Modern and contemporary fiction

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring...

'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense...

The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine – from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.   Reclusive Hollywood movie icon...

Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last...

It's not always easy to be loud and proud - unless you have someone to show you the way. A fun, exuberant and moving gay novel by an exciting new voice in commercial fiction, where these diverse stories can be hard to find. This is a contemporary love...

Set against the backdrop of the new millennium, a seductive summer read about obsession, sex, friendship and music from an exciting new talent. 'A smart, swaggering love letter to smart, swaggering youth, told in a voice that's racing hot, icy cool and...

From the south coast of England to the rugged farmland of northern Tasmania and the lively streets of postwar Paris, this is an extraordinary story of courage, determination and everlasting love from the internationally bestselling author of The Lavender...

Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.  A young man who reminds her, with eerie intensity, of a past lover, someone who changed Mel's life and then vanished.  When the man's travelling girlfriend joins him, Mel's...

The uplifting new novel by the bestselling author of The Garden of Hopes and Dreams  Happiness has a way of catching up with you, even when you've given up trying to find it.  Tilly doesn't believe she can ever be happy again Fourteen-year-old Tilly's...

From the author of the international bestsellers Star-crossed and The Lost Love Song comes a captivating novel about a young woman whose one little mix-up sets off an unexpected chain of events, with repercussions for her business . . . and her love life...

It won't matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.' When six-year-old Clementine Knight loses her mother to malaria during the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa, she is left to be raised by her destitute, alcoholic...

It is 1939. Nazi Germany.  The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier,  and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up an object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. . . Infecting twelve death-row prisoners with an ancient virus, in order to create human weapons. Instead, the virus turned them into ravening unstoppable monsters. And when the Twelve broke out of the underground...

From the author of the phenomenal number one bestseller TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, comes this enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold

Her latest novel is her best yet . . . a wonderful read about growing older and grabbing hold of life' Weekend Australian Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years...

Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did. The first year of high school brought Iris into a type of privilege she'd never felt part of. But then she found her place...

A poignant and unpredictable debut from an exciting new literary talent. Shortlisted for both The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers and the Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Small Joys of Real Life is Sally Rooney meets Helen...

Kokomo is a stunning debut novel from the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her reclusive mother,...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March and People of the Book comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat 'He tilted his desk lamp so that the...

We think we've seen it all before, but the future still arrives without warning. For the wry narrator of this riveting journey, each shift brings him somewhere new-he's protecting his grandparents from the world outside their city gates; he's evacuating...