Modern Fiction (post 1945)

From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle , a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an...

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident....

From one half of bestselling duo Nicci French comes a beautifully crafted new novel full of mystery and intrigue Eleanor Lee is fiercely independent. She has lived alone well into...

'Hellishly good fun' The Times 'A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore' John Connolly And Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths...

'A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you're surprised to find your eyebrows aren't singed' Mark Sanderson, The Times A town under...

Sharply observed and painfully relatable, Breaststrokes is a novel that seems to emerge from the haze of our current time. This story of unexpected encounters and intimacies is perfect for...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SWEET LITTLE LIES COMES A DARK AND TWISTY THRILLER ABOUT SECRETS, LIES AND REVENGE. ONE WOMAN'S SECRET TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY THREE DEADLY...

Includes a brilliant new introduction to this scintillating novel from Jade Beer! 'Get ready to meet a thrilling new generation of Hollywood wives - much like their creator and the...

Featuring a brand new introduction from bestselling author, Sarra Manning, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! 'Nobody does it quite like Jackie Collins, and nobody ever...

Something is amiss in the village of Badley Compton... Binoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London, delightful no...

'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY 'The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a...

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.'...

Alice Campion is the pseudonym for five members of a Sydney book club who challenged themselves to write a 21st Century Thorn Birds . The result is a captivating rural...

Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family...

Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. Her husband Jeffrey is keen on gardening and golf; her children are obsessed with well-balanced diets; and Kate's main worry is when to...

Sometimes those closest to us can do the most harm... The granddaughter of world famous movie star Janet Hardy, Cilla McGowan has long accepted that her own talents lie elsewhere....

When Hannah Legare was eleven, her adored father, Buzz - notoriously charming doctor and family man - went fishing in the mouth of the Charleston harbour. Two days later, his...

Crime and courtroom drama meet island humour and romance in this award-winning debut novel. Crime and courtroom drama meet island humour and romance in this award-winning debut novel. When Thea...

Film to screen nationally in Australia 29 November 2018 Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of...

A cool and elegant debut novel, a satire on our fascination with the media and the private lives of the powerful, and a story of obsessive infatuation. Gaby Harvey is...

In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subway. The connection is immediate; a steamy love affair ensues....

Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy 'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE 'Witty,...

To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer...

Like most people, Vic Mullan - once described by his best friend Joe as 'a man whose sense of social responsibility is exhausted by pulling over to let an ambulance...

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a...

When four women head to a tiny island off the coast of Nantucket, they are all hoping to escape their troubles... Birdie is organising a wedding, though her own marriage...

Why is it that your best friend always seems to end up with men who treat her badly Why is that your best male friend seems intent on dating the...

When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an...

Albion Gidley Singer appears an entirely proper man: husband, father, pillar of the community. But he is a hollow man, and within him are frightened and frighteningly dark places from...

Marcella Atkinson was a married woman when she fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, himself a married father of two. On the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife...

Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. Regarded as little more than...

In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms...

The final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his...

For fans of ONE DAY, THE MARRIAGE PLOT and THEN WE CAME TO THE END, a comedy of manners for the quarter-life crisis generation. 'Glitters with wit and wisdom' Guardian...

Jill Ruspoli is moving forward with her life after a devastating divorce. Her work as a doctor is hectic but fulfilling, she's newly engaged to a kind and loving medical...

A high concept love story with a twist from one of the smartest, funniest, wittiest writers around. Tom got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn't left him,...

"O'Brien's first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of 'mythomania,' O'Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and...

"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger , is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking...

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the...

"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."-Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning...

"Suspenseful...emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn't remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story." - NPR An...