Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Ginger is forty-seven and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. It's too late for her to have a baby of her own, so she tries to persuade...

**WINNER OF THE PRECIOUS LIFESTYLE MUST READ OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018** 'This will creep its way under your skin and stay there long after you finish the final few...

A compelling and deeply moving novel of friendship, family and the power of love, from the Sunday Times top ten bestseller. b> ow would you cope with the threat of...

Winner, 2016 Stella Prize Co-winner, 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winner, Fiction Book of the Year, 2016 Indie Awards Winner, 2016 Indie Book of the Year Award Shortlisted, 2016 Miles...

The breakout Australian bestseller that was shortlisted for the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice...

Shortlisted for THE AGE Book of the Year. 'Pacy, exciting and often unexpectedly moving storytelling.' THE AUSTRALIAN 'Is this all?' That's the question Joan asks as she surveys her neat,...

Brand new healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library set in a suburban community block DISCOVER THE BRAND NEW NOVEL...

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer...

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 DESTINATION READ OF THE YEAR. Your paradise awaits ... Travel far enough and you might just find yourself - on the world's most remote tropical island 'I can't think...

For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic 'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. Meet Grace Adams- an ordinary wife and mother collecting the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. But look...

THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about what a perfect life can look like Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own...

It's nobody's affair . . . until it's everybody's. The explosive new novel from the author of international bestseller The Push The whispers started long before the accident on Harlow...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe...

The beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling romance from the international bestseller One single mum With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. But it's hard on your...

'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book Review Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the...

The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson- 'Masterpiece' - Telegraph; 'Pageturner' - Evening Standard; 'Wise, funny and paced like a thriller' - Observer The magnificent novel...

A perfect getaway to a beautiful, remote hotel turns deadly in this claustrophobic, pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Shari Lapena. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER...

From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set in the 19th century Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives- joyous and...

A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and two clashing cultures, from the Booker-shortlisted author; now a Penguin Essential 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her...

'Compelling, clever and dark . . . you'll gobble it up in one go' Heat Magazine She knew everything about him - but the truth. Alice and Oliver Ryan seem...

The no.1 bestseller's fan favourite Walsh sister novel is back, in a stunning reissue edition Meet Anna Walsh. Lying in her parents' Good Front Room, covered in bandages, Anna dreams...

'This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and...

Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations. Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE- An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and power LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

Philip K. Dick's cult novel - now in an official tie-in edition to accompany the new TV series Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War......

An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys was a talent before her...

Britain's favourite 21st-century literary author returns to her roots - London Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their...

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English...

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES 'This book is a...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

'Epic ... Mukherjee allows full life for these characters who are often real enough to remind us of ourselves, even as they betray one another ... even as they betray...

A gruesome case just got personal. DCI Jack Hawksworth returns in a gripping crime thriller where he must navigate the treacherous depths of one of London's most sinister black markets....

WINNER OF THE PATRICK WHITE LITERARY AWARD Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but...

On the heels of his exceptional and white-hot debut novel, The Returned, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott delivers a spellbinding tale of love, sacrifice and the power of...

Jazzy Lou is back and busier than ever! Queen Bee, her fabulous PR firm, is going from strength to strength with an ever-expanding roster of clients, including the hottest new...

Everything about them seemed atavistic, elemental-wild hair matted like savages, jutting shoulders and collarbones, sharply angular limbs. The movement and wonder were captured and held in suspense, eternally. And in...

Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better...

The dress haunts my steps. Flashes of red on the street mesmerise me. I am alive to red cars, red shoes and the red of Suella's lipstick. It is silken...

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I...

A stunning collection of works by Stephen Crane whom H.G. Wells called "the best writer of our generation The best-known work by famed American writer Stephen Crane, The Red Badge...

Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers--alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy--except that they live in an institution for juveniles...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal 'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and...

'GORGEOUS and original and captivating' - Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Grown Ups 'A breathtaking book about relationships, love and human resilience' - Lex Croucher, author of Reputation 'Original,...