Second-Hand Fiction

This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Used - Good: Average used wo…

Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? T…

This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Used - Good: Average used wo…

The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village August 1957. Lewis Aldridge, straight ou…

Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don't forget them. She is like that. She is crossing continents, searching for her missing child.Everyone she comes into contact with has a tale to tell: the truck driver who mi…

An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile.Radicalised…

The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. …

Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better.Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls…

Aisling is 29 and she’s still a complete Aisling. After a tough year, things between herself and John are back on track, and life with Sadhbh and Elaine in their notiony Dublin apartment is more craic than ever. But when a shock c…

Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled.But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering.Because when you're recovering from a broken heart and struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-wi…

In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unabl…

The gripping sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Girl, Missing. It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren, as exam pressure and a recent family tragedy tak…

All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see (and love) someone for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout. I know the part I want to play here at MVB High.I want to be the gir…

New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play - that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world…

Don Tillman has got his love life planned out. He knows exactly who he wants, but is it who he needs? Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date.So h…

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since her parents died. But this time, or so says her note, she's gone for good.There's Been a Little Incident is an award-winning debut about grief, family and the people who a…

Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and …

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.John's past torments him as he nears his end.The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scar…

'My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was...' This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and darkly funny narrator is an Irish o…

Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are p…

Can a holiday change your life? A sparkling new novel about family, friendship and future plans from bestselling author Muriel Bolger. Young, clever and accomplished, Anne is fully committed to her career at her father's law pract…

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," has suffered beyond ima…

This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying th…

Prep meets The Virgin Suicides in a haunting coming-of-age story for the digital generation and an examination of the hypocrisy of small town life, where no one quite knows where rumour ends and truth begins'A provocative and time…

The Sunday Times bestseller The Postmistress by Sarah Blake is a heart-rending and profoundly moving story of love and loss in World War II. It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American…

This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Used - Good: Average used wo…

Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace - an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of Engl…

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagin…

Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of …

David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2…