Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Sort by:
All Grown Up

All Grown Up

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she...
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
It is summer 1990, only months after the border dividing Germany has dissolved. Maria, nearly seventeen, moves in with her boyfriend on his family farm. A chance encounter with enigmatic...
The North Shore: 'An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories' Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The North Shore: 'An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN     'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH     'A beautiful, moving, unexpected...
A Natural Curiosity

A Natural Curiosity

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and...
The Seaplane on Final Approach

The Seaplane on Final Approach

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
An electrifying debut novel about a young woman and her desire for sleaze, whose idyllic summer on a remote Alaskan homestead takes a disturbing turn."Sexy and dark and strange and...
Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. When her estranged, difficult brother...
Sweetest Scoundrel

Sweetest Scoundrel

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
SHE'S TAKING CHARGEPrim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's...
Wound

Wound

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
The Fortress of Solitude

The Fortress of Solitude

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
From the funked-up, messed-up Brooklyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families...
Only the Animals

Only the Animals

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
  Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human.The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing...
Summer Blonde

Summer Blonde

$39.99 AUD$31.99 AUD
The stories in Summer Blonde are longer explorations of the same themes of his earlier collection, Sleepwalk - haunting and spare tales of the loneliness and bleak humour of modern...
Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has spies everywhere.

Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL---Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens...
Weather

Weather

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, BIG ISSUE, VANITY FAIR, DAZEDAND i-D MAGAZINELizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is already overwhelmed with the crises of daily...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a...
Practice

Practice

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student...
Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
In September 1939, World War Two is declared. For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe, the...
Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner about fame, friendship and long-buried secrets

Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
SHE WAS THE NEXT BIG THING . . . UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED'Exciting and at times heart-breaking, this book is a must for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six' CARMEL...
Like A House On Fire: 'Brilliantly funny - I loved it' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare

Like A House On Fire: 'Brilliantly funny - I loved it' Beth O'Leary,

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'Joyously wicked... I loved it' RUTH JONES'Warm, witty & brilliantly realised' DAILY MAIL'Part Fleabag, part Agatha Christie' JOSIE SILVERALL STELLA AND GEORGE HAVE TO DO IS...Hide their breakupAfter a series...
Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood

Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind.'Thrillingly relatable' HARPER'S BAZAAR'A...
Witch You Weren't Here: A warm and cosy witchy romance to curl up with this festive season

Witch You Weren't Here: A warm and cosy witchy romance to curl up with

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
'It has everything I love in a romantasy. I absolutely adored it' CARRIE ELKS'Fun, sweet and sexy' SARAH HAWLEY'A magical rollercoaster which will charm the hex out of the hardest...
Women Talking Dirty

Women Talking Dirty

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Ellen Quinn kept her sanity in the suffocating Edinburgh suburb where she grew up by imagining it was a hotbed of intrigue. A neglected child, she's still looking for love...
Limelight: The new novel from the author of Insatiable

Limelight: The new novel from the author of Insatiable

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
This good girl is naked on the internet... By day, Frankie lives an ordinary life: doting daughter, supportive sister, adoring aunt and (mostly) capable colleague. The only trouble is that...
Girlfriend on Mars

Girlfriend on Mars

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in...
Nothing Belongs to You

Nothing Belongs to You

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
"A novel of exceptional emotional force" John Self, Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her...
Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

$19.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Born Into This

Born Into This

$32.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Friends Don't Lie: the emotionally gripping page turner about secrets between friends

Friends Don't Lie: the emotionally gripping page turner about [...]

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'Riveting, thought-provoking, and impeccably written. I loved it' Carol Mason'This twisty tale explores the dark side of friendship and is just asking to be demolished in the back garden with...
A Thousand Miles to Graceland

A Thousand Miles to Graceland

$27.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Grace Johnson can't escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot-until her husband announces he's done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation . . ....
Liar

Liar

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
If being old meant making up things so you wouldn't be alone, then it really wasn't very different from being seventeen.Nofar is just an average teenage girl - so average,...
Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month 'Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping...
Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of In Our Mad and Furious City

Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted [...]

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'A quicksilver astonishment of a book. Just read it' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'A rollercoaster coming of age picaresque' Observer'A provocative powder keg. So compelling' TimesAn exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and...
The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good book to curl up with this Autumn

The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good [...]

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
?? FALL IN LOVE WITH FOUR STRANGERS WHO MIGHT JUST FIND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT... ?? 'Full of heart' LUCY GILMORE'The cast is wonderful. I thoroughly...
The Summer Without Men

The Summer Without Men

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'An astoundingly joyful read . . . a book that shines with intellectual curiosity and emotional integrity' Guardian'By turns funny, moving and...
A Plea For Eros

A Plea For Eros

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
A stunning collection of essays by the author of WHAT I LOVED, in which she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family,...
Her Father's Sins: An extraordinary saga of hope against the odds (Queenie's Story, Book 1)

Her Father's Sins: An extraordinary saga of hope against the [...]

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Queenie must fight against the suffering caused by her fatherQueenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney either ignored her or...
Father of the Rain

Father of the Rain

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Your name is Daley Amory. Your parents are divorced. Your mother is building a new life; your father seeking solace in the drinks cabinet. At 18-years-old you finally escape his...
Waking Lions

Waking Lions

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that...
Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and Judy Book Club selection

Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and [...]

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
DON'T MISS MIKE'S BRAND NEW NOVEL, A SONG OF ME AND YOU - AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro***Strangers living worlds apart.Strangers...
Uncle Paul: The 'Irresistible' (Val McDermid) Classic Summer Thriller

Uncle Paul: The 'Irresistible' (Val McDermid) Classic Summer Thriller

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
'A slow-burning chill of a read by a master of suspense.' - Janice Hallett'Sinister, witty and utterly compelling. A genius.' - Nicola UpsonAnother face, cool and smiling, framed against another...
The Long Song: Now A Major BBC Drama

The Long Song: Now A Major BBC Drama

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is...
Brewster

Brewster

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
As an infant, Jon Mosher tragically lost his older brother to a freak accident - something that could have happened to any family. There's nothing he could have done to...
The Summer Holiday

The Summer Holiday

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Two weeks. Two families. What could possibly go wrong...?Claire Swift can't think of anything worse than another holiday with the Wellbeloved family. The last trip together was a complete disaster...
Most Wanted

Most Wanted

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
When a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps. Since it is the husband who is infertile, the...
This Living and Immortal Thing

This Living and Immortal Thing

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
'My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was ' This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death....
Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life: 'An absolute joy' - Sarah Haywood

Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life: 'An absolute joy' - Sarah Haywood

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
I don't have any friends, only dog ones, because they don't make you do bad things. I don't want any human friends, actually. It's for the bestHope Nicely hasn't had...
The World to Come: Stories

The World to Come: Stories

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and...
Small Acts of Kindness: The new poignant and uplifting novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Caroline Day

Small Acts of Kindness: The new poignant and uplifting novel [...]

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Kiki grew up in New Zealand, dreaming of one day going to Glastonbury Festival. Now, mourning the loss of her beloved Yaya - the woman who raised her - she...
One Girl Began

One Girl Began

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
'A beautiful novel . . . reminds us that our streets are thick with history'ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN'Both moving and addictive'JOANNA BRISCOE'Terrific'FRANCES QUINNTHREE WOMEN. ONE BUILDING. 111 YEARS . . .East...