Modern Fiction (post 1945)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner brings to life an irresistibly funny and relatable heroine in the novel The Boston Globe called "funny, fanciful, extremely poignant, and rich...

Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy with her life. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at boarding school and she's enjoying a...

Bill is a loser. He has no job and no money and no mother: '...his mother was dead and kind of freeze-dried in her bedroom'. She doesn't smell as bad...

In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into...

This compelling debut follows one spirited young woman from the confines of Iran to the intoxicating freedom of America where she discovers not only an enticing new country but the...

What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India,...

In 1941, Larry Zagorski was a naive young writer of science-fiction. Seven decades on, he looks back on that crucial year and traces his place in a mysterious web -...

Once Lamour Harrington was a carefree little girl, following her charming, hard-up, writer father to Italy: first Rome, then the lovely Amalfi coast. Lamour will never forget the tiny cottage...

A volatile Zimbabwe and the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo are the battlefields for a deadly game of cat and mouse in Africa's wildlife wars.Canadian researcher Michelle Parker...

The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways of their place in their world, of power, virility, love of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger....

In Chalaili, an Indian hill station stranded above the clouds, where the trees and flowers are of ravishing hues and the annual monsoon hits with monumental force, a small enclave...

A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to...

Preparations are under way for Hitler's 80th birthday celebrations in this book that details a victorious German army. Berlin is a city dominated by huge triumphal arches and monolithic architecture...

'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 turbine-driven fantasy of love and revenge, values and morals: a witty and compellng elixir. Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. He's sold out to the Devil, in all his...

Author: AnonymousBinding: PaperbackPublished: Amaryllis Books / London and New York, 2003Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis provocative work of literary fiction chronicles...

Author: Robert DreweBinding: PaperbackPublished: PICADOR AUSTRALIA, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Bodysurfers presents a compelling collection of interconnected narratives that chronicle...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House Publishing., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsKangaroo presents a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of post-World War I Australia, where a disillusioned...

Author: Alan MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: F. W. Cheshire, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe Gay Provider presents a heartwarming narrative...

Author: Errol Broome Terry DyerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Collins, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageErrol Broome constructs a narrative around an elderly dog named Wrinkles,...

Author: Harold RobbinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Pocket Books, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsHarold Robbins' The Pirate chronicles the tumultuous life of a powerful Arab magnate, weaving a tale of...

Author: Susan HowatchBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton., 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsSusan Howatch’s The Rich Are Different chronicles the intricate lives and...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatham River Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA seminal work of 20th-century literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover chronicles the passionate affair between an...

Author: Anthony PowellBinding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsInfants of the Spring inaugurates a monumental sequence...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1950Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsKangaroo presents a compelling narrative set in post-World War I Australia, following the disillusioned English writer Richard Lovat...

Author: D.H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWomen In Love by D.H. Lawrence presents a compelling narrative of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work of English literature, Sons And Lovers, chronicles the complex emotional landscape of Paul Morel, a...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKS, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis early novel, The White Peacock, presents a vivid portrait of rural English life and the complex emotional...

Author: Lawrence DurrellBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1969Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight lean to book. The monumental The...

Author: Erich SegalBinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling novel chronicles the intertwined lives of five Harvard classmates, tracing their journeys from the idealism of...

Author: Barry HillBinding: HardbackPublished: McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedNear the Refinery is a taut, politically charged novel that examines the corrosive effects of...

Author: W. B. TritesBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerPater-Familias chronicles the intricate life within a traditional...

Author: Monica DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann : London, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAn Open Book presents a captivating narrative that uncovers the...

Author: Stanislaw Ignacy WitkiewiczBinding: HardbackPublished: Winter House Ltd, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: jacket has tears and foxed on the edges with...

Author: Drusilla ModjeskaBinding: HardbackPublished: Sirius Books, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: discoloured blockingExiles At Home presents a compelling examination of identity and belonging, chronicling the intricate lives...

All the animals in the safari zoo are warned to stay away from the huge Rhino Neil. He is a very lonely rhinoceros until one day Tuscany the elephant arrives....

A heartwarming bestselling Korean novel about the power of books to heal, as a woman leaves her busy life in Seoul to open a bookshop cafe in the countryside where...

Gossip Girl meets Succession in this steamy romance about a tenacious Indian-American heiress who's ready to prove she can lead her family's business, and her best friend's brother, a CEO...

Shortlisted, Australian/Vogel Literary Award 199 Adele Lanois is Registrar of Walters University and chief investigator in a sexual misconduct case. A lone woman in a powerful institution, Adele is unsure...

An extraordinary novel about a young woman trying to survive the death of her first lover-and the revenge of the young man's mother, who holds her responsible. Written with the...

A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of...

Quite unlike her fair stepsisters, Lizzie is dark and secretive: 'Just like your father' says her mother. But what was her father like? Photos of him are hidden away; snatches...