Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes . . . THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this...

Your childhood crush turned movie star. Now set to play the leading role in a book he doesn't know you wrote about him. Jason Thorn is a name everyone recognises....

Alice Lightfoot is far too young to be a widow and a grandmother. Perhaps she'd been too young to be a wife, although she was happy enough at the time....

Nate Monk is Kieran's father. He's a single parent of a 'differently wired' child, a talented musician who once stood on the cusp of success and a man resigned to...

Nicole Richie returns with a follow up to her Australian & international top 10 hit THE TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS. 'Well-written, pacy and confident' DAILY MAIL Meet Charlotte Williams . ....

The President's wife - is she a victim or a heroine? Is she a victim or a heroine? Beth Wilford Avery is the most famous woman in the world. At...

For all fans of the bestselling phenomenons FIFTY SHADES and THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE, this is next erotic must-read. For fans of FIFtY SHADES OF GREY; the author of sensational...

Abraham creates a portrait of a young, crumbling marriage. It is alternately sad and compelling.'

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there...

The ghost of a real-life historical figure helps elderly Catherine da Costa convince her granddaughters to travel across Europe with her and helps them find a link between past and...

From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a long-awaited opportunity for readers to discover an acclaimed early novel one of this cherished storyteller s most powerful and complex...

*Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018* *Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)* Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling. T or Timothy...

A cockney evacuee to rural Devon is victimized by a local gang called the Five Boys. But he is not the only stranger to have an impact on the village....

One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Monday. It...

The moving new novel from one of Britain's bestselling saga authors From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a heart-warming and emotional...

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves...

Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast...

A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash...

One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven creeps out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear to tree, and...

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing...

When Tam's brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked up, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let him down but he is transported to...

As history reaches a tipping point, the forces unleashed by the Transition threaten to bring the future crashing down in ruins. Will Hitler and Tojo finish their race towards an...

March 1939 Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape. Christa, an only child,...

Max and Tine arrive on the Greek island of her childhood holidays. Both are in their mid twenties and this is their first serious relationship. Max is relatively inexperienced with...

The gripping new international thriller, racing between the US, Russia, Israel and Australia Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country's dominance on the world stage at any price....

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

Time is not what it seems ... As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know...

Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012. Justin and Angela Kennedy have money,...

'You may never read a novel crafted with more wonder and mystery' - Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. The year is 1957 and the place is Paris,...

A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. Can you imagine what it must be like to take the souls of others? Marcello Mansini...

What If . . . You Were Handed a Ticket That Could Magically Start Your Life Anew? In what is sure to become a classic, Brendon Burchard has crafted a...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love, a little boy's journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author...

Nicci Morrison was always the first of her friends to do everything... But she wasn't meant to be the first to die. Saying goodbye is never easy, but at least...

The powerful new besteller from the country's number one storyteller. In a 1930's setting, Live The Dream tells the story of three people caught up in a tangle of love...

I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn t hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death. Life Before...

'All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them' It is July 1962. Edward...

'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me? ' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful...