Modern Fiction (post 1945)

An audacious and highly literary post-apocalyptic novel from the international bestselling author of I'm Not Scared. It is some years since a virus killed all the adults. Now Sicily lies...

An outstanding debut novel about corruption, murder and the true nature of justice, in the vein of Peter Temple's Truth Sutton doesn't like the three a.m. phone calls. He should...

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to...

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations. Andrew Porter's stories take readers across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to...

The beautiful Amanda Hollingsworth is plotting to bring down the man who caused her brother's death. Her weapon of choice is Joey Eastern, a talented and naive young Australian rider....

One summer beside the North Sea, a girl lies sleepless, listening to the engines of British bombers headed for Copenhagen. In another room a boy is falling in love with...

New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace , The Shark Net , Our Sunshine and Walking Ella . Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch,...

The mystery of the light in Vermeer's famous painting illuminates a writer's love for his mother; a travelling lingerie salesman is helped miraculously by a rock musician as he waits...

A timeless love story that grew out of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that...

A novel about a child's growing awareness of the secret at the heart of his family. A ten-year old boy lives alone with his grandmother in a Flemish village. Among...

John Pitt, a 19-year-old drop out, has arrived in Isfahan. He has an idea he wants to be a hippie. Passing himself off as a graduate, he becomes a teacher...

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin...

Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately...

In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to...

Isabel doesn't want to marry a tycoon. She wants to be one. Isabel Suarez-Octavio is ravishing, intelligent and ambitious. But unlike some of her friends, she's not planning to use...

When seventeen-year-old Anju wins an all-expenses-paid scholarship to study in New York for a year, she jumps at the chance to leave her home town in Kerala and embrace all...

Now in B format. I wanted to return to the place where I was born and see it with new eyes. I had no idea where my family was in...

Following the death of his mother and father, Day's journey takes him to America, travelling as groom. In Maryland he meets Callie, who wants to be the world's first woman...

Re-issued with a stunning new cover, this is one of Frederick Forsyth's best books - a gripping masterclass in espionage fiction from one of the greatest storytellers of our time....

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we...

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. YOU CAN PRESERVE A HANDFUL OF SPECIAL MEMORIES FOR EVER. WHICH ONES WOULD YOU CHOOSE? ********** True death is a thing of the past. Now...

A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case. The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs is renowned for...

In the new novel from France's bestselling crime writer, Inspector Adamsberg investigates a series of strange murders linked to a secretive society *Featured in The Times top ten crime novels...

Rule 1: Never ask him on a first date. Rule 2: Laugh admiringly at all his jokes. Rule 3: Always leave him wanting more. . . . wtf?! Have you...

'The MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, ADDICTIVE read' STYLIST An edgy, emotionally confronting, contemporary novel of friendship, sex, desire, motherhood and feminism. THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If...

'China's MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Utterly remarkable' INDEPENDENT- Love, sacrifice and betrayal lived again and again by a Beijing taxi driver across a thousand years. THE ACCLAIMED NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF...

An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War 'Moving, graceful... Violets has a compelling, quiet power all the way to its...

Ginger is forty-seven and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. It's too late for her to have a baby of her own, so she tries to persuade...

**WINNER OF THE PRECIOUS LIFESTYLE MUST READ OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018** 'This will creep its way under your skin and stay there long after you finish the final few...

A compelling and deeply moving novel of friendship, family and the power of love, from the Sunday Times top ten bestseller. b> ow would you cope with the threat of...

The breakout Australian bestseller that was shortlisted for the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice...

Shortlisted for THE AGE Book of the Year. 'Pacy, exciting and often unexpectedly moving storytelling.' THE AUSTRALIAN 'Is this all?' That's the question Joan asks as she surveys her neat,...

Brand new healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library set in a suburban community block DISCOVER THE BRAND NEW NOVEL...

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer...

An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko- one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER...

For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic 'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. Meet Grace Adams- an ordinary wife and mother collecting the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. But look...

THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about what a perfect life can look like Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own...

It's nobody's affair . . . until it's everybody's. The explosive new novel from the author of international bestseller The Push The whispers started long before the accident on Harlow...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe...

The beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling romance from the international bestseller One single mum With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. But it's hard on your...

'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book Review Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the...