Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Children's Bach

The Children's Bach

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...
They're A Weird Mob

They're A Weird Mob

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Author: Nino Culotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Introduced by Jacinta Tynan Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up...
Wake In Fright

Wake In Fright

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Author: Kenneth Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Introduced byPeter Temple The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood...
Slow Man

Slow Man

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...
Life & Times of Michael K

Life & Times of Michael K

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...
The Childhood of Jesus

The Childhood of Jesus

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable...
Summertime

Summertime

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic...
Foe

Foe

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles -...
All The Green Year

All The Green Year

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Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Cardboard Crown

The Cardboard Crown

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Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 266 Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of...
A Difficult Young Man

A Difficult Young Man

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Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen...
Outbreak Of Love

Outbreak Of Love

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Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 322 Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of...
Our Kind of Traitor

Our Kind of Traitor

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre...
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new...
Of Love and Other Demons

Of Love and Other Demons

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...
The General in His Labyrinth

The General in His Labyrinth

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A stunning new edition of one of the world's most beloved novels, ahead of the forthcoming Netflix adaptation...
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING

If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING

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Author: Frances Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea If...
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for...
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro...
The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

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Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The latest title from the bestselling author John le Carre to come into Penguin Modern Classics Harry Pendel...
Visions of Gerard

Visions of Gerard

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir to join the Penguin Modern Classics. Unique among Jack...
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a...
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

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Author: E.M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England,...
Nostalgia

Nostalgia

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Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...
Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...
The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since...
The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and...
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Peter Carey hilariously conjures up dystopia in his picaresque The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Severely afflicted, doomed never...
His Illegal Self

His Illegal Self

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once...
Amnesia

Amnesia

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy...
A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories

The Fat Man in History and Other Stories

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
Bliss

Bliss

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...
The First Man

The First Man

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
Nadja

Nadja

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Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...
The Cedar Tree

The Cedar Tree

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Author: Nicole Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a...
The Other Side of the Story

The Other Side of the Story

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction. 'There are three sides to every story. Your side, their...
Tell No Lies

Tell No Lies

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Author: Gregg Hurwitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Daniel Brasher is leaving behind his job as a probation counsellor working with hardened criminals to spend more time...
Deception

Deception

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A man takes part in a very unusual bet, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the...
Madness

Madness

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a...
Lust

Lust

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail,...
Fear

Fear

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...