Modern & contemporary fiction

One late-summer's morning Beth heads to the beach with her best friend. They spend the day flirting with boys and enjoying the thrill of being young. Beth is 18 and soon leaving home for college. Her mother, Cate, is already missing her. That afternoon, the doorbell rings. Cate immediately knows ...

From Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of 'Forever, Interrupted' comes a novel about modern marriage and the depth of family ties.

Sanna and Gerti see the Führer in a motorcade procession and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised 'empty hand'. Then the parade is over and in the long hours after midnight, Sanna and Gerti face betrayal, death and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era d...

Three best friends take the same Eurostar to Paris for a girls' weekend, but take separate trains back. What happened that weekend? This is a novel set in Paris about motherhood, friendship, secrets, and the face we present to the world.

Sela Gordon, shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude. If anyone can chip away at her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who's been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain. But when he warns her that a catastrophic solar storm with the capab...

Immortal Enforcer Valerian just wants to relax. His last assignment had been more grueling than he'd care to admit, and golf has always helped him unwind. If golf course owner Natalie thinks it's a little odd for him to tee off at sunset every evening, she's keeping it to herself. The single mom ...

Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her death by shaolong. Interest in Beijing's dragons leads Kai an...

Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. Only now they're facing the most important decision of their lives - and they don't agree. As the consequences of an impossible choice threaten to devastate them both, nothing will ever be the same again. But anything can happen after the end.

In the quiet of a New Zealand Winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. At first his injuries look like a horrible accident. Only his mother knows the truth. And she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

Pearl knows little of her father Jacob and elder sister Row, who left her mother Myra when she was pregnant with her. Between them they make do, with Myra fishing and trading to make ends meet, travelling from island to island on Bird, the boat Myra's grandfather made before he died. Whilst their...