High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Flamingo modern classic
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are he ...Show more
Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her lifeOne hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps.She doesn't scream or break something or cry or curl into a ball. She simply abandons her car in traffic and walks away. ...Show more
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. 'Don't miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale ...Show more
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso performance and an enormously exciting offering from one of our most remarkable writers. In 1912, eighteen-ye ...Show more
You Be Mother by Meg Mason
24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
"What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pa ...Show more
April in Spain: Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 by John Banville
19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be who he ...Show more
Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream-and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm ...Show more
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: Modern Fiction
A new chapter is just beginning... A love letter to reading and some of our best-loved novels, THE READING LIST is the story that everyone needs on their nightstand in 2021. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life after the loss of his wife Naina. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about hi ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more