Modern Fiction - Secondhand

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,...

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The...

Paris, 1938. A shadow edges over Europe. Democratic forces are locked in struggle, while in Spain the war has already begun. Cristian Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is...

In Noonday , Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she...

Thirteen-year-old David is confused and staying in Bondi with his grandparents. His mum seems to have abandoned him to run off with her lover, and his grandfather, Jimmy, spends his...

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty, with unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat becomes the...

'Delicately balances the joy and pain of what it is to be human with love and humour... an impossibly beautiful story.' - Meredith Jaff Nessa keeps the world at arm's...

The book titled She Changes: A Goddess Myth for Modern Women by the author Teressa Mark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Krumnagel by the author Peter Ustinov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Maggie, 30, and Andrew, 32, have been together for eighteen months. It's a good relationship, and Andrew has recently made the decision to take up the offer of a new...

'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon....

Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She spends her time alone in the woods near her house - her safe place, until she finds the body of a young...

A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live...

What really happened at the Chateau?When Charlotte regains consciousness after an accident, she finds herself living a stranger's life. The previous five years are a blank, and her husband, Henri,...

'Before you fall in love, or find a dear friend, you should know: this is the day I will meet someone whose memory will touch my heart and change my...

Nadia moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan Wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Nadia...

Harbour Manning's life wasn't going to plan. After finding her boyfriend, Derek, between the thighs of another woman, she was forced to re evaluate her life. When an offer to...

Can the past show you the way home? With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters, Nella Martini has returned to the last place she wants to be...

An outstanding debut for readers of Jennifer Egan, Alice Hoffman and Anne Tyler, set in a Long Island community in the early 1970s. 'Nostalgic, utterly compelling and very, very cool......

On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edge of...

November 1917. When Austrian forces advance into Northern Italy, the aristocratic Spada family find their estate requisitioned by enemy soldiers. A cruel act of violence against a group of local...

Jacob's Folly tells the story of three people linked in the most unexpected of ways. Masha is a teenager born into an orthodox Jewish family, who longs to escape the...

Wyn Morrison's disastrous marriage to David is no more than a distant memory. Now in charge of bread making at the Queen Street Bakery in Seattle, she still works a...

The book titled The Dark Room by the author R K Narayan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Swami and Friends by the author R. K. Narayan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled An American Romance by the author Hans Koning. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

The book titled One True Thing by the author Anna Quindlen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Other Women: A Novel by the author Evelyn Lau. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Awarded the 1985 Goncourt Prize, this is more a political fable than an historical novel, concerning the rise to power of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti, the Great Emperor of China....

'Unconventional, highly readable, often very funny and strangely touching ... it's the kind of book you can't stop reading but don't want to finish.' Sue Gaisford, Financial Times The new...

Nariman is a widower who lives with his step-son and step-daughter, his dead wife's children from her previous marriage. Wanting to save his own daughter, Roxanna, from 'this house of...

An epic novel - grand, ambitious, romantic and tragic - set in Norway at the turn of the century. The novel centres around an extraordinary woman who bewitches everyone she...

The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn....

When lobbyist Faith Lockhart stumbles upon a corruption scheme at the highest levels of government, she becomes a dangerous witness who the most powerful men in the world will go...

The book titled Love Song by the author Andrew M Greeley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this groundbreaking novel, award-winning author Sandra Worth vibrantly brings to life the people's Queen, "Elizabeth the Good." Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her beloved father's dying wish has...

Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop...

From New York Times bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes the emotional follow-up to Archer's Voice , following Archer's troubled brother Travis. .................... Perhaps Travis Hale's past is riddled with regrets,...

Patrick Browning first sees Anne Fitzgerald in the British Museum, her head tilted, watching the beautiful frozen stone bodies of the Elgin Marbles. Both are young historians, and both have...

Jan Hardy is 33, widowed and short of money, but determined to make a success of her life for her children's sake. She has managed against the odds to acquire...