Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold...

Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic...

A startling, subversive novel about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Fourteen-year-old Lucia is a young narrator whose voice will long ring in your ears....

When offering to drive her brother to Byron Bay to escape the bitter Blue Mountains winter, Sidney neglects to mention her planned detour to the small coastal town of Watercolour...

This "original, unexpected, and gripping" (Jojo Moyes) novel from bestselling author Richard Madeley features a young woman studying criminal psychology who finds herself going from the glamorous inner circle of...

Etta's tiny dress shop might stand on a seemingly ordinary Cambridge street, but the vibrant racks of beaded silks and jewel-toned velvets possess a bewitching power to awaken a woman's...

With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a do-anything-to-succeed real estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain...but her life is empty....

Elliott is something of a genius. More than that, Elliott is an ideal friend, and to know him is to adore him. But few people do know Elliott, because he...

New York, 1976. Sixty-six-year-old Salvo Ursari stands 400 metres above the earth, suspended on a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He has promised his...

The short story has been the forte of distinguished New Zealand writers from Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson through to fresh young talents such as Eleanor Catton and Craig Cliff....

Sometimes serendipity comes knocking, and life leads us to the most surprising places ... It's never too late to find your true self. While very pretty, the tiny town of...

A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die. A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit...

The day Daisy accidentally flushes her engagement ring down the toilet she decides this could be a very bad omen for her marriage. Her husband Tom, once a successful business...

Rock Star International bestselling sensation Jackie Collins, "the queen of glamour fiction" (San Antonio Express-News) captures the raw, electric thrill of life in the spotlight in this pulse-pounding novel. Three...

Owner of the luxurious and exclusive Keyscomplex in Las Vegas, Lucky Santangelo comes up against Armet Askarani, a ruthless billionaire middle-easterner potentate with three wives, who has little regard for...

'Nicholson is a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name . . . [with] his remarkable eye for detail and for the weaknesses of human nature'...

Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back into her life. Suddenly passion and excitement are...

Abena wants a career. Natalya wants an oligarch. Tara just wants to party. When a billionaire lothario invites best friends Tara and Abena to stay on a super-yacht in St...

' Such a brilliant book, Victoria has done it again. So unputdownable!!! ' Reader review Sun, sea and secrets... A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just...

The fairytale ending was just the beginning... Jessie Woods absolutely believes in fairytale endings. So would you if you had a recession-proof career as a daredevil TV host, a palatial...

Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is P.A to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair....

In the middle of a city, in a deserted apartment block, a woman lives, alone. She has just fifty days to complete her self-imposed task. Bustling into her apartment each...

Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences...

Damani is tired. Every day she cares for her mum, drives ride shares to pay the bills and is angry at a world that promised her more before spitting her...

'Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark... A one-sitting read.' Andrea Mara _____________________________ When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is...

'Loved it!... I found myself wishing Clove Lore was a real place so I could live there !' Reader Review Can she write her perfect love story? Austen Archer is...

The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times -bestselling author of Pachinko . 'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance' NEW YORK TIMES . Casey...

WHAT IF IT WAS SOMEONE YOU KNEW? 'Utterly engrossing . . . I lived inside this book for two days - and I'm still thinking about it. Superb !' Shari...

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in...

A gripping stand-alone thriller from bestselling author James Patterson St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. The world is watching as massive crowds...

Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences...

Detective Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law. Until now. Charged with murdering followers of his old nemesis Gary Soneji, Alex Cross becomes the poster...

Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play- the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife ....

It starts with a lie. One small lie to get everything he wants. But one lie leads to another, and another. Caught in his own web of deception, how can...

It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't. It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others. Nick Wheatley has finished high...

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction It's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to...

As the resourceful, relentless Li tracks her lost daughter across a disintegrating country, the journey will test the limits of her trust, her hope and her love. Unsheltered will leave...

'It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a native son, peacock proud of a...