Modern and contemporary fiction Books

Soul has just finished his 18-month sentence for a parole violation. Still in love with his son's mother, America, he wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his past. But while Soul was in prison, America's music career...

Like a House on Fire by award-winning Australian author Cate Kennedy is a captivating short story collection that explores the intricate layers of everyday life with warmth, humor, and profound insight. Each story captures ordinary characters facing...

The Rosie Effect is as charming and hilarious as its predecessor. 'We've got something to celebrate,' Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone...

Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.  ...

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? That's the starting...

If her terrified cries had been heard by anyone but a wallaby squatting in a clump of bracken a few feet away, the picnic at Hanging Rock might yet have been just another picnic on a summer's day. On a cloudless summer day in 1900, a group from...

Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.' Marian Keyes A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has given up on love. Until a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire - a...

The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she...

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a...

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime...

'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band' REESE WITHERSPOON SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author...

Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike...

The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike, now in paperback. When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her...

No.1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brings to life the woman many believe was the real playwright behind the work of William Shakespeare alongside a contemporary story of a New York author suffering the same fate of being silenced. 'It is...

It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't. It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others. Nick Wheatley has finished high school, but he isn't ready for the rest of his life. His parents are getting divorced, his...

The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014. It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment...

From the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies "I adored Three Wishes ... fresh, very, very funny ... also intelligent and unsentimental about family dynamics" Marian Keyes "Written with wisdom, humor, and...

The no.1 New York Times bestseller from the author of The Husband's Secret and new novel Apples Never Fall.NOW AN EMMY AWARD WINNING HBO TELEVISION SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON & NICOLE KIDMANParents behaving badly ... a tragic...

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . ...

The no 1. New York Times bestseller from the author of Big Little Lies and new novel Apples Never Fall."A staggeringly brilliant novel. It is literally unputdownable." Mail on SundayHow well do you know your husband?Cecilia...

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a compelling coming-of-age novel set in the small Australian town of Corrigan during the late 1960s. The story follows thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin, whose life is upended when the town outcast, Jasper Jones, knocks on...

A love story and a novel about addiction, Candy is now a major film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. 'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy...

An initiatic novel based on ancient teachings and astrological wisdom from bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow Offers an in-depth experience of alchemical transmutation to cleanse old parts of the psyche and clear space for the shift to 5D through 9D...

Early evening, 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent. Alone and desperately in need of an independent income, she is to become a governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. But her new role in this large household where she is neither a...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2016 Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards 2016 Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015 The...

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.Young,...

The number 1 bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Love, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances. For as long as anyone can remember,...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimk is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's...

#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the...

A classic favourite and beloved for over sixty years, this anniversary edition is perfect for both young readers and lifelong fans.   Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully...

The author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - the bestselling, critically acclaimed novel destined to become another Australian classic. 'A glinting, big-hearted miracle of a book' Richard Glover 'A work of...

Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for...

From the creator and writer of the Emmy Award-winning series Fargo.The rich are different. But fate is blind.Down-on-his-luck artist Scott Burroughs would usually take the ferry back to New York from Martha's Vineyard, but he is unexpectedly offered a...

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man...

The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny, A Man Called Ove is a life-affirming fable for our times. 'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail 'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to...

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school...

Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. Park is the boy at the back of the bus, Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book -...

Shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2019 Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice Me and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of Logar,...

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son...

Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction, the dazzling new novel from bestselling writer Colum McCann. New York, August 1974. A man is walking in the sky and the city stands still, captivated by this sight, awe and disbelief filling the...

If you're wondering how being in the presence of an enlightened person may be communicated on the pages of book written by a flawed and complex-if extremely beautiful-cat, let me confess that my only job here is to offer you a mirror. A looking glass of...

The Queen's Corgi bursts with zest, humour and adventure. Romping through the litany of Nelson's misdemeanours are a warm-heartedness and deep wisdom sure to delight anyone who has known the smiling face and warm tongue of a dog. It is not by chance that...

The #1 New York Times bestselling Hopeless series continues with this heartwarming conclusion that illustrates the power of following a difficult journey to discover what happens next. Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to...

Lost and Found, the bestselling Australian fiction debut of 2014, now an international sensation, will have you laughing, crying and, by the end, feeling just a little wiser . . . A stunning first novel from one of Australia's most exciting young authors...

Deadly secrets hidden for years in a small country town are finally revealed Investigative journalist Jenn Barrett never intended to return to Dungirri, the small town she escaped as a teenager. But startling revelations about local man Mark Strelitz...

Meet the little joey, whose kangaroo mother carries him in her pouch. See the cygnet riding on the back of the mother swan. Eric Carle?s colourful collages of animal babies with their caring and affectionate mothers offer small readers visual delight as...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE  LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE  The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community...