Secondhand Fiction Paperback Books

The 20th anniversary edition of the multi-million copy bestseller! 'Wistful, touching and funny' Mail on Sunday 'Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns' Express 'A sharp, witty and wise book straight from...

FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed...

Anna lives in a flat with dad. He is a hoarder, and together they have spent the last 12 years constructing the Insomnia Museum, a labyrinth built from dead TVs,...

In order to spend more time with her four-year-old son Ned, Clara Costello trades in her secure, well-paid job and two-seater sports car for a camper van called Winnie, and...

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they...

From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife...

Under the midnight sun of Arctic Norway, Cecilie goes online looking for friends, and stumbles across Hector Herrera. They start chatting and soon realise that 'love at first word' might...

'Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2016Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river - the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she'd been stuck...

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions...

In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders August 9th,...

One of the bestselling books of the 21st century with over 6 million copies sold. Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters. Available now.I tattooed...

*The hilarious new novel from Abbi Waxman - I WAS TOLD IT WOULD GET EASIER - is available now*Abbi Waxman's charming novel follows introvert and bookworm Nina Hill as she...

Can the festive cheer warm her heart again?October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime, Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. Engaged to her airman sweetheart Charlie, living in...

Charlie Mortdecai is a louche art dealer with some distinctly dubious friends in the London underworld and some great connections to the British upper classes. He features in the three...

Love lessons from A -- Z A is for Affection -- between childhood best friends; between their parents; between brothers and sisters. B is for Brokenhearted - Natalie when the...

'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion' Steve McQueen, director of Small Axe East of Acre Lane is the fast-paced and razor sharp story of a young...

THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER'Dazzling, astoundingly inventive' The Times'Wild, richly satisfying' Guardian'Terrific' Spectator_______________San Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened -...

'A terrific future-shock thriller' LEE CHILD. What if the person you're ordered to kill Is the woman you want to protect? Michael North, assassin and spy-for-hire, is very good at...

Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco,...

Sheila O'Flanagan's MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a thought-provoking and unputdownable novel about a family reeling from the news that nothing about their parents' marriage is what they believed it to...

This major new novel will follow the adventures of Richard Sharpe in India, begun so excitingly in Sharpe's Tiger and culminating in the Battle of Assaye, which Wellington considered his...

In 1999, Sinan is caught up in everyday problems. Despite hardships, he must be a role model for his nine-year-old son Ysmail, who is preparing for his coming-of-age ceremony. Meanwhile...

'Fans of Marian Keyes will love Lucy Robinson's giggle-inducing humour and relatable characters. With a twist that will leave you speechless, this is a must' GlamourTWO GOOD FRIENDS. TWO BIG...

'Wickedly smart and shamelessly funny' Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians 'Sinfully good' Elin Hilderbrand Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the...

Oxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend of the...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas, Catherine,...

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Costa Novel of the Year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classic.We don't want to tell you too much about this...

With the men missing in action, can the Bomber Girls find a way to bring them home?Pearl, Thea and Jenny fling themselves into making Fenthorpe as festive as it can...

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home...

Can an ordinary girl dare to be different? The compelling new bestseller from Birmingham's Queen of Fiction Janet is determined to make something of herself, instead of being chained to...

The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high...

A tale of war, death, lust, and scheming, set in the starkly beautiful landscapes of medieval Ireland and Wales.Robert FitzStephen is a warrior down on his luck. Arrogant, cold, but...

A hilarious tale of divorce and dating from the No.1 bestselling author of The Christmas Invitation. Perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Carole Matthews First comes marriage. Then comes...

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left home and her father for dreams of art school and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A mighty achievement' OCEAN VUONG 'Beautiful, brilliant' R. F. KUANG 'Dazzling' OBSERVER 'Will shatter your heart' GLAMOUR 'Powerful' SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story...

This is Jim Fraser's story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' (Scotsman), a writer with an 'exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling'...

The Winter of Second Chances is the hilarious, heart-warming second book from the author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Jenny Bayliss.'A gorgeous, cosy winter read that will transport you...

Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room, a dark, compelling story of human desire, wartime horror...

Henzey is no ordinary factory girl Henzey Kite can't believe it when Billy Watts walks into her life. A cut above the local boys - strong, charming and wildly ambitious...

A breathtaking novel from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta FornaLONGLISTED FOR JHALAK PRIZE 2019Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American...

AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus - once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube - believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in...

'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' ObserverSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older...