Modern Fiction (post 1945)

From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance The story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts. Katharine Tempest is a world-famous...

A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making...

It takes just six days and nights to cross the Atlantic on a luxury liner, but during that time, lives can be changed forever. Amidst the seething melting pot of...

A wickedly funny look at finding the perfect mate in an imperfect world. Stephanie had a rat of a husband. But after thirteen years of marriage and two kids, she...

Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter Family is...

A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies...

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing...

The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form...

From every girl's best friend, and the bestselling author of Sweet Temptation and The Year of Taking Chances, Lucy Diamond "Romantic, dreamy and fun, this is perfect poolside reading" Closer...

Preparing dinner for her husband's colleagues, tipsy, and listening to a woman complain about domestic slavery on the radio, Helen Robbins begins to stare hard at the peas. For thirteen...

All dogs go to heaven... unless they have unfinished business here on earth...Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray...

For Sean Courtney, veteran guerrilla fighter and professional warrior, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro...

A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with...

When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events with tragic results.

If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of...

After a long and happy marriage, Frances is suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steven has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged...

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when...

Will she ever uncover the secrets about her past? From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a brand new look for this compulsive, heart-wrenching read. A house on fire. A...

A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE 'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS 'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES , Book of the Year 'I can't think of another author who...

Ashleigh and George have never met. But they're about to... Ashleigh and George haven't met yet , but Ashleigh knows a lot of things about George. She knows he loves...

A delightful tale of an elephant handler written by Patrick O'Brian when a very young man. HUSSEIN tells the story of a young mahout - or elephant handler - his...

In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a...

The heroine of this novel is Nannerl Mozart, the forgotten sister of a genius. As a child, she had played for the royal courts of Europe with her brother, yet...

Pamela Drury is in crisis. Although she's travelled the world, has an award-winning career, and owns real estate, she feels she's missed the boat to love and happiness. Whatever happened...

The short stories and one longer story in this collection from Australian literary legend Tom Shapcott range in time and place from Queensland's Sunshine Coast to Adelaide to Slovenia. They...

The tensions and complexities of 1970s South Africa are brought vividly to life in this dark and powerful literary thriller Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband...

When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. Keen to settle into his first real job and make a good impression he embraces the working life...

The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, grow up with the world at their feet. Born into the great Lytton publishing empire, they are rich and admired, with a confidence...

From the acclaimed bestselling author of" The Piano Shop on the Left Bank," a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young...

It is 1905 and brothers Yung and Shun eke out a living as greengrocers in Wellington's bustling Chinatown. Recently-arrived immigrants, the pair must support their families back home in China,...

Movie star, Lara, can have any man she wants. How can small-time actor, Joey, convince her that she wants him? Lara is to star in Nikki's film - Nikki is...

An astonishing first novel set in a world where 99 per cent of the population are werewolves Lola Galley is used to doing things she doesn't want. She certainly doesn't...

'A raunchy comic novel from a contemporary master of sexual imbroglios' Observer Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women....

Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to proclaim their innocence in this psychologically riveting and compulsively readable novel of love, lies, and...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

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