Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Funny and clever, this is the next Devil Wears Prada ' Paige Toon Behind every successful man is a busy assistant and Tina's boss is very successful. But Tina is...

SHAKEN AND STIRRED combines wonderful storytelling, Irish warmth, romance, drama and ambition with enormous universal appeal. It is the story of four characters who work in an advertising office in...

At the heart of Cynthia Thayer's debut novel, Strong for Potatoes , was the tender relationship between a girl and her grandfather, constantly evolving as their lives grew and changed....

A sweeping, magical novel from Elif Shafak set in 16th-century Istanbul, bursting with colour, romance and white elephants When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift...

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten...

A beloved tragicomic masterpiece- 'Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful' Daily Telegraph Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies...

ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried secret that links...

Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley meet new friends while on filming a movie on location in Utah and Nevada, and one friendship leads to romance while the other leads to trouble.

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas, Catherine,...

In What If God Were the Sun, John Edward, best-selling author of Crossing Over, weaves a warm and poignant story about one family and their way of dealing with life,...

From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid-flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human...

A new edition of this Australian classic. An engaging story of profound love. Carefree physical love, born in fleeting pleasures and casual sex, tested by cruel adversity, deepening at every...

Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering...

An unexpected act of violence brings together two families in this propulsive and sweeping story of love, identity and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three...

'I'm going to kill her. You'd better come if you want to save her.' Lorraine - 'Rainy' - lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine...

'There's life Before Baby and life After Baby. Any idiot knows that. I knew that. Except I didn't now what life After Baby would really be like . . .'...

Can YOU keep a secret? Find out in this riotous romantic comedy about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters and growing older but certainly no wiser... When Cass Palmer's mother...

It's been almost thirteen years since we last saw Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey towards happy-ever-after made millions of women the world over laugh, cry...

Alex is a brilliant chef, but he struggles to fill his Barcelona restaurant because of his gruff, eccentric personality and his refusal to use ingredients that trace their culinary origins...

Robert Jones has a lot going for him: a steady job, a steady relationship and plenty of prospects, until a white woman accuses him of rape and, all of a...

A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event...

10 April, 1912As the RMS Titanicleaves from Southampton Docks for her maiden voyage to New York, little do her 2,223 passengers dream of the powers at play on board the...

New York Times Bestseller A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as "a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she finds herself as busy and in demand as ever:...

A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus....

In war-torn Iraq, Stratton s closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton s godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles...

Best friends Jo Ryan and Aisling Moran have it all. As a fashion journalist with an Irish glossy magazine, Jo has a great career, independence and a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend....

A thrilling adventure and a poignant exploration of grief, family and identity, set against the upheavals of twenty-first century Kenya. Amid the violence of Kenya's upcoming presidential elections, Joshua Otieng...

the epic new African novel from the bestselling author of tears of the Maasai.Beyond Mombasa tells the unforgettable story of Ronald and Florence Preston, the pioneering Victorian-era couple who, with...

Dark, hedonistic and sometimes violent, Metro tells the story of six months in the life of university student Liam Kelly. When his girlfriend Sara leaves Australia to backpack around Europe,...

Go out. Take a pill. Meet a boy. Dance. Recover. Repeat. Calvin is sixteen and out of control. Experienced but naive, he and his friends feel disconnected from their safe,...

This beguiling novel is a provocative romantic comedy centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper, who is an engaging, intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts. But when...

In a village on the Suffolk coast Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before, he spied for the government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapons...

Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an...

This novel is built on a fragment of historical information - an unsolved triple murder committed in Australia in 1868. The author uses the real names of the victims and...