Modern Fiction (post 1945)

New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of...

Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to...

Cara Gayle is one of life's pleasers. A young, country school-teacher in 1960s Ireland, she spends her life looking after her philandering husband, Oliver and her pious mother, Maggie. When...

It's 1913. Fifteen-year-old Malise Monroe earns herself an education teaching younger children at a Dundee schoolhouse. Her father is passionately devoted to improving conditions for workers in the jute industry...

Hilary had always thought she'd lived a charmed life. With a caring husband, David, and two lively children, she took an active part in both family and village life. Then,...

Kamryn Matika has a great job, a hectic social life and no responsibilities - one birthday card will change all of that forever... What would you do for the friend...

When Chloe Cadwallader's beloved godmother Jocelyn dies, she leaves her a letter and a map of Britain, with the suggestion that she chuck in her job and boyfriend to embark...

1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests...

'I see murder in this unhappy hand ' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can...

There were three of us in the marriage Ellie can't push Princess Diana's infamous words out of her mind, except Ellie isn't dealing with a mistress, but with a matriach,...

Mary, a young Australian girl, suddenly finds herself in a Muslim girls' boarding school in Alexandria, Egypt. Everything is strange, including the other girls. A month of Ramadan fasting, a...

Published privately by the author in English in Paris, A YEAR IN THE MERDE became an immediate local bestseller. Instant word-of-mouth spread like wildfire to England where booksellers began clamouring...

The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a...

This title is part of a series of nine plays for children aged seven to nine. It is intended for guided reading sessions and is in line with literacy guidance....

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather...

When a diplomat at the Madagascan Embassy in Delhi is stabbed to death in seemingly scandalous and mysterious circumstances, the ambassador asks his old friend and fellow chess enthusiast, Jay...

A colloquial, fast-moving first-person narrative, COCAINE tells the story of Pete, a freelance music journalist who thinks he's got a scoop on the big band of the moment and whose...

Following a near-death experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of the people closest to him. These visions come to him in...

Stevie was a young woman who took life very seriously indeed: wouldn't drink coffee if it came from a chain, would never buy a card on Valentine's day. Why would...

Winnie would say she's no trouble. She's content to let the days go by, minding her own business, bothering no-one. She'd rather not recall the past and, at 72, doesn't...

Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and amass power...

Home Before Sundown is a polished contemporary rural romance from internationally bestselling romance writer Barbara Hannay, author of Zoe's Muster. For Bella Fairburn, a girl from the bush, her new...

A New York Times Notable Book and the March 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club (R) ! Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl...

Awkward, alienated, angry teenager Plum looks in the mirror, and hates what she sees. No one appreciates her - least of all herself. But when a beautiful, sophisticated neighbour invites...

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a...

After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp....

There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom - set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to...

In the sequel to A Star Called Henry, our hero becomes entangled in 1920s Chicago and all that comes with it- mobsters, speakeasies and Louis Armstrong. It's 1924, and New...

Twenty stories, structured around the seasons as the yearly cycle revolves five times. This is Calvino's magical realist urban fantasy. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are...

'Powerful and magnetic' Guardian 'Mind blowing' Roxane Gay 'Explosive' Hanya Yanagihara 'Funny and disturbing' Lauren Groff Meet Stephen Florida: college student, amateur wrestler, visionary, outsider. Entering senior year, his sights...

WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon....

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A heartrending tale of two young lovers torn violently apart at the beginning of the twentieth century. Jampacked with drama, tragedy and thwarted love, this is Josephine Cox at her...

A lyrical, moving novel of the choices and confusions that face a married woman whose understanding of herself explodes on first contact with the energies of China and a Chinaman....

A dramatic novel, based on a wonderful historical concept: the power of evil, given to one man. For thirty pieces of silver, Judas committed the most famous betrayal in history....