When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
Category: Modern Fiction
What would you do if the secret police demanded you spy on a friend in order to protect your family? Three women confront the complexities of trust, friendship and motherhood under the rule of a dictator in this debut inspired by the author's own experiences in Iraq. At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, ...Show more
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
Category: Modern Fiction
After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her su ...Show more
Girl in the Walls by A. J. Gnuse
Category: Modern Fiction
She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars 'Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home, stretching themselves until they're as thin as air. Not everyone can do ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Category: Modern Fiction
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
The Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Category: Modern Fiction
Told in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character. For the first time in her life, Ginny Moon has found her "forever home" -- a place where she'll be safe and protected, with a family that will love and nurture her. It's ex ...Show more
The Book of Dreams by Nina George
Category: Modern Fiction
A beautiful, bittersweet and magical tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris BookshopOn his way to meet his son for the first time, hardened former war correspondent Henry Skinner is hit by a car after rescuing a ch ...Show more
It Starts with Us: the highly anticipated sequel to IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
Category: Modern Fiction
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas.Multi-million copy bestselling author Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with UsLily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled in ...Show more
The Survivors by Alex Schulman
Category: Modern Fiction
Benjamin sees the shape of his two brothers trying to kill each other. It's no worthy finale, but perhaps it's also no surprise. How else had they expected this to end? Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two decades earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of thei ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Category: Modern Fiction
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more
Trails in the Dust: A Woody Creek Novel 7 by Joy Dettman
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Woody Creek Ser.
After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are - until tragedy strikes. Left floundering in a house full of memories, not all of them good, Jenny knows a reckoning is in order.But it won't be easy. His ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
Category: Modern Fiction
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Still Alice (PB) by Lisa Genova
Category: Modern Fiction
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful, she dismisses it for as long as she can, but when she gets lost in her own neighbourhood she knows that something has gone terrib ...Show more