Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Ismael is a retired school teacher in a small Colombian village. He gathers oranges, admires beautiful women and has an idyllic everyday life. When the village is ransacked by an...

Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in 17th-century Amsterdam snatches...

'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious' Holly Bourne 'A sexy swagger of a debut' Emma Straub 'Full of drama, heartbreak, ambition and desire' Katherine Webber Tsang _________________ I...

What if you thought you knew a secret that could change history? Whilst standing engrossed in her favourite Pre-Raphaelite painting Millais's Ophelia Cori catches the eye of Tate gallery worker,...

Young and successful, Australian Maddy Maquire has fallen in love with a Mexican. She thinks he's going to save her from her despair auntil he wants her to have their...

A small city in western France,. The early twentieth century. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for drawing, is entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob,...

*** THE FEEL-GOOD NOVEL OF THE SUMMER AND A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION *** 'Wow. Just wow. If you liked Me Before You , you'll love You...

Strapping bachelors, juicy secrets and swooning first love. Welcome to the village of Appleton... Take a gorgeous country pile much in need of funds. Add a glamorous film-star couple planning...

A teenager murdered. A teacher accused. A secret that won t stay buried. A year ago, accusations of an affair with a pupil cost Mark Bradley his teaching job. Now...

Victoria Stratford's birthday party for her husband David is a resounding success. It shows off their beautiful Wimbledon house, their wonderful children, their perfect lives, and it conceals the tensions...

Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then she's retired from a life of...

'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' -- Marlon James, winner of the Booker Prize 2015 A brilliant Kafka-esque satire - with a sting in the tail -...

Isoldes' time has come at last. The Queen of Ireland lies dying, passing power to her daughter. But on all sides Isolde faces opposition. Through all her trials, Isolde can...

Nature has the power to restore us, but can it wash away our darkest truths? Set amid the red dust and heat of the Australian Kimberley wet season and the...

Mia Lockheart has a secret, Her mother was a Keeper, as was her grandmother - women who were warriors, healers and protectors. As Mia practices her craft among the boxers...

Plump, virginal Janice Gentle reluctantly writes her delicate romances with one goal in view: to make enough money to find the man she loved and lost twenty years ago. Before...

The engrossing story of Amira, a young girl from a wealthy and powerful family, Mirage takes readers behind the veil of secrecy to expose the real lives of women in...

Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating...

What happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles begin to pull in different directions? For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion...

From the "fantastically funny" ( Elle ), "sharp" ( Salon ) author of the international bestseller Me and Mr. Darcy , an enchanting drive down the road not taken, in...

'..the face that stared at him through the glass was his mum's, but it didn't look like her. Stephen's mouth dropped open and real fear grabbed his stomach. His mum's...

An unconventional love story from the highly-acclaimed author of MELTING and THE DINNER Kathryn Cheet is not looking for love when she meets Craig Summer. Far from it. Kathryn is...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Fans of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Frederick Forsyth will love this horribly compelling and devastatingly engrossing political action thriller from international bestseller and...

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York...

The first novel from Britain's most celebrated political commentator is a gleefully twisted take on what goes on behind the door of 10 Downing Street. It's September 2017, and the...

Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? `We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort....

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between How do we love? With romance....

In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. When a stranger appears and advises him to register the baby as his own at...

Twenty-six-year-old Nicole Najim is struggling to find herself after a painful breakup, just when she thought she was going to settle down. Working a dead-end job in the family car...

Revenge. It's an art. Revenge. It's an art. Set against a background of irritatingly blue skies, trendy restaurants and catty parties, Don't Tell Eve is a fast-paced, witty novel about...

There are certain friends with whom you don't have to pretend. Lou, a freelance journalist, leaves New York after the breakup of a long relationship. Taking refuge in Mim's North...

Bliss is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both...

Winner of the Australian /Vogel's Literary Award 2005. 'Tuvalu - Everyone has a place like that. A dream land or life they're working towards, however vaguely ... Some people probably...

Stories of sexy, steamy relationships have m ade Erica Spindler a firm favourite with readers of contempo rary romance. Following Red and Forbidden Fruit, Spindler pr oduces a chilling drama...

The thrilling new novel from the unforgettable author of Sunday Times bestseller Whatever Next? '[A] winning, well-plotted read... the mystery's denouement at the dance makes a glamorous and dramatic conclusion'...

Six-foot-eight and severely dyslexic, Brandon Vanderkool has always had an unusual perspective. He knows the mating calls of all the local owls, and can feel a flock of swans taking...

An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose...