Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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...

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...

At night in the city, anything is possible. Even the truth. For Porter Wren, the city is the story: of millionaires on the make and strippers on the clock. Of...

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh's Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and...

Over the course of his career, "New York Times "bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. "Midwives "brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse...

National Book Award Finalist * A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, f rom "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)...

With the publication of "All Souls' Rising," Madison Smartt Bell was immediately acclaimed as being "as remarkable a historical novelist as we have in this country" (Harold Bloom). The novel...

Krisztina is forced into marriage during the Nazi regime. Widowed by the war, she remarries and transforms her chateau into a hotel. Her daughter Ella leaves for New York to...

For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk, it is no surprise that she has grown up afraid of her own...

Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick came to Hollywood to make a movie. They live off their looks and rely on their agents. Today they are stars, so why worry about...

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating...

"This unflinching novel chronicles a woman's relationship with a violent man in a way that brings fresh insight to the subject . . . engaging and uplifting." - O, The...