Dragonfly In Amber: (Outlander 2) by Diana Gabaldon
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Outlander Ser.
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES -Now a major TV series. For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror: The heartbreaking and inspiring new novel from the award-winning author of Australia's favourite bestsellers Boy Swallows Universe, Love Stories and All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
Category: Modern Fiction
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more
A Solitary Walk on the Moon by Hilde Hinton
Category: Modern Fiction
'Evelyn went to the third drawer down in her dresser. It was her drawer of things past ... she had an item from each of her previous lives. Evelyn was good at reinventing herself, becoming who she was going to be next, but she still kept one thing from each life. Never two.' For Evelyn, mornings pass a ...Show more
Banksia Close by C. L. Rowe
Category: Modern Fiction
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, five ordinary people decide to breach restrictions and meet for dinner, where a single conversation will unravel their lives, destroy friendships, and forge new bonds. Why do we choose the paths that we do? Why do we believe what we believe? Where does bias com ...Show more
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
Category: Modern Fiction
‘Harrowing and heartening in equal measure, this book is a breathtaking tale of racial fissures, fury and friendship' David Lammy, MP and author of Tribes ‘A powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice – and the stunning ways they intersect…Empathetic, riveting, and authentic' ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Category: Modern Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
Too Late: A dark and twisty thriller from the author of global phenomenon VERITY by Colleen Hoover
Category: Modern Fiction
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does, every single day. After finding herself stuck in a relationship with the dangerous and morally corrupt Asa Jackson, Sloan will do whatever it takes to get by until she's able to find a way out. Nothing will get in her way. Nothin ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (#1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
Sisterhood by Cathy Kelly
Category: Modern Fiction
Two sisters. One secret. A journey to learn who they really are… As the waves crash on to a wild Atlantic beach, Lou is at a crossroads. For the first time ever, just giving up seems like an option. In just one night, at her own 50th birthday, her world has imploded. Her mother has kept a secret hidden ...Show more
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Category: Modern Fiction
This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell- ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Category: Modern Fiction
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Category: Modern Fiction
From No.1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both ...Show more