Modern Fiction (post 1945)

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Experience the Ghan's historic journey across Australia's outback, where ancient Aboriginal heritage and modern ambition collide, in a tale as rich and vast as the landscape...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A sweeping saga of three families in Tasmania, from its golden era and Federation's birth to the poignant pride and sacrifice of World War I. AN...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A gripping tale of espionage and ambition, where the future of a nation is being decided in a remote SA desert during the darkest days of...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR As refugees gather in the Australian highlands to redirect a river, their lives intertwine in a powerful tale of rebirth, struggle, and the forging of the...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR An epic story of love, sacrifice and revenge swept along on the winds of war. HOLLYWOOD MIRRORS HISTORY Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA When Henrietta Southern trades war-torn England...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart. BOUND FOR DESTINY In 1788,...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A tantalising glimpse into the world of theatre and what goes on when the spotlight dims and the curtain falls. A HIDDEN DARKNESS Alex Rainford has...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Step into the steamy and cut-throat world of television , where the dazzling lights of fame cast deep shadows of intrigue, ambition, and scandal. TELEVISION'S GOLDEN...

The Hollow Bones implores us to pay careful attention to the crucial lessons we might learn from our not-too-distant history. 'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their...

combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three not in either. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories...

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala...

Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that...

One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and...

The incomparable Oscar and Lucinda won Peter Carey his first Booker Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award. Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern...

Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once met, will never leave you. Che is the precocious son of...

A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamazovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family,...

Peter Carey hilariously conjures up dystopia in his picaresque The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to...

In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly,...

In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over? When Gaby Baillieux releases the...

In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy and the true stories of his own life to give readers an essential book for our time. A...

What do you do when you're told you've got terminal cancer at 50? Take up crochet, get religion and bow out gracefully? Or upend your life and spend every remaining...

The groundbreaking classic about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. The groundbreaking novel about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. At once humorous and...

Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his...

'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced Schindler's Ark. Giles Foden, Guardian 'Thomas Keneally...

An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...

Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves...

A breathtakingly powerful epic that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the rebel-hearted Hollywood millennial who plays her on screen. A New York Times...

The thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the blazing new star in contemporary literature, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah...

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths 'Written with all the ingenuity...

A sophisticated thriller about a missing nuclear scientist - perfect for fans of Robert Harris, William Boyd and Charles Cumming 'A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph' WILLIAM BOYD A journalist...

Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me. **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda,...

Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald...

Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl these terrible tales...

Roald Dahl's tales of war, conflict and strife . . . In war are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's...

PRE-ORDER THE EAGERLY AWAITED, LIFE-AFFIRMING AND HEART-WARMING NEW NOVEL FROM NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR DAWN FRENCH After five long years of waiting for a new novel, Dawn's millions of fans will...

Playtime is over as Marian's Sunday Times No. 1 blockbuster comes out in paperback MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Three very different...

A hilarious and insightful tale about a runaway husband from the internationally bestselling writer of smart, funny fiction At 44 Amy O'Connell thinks she's seen, heard or done it all....

The brilliant new thriller from this fast-rising star and author of the bestselling R&J pick, You're Next Sharing a room with criminals is an occupational hazard for probation counsellor Daniel...

A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no...

Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? Whilst living in...

Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? Will keeping the Japanese, Korean...

25th anniversary edition of this cherished story of love, loss, war and heroism - from one of our bestselling authors 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE...

Roald Dahl takes on Deception . . . A man takes part in a very unusual bet, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police, a game...

Roald Dahl takes on Madness . . . A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a cat's curious behaviour...

Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and...