Modern & contemporary fiction

Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California is engulfed with wildfire. But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper i...

Summer, 1957. Melody Bright begins her dream job as one of Bob's Blazers - the entertainers and hosts at Trimbles Holiday Camp. Melody and her chorus partner Trevor grow closer as they sing, dance, and deal with some challenging customers together. But when Melody's brother Charlie arrives, claim...

2059. 19-year-old Paige is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped. She is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite. He is her master. Her trainer....

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying. She finds diversion and excitement in a...

Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why...

Jo Sorsby knows she is hiding from her past when she agrees to look after her uncle's stationery shop. Spending her days glimpsing the lives of her customers as they experiment with what's on offer is a welcome distraction from the life she has left behind. Yet far from home, Jo feels adrift. But...

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die.

Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. He tells his own story in spellbinding prose. Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in...

Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling him he will need considerable mettle to reach the t...

Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favourite book, a heavily annotated copy of To Kill A Mockingbird containing her friend's last gift. When James finds Erin's note-filled book in his local community bookshel...