Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker....

On the Java Ridge , skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert,...

'You are the Wordsmith now. Are you ready for the challenge?' The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth. To make sure humans avoid the mistakes of...

In a dawn raid, Kate is arrested. She is imprisoned, beaten, kept awake and tortured. She has no idea what has happened to her partner, Mercedes. The uncertainty plagues her....

From the author of the award-winning Dog Boy, a powerful literary work about frailty, redemption, and the healing power of animals The settlement of Wahrheit, founded in exile to await...

Shouldn't every story have a happy ending? The Starlings comes with the publisher's promise- love it or your money back! (See back page for details.) It's March 1985 and Nicky...

A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of...

I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there....

Suspense-filled ingenious plots featuring corporate corruption and police power don't often ring true. But in his legal work, Perth QC Tom Percy has seen stranger schemes and known realler people...

Praise for Reluctantly Charmed 'A sweet, whimsical, quintessentially Irish novel guaranteed to add a little magic to your day!' Liane Moriarty When Maeve O'Brien's boss sends her to a dreary...

In this fictional but frank account of Sydney's medical profession, Caroline de Costa explores the possibilities, risks and implications of human reproductive cloning, with the reminder that though the techniques...

A mesmerizing otherworldly tale about love, memory and redemption from a masterly Australian storyteller The crumbling marble angel is Vega's most ambitious restoration project yet, but she thinks she can...

Bec Reich is recovering from surgery when Emily phones, so naturally Bec thinks she is hallucinating. Emily, famous worldwide for her paintings and also for her madness, lives in Beijing...

In Between Days is Andrew Porter's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed short-story collection The Theory of Light and Matter. Elson is drinking to numb the pain of his broken...

Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. Now, saving her daughter depends on whether she can uncover...

Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress...or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights' doorstep claiming...

David Donald is a simple boy with an amazing bowling arm. He's a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend. His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner - a...

Inspired by real events, this novel with fictional characters, explores the human consequences for those caught up in the rapid transformation of a widely respected Australian corporation. The architect of...

In the desert of South Australia, echoes of the past meld with the present as Dru McCrae returns to her ancestral home to explore her shadows and uncover family secrets....

And anyway, who cares? All that matters is that the guy is dead, right? A dark and thrilling ride about the most unlikely of killers, perfect for Tarantino fans, by...

Rachele Luzzato is 12 years old when she learns her father is seriously ill. While her family are looking forward to her Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele's teachers happen to cast her as...

During the 1980s, Jack Kelly was a celebrity broadcaster and successful novelist. His life in the public eye allowed him a privileged position which few experienced, with access to select...

Twilight in Kuta explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives, their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of...

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered...

Britain is leaving the European Union. Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Palmyra's monuments have been destroyed by ISIS. The Antarctic shelf is breaking up. The warnings,...

Marina has the life she always dreamed of. She is married to Mark, a gorgeous surgeon, writes a personal column for a leading tabloid and lives in the heart of...

All's fair in love and war? Depends on who's making the rules. Harry Watling has spent the past five years keeping her father's boat yard afloat, despite its dying clientele....

This is the story of a third section band, Harden Moss Silver. Harden Moss is a village just west of Holmfirth on the Yorkshire side of the Pennines. The story...

"A haunting, masterful work."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Plain but precocious Alma has taken up residence with a group of teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo.

Lindsay Gordon mystery flavored with the trade union politics of contemporary England.

Horses and women have always shared a bond. Why else do little girls plaster their schoolbooks with pony pictures? Why do women spend weekends devotedly mucking out paddocks? Or willingly...

Highly innovative, personal and idiosyncratic; Lurie's poetic use of language tells the story of a man whose daughter commits suicide and how he deals with it. Lurie has been compared...

This award winning book has been described as the 'renaissance of Vietnamese literature'. Written by a young woman in her twenties at the end of an era when Vietnam closed...

The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in...

Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History,...

The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner up to the Duetz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana book awards. Stephanie is visiting her cousin Louise, who has had...

'Chemistry is a work of quietly cumulative power - an absorbing and morally eloquent look at the small decisions and accidents that turn each life, a book that is wonderfully...

In need of some quick cash when he returns to Brisbane after years in London, Josh whores himself to his brother's PR firm and inadvertently becomes part of 'the fix'....