Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Liz BraswellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Scholastic, 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis captivating young adult fantasy presents a darker, more perilous journey within...

Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says...

Author: Liz BraswellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Scholastic, 2018Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis imaginative fantasy presents a dark reimagining of a beloved fairy tale,...

Author: Sally RippinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2020Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHey Jack! presents a charming series of adventures for emergent...

T he Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and...

'Sits squarely at the tender intersection of race, class, and ethics - wrapped in beautiful prose and a killer plot that keeps you turning the pages' JODI PICOULT 'Oh my...

The society wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. Thomas and Irene settle into marital life in Berlin,...

When plans are upended, who can turn them the right way up? A heartwarming, wise and tender novel about life's twists and turns and figuring out what really matters, from...

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend...

Join the small community of Summerfield in this warm-hearted, charming romance about trying not to fall in love - and failing - from an award-winning Australian author. For readers of...

Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle) Set in the nineteenth...

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time 'A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious'...

There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel... Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery short story is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas! ____...

A hilarious, emotional and thought-provoking book club read for fans of David Nicholls and Cecelia Ahern. ------------------ Nell has always known the date she's going to die. After a psychic...

A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing , this "marvelous debut" (Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of The Ninth Hour ) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces...

'Beautiful ... incredibly moving' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply satisfying ... beautifully written' POLLY SAMSON 'Exceptionally moving' NEW YORK TIMES 'Magnetic, breathtaking' CHERIE JONES 'Beautiful ... I adored it' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Profoundly...

**Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Christian Bale and Gillian Anderson** April 19th, 1831. In two or three hours I'll be dead. So begins the chilling last testament...

"Hilarious, refreshing, tightly plotted, and vividly written. An irresistible read."-Jonas Jonasson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared "A seriously...

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov...

It was a time when refugees seized with both hands the chance for freedom; a time when people of more than seventy nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge...

Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud...

'A masterfully told, character-driven novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures' THE AUSTRALIAN 'A deeply empathetic, humanising portrait of a mental health facility, and the souls...

A captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Fern...

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity...

The latst novel in the Gabriel Allon series.

This is a series of five autobiographical essays by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. The first, "The Road to San Giovanni", revolves around his father and the house and town...

Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'last-minute job that won't take a minute' at the...

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a...

Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside...

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

When Sarah Murphy returns to Australia she desperately needs a break from her high-powered London life. And though mystified by her grandmother's dying wish for her ashes to be scattered...

Tender, brutal, devastating, OVERSPILL is the debut novel from incredible new literary talent, Charlotte Paradise, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Coco Mellors 'This book will break your heart,...

The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of 'The Magician's Assistant', winner of the Orange Prize, repackaged and promoted as part of Perennial's fiction...

The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author. 'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer.' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit...

PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash returns again toAppalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettablestories that span the Civil...

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the...

Set in the frozen north of Canada in 1972, this is a novel about childhood trauma, painful histories that need reckoning with and the moments in life when we can...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. Meet Grace Adams- an ordinary wife and mother collecting the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. But look...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe...

'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book Review Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the...

'This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE- An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and power LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

The extraordinary top ten Sunday Times bestseller about a school under siege In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens- a school is under siege. Told...

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English...