Modern Fiction (post 1945)

July, 1936. It is the height of the Depression, and the looming threat of Fascism is spreading across Europe. And somewhere high above the Adirondack mountains, beautiful and doomed, floats...

When Olivia s husband Johnny announces, I don t care what colour you paint the hall, I m leaving, Olivia is understandably devastated. Left with an eccentric troop of builders...

From the moment she learns of the stranger's visit, Molly Tattersall is filled with a sense of fear. A short time later, Molly's mother disappears, leaving behind a letter in...

Magnus is haunted. He is trying to make a life for himself in Edinburgh, but memories of Claire, his sister, who died mysteriously when working in Africa, follow him everywhere....

Two classic works in one volume from the first lady of crime, Fortress and Whipping Boy.

The sensational novel that shocked Australia... Come in Spinner won the 1948 Daily telegraph novel competition. It was first published in an abridged edition in 1951, as the subject matter...

The classic by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As...

Fern has taken a raincheck from her everyday routine. Abandoning work, her studies and any human contact, she holes up in her room, haunted by strange dreams and the creeping...

The new classic from the queen of contemporary fiction A brand-new book from the Number One bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a...

One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever... Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled...

Sussex, 2003 . When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But...

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer...

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of...

The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson...

The author describes his career with the Navy's first anti-terrorist unit.

Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's acciendental death. She was always the headstrong one, the...

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the...

One act of love will change one family s destiny As a devoted mother, Veronique Parker has dedicated herself to her three daughters, before and since her divorce. Her world...

Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier...

I've lost it. -( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very...

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze - but it's trickier than she thought. Two-year-old Minnie is a little tearaway who has created havoc everywhere from Harrods...

Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister, Tammy, has a...

A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer...

Bramble House contained a matriarchal empire headed by Emma Funnell. The house had been built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick and, now in her 70s, Emma continued...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet...

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for...

In 'The Brooklyn Follies' an uncle and nephew accidentally end up living in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood. When a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives, there...

Isabel, a young woman in flight from the ravages of the Great War, throws herself headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor, and Oxford graduate....

An illustrated, first-hand account of a history-making dig in lush and beautiful jungles and caves of North Vietnam, the subject of a November 19899, National Geographic feature and a television...

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private...

He was out of her league. e was out of her depth. On the bookshelf of Miranda Brown's life, romance is always out of reach. In the fast-track of Burnt...

From the world's favourite storyteller, an uplifting story of love, loss and the gifts people pass on that change lives beyond imagination . . . A father's love will change...

A page-turning story of two different families and the life-changing decisions they both have to make. Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company - a...