Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005 ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book so much' REESE WITHERSPOON --- In 1987, Mina Lee flies from Seoul to Los Angeles to...

'Compulsory summer reading' Laura Jane Williams 'Arguably better than Daisy Jones and The Six ' InStyle 'Utterly addictive' Woman's Own 'Atmospheric and absorbing' Andrea Mara LOVE CONNECTS THEM. MUSIC DIVIDES...

'Terrific! Set in modern Paris, this literary thriller invigoratingly combines questions of identity, shenanigans in the art world, love and murder' MICHELE ROBERTS 'A breathtaking book confirming Claire Berest's inexhaustible...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'One of the best regarded...

She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.' As the rest of the world lies...

In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: -...

'Sensual, melancholy, hypnotic. Ordinary Human Love is a richly textured, exquisitely observed portrait of memory, longing, love and forgiveness.' Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident ' I read this...

From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. WINNER OF THE...

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked , the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo...

Snobbish Tarquin Winot sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. As he travels, he introduces his life through...

'A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it' Sunday Telegraph...

'Trigiani is a wonderful storyteller... Readers will enjoy Big Cherry Holler immensely' USA TODAY How do you move forward if you've already lost your way? It's been eight years since...

The highly anticipated sequel to Mary Higgins Clark's iconic bestseller Where Are The Children? , featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, all grown up and again in peril. In Where...

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When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10? Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But...

THE INSTANT SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER A DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE MONTH A PANDORA SYKES/FANE BOOK CLUB PICK ' Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read'...

'There is a connection, Jack. Find it, or you'll never find him.' The highly anticipated third crime thriller in the DCI Jack Hawksworth series. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Police are...

THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO THE WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON ME BEFORE YOU Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her...

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 critically acclaimed, Sunday Times and international bestseller, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012- 'A magical, moving and uplifting tale about a man's journey across England and into his...

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon,...

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...

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A...

When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, Steinbeck's fable THE MOON IS DOWN explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...

John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of...

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...

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...

An epic love story that reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the sparkling, savage world of elite figure skating Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He...

An unforgettable and life-affirming story of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis from the Number One bestselling author. From Number One bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story -...

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...

'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...

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,...

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and...

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...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX and FATES AND FURIES 'Magnificent . . . Lauren Groff is a virtuoso' Emily St John Mandel 'A blistering collection . . . lyrical...

THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. ___________________________________ THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES Now a major TV series 1771- the Colony of North Carolina stands in...

Maurice Swift is an aspiring novelist struggling to come up with the story that will make his name, and he doesn't care where that story comes from. Even if he...

The gripping historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. One woman's ambition Sydney, 1925- When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting, dreams of selling...

IN CINEMAS NOW, from Leah Purcell, named as one of the 100 figures shaping Australia's creative future. The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR As refugees gather in the Australian highlands to redirect a river, their lives intertwine in a powerful tale of rebirth, struggle, and the forging of the...

The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love....

The hilarious, poignant and insightful first novel from the now world-wide bestselling author Claire has everything she ever wanted- a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then,...