Mrs March by Virginia Feito
Category: Modern Fiction
Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia. George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolades and relishes t ...Show more
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Category: Modern Fiction
Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfriend. Lily a ...Show more
Mistakes and Other Lovers by Amy Lovat
Category: Modern Fiction
El O'Reilly is exceptionally good at making mistakes. Mistakes like: -falling in love with the charismatic youth pastor, Mace, while engaged to her high school boyfriend -breaking up with her fiancé the night before Valentine's Day -walking out on her family -dropping out of uni with no plan B -gho ...Show more
The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning
Category: Modern Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history ... to be found in an Australian country shed in 2019. Europe, 1940s: Imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in ...Show more
Immaculate (2023 Vogel Winner) by Anna McGahan
Category: Modern Fiction
Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. All Frances wants is a cure for her daughter, but that would take a miracle, and miracles aren't something Frances believes in anymore. Newly divorced from her pastor ex-husband and excommunicated from the church community she once worked ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Category: Modern Fiction
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds hims ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
Category: Modern Fiction
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Category: Modern Fiction
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series by Fredrik Backman
Category: Modern Fiction
An instant number 1 New York Times bestseller and touching new comedy from the author of multi-million copy bestseller A Man Called Ove In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a masked figure approaching a bank...Two hours later, chaos has descen ...Show more
Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by Ann Napolitano
Category: Modern Fiction
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Napolitano comes a rich, life-affirming, and heartbreaking novel about sisterhood, family, love, and growing up Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the e ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
Category: Modern Fiction
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, autho ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Category: Modern Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more