The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Category: Modern Fiction
In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Category: Modern Fiction
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. Th ...Show more
Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius
Category: Modern Fiction
The international number one-bestselling sensation- the story of a young Sami girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice. Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami, Scandinavia's indigenous people and make their living herdin ...Show more
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Category: Modern Fiction
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten ...Show more
The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
Category: Modern Fiction
Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared. A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixt ...Show more
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Category: Modern Fiction
What if the person you needed most, turned up when you least expected them?The international #1 bestselling author of The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks is back with his most epic story yet. Maggie hasn't told this story in years. More than two decades ago, she fell in love. She was sixteen and far from hom ...Show more
The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
Category: Modern Fiction
Aristocrat, Author, Bookseller, WW II Spy - a thrilling novel about real-life literary icon Nancy Mitford In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young Thing is estranged from her husband, h ...Show more
Mrs March by Virginia Feito
Category: Modern Fiction
Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia. George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolades and relishes t ...Show more
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Category: Modern Fiction
Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfriend. Lily a ...Show more
Mistakes and Other Lovers by Amy Lovat
Category: Modern Fiction
El O'Reilly is exceptionally good at making mistakes. Mistakes like: -falling in love with the charismatic youth pastor, Mace, while engaged to her high school boyfriend -breaking up with her fiancé the night before Valentine's Day -walking out on her family -dropping out of uni with no plan B -gho ...Show more
The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning
Category: Modern Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history ... to be found in an Australian country shed in 2019. Europe, 1940s: Imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in ...Show more
Immaculate (2023 Vogel Winner) by Anna McGahan
Category: Modern Fiction
Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. All Frances wants is a cure for her daughter, but that would take a miracle, and miracles aren't something Frances believes in anymore. Newly divorced from her pastor ex-husband and excommunicated from the church community she once worked ...Show more