...

A sharply humorous and fast paced first novel about the effects - some predictable, some widly unexpected - that an encounter at gunpoint have on a previously assured young woman....

Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London's hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of...

Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997- New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry,...

The sparkling, witty and enormously enjoyable new novel from the author of Asking for Trouble Caught up to anywhere you care to name with other people's dramas, Harriet has no...

From one of Australia's hottest writers comes a brooding novel of suspense and dark secrets, retribution and rock 'n roll. From one of Australia's hottest writers comes a brooding novel...

Old friends can become the worst of enemies... Perfect escapism for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jilly Cooper. Cat fears she is past her prime. Her philandering husband, Ivan, who...

This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who grew up in a small town outskirts of Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to an unhappy adulthood. When circumstances offer Brogan a...

When a teenager runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that connects a cast of six characters who narrate Wonder Valley. There's Ren,...

A young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel to find a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money next to him, with only the haziest...

Here, by the highly acclaimed and bestselling author of Eucalyptus, is the perfect gem of a Christmas gift. The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an...

Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst...

A dark and compelling work by a new voice in Australian - and world - literary fiction A nomad swallows poison and drowns himself. Resuscitated by a paramilitary bandit named...

AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 _______________ 'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR 'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT ' In enviably elegant prose, she manages...

A thrilling new suspense novel from the bestselling author of The Perfect Murder that fans of Jayne Ann Krentz and Laura Griffin won't want to miss! A cold case is...

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways,...

In the follow-up to the 'bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful' (NYTBR) bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less , the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America....

It's 1969, and Judith "Denny" Denham has just begun an affair with Dr. Ernest Wright, a psychology professor at Wellspring University, who just happens to be her boss. Meanwhile, Ernest's...

A collection of short stories that veer from the psychological to the slapstick, and from surrealism to satire. This collection covers 16 stories which flaunt Boyle's astonishing range. There are...

The book titled La Divina by the author Anne Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sally Quinn's richest, wisest book yet--the story of two extraordinary women who've had it all and want more: real love, real passion, real commitment, the best of life beyond the...

The book titled Lovelock Version by the author Maurice Shadbolt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Indie Brown and her sensitive and steadfast partner, Peter, have escaped Indie's terrible past, moving far away from her parents to a happy life in the backwoods of Maine. But...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013 As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two...

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma. Now, almost 150 years later,...

When Mel Snow meets Toby Warring in a roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant magician whose hands pull poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out...

From the internationally bestselling author of "Kane and Abel" and "A Prisoner of Birth" comes "Only Time Will Tell," the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story...

The dazzling new book from one of Britain's best-selling novelists A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only stolen kisses as a substitute. A...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A Sunday Times Book of the Year A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced- a senior civil...

Pat Barker returns to the First World War in this dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship War evokes memories that many would soon...

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable- her subconscious is turning against her, her soul...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

The Man Booker-longlisted novel explores how each of us conjures up our own city. Every city is made of stories: stories that meet and diverge, stories of the commonplace and...

The book titled Tomorrow Jerusalem by the author Teresa Crane. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The team's exploits on and off the court will appeal to sporty girls and girls who love friendship stories. Since Bree joined the All Stars netball team, people have started...

'A luminous, magical coming-of-age novel'Marie Claire 'Maybe everything that had happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But...

1989. Severin Boxx is the seventeen-year-old son of an Air Force pilot who lives on a military base in Japan. He loves -- from afar -- Virginia Kindwall, the daughter...

Sent to France to finish her education, Clare Springer falls in love with a French aristocrat, whose family reject her as unsuitable. At the outbreak of war, Clare becomes involved...

Only the power of a women's love and strength of a man's ideals can withstand the lure of gold glory...