Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with making things good again, they spin the quiet terrors of family...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight...

One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. Bemused he races to the uppermost gallery and there beneath him on a...

The prince of the title is not the present incumbent but a neo-fascist layabout served by a court of booted hoodlums in a parody of the Arthurian legend...

A compelling parable of the modern inner journey leading to true self-discovery. Its time less message has the power to transform the reader.

An unforgettable journey through the experience of time and desire, where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who...

'A gripping page-turner' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and compelling' Sabine Durrant 'Satisfyingly creepy' Sunday Mirror The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But...

She was a slave. He was her master. Both of them long to be free... 1833 - The British Navy are conducting a survey of the Arabian Peninsula where slavery...

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across...

Clive and Martha have been together since they met at university; they have a young daughter, Eliza. Their marriage appears serene and content but when Eliza's adored new piano teacher...

Kate Fordham fled to Spain to start a new life. Amid the sunlit streets of Granada and the earthly paradise of the Alhambra's gardens, towers and courtyards, she's left her...

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it's the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years...

Eighteenth-century London - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far...

Author: Keith GarveyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hutchinson Australia., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageKeith Garvey's "Uncle Harry Rides Again" is a collection of humorous...

Author: Kate LlewellynBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hudson, Hawthorn, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageKate Llewellyn's "Dear You: A Novel" is a poignant work of...

Sometimes the lessons you learn unexpectedly are the ones that affect you the most. Josie arrives in Paris in the hope of healing a broken heart. Riley, a lonely housewife,...

Dana is a beautiful young bodyguard who has the expertise to disarm a bomb but cannot commit to marrying the man she loves. Jessica is a reclusive movie star and...

It was the impossibility of him that kept her coming back. Edna gave up everything when she fell in love with an acclaimed writer, leaving Australia and moving to New...

An intimate psychological portrait inspired by the true story of a notorious cult leader. bearcat: a large, tree-dwelling mammal; 1920s slang for a fiery girl or woman. 1987. Family is...

'Powerful and mesmerising, Catching the Light is a brilliant portrait of the ways we are consumed by motherhood, art and the yearning for self.' -Shankari Chandran, Miles Franklin award-winning author...

My favourite of all the books I have written. Tayari Jones From the winner of The Women's Prize winner and New York Times Bestseller An American Marriage. With the opening...

The bestselling French phenomenon now being made into a Hollywood movie. Diane has a charmed life as a wife, a mother and the owner of a literary cafe in Paris...

"This beautifully crafted, lively novel captures the good and the bad of female friendship" Bec Kavanagh Books + Publishing, 5 stars. WINNER OF THE CBCA AWARD FOR BOOK OF THE...

'You always forget this part, that life regenerates itself underground through the winter, that happiness comes back. You forget that your body has the capacity for joy, that it craves...

Winner of the Australian /Vogel's Literary Award 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when...

'Powerful and moving' RACHEL EDWARDS 'O utstanding' SUSAN LEWIS 'Original and powerful . . . You'll love it' LOUISE BEECH Two families divided by hate A love that will not...

In THE REFUGEES , Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers...

Luke Warren would sleep in the dirt if it meant he could be under the stars. He lives by the laws of nature, and would surely want to die that...

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not...

When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne- I don't know if you know that you know me- the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America,...

Have you ever just clicked with someone? Is there a safer space for secret desires than virtual reality? "Just what you need" WENDY HOLDEN It begins by chance: Leo receives...

Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life - a satisfying career, her own flat and a new boyfriend who respects her need for her own space. But then her...

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea: My dearest Catherine, I...

"From up here, a half mile above the Earth, everything looks perfect to me " Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle right from the start. For his...

Michael Roe is trying to give up smoking. The Sunday Times and his girlfriend Hilary. He works in television and plays in cocktail bars, where he can be found on...

How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger - 32 years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children - one summer...

Patrick White, a small-time crim, is struggling to make sense of his life in the suburbs. Meeting Sonja, the daughter of a Russian migrant, makes him see that there is...

A new thriller from Barry Eisler featuring Japanese-American assassin John Rain

In 1820 Mary Jones is wrongly convicted of a crime committed by her best friend. From their first encounter as domestic servants in Kent, the two women were unlikely friends,...

Becky Bloomwood is back on form in this hilarious Shopaholic novel by bestselling author Sophie Kinsella Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting...

Shy student Alexandra X to her friends arrives in Naples desperate for adventure beyond the sheltered life she s led. As she explores the sun-soaked Italian city streets, she meets...