Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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#NLD The Wong Way to Marry

#NLD The Wong Way to Marry

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Your ordinary, average, suburban, extended, post-war immigrant Chinese family - steeped in tradition and old-fashioned family values. This is Lillie's story - their second daughter. Feisty, independent and unlike her...
Dream Angus: The Celtic God Of Dreams

Dream Angus: The Celtic God Of Dreams

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Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams - you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of...
Within Fallen Light

Within Fallen Light

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Abigail, visiting her parents in a lost corner of Australia, discovers a mystery and a conspiracy spanning a century and more. But there is more in the balance than simply...
The Long Delirious Burning Blue

The Long Delirious Burning Blue

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THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED ' You and me against the world, you used to sing. In the days before it...
The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

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Continuously available in print since 1969, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook...
The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

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Continuously available in print since 1969, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook...
Celestial Bodies

Celestial Bodies

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Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of...
Max Gate

Max Gate

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The story of Thomas Hardy's death told by his housemaid Nellie. 1928. As Thomas Hardy lies on his death bed at his Dorset home, Max Gate, a tug-of-war is taking...
Octavio's Journey

Octavio's Journey

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The story of Venezuela told through the adventures of kindly giant, Octavio. Struggling to conceal his illiteracy, he embarks on a transformative journey that unearths his life's purpose. Winner of...
The Great and the Good

The Great and the Good

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Arthur Morgan travels to New York in the 1950s. He encounters gilded youth, the rich and eccentric, and is invited to the White House. He succeeds in meeting the great...
Someone I Loved

Someone I Loved

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How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...
Someone I Loved

Someone I Loved

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How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...
Before and During

Before and During

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Set in a dementia ward in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal setting into a series of fantastical...
Who's Who in Hell

Who's Who in Hell

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Uproariously funny and achingly moving, this is a gripping debut novel about the Towards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In...
Fine Salt

Fine Salt

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In her award-winning debut, Sally Finn is concerned with the big picture beyond the constructs of plot and character. She questions life, the nature and meaning of it, the undercurrents...
Heaven & Earth

Heaven & Earth

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Wraith

Wraith

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The long-awaited novel by the acclaimed author of "Fabulous Nobodies". Berenger, a nineteen-year-old supermodel nicknamed The Wraith, is found dead in her New York apartment, and it looks like murder....
Under The Influence

Under The Influence

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The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. Eve Hardy is exactly where she wants to be in...
Beyond the Pale

Beyond the Pale

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In 1839 John Harrington voyages 12,000 miles from Ireland into the unknown to take up a sheep-run in the southern regions of Australia. From a distinguished family of Anglo-Irish aristocrats...
The House of Balthus

The House of Balthus

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Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 a vivid and engrossing novel. Patricia Rolfe, Bulletin...
Nomad

Nomad

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Small Ceremonies

Small Ceremonies

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You Drive Me Crazy

You Drive Me Crazy

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Whether you've been in love for ten weeks or ten years, you know how crazy it can make you. On any given day you can be insanely happy or maniacally...
The Pyjama Girls Of Lambert Square

The Pyjama Girls Of Lambert Square

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From the author of TIED TO THE TRACKS comes a charming new novel set in Lambert's Corner, South Carolina-a beautiful town where no one's secrets remain secret for very long....
Funny Accent

Funny Accent

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Dawn on a Distant Shore

Dawn on a Distant Shore

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In this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Into the Wilderness, award-winning storyteller Sara Donati once again effortlessly blends fact and fiction into an epic tale of adventure and romance. Into...
Microcosms

Microcosms

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Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway...
Lights Out Liverpool

Lights Out Liverpool

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A warmhearted and turbulent novel showing how the folk of one small Liverpool street are affected in the first year of the Second World War.
Career Girls

Career Girls

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If Jackie Collins were in her twenties, she might have written Career Girls - a raunchy, fast-moving novel about two girl who meet and fall out over the same man...
Remedy

Remedy

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Meet Remedy: a petite befreckled blonde living in Paris and working at A La Mode On-Line. Here she lusts fruitlessly after photographers, knocks out articles on tankinis and racoon-fur trims,...
A Dance in Time

A Dance in Time

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Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged...
Fire Exit

Fire Exit

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From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty's debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture, and inheritance, and...
Boom Town Snap

Boom Town Snap

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Award-winning author Jay Martin's new novel deals with the internal conflict of a woman struggling to balance her professional and personal lives. When Georgie's boss-turned-lover, Nico, offers her a high-stakes...
The Second-last Woman in England

The Second-last Woman in England

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Mrs Harriet Wallis is found guilty of the murder of her husband in London. It is 1953, the same year as Elizabeth's Coronation, and this woman is set to become...
The Fortunes of Ruby White

The Fortunes of Ruby White

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Ruby White has no job, no direction in life, and just enough money to last a month - if she eats only rice and her cat catches his own meals....
First Name Second Name

First Name Second Name

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In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity. The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand...
Our Father

Our Father

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A New Beginning

A New Beginning

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The Maclaren family may show a united face to the world, but their private lives are very different. For years, Queenie and her daughter LAura have had to protect each...
How I Became a Famous Novelist

How I Became a Famous Novelist

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In this blistering evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, a roguish loser sets out to write the best-sellingest best seller of all time. When he actually pulls it off,...
Kehua

Kehua

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A kehua is a Maori ghost - the wandering dead searching for their ancestral home. Without the proper rituals to send them on their way, kehua are forced to remain...