Modern Fiction (post 1945)

India, 1920: exotic, glamorous and wrenching away from Britain's colonial grip, only to be thrown into religious violence and terrorism. Isabel, a young woman in search of herself and in...

The breath-taking story of a mother's love and a son's gift... Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with...

They were three women who dared to make it in a man's world. Madeleine Arsenault has prepared for this moment all her life. Grief for her father is second only...

A precocious child of the 1970s feels stifled by her dull life in a small English seaside town. The only glamour in her world is Fanny Cradock's weekly TV cookery...

Wild Cat Falling is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a 'bodgie' of the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty...

A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim...

One Friday afternoon Molly Clearwater walks out of her job, smarting from her boss's taunt that she is 'just a stupid secretary'. Twenty-one, a country girl who has lived her...

A captivating, loveable novel of stunning originality and poignancy about a 12-year-old genius mapmaker. Now a major motion picture from the director of 'Amelie', starring Helena Bonham Carter. Dear Spivet...

A tale of choices, displacement and courage, suffused with the richness of the oral story-telling tradition and set against the backdrop of the Antwerp prostitute underworld. Four very different women...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER** BEST SUMMER READS OF 2023: The New York Post * Oprah Book Club * Oprah Daily * USA Today * Good Housekeeping * Brit + Co *...

' 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...

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This is a story of murder. This is a story of love. This is a story of survival. This is the most unforgettable thriller of the year._________________________ '[a] mesmerising blend...

'My life is a tight knot I would like to undo. And, yes, there's no use crying over spilt milk but, the truth is, I'd rather die than spill any...

Heart Radio x Dreams Bedtime Bookclub April Book of the Month The dazzling, powerful story of a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s...

From the bestselling author of 'Flowers in the Attic' comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past. Repackaged to attract...

Author: Michael HeywardBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1993Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscription This book recounts the story of Ern Malley, a literary hoax that fooled...

Author: Brian CastroBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel follows characters navigating cultural displacement and identity. It tells a story of...

Author: Alfred DenningBinding: SoftbackPublished: Butterworths, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative likely follows a protagonist facing the twilight of their life, possibly reflecting on past experiences...

Author: Dal StivensBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1958Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe story contains elements of mystery and suspense.

Author: Danielle SteelBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA Japanese woman faces immense cultural challenges and personal sacrifices. She marries an American man, and their...

Author: MacNeill, Hannah (edited by Rev. H.B. Macartney and introduction by Rev. D.S. McEachran)Binding: HardbackPublished: Marshall Brothers, London, 1897Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography...

Author: Donald MccormickBinding: HardbackPublished: Jarrolds, London, 1962Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative transports readers into a world where love and mystery intertwine. Characters navigate complex relationships,...

Author: Tom WolfeBinding: HardbackPublished: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel satirizes the excesses and absurdities of 1980s New York City. It...

Author: R.H.WhittemoreBinding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow & Company, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsDavid Marsh is the narrator of this bitter comedy, and as such he has a great deal...

Author: Maie CaseyBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book immerses readers in the ebb and flow of coastal life, portraying the...

Author: Phillip EdmondsBinding: SoftbackPublished: North Sydney, Second Back Row Press, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis story considers the lives and experiences of individuals navigating the complexities...

Cowrie travels to Hawaii and as she circles the island in an old pick-up truck we discover the tokens of her heritage. Sensual and sexual language brings the earth to...

After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals...

In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than...

Don't miss IT STARTS WITH US , the sequel to IT ENDS WITH US! 'A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long...

A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year "A gripping and resonant novel....

Beware what waits in the shadows... With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray's carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice...

She left her hometown following a scandal - but family loyalty is dragging her back... Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi's sister Margot begs her to come home to...

Howard (Call me 'Walt') Johnson returns to New England after more than a decade in the Mideastern wilderness in one last almighty attempt to untangle his twisted family tree. He's...

A woman visiting Venice fantasises that she is Mrs Noah. Her Ark, a vast, form shifting construct of the imagination, is a water-bourne library moored somewhere in the Lagoon, repository...

After the extraordinary success of Water for Elephants, with 3 million copies shipped, Sara Gruen returns with another immensely charming, endlessly surprising, and engaging novel in which a family of...

Virgil Mann has broken through the genteel facade of English society to expose the ruthless machine beneath, oiled with sex, money and chemicals. It is no place for the fainthearted....

Alexei Berg's father is a well-known dramatist and his mother an opera singer, but in late 1930s Russia both parents suffer constant suspicion and harrassment under Stalin's reign of terror....