Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Rachele Luzzato is 12 years old when she learns her father is seriously ill. While her family are looking forward to her Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele's teachers happen to cast her as...

During the 1980s, Jack Kelly was a celebrity broadcaster and successful novelist. His life in the public eye allowed him a privileged position which few experienced, with access to select...

Twilight in Kuta explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives, their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of...

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered...

Britain is leaving the European Union. Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Palmyra's monuments have been destroyed by ISIS. The Antarctic shelf is breaking up. The warnings,...

Marina has the life she always dreamed of. She is married to Mark, a gorgeous surgeon, writes a personal column for a leading tabloid and lives in the heart of...

All's fair in love and war? Depends on who's making the rules. Harry Watling has spent the past five years keeping her father's boat yard afloat, despite its dying clientele....

This is the story of a third section band, Harden Moss Silver. Harden Moss is a village just west of Holmfirth on the Yorkshire side of the Pennines. The story...

"A haunting, masterful work."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Plain but precocious Alma has taken up residence with a group of teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo.

Lindsay Gordon mystery flavored with the trade union politics of contemporary England.

Horses and women have always shared a bond. Why else do little girls plaster their schoolbooks with pony pictures? Why do women spend weekends devotedly mucking out paddocks? Or willingly...

Highly innovative, personal and idiosyncratic; Lurie's poetic use of language tells the story of a man whose daughter commits suicide and how he deals with it. Lurie has been compared...

This award winning book has been described as the 'renaissance of Vietnamese literature'. Written by a young woman in her twenties at the end of an era when Vietnam closed...

The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in...

Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History,...

The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner up to the Duetz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana book awards. Stephanie is visiting her cousin Louise, who has had...

'Chemistry is a work of quietly cumulative power - an absorbing and morally eloquent look at the small decisions and accidents that turn each life, a book that is wonderfully...

In need of some quick cash when he returns to Brisbane after years in London, Josh whores himself to his brother's PR firm and inadvertently becomes part of 'the fix'....

A page-turning, wicked romp of bitchy one-upmanship and competition wrapped in a hilarious, satirical bow A page-turning, wicked romp of bitchy one-upmanship and competition wrapped in a hilarious, satirical bow....

John Wells is a CIA agent who has been in deep cover for years with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan - living, training and fighting, and even converting to Islam. When...

'Some men don't fall in love; they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night...' When American journalist Michael...

Bennett jogs along the country bitumen an anxious man, his CRETE hat guarding against the magpie's deadly swoop. Who is he, where has Jasmine gone, why is he overwhelmed by...

Albert Lippincott is a thirty-year veteran of the Nestor New York Post Office - a letter carrier extraordinaire, aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But Albert has a few things to hide....

Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel. As Cecelia lies ill in bed, and her family valiantly make their Christmas preparations in the knowledge that she...

A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES, as haunting and evocative as HEAVENLY CREATURES Margaret Rose Bennett,...

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of...

Peter, Katarina and August three emotionally damaged children in Biehl s experimental school are all borderliners, under assessment by the authorities to determine their futures. Either they will be integrated...

A contender for the Grisham/Turow market; an 'urban Cape Fear' in which an ambitious New York lawyer, just as he is reaching the peak of his career, finds everything he...

A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is...

'They like it if you're marvellous for your age. If you can't be that, they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.' So says...

Exactly ten days after I'd come back to care for my dad, it occurred to me that I had turned into a housewife. Not just any housewife. My mother. Kill...

Celeste is thirteen years old. The only thing that really matters to her is the wild animals of her homeland - the Laurentian Mountains in Canada - which are dying...

Can a mother ever give up hope? Janine wants her child to live a normal life full of adventure, so she lets her precious daughter go on her first overnight...

Can a mother ever give up hope? Janine wants her child to live a normal life full of adventure, so she lets her precious daughter go on her first overnight...

What would you do if faced with an impossible choice? The emotional family drama for fans of Amanda Prowse and Jodi Picoult Your best friend has suffered a devastating brain...

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink...

A heart-breaking and heart-warming novel about family, home and finding one's place in the world. Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother...

The Secret History meets Daddy's Girls as four old schoolfriends reunite after fifteen years in this sizzling blockbuster. You can't run away from your past... Anita, Zeba, Bubbles and Sam...

THREE SOULS. TWO THOUSAND YEARS. ONE TRUTH. A worldwide conspiracy thriller for the millions of fans of The Da Vinci Code who've been left thirsting for more... Just one man...