Modern Fiction (post 1945)

What if your boyfriend died right in front of you? It was a night of laughter and celebration. But when John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is...

A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction. Prue is about to turn thirty and feels like everyone else is living their best life....

The best thing you can aspire to in this world is company. Whether it's for pleasure or pain, a crowning or an execution: everything is better with company. You might...

In the wake of an unfortunate best-friend-and-boyfriend-caught-having-sex-in-a-chair incident, Jo Donnelly flees her civilised city life to take up a temporary job at the physiotherapy clinic in her small home town....

onroe writes with a crisp precision and narrative energy that will keep [readers] turning the pages. Her talent for infusing her characters with warmth and vitality and her ability to...

A transporting new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Woodsburner. In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father,...

In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure...

In his latest confessional diary, Adrian, now thirty, is separated from his exotic and accomplished Nigerian wife, and is a single parent to his three-year-old son. He works as a...

The 'Woman of Maldon' tells of the raw struggle of the essence of a 21st Century woman, in her recognition for the female essence itself, where intolerance for women merely...

She's the 'It' girl who had it all-so why has she run? Emerald Reed-McAllister, a high-profile model and stylist, has always been careful to make sure no one sees the...

Oh, Santa baby! Turtle Island's Yummy Santa contest is underway, and master of ceremonies Roni Templeman is ready to rock around the Christmas tree. After years of hiding the pain...

She vowed to protect her heart...Andie Shayne believes in forever...for everyone else. She has an up-and-coming wedding planning business, and her own failed engagement, to prove it. Now all Andie...

Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her...

Dive into the feel-good rom-com of 2020- heartwarming, hilarious and utterly charming Josh has a high-flying proposal planned. An exclusive pod on the London Eye, with champagne and truffles. It's...

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BETTER THE BLOOD COMES ANOTHER CASE FOR NEW ZEALAND'S BEST INVESTIGATOR, HANA WESTERMAN. 'Another cracking, page-turning journey into another culture' VAL McDERMID Two murders. Two...

Wolfspeer the hunter and Rham Aldeab, a Palestinian archeologist, are on a journey ten thousand years apart, destined by faith to make a connection. In Jerusalem, in the year 2020,...

The bash at the Miller farm was the hottest party Jenny Humphrey had ever attended. Literally. But when Dean Marymount announces that someone is going to be held responsible, and...

Jenny was totally enjoying the attention of the three hottest guys on campus. But she's ecstatic now that she's bagged arty Easy Walsh as her boyfriend. Unfortunately he used to...

There's shocking gossip and more trouble than ever in NOTORIOUS. Jenny Humphrey has left her Manhattan school to attend elite Waverly Academy in New York horse country where glamorous rich...

From the dazzling coastline of the French Riviera to the haunting beauty of Fairhead Rock in County Antrim, Roisin McAuley takes the reader on a gripping, twisting, turning journey to...

Raffaella Moretti, by far the most beautiful girl in the southern Italian town of Triento, is about to marry the only boy she has ever loved. It seems that nothing...

'Ackroyd has come up with an almost seamless work, one which earns its place on the same shelf as the best of his literary fantasies' - Guardian What if John...

Overwhelmed by the realities of first-time motherhood and disillusioned with the corporate world, Jane trades in her Manolos for nappies, nipple shields and the foot spread of a yeti: a...

From a thrillingly talented 28-year-old newcomer - the Anne Tyler for a new generation, yet with a distinctive voice and quirky sensibility all of her own - comes a contemporary...

From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance The story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts. Katharine Tempest is a world-famous...

A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making...

It takes just six days and nights to cross the Atlantic on a luxury liner, but during that time, lives can be changed forever. Amidst the seething melting pot of...

A wickedly funny look at finding the perfect mate in an imperfect world. Stephanie had a rat of a husband. But after thirteen years of marriage and two kids, she...

A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies...

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing...

From every girl's best friend, and the bestselling author of Sweet Temptation and The Year of Taking Chances, Lucy Diamond "Romantic, dreamy and fun, this is perfect poolside reading" Closer...

Preparing dinner for her husband's colleagues, tipsy, and listening to a woman complain about domestic slavery on the radio, Helen Robbins begins to stare hard at the peas. For thirteen...

All dogs go to heaven... unless they have unfinished business here on earth...Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray...

For Sean Courtney, veteran guerrilla fighter and professional warrior, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro...

When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events with tragic results.

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ("Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner") and his mother is having an affair with...

If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of...

After a long and happy marriage, Frances is suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steven has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged...

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when...

HOMEBOY, Seth Morgan's stunning novel, is a gritty, ribald, and frenetically lyrical odyssey through the Strip in San Francisco -a netherworld of whores, pimps, dealers, and junkies - to the...

Will she ever uncover the secrets about her past? From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a brand new look for this compulsive, heart-wrenching read. A house on fire. A...

A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE 'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS 'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES , Book of the Year 'I can't think of another author who...