20th Century History

Sort by:
A Daughter's Return

A Daughter's Return

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
A compelling family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk...
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson: A Novel

The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson: A Novel

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
A special paperback edition with colored sprayed edges of this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make. "A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as...
The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country

$34.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
The new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times 'Incredibly moving and hopeful' Nadifa Mohamed 'Remarkable'...
Engagement

Engagement

$42.99 AUD$36.54 AUD
A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do....
The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel

The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and...
The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
The latest novel by twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices...
Circus of Mirrors

Circus of Mirrors

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A dazzling tale of love, courage and sisterhood, spanning 40 years of tumult in Berlin, perfect for fans of Cabaret and The Whalebone Theatre. Berlin, 1926. After the death of...
London Fields

London Fields

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' Independent Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face,...
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producer Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in...
No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of

No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of

$24.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature - No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction. 'A masterpiece of hurt' New York Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
A History of Burning

A History of Burning

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko- one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER...
The List of Suspicious Things

The List of Suspicious Things

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
The instant Sunday Times bestseller ***SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER*** THE BIGGEST DEBUT LAUNCH OF 2024 'Such a fresh and interesting voice. You'll cry and you won't be able to...
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir

The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart. The lost novel from the author...
Scaffolding

Scaffolding

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...elegant, original and often very funny' Kevin...
Juno Loves Legs

Juno Loves Legs

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Set in 1980s Dublin, the heart-breaking story of a once-in-a-lifetime friendship, for readers of Shuggie Bain, My Brilliant Friend and Just Kids Juno loves Legs. She always has, ever since...
Black Cake: THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW DISNEY+

Black Cake: THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW DISNEY+

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
As featured on Obama's Summer 2022 Reading list and the instant No. 2 New York Times bestseller; which spans sixty years in the life of one Caribbean/American family Eleanor Bennett...
Pnin

Pnin

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart...
The Florence Sisters

The Florence Sisters

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
' Beautiful ...Tessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' 'Oh my goodness...this book was so unputdownable ...will never be...
The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

$9.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women become transfixed by an advertisement...
The Only Suspect: A 'twisting, seductive, ingenious' thriller from the

The Only Suspect: A 'twisting, seductive, ingenious' thriller from the

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Winner of the Fingerprint Award for Thriller of the Year THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE, JEALOUSY AND DECEPTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE AND...
The Florence Sisters

The Florence Sisters

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
' Beautiful ...Tessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' 'Oh my goodness...this book was so unputdownable ...will never be...
The Namesake

The Namesake

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy...
The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

$9.99 AUD$6.00 AUD
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women become transfixed by an advertisement...
The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

The Enchanted April (Collins Classics)

$9.99 AUD$8.49 AUD
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women become transfixed by an advertisement...
Idle Grounds

Idle Grounds

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The riveting debut novel 'Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER 'Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way' RACHEL...
An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation

An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee's debut novel An Ocean Apart...
Where They Lie: The thrillingly atmospheric debut from an exciting new voice in crime fiction

Where They Lie: The thrillingly atmospheric debut from an exciting new voice in crime fiction

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong' SUNDAY TIMES...
The Promise

The Promise

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Winner of the Booker Prize 2021 - discover the powerful story of a family in crisis. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Discover the Sunday Times bestselling story of a...
Scaffolding

Scaffolding

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in...
Confessions

Confessions

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices - how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...' It...
The Berry Pickers

The Berry Pickers

$24.99 AUD
A novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of...
London Fields

London Fields

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Vintage classics presents Martin Amis' London Trilogy- Money, London Fields and The Information WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and...
Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six

$24.99 AUD
'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band' REESE WITHERSPOON SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH...
The Paper Man

The Paper Man

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

$24.99 AUD
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'I...
The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4

The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Escape to the ocean this summer with the Costa Book of the Year 2020 Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year...
The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

$24.99 AUD
Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters. 'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy...
The Paper Palace

The Paper Palace

$24.99 AUD
A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim...
Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends

$24.99 AUD
The story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern...
London Fields

London Fields

$24.99 AUD
'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' Independent Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face,...
Dubliners

Dubliners

$24.99 AUD
A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...
Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

$24.99 AUD
Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
This beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Secret Garden is unabridged and includes 8 illustrations by Charles Robinson. When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of...
The Namesake

The Namesake

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan...
Teddy

Teddy

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
The Lost Orphan

The Lost Orphan

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Pam WeaverFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Three sisters torn apart by war. Can fighting for peace bring them together again? December 1941:...