Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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....

Brilliantly interweaving the romantic and thriller elements of her plot,Anita Burgh sets the individual stories of her rich charcters against the cruel and illegal world of dog farming and dog...

TOMORROW'S PAST London's Kentish Town in the middle years of the 20th century teems with life, where everyone knows everyone else and every life is interwoven in an intricate web....

Teenage schoolgirl Helen Majinsky and her friend Colette are part of a small circle that entertains hopes of leaving Liverpool through the route of college entrance. They play truant from...

In the grandest wedding the small western plains town of Bathurst has ever seen, Eve Herman, without position or money, is marrying John Stuart Wakeman, one of the richest, most...

It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It...

Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at...

Ellen Morris is confident, beautiful, bright and educated. Early in 1925, she accepts a teaching post in a rural, misty village. There the young city girl meets two men who...

A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller. Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble...

From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance Three generations of beautiful women and their journey from rags to riches Audra is an impoverished children's nanny from Leeds...

Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in...

The Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. With the body count rising, time is slowly ticking away.

Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil,...

Brougham is the stateliest of stately homes, but for Lady Artemis Deverill it proves a lonely, loveless place. Eleanor Milligan, born in downtown Boston, knows only poverty and a continuing...

Brought up in smalltown America by a grandmother who despises her, Cassie McGann's childhood is one of misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York she falls in love with handsome...

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children...