Modern Fiction (post 1945)

King James or Vernaland, an ex-conchie bashing Special Services hardnut, and Binary Bob, his young companion with a genius for computer hacking and data-harvesting; Peter Jones, a disaffected lifestyle journalist...

What is fiction? What is autobiography? How do the two meet? What is a man? What is a woman? How do the two meet? What is violence? What is happiness?...

Loosely based in historical fact,Sister Noonis a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of...

THEY COME IN PEACE, BARING GIFTS OF LOVE, HOPE, AND MIRACLES Here are incredible true stories from people whose lives were forever changed by alien encounters. Unlike many of the...

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis , this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE...

A brand-new, funny, funky teen novel, with a great new heroine, from rising star Meg Cabot, author of the bestselling Princess Diaries. Sam Madison never knew life could change overnight....

An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.

Thirteen year old Madison has problems- she s overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She s also dead. But not just dead....

A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him...

Two branches of the McAllister family lead very different lives on cattle stations in Central Australia. Rob, a stickler for correctness, manages a wealthy, company-owned property, while his easygoing brother...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha , the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried,...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous novel, perfect for cold winter nights... Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out...

'This year's Eleanor Oliphant' Claire Allan 'Astonishing' Ruth Hogan 'Strikingly brilliant' Sun Jillian Safinova can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying...

The summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up, she's forced to reconsider....

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors. Ruth Ramsey went too far. She hadn't noticed...

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to...

A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely...

**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024** Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is...

From the rugged beauty of the Adelaide Hills comes a story of loss, hope and new beginnings... Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a bubbly best friend, a...

Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and an all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of...

Be careful what you wish for Holly Grey only took up witchery to keep her friend out of trouble and now she's knee-deep in hassle, in the form of apocalyptic...

"A gloriously indulgent romantic comedy set in the little town of Cypress Hollow. Lucy never forgot 'The Kiss'. Or the bad boy she shared it with. Now, 17 years later,...

Ash Lynch has worked (if you can call it that) in the magazine industry for what feels like forever. But he's at a very loose end - his ambition to...

In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted student. In a small town...

Do nice guys really finish last? Evan Moore struggles through the breathtaking wilderness of Alaska and a brutal summer job in a salmon cannery to discover that life is not...

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post An Amazon Rising Star A boy stands on the roadside on...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER For seventy years, Josef Weber has been hiding in plain sight. He is a pillar of his local community. He is also a murderer. When Josef...

'Erica James' sensitive story of a woman coming to terms with guilt and grief is as sparklingly fresh as dew on the village's surrounding meadows ... thoroughly enjoyable' SUNDAY EXPRESS...

Dating The Italian - Ally Blake Do opposites really attract? Band manager Sutton has heard her parents' love story hundreds of times. Only, when she arrives at the bar where...

In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but...

Ria and Marilyn have never met, but a chance phone call leads them to swap houses for the summer. Ria goes to America in the hope that the change will...

In this, the fourth Caper Court novel, the hero and villain, Leo Davies, finally meets his match in both love and work.

'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter ...But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living...

There was a sailor's graveyard in Moon Beach. This was where the funeral business first started. Rumour had it that the witch's fingers used to reach out and sink ships....

Faith Singer has a weakness for the young down-and-outs inhabiting Sydney's Kings Cross, whom she mothers as best she can. As the story unfolds we see how Faith, once a...

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is...