Modern Fiction - Secondhand

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...

'A brilliant book' - Mary Wesley, Daily Mail 'She is simply dynamite ... There are no apparent bounds to Trapido's skill, her inventiveness and her knowledge' - Philip Hensher, Guardian...

'The day our child was conceived, someone else arrived. She was there as the cells fused, like a ghost.' Richard and Lelia's child is conceived in a moment of giggling...

Angry, funny, controversial and unpredictable, Incendiary will be one of the most talked-about books of 2005. Not since Alex Garland's The Beach has a debut novel used such compulsive storytelling...

It's the late 1950s, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at...

'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' So...

At just another drinks party that he very nearly chose not to go to, Jeremy catches sight of Maria and is instantly allured by the frisson of sexual excitement. His...

Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions...

Playing With Fire - a game for adults in which there are no winners, only losers Three couples, friends and neighbours... Tom, lazy and charming, looks after the children and...

New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart presents a captivating contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Robyn Carr, Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy. Some of Lucy Sinclair's best days...

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will...

The older Owen siblings - Ellen and Morris - long ago left behind their gracious family home in Alabama in favour of the northeast. But when they learn that their...

Aasha Rani, the unrivalled number one of Bombay cinema, seems intent on ruining her career - and her life - blinded by a scorching passion that threatens to destroy everything...

The second novel from the author of 'Mosquito'. Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage. Her eldest son, Jacob, wants...

The book titled Life Force by the author Fay Weldon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Cha in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they...

The spectacular new thriller from the author of bestselling Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, featuring an unstoppable female scientist. 'The Danish author is back on form in this literary thriller'...

He's on the naughty list! The Season To Sin - Clare Connelly Storming into psychologist Holly Scott-Leigh's life, bad boy billionaire Noah Moore is so hot he leaves Holly breathless...

From the bestselling authors of Gucci Mamas and Versace Sisters. From the bestselling authors of Gucci Mamas and Versace Sisters. Country girl Jess has lost so much in the past...

A Patriot In Berlin is the dramatic story of Berlin after the fall of the Wall, and Moscow after Gorbachev - of love, faith and patriotism in conflict. Berlin, August...

Inspector Konrad Sejer returns on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway. Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian town, thinks that his life is...

Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others' existence. They live in...

In her next heart-pounding novel of passion, danger, temptation, and adventure, New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah returns to the story of Midnight. Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to...

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of...

Moscow, the Cold War, 1961. Stalin has been dead for eight years. With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. Former CIA agent...

WINNER OF A 2013 indieBRAG MEDALLION. England 1469. Elizabeth Hardacre loves her father, a friend and ally of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful man in England. Held as...

Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited...

The book titled Book by the author Veronica Henry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Powerful' J OANNA GLEN 'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER 'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREY The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg ....

Towards the end of WWII, an S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders that thirty-seven Poles be shot - one...

Milly Lockwood Groves is stuck at her parents' racing stables and stud farm outside Newmarket, her dreams of making it as a champion jockey in tatters. Her father has forbidden...

Beau Rosenwald - overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic - arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By...

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the...

Claudia has always been independent - own flat, absorbing job, a husband so devoted he is almost a housewife. Until she finds herself an abruptly and uneasily liberated woman. Steve...

Ten years ago, Louise Hunter's life was torn apart by tragedy. Her husband, Ben, killed himself; her brother-in-law, Jacob, was murdered; and her sister, Susan, abandoned her new-born daughter, revealing...

Liona is looking back over her life. She's been a witness to Australia's twentieth century, more than a witness - a participant - and not always a willing one. There...

Na Ga was always in search of a better life. So why is she stuck in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border? Before her...

Nature has the power to restore us, but can it wash away our darkest truths? Set amid the red dust and heat of the Australian Kimberley wet season and the...

In the midpoint of her life, an unnamed woman visits a series of hotel rooms. They are in Avignon, Prague, Oslo, Auckland, Austin - but they could be anywhere: each...

In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations of families. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood...

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he...

It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more...

They're back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet. Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford,...

In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home. Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They...

When Kenneth Earl advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, Maggie -- the final candidate -- is his last hope. What he doesn't know, however,...