Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post An Amazon Rising Star A boy stands on the roadside on...

Dating The Italian - Ally Blake Do opposites really attract? Band manager Sutton has heard her parents' love story hundreds of times. Only, when she arrives at the bar where...

In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but...

In this, the fourth Caper Court novel, the hero and villain, Leo Davies, finally meets his match in both love and work.

'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter ...But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living...

There was a sailor's graveyard in Moon Beach. This was where the funeral business first started. Rumour had it that the witch's fingers used to reach out and sink ships....

Faith Singer has a weakness for the young down-and-outs inhabiting Sydney's Kings Cross, whom she mothers as best she can. As the story unfolds we see how Faith, once a...

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is...

At his new school, Kip can't get to the irresistible food at the canteen without defying his parents, ditching his friend Lucille, making enemies and drawing attention from the weird...

Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family. Apart from the envy of her less contented sister everything in Dilys' rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a...

It started with a letter, in the handwriting of a child o god help me hes going to hurt me if you dont do what he says. Karen Wiley, recently...

Jolie Hadley Corbett knew one thing: she could put up with her crazy grandmother, her smart-mouthed best friend and even all the local gossips as long as her hair was...

If you could go back in time what would you do differently? What mistakes would you correct? For Eliott there is no doubt in his mind. To all appearances, his...

Outside the school gates of Farquhars school, the gossip hums, the SUVs swarm and Boden abounds. But, here, three women are about to discover that friends are the only accessories...

At a Halloween party that neither Bernie or his two children really want to be at, Bernie collapses and falls into a coma bought on by the accidental combination of...

His father and brothers despise him; he s his mother s crutch one day, her punching bag the next; he has no idea what he wants to do with his...

When Gabriel checks into a rehab in West London he thinks his problems are over. With a fractured home life behind him, a father he never knew, teenage years lost...

A laugh-out-loud debut novel from the popular Marie Claire blogger Lucy Robinson It's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very...

From the bestselling author of two of the loveliest, funniest novels of the last decade comes "Just Friends", a fresh romantic comedy that wittily dissects love, friendship and the true...

At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save...

This is a powerful novel exploring the effects of autism on a young family from Marti Leimbach, author of the international bestseller "Dying Young", who has experienced and dealt with...

A stunning piece of psychological suspense from the author of Araby. Two very different women brought together by a secret from the past. Joan has a tentative grip on the...

In this sophisticated, suspenseful debut reminiscent of Laura Lippman and Chloe Benjamin, two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Light of Falling Stars and The Funnies, a beautifully written story about a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a sheep-ranching family...

An all-new novel based upon the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery are finding that each day is a critical adjustment...

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant...

When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit...

Amy Scott-Simon, a young New York heiress, is engaged to marry Max Diamond, an older powerful real estate tycoon. At her bachelorette party, she runs into Jett, Max's younger half-brother...

Prettier than her sister Ann, Glory is spoilt and given the benefit of her mum's experience with men. As a student she supplements her income as a prostitute, somehow holding...

From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo In this finely wrought portrait of...

From the goldmines of South Africa to the boardrooms of the City of London, from the risks of the casinos to the heady glamour of the London fashion world, the...

An affectionate satire, The Little Boat on Trusting Lane is a story of human connection and the potential of community and friendship to heal. Rashida Murphy, author of The Historian's...

Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny and romantic novel about the fragility of love and marriage. Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe,...

With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey...

Jools has an addiction to married men usually her boss which always ends in disaster. Before she can come to terms with being unemployed (yet again) she finds herself up...

Two sisters. Two lovers. Too many secrets. Grace Rutherford is the one and only Diamond Sharp, the 'It' girl of 1920s London, whose weekly newspaper column delights readers with tales...

'They should have called it Old Lost Land, not Newfoundland, but Old Lost Land.' So says Charlie Smallwood of the birthplace to which he had himself contributed thirteen children. 'Thirteen',...

In books like A Heart So White, Marias has shown that he is one of Europe's most acute novelists. In this book he proves that his talents are equally suited...

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler were eight when they first met and decided to be best friends forever. But, in the wake of tragedy and betrayal during their teenage years,...