Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Jessica AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWhen Sylvia Foley returns to Australia after twenty years, she finds her father, Jack Cornock,...

Author: V. S. NaipaulBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRalph Singh, a former politician from a fictional Caribbean island, recounts his life story from...

Author: Vicki BaumBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1953Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe novel set in post war America with an Italian Giano who is brought to the...

Author: Suzanne Holly JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: The Jacaranda Press, 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe narrative explores themes of growth and transformation. Characters navigate complex relationships within a...

Author: Thomas KeneallyBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1986Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel tells a story of familial bonds tested by secrets and the weight of history. A...

Author: Barry HillBinding: HardbackPublished: McPhee Gribble Publishers, Melbourne, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a narrative, potentially exploring themes of human relationships, art, or historical...

His Christmas Virgin - Carole Mortimer Jonas Buchanan never combines work and pleasure, and steers clear of any woman who doesn't play by his rules... Rule 1: He doesn't bed...

A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring...

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan. A botched defection in an airport hotel...

A award-winning, psychological post-Cold War novel-adapted as a TNT series starring Sean Bean-Legends is the next blockbuster spy novel from Robert Littell. Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent...

It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. PI...

When Rachel is pregnant with Lola, she imagines motherhood will involve pushing her sleeping infant in a pram through sun-dappled parks, suffused with the purest love she has ever felt....

"Janet Kelly's 'The Colour of Walls' is a novel of incest and a woman who takes responsibility for her family through barely imaginable injustice and adversity... It describes the aftermath...

An utterly original and compelling novel from "one of our living masters ( McSweeney's ), originally published in 1998 and now re-issued by Grove with a new introduction--a conversation between...

A fabulously addictive read from a bestselling author, filled with glamour, passion and desire Orphan Kate Fox is determined to make her mark in the world, and with her gorgeous...

Many citizens of Ambient, Wisconsin, believe the old tales of an angel living in the Onion River that runs through the heart of their town. So when Gabriel Carpenter vanishes...

Alice McDermott's masterful novel is a portrait of a working-class American family living through the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately...

'Stop looking to belong, half-and-half child. Stop. There is nothing, there is only me, and I have caught you.' Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an...

From the author of the hugely successful THE SAVING GRACES and CIRCLE OF THREE comes another beautiful tale of life and love Growing up, Anne admired and emulated her unmarried...

Fate, in the form of tragedy, has finally caught up with Saira Qader - a free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent - who finds herself caught in a struggle...

King James or Vernaland, an ex-conchie bashing Special Services hardnut, and Binary Bob, his young companion with a genius for computer hacking and data-harvesting; Peter Jones, a disaffected lifestyle journalist...

Loosely based in historical fact,Sister Noonis a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of...

THEY COME IN PEACE, BARING GIFTS OF LOVE, HOPE, AND MIRACLES Here are incredible true stories from people whose lives were forever changed by alien encounters. Unlike many of the...

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis , this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE...

An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.

Two branches of the McAllister family lead very different lives on cattle stations in Central Australia. Rob, a stickler for correctness, manages a wealthy, company-owned property, while his easygoing brother...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha , the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried,...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous novel, perfect for cold winter nights... Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out...

'This year's Eleanor Oliphant' Claire Allan 'Astonishing' Ruth Hogan 'Strikingly brilliant' Sun Jillian Safinova can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying...

The summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up, she's forced to reconsider....

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors. Ruth Ramsey went too far. She hadn't noticed...

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to...

A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely...

From the rugged beauty of the Adelaide Hills comes a story of loss, hope and new beginnings... Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a bubbly best friend, a...

Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and an all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of...

Be careful what you wish for Holly Grey only took up witchery to keep her friend out of trouble and now she's knee-deep in hassle, in the form of apocalyptic...

"A gloriously indulgent romantic comedy set in the little town of Cypress Hollow. Lucy never forgot 'The Kiss'. Or the bad boy she shared it with. Now, 17 years later,...