Modern Fiction (post 1945)

NINA X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years. Nina X has...

'You've disappointed me. You had all the potential in the world. You could have been so much.' William Adair, patriarch, doting father of three girls, Men's Tennis Club Champion from...

An unforgettable story of love and adventure set in one of the world s last unspoiled wildernesses. For Libby Bass, expert in whale and dolphin communication, the job in New...

If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...

New Zealand author William Brant's acclaimed debut is a hilarious farce about the film industry, ex-girlfriends and desperate measures. Frederick Case is a 42-year-old New Zealand film-maker failing in London....

Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe combine their truly scandalous imaginations with the secrets they know about life in the fast lane to bring you a book like nothing you've ever read...

'Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled...

Shake some hands. Kiss some coworkers. Cutthroat political consultant Thom Morgan is thriving, working on the governor of California's presidential campaign. If only he didn't have to deal with Clay...

Thisis the story of Augustus Rose -- half African-American, half Italian; journalist, lover, restauranteur, unlikely terrorist -- and his interrogator, Harper, a Grand Inquisitor armed with twenty-first century cruelty, clarity...

Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill...

Another thorny issue is up for debate in this addictive and thought-provoking new novel from the author of the Richard & Judy book club pick, THE HERD. In the sleepy...

As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel In Five Poems...

'Lukins' prose is supple and elegant ... his doomed and flailing Gulch family are a stunning comic creation. But even as they writhe and scheme under the law's heel, Lukins...

In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a...

The second book in the Agnes Browne trilogy, the basis for the BAFTA-award winning TV series Mrs Brown's Boys. Continuing the hilarious saga of the ups and downs, minor scrapes...

When Valerie, now in her sixties, learns that her Gen Z co-worker, Anna, has effectively been fired for rejecting the boss's advances, Valerie becomes her champion, and so ensures that...

It had never been the best of marriages, yet in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson still presented an acceptable family facade to the outside world. There was...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in...

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband . Ever...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER...

Two sisters. One secret. A journey to learn who they really are... The instant Irish number one bestseller! 'I really, really loved it. I think it's her best book so...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No...

He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker,...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is...

When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of...

Otto Eisinger, an elderly German emigre living alone in Brazil, attempts to thwart a pair of armed robbers and is brutally beaten. When the Brazilian media get hold of the...

Shooting for fame could end your career ... and your life. A sparkling mystery from a stylish new voice in crime fiction, in a book that will delight fans of...

One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. Bemused he races to the uppermost gallery and there beneath him on a...

The prince of the title is not the present incumbent but a neo-fascist layabout served by a court of booted hoodlums in a parody of the Arthurian legend...

A compelling parable of the modern inner journey leading to true self-discovery. Its time less message has the power to transform the reader.

An unforgettable journey through the experience of time and desire, where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who...