Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...

Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the mighty Iron Ore State. Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in...

Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...

Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...

Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK) 'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK) How...

Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

Author: E.M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England,...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir to join the Penguin Modern Classics. Unique among Jack...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 284 Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. To...

Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...

Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Continuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic...

Author: Gregg Hurwitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Daniel Brasher is leaving behind his job as a probation counsellor working with hardened criminals to spend more time...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs...

Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...

Author: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...

Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago In...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...

Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 322 Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and...

Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...

Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A story of obsessive young love and overwhelming grief from the Booker Prize-winning author - now a Penguin Essential...

Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 From the best-selling author of The Circle, a powerful modern fable on the legacy of colonialism, the dark power...

Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Stars shine on centre stage. But what secrets lie hidden in the wings? Stars shine on centre stage. But...

Author: Josephine Moon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The heartwarming new family drama from the bestselling author of The Cake Maker's Wish Award-winning jam maker Aggie is...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In perhaps his boldest and most personal novel, Tom Keneally explores the journeys of modern Australians alongside the imagined...

Author: Arnold Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...

Author: Kyle Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling breakout author of The Bluffs comes a heart-stopping new thriller set on the rugged coast of...

Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A rifle-shot of a novel - crisp, fast, shocking - The Shepherd's Hut is an urgent masterpiece about solitude,...

Author: Kerry McGinnis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly evocative family mystery of secrets and betrayal from the bestselling author of Croc Country. The darkest secrets...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 247 A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived...

Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Once Oliver Orme was a petty thief and a successful painter. Always desiring what belonged to others, he sought...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The groundbreaking classic about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. The groundbreaking novel about economic rationalism...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Youth is a modern classic...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling'...