Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Plantation

The Plantation

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With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about...
By Design

By Design

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Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, The

Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, The

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From an early age, James Poneke has had to play a role to survive. But what of the real James? While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his...
Burnt Sunshine

Burnt Sunshine

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Sydney, 1936, and the gorgeous Greta Osborne is a burgeoning stage star about to join the famous Palace Theatre in New York. But meeting married British naval officer Andrew Flight...
Niceville

Niceville

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When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of...
How to Catch a Queen: A Novel

How to Catch a Queen: A Novel

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An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole's Runaway Royals series. When Shanti Mohapi weds the...
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024

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A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha....
Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

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In the vein of Such a Fun Age , a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers-one white, one Black-living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship,...
The Hop: A Novel

The Hop: A Novel

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"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...
The Dark Hours

The Dark Hours

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' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it.' New York Times 'Immersive, atmospheric, heart-stopping - I tore...
You Will Never Be Me

You Will Never Be Me

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When cracks start forming in an influencer's curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video in this riveting suspense novel by bestselling author Jesse...
Evil Eye

Evil Eye

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'Filled with completely relatable yearning and achingly beautifully written, Evil Eye is a wonderful, moving and absorbing story of identity and belonging and learning to love yourself. I thought it...
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...
Before We Hit the Ground

Before We Hit the Ground

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'A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging... beautifully rendered' JESSICA ANDREWS 'A deeply observant, perceptive writer' JOANNA CANNON 'Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant... deserves to be on...
A Sicilian Affair

A Sicilian Affair

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Don't miss the latest utterly emotional thriller, brimming with family drama from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! What happened to her was unforgivable. But what she did was worse... A...
Lucca

Lucca

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Foal's Bread

Foal's Bread

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Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the...
The Blind Man's Garden

The Blind Man's Garden

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'Love is not consolation, it is light.' From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan...
A Wildflower Summer

A Wildflower Summer

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"I absolutely LOVED this book. So excited to find such a great author that I can add to my automatic buy list." - NetGalley Reviewer , City meets small town...
Griffith Review 31: Ways of Seeing

Griffith Review 31: Ways of Seeing

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Now more than ever, we need a human-centred approach to the big dilemmas of the day, learning from literature and philosophy and drawing on the creative imagination.
Manhattan Loverboy

Manhattan Loverboy

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Overly suspicious second novel from Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up. Nersesian's brilliant follow-up to his underground classic, The Fuck-Up , Manhattan Loverboy is paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in...
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

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A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of this atmospheric story of a mixed-race girl's struggle for identity. Orphaned and alone, young Rachel is taken under the...
Pictures of Lily

Pictures of Lily

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"I am going to find my parents... if I don't track them down I'll be one of the unlucky ones." So writes seventeen-year-old Lily Myers, for whom, adopted at birth,...
Wolves in Winter

Wolves in Winter

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ITALY, 1492. Five-year-old Mura is a strange and bewitching child. Daughter of a Nordic mother and Spanish father, she has been tutored in both Arabic learning and the ancient mythology...
Rabbits for Food

Rabbits for Food

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It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny - an acerbic, mordantly witty and...
Jonathan Unleashed

Jonathan Unleashed

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Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and...
Their Monstrous Hearts

Their Monstrous Hearts

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A haunting novel about the boundaries people will cross to keep their dreams alive. A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo's apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died,...
Enemy of my Dreams

Enemy of my Dreams

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In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a...
Scot and Bothered

Scot and Bothered

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Scot on the trail! Ghostwriter Brooke Sinclair longs to see her own name in print someday. After spending her career behind the scenes, her opportunity arises when her college mentor,...
Zugzwang

Zugzwang

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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play...
As Far as You Can Go

As Far as You Can Go

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When Cassie sees a job advertised for a couple to run a remote Australian farm, she thinks it will be the perfect escape for her and Graham. But trapped under...
The Ventriloquist's Tale

The Ventriloquist's Tale

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The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of...
Dolci di Love

Dolci di Love

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Nothing tastes sweeter than a second chance. The Tuscan town of Montevedova is famous for its rolling green hills, long lazy lunches and delectable cantucci biscuits. It even has its...
Cup of Light

Cup of Light

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Lia is an expert in Chinese porcelain. After being sent from her New York office to Beijing to assess a very special collection of 20 pieces, it becomes clear things...
Sunnyside

Sunnyside

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Charming Billy

Charming Billy

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Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of 47, gather at a small bar and...
Fireproof

Fireproof

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` Fireproof ventures where reportage cannot go, granting even those who have perished a voice' Observer February 2002. A helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is...
Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

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Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a...
Shining Sea

Shining Sea

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Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, SHINING SEA quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the...
Between the Lines (Between the Lines #1)

Between the Lines (Between the Lines #1)

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The first of an irresistible New Adult series about hot teen actors by Tammara Webber, author of the New York Times-bestseller Easy. Perfect for fans of Slammed by Colleen Hoover...
The Nightward: Book One of the Waters of Lethe

The Nightward: Book One of the Waters of Lethe

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Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia's scifantasy debut novel-the first in a duology-in which Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher , introduces a world where women warrior-magicians rule,...
Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved...
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits

The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits

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'Full of glamour, nostalgia, pop music and strong women chasing their dreams. The perfect poolside read to escape into' Georgina Moore 'Weiner captures the tension of sibling rivalry and the...
Whistle

Whistle

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'Terrific' STEPHEN KING Evil has a one track mind... Celebrated children's author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then...
The Murder Room

The Murder Room

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The gripping new thriller with a difference for 2024 from internationally bestselling author Lisa Stone What do you do when your home becomes a living nightmare? Your house should be...