Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Cassie Callinan is a dutiful corporate wife, carefully preserving the safety of the status quo, and her husband's camellias. When she learns she has lost her husband to a younger...

Part Nordic noir, part Brothers Grimm. Financial Times An atmospheric and gripping novel from an exciting new voice for fans of The Snow Child and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed...

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in...

Covering all aspects of evidence law and procedure from a police officer's perspective, this manual has been extensively revised to incorporate all legislative developments such as the Police Reform Act...

Intriguing, sexy, smart and provocative, a bold and brilliant fictional debut which will make waves. After more than twenty years together, Jean and Mark revel in a sabbatical on a...

When young Thomas Kendall was convicted of theft and transported to Australia for a period of seven years, he could not have known that he would fall in love with...

"Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romance...as compelling...

Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching...

A laugh-out-loud romance from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls...

Sandy, the youngest boy, swans through life with his movie-star looks, never taking responsibility for his actions. And Lucy, the youngest, must find her own path in the shadow of...

Asakawa finds himself in a race against time -- he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers' deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him...

From the acclaimed author of FALL ON YOUR KNEES - an international bestseller - comes a mesmerizing new novel. "The sun came out after the war and our world went...

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox -- one of our foremost storytellers. It is 1902. Emily is sixteen years of age and blissfully in love with John, two years...

This is the story of a young boy saved from unspeakable despair as he is embraced by Irish love. 'An amazing book, a troika of laughter, love and loss.' Malachy...

The new atmospheric thriller by the author of the outstanding The Eye of Ra. The murder in Cairo of Dr al-Ghali, Egyptian-born adviser to the US President, brought both the...

An archaeologist becomes drawn into the life of the Wessex village where he is supervising a dig in an ancient burial chamber. By becoming an academic who uncovers the past,...

In 1940 Linda Voss is an ordinary secretary in New York. When she becomes pregnant by her boss and subsequently marries him, her life changes radically. When America enters the...

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The...

At her controversial and compelling best, Jodi Picoult explores the moment when boundaries break down, and when the only step left to take is a leap of faith. As Mariah...

The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the...

It is 1916. The Australian community is riven over a referendum to conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old Matthew's family, divided politically and sinking into poverty,...

'This book is hilarious, quirky and completely out of left field,' said somebody. From debut author Hayden Bradford comes a rip roaring yarn which could be the funniest book published...

So, to get to the point, if it's a ripping yarn you're after you should give up now. Just put the damned book down and find something more satisfying, a...

Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she...

The farmer doesn't want a wife... a sizzling romantic comedy for women of any age! When Abigail Durant inherits a cottage from her friend, the world famous knitting guru Eliza...

A body is discovered in a chicken run . . . Young Norman Thorne finds himself involved with Elsie Cameron and reluctantly promises to marry her. He buys a chicken...

It is 1962, and the city of Seattle is about to be famous. Roger Morgan, an audacious young promoter, wants to pull off the ultimate coup de theatre: the World's...

Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...

The third novel in a historical trilogy, set against the backdrop of WW1. With their menfolk fighting far away in France, the women left behind must take on many burdens....