Modern Fiction (post 1945)

But nothing in the lives of Rose and her daughters is as it seems, and as plans are made for the party of the decade, the secret heartaches the four...

Harry Silver returns to face life in the 'blended family'. A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and...

The battle of the sexes hasn't ended -- it's just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives...

Addressed to Greta is a captivating novel about Greta Jellings, a woman in her thirties trying to find her true self. Working in a pool-chemicals shop since school her dreams...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing , this "marvelous debut" (Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of The Ninth Hour ) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces...

" The Secret History meets The Price of Salt " ( Vogue ) in this "equal parts dangerous and delicious" ( Entertainment Weekly ) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry,...

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller-from the author of the "poignant, riveting" (Wendy Walker, author of...

I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like.This is a...

A moving story about survival, forgiveness - and the power of love to heal a wounded spirit. Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq - his tour ended...

'A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever' Karen Russell 'Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful' Elif Batuman The Bradford-Shmulkin family...

You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind. Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what...

Shortlisted for the Emerging Writer Award, WA Premier's Literary Awards 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction Longlisted for Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover,...

'Brilliant ... So witty and clever.' Elly Griffiths 'Fremlin packs a punch.' Ian Rankin 'Irresistible.' Val McDermid 'Splendid ... Got me hooked.' Ruth Rendell 'A master of suspense.' Janice Hallett...

All the stories in Tales of the Night take place on the night of the 19th March 1929. All show different facets of love -love as violence, love as redemption,...

Four years ago Erin Joyce left Dublin under a cloud and bought a guesthouse in the remote, beautiful village of Dunbarra. The Gatehouse attracts a strange clutch of guests who,...

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set...

Jack's wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ? Jack can't remember....

After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers...

You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of...

Laughter, sharp like a fox bark. She had not seen him so happy in days. Set in North Yorkshire in the 1950s, The River Within is a piercingly evocative literary...

Long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed A Border Station from the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of My Left Foot. 'The small room was thick with dark blue uniforms. Bull's wool the men called...

The companion novel to Last One Home , International bestselling author brings us another thoughtful and emotional read. How do you move on after your life has fallen apart? When...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote...

Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the...

When Paulina dies mid-dance, she leaves 12-year-old Zav and 7-year-old Sealie with their loving but unstable father, Hal. The grieving family decides to plant a tree in her memory -...

Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber What do you want most in the world? Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life's not what she'd expected -...

"Obsessed!" -Chloe Sevigny "I am literally obsessed." -Busy Philipps Hailed as "richly intimate" and "wickedly delightful" ( The New York Times Book Review ), this steamy and incisive debut adult...

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays,...

This debut novel-told in interviews-spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement. In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the...

Nicholas van der Swart has always been different. His family and his culture expect him to be one way, to live according to their precepts and rules, but his sense...

Get to know Tess and Gus in Kate Eberlen's first novel, Miss You. A Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2016 Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven't...

'What a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating - if bumpy - ride through a man's world....

'One of my all-time favourite novels' WHOOPI GOLDBERG 'Funny, charming and original' FANNIE FLAGG, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe How do you face the future...

'A stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel ' Justin Cronin, author of The Passage WHAT IF our 24-hour day...

The sensational new novel from the author of The History of Bees Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller's Prize, and the most successful Norwegian author of her...

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS , and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, The...

From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle , a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an...

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident....

From one half of bestselling duo Nicci French comes a beautifully crafted new novel full of mystery and intrigue Eleanor Lee is fiercely independent. She has lived alone well into...

'Hellishly good fun' The Times 'A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore' John Connolly And Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths...

'Eerie, atmospheric' Louise Jensen 'A haunting tale of intrigue' Emily Freud 'Ruth Ware fans will eat this up' Publishers Weekly 'Suspenseful, dark and wonderfully atmospheric' The Sun 'Intricate and impressive'...

'A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you're surprised to find your eyebrows aren't singed' Mark Sanderson, The Times A town under...

Sharply observed and painfully relatable, Breaststrokes is a novel that seems to emerge from the haze of our current time. This story of unexpected encounters and intimacies is perfect for...