Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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An Australian Women's Weekly Great Read The cost of freedom is sacrifice London, 1908. It's the dawn of a new century and change is in the air. When 17-year-old Beatrice...

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...

'I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!' Liane Moriarty From the international bestselling author of The Dry and new novel The Survivors....

It only takes one spark It's the biggest case of her career and Eliza Carmody is on the 'wrong' side. She is defending a large corporation that people believe was...

'Funny, uplifting and warm' Sunday Times bestselling author PHILLIPA ASHLEY 'Beautifully written, the characters leap from the page' Million-copy bestselling author SUE MOORCROFT The Unretirement is an uplifting story about...

Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time? 'Cressida's characters are wonderful' Sarah Morgan 'Bursting with warmth' Kirsty Greenwood 'We couldn't put this down!' BELLA 'You'll devour this'...

DISCOVER THE GORGEOUS NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK CLUB CHAMPION Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history, Roseland seemed to belong to another century...

A terrifying ghost story, by the author of the The Woman in Black A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. One dark and rainy...

Don't miss the STUNNING new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Harriet Evans - THE BELOVED GIRLS is available to buy now! 'Heart-stopping and wonderful . . . an epic,...

1613: King James - sixth of Scotland, first of England, son of Mary, Queen of Scots - has unified both countries under one crown. But the death of his eldest...

Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...

A beautiful collectible edition containing the seventh and eighth novels of the beloved Bridgerton series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. It's in His Kiss Gareth St. Clair...

Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes,...

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback...

A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...

A revolutionary and timeless tale of rebellion, surfing, and youthful discovery. 'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the...

A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award, for fans of BEFORE COFFEE GETS COLD For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and...

Beautifully written and utterly absorbing from the first word, this is a haunting coming-of-age novel that's good enough to eat . . . Abandoned by her mother with only some...

The heartbreaking novel of the year from Jojo Moyes proves you're never too old or young to cry Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there...

The phenomenal bestseller. The overall bestselling novel of 2017, with almost 700,000 copies sold in print alone. 'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn...

One of the best-known novels of the 20th century - the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita 'Lolita, light of my life,...

One of the best American novels ever written- a rolicking, controversial New York fable As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a...

'This beautifully crafted novel is a tribute to the power of books' Sunday Express In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, a newly-trained librarian, takes up the post of Children's Librarian in a...

Tim Winton's first Miles Franklin-winner, Shallows revolves around the ruthless commerce of whaling, and Queenie Cookson, who joins the fight to end it. Angelus is a frontier town with a...

First with your head and then with your heart . . . So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of...

In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in...

Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into...

In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick. Spurned as a young man, Florentino Ariza has a...

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover scandalized the world when it was first published in paperback, and helped put Penguin Books on trial. The powerful depiction of the sexual liaison...

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A book to read and...

A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers. Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular writers, equally at home writing for...

The explosive new thriller in the bestselling international Jack Hawksworth series 'A compelling read' Sydney Morning Herald Detective Superintendent Jack Hawksworth is seconded by counter-terrorism to investigate a spate of...

The heartbreaking new novel from the Australian author who has won hearts the world over, for fans of David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes. NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! USA TODAY...

From the international Number One bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes - thirty years after Lila's father ran away to Hollywood, he's back to wreck - or save - her...

A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

Nabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from...

Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and disintegration. Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare,...

Candice Fox has taken the Australian crime-writing world by storm in the last few years. Eden is the second novel in her award-winning crime series. Winner of the Ned Kelly...

Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems... Discover...

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me,...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired...

A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers. 'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy...