Fiction - Modern

Brilliant, devastating... one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary' (New York Times) Love Me Back details the devastating selfdestructive downward spiral of a young waitress trapped in the service...

Offering a weaning solution from expert authors based on your baby’s sensory personality, Weaning Sense demystifies weaning and, using current research, gives you an easy to use, real food solution. Dimensions : 170 x 230mm Format : soft cover ...

Hope Dunne is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isn't looking for a man or excitement. But things change when she accepts a last minute assignment in London, photographing one of the world's most...

One young woman in search of a past - and a future ...Sweet-natured but dappy Daisy Buchan drifts from job to job and takes her policeman boyfriend Joel for granted. But when her adoptive mother dies and leaves her twenty-five-year-old daughter a...

Set in Kalk Bay, the Overberg and Plumstead, the story explores the life of a young girl called Lily, and the influence various strong characters have on her most notably her domineering grandmother and her classmate Vera.Fascinating and harrowing, this...

The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss by the international number one bestseller Lucinda Riley.   Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of...

Time out is an interesting thematic development in the novels of Marita van der Vyver. She had previously investigated the themes of love and being together (eros), and then she worked with the death of a mother-in-the-text. Now she describes the...

It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York. She hopes that the city’s vibrancy will distract her from her grief. But the Depression has rendered the city...

Beth Boltons dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest...

They're Alligators – and Investigators! InvestiGators written and illustrated by John Patrick Green is the full colour, laugh-out-loud series perfect for emerging readers and fans of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man.Mango and Brash are the InvestiGators_...

Following the fortunes of some of the much-loved characters from her bestseller ‘The Journey’, Josephine Cox’s powerful novel spans continents, decades and generations of one family..Like a ghost from the past, she walked along the platform towards...

Sophie Hannah Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the middle of the countryside, fleeing their fears and anxieties and hoping to put behind them years of suffering at the hands of others. Shelley has endured terrible...

The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the number one international bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. CeCe D'Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt - so-called...

What makes Pat Simmons, a retired engineer, give up his comfortable middle class living and wade across a crocodile infested river with a bicycle strapped to his back, in order to teach chess to schoolchildren at the Mission station?

Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted...

In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly determined to serve...

A stunning successor to INGENIOUS PAIN, Andrew Miller's second novel brilliantly portrays the legendary Casanova at a turning point in his life and loves. Dimensions : 22 X 130 X 197 mmWeight : 204g Age Group : Adult Page Numbers : 320

As he nears his fifth birthday, Sam's curious dreams of a lost child begin to steal quietly into his waking state. Sam's mother, Grace, watches with growing fear the disturbing changes taking place in her charming, spirited son - the fighting at school,...

In hierdie teks gaan dit oor die Engelsman Willis Reed wat saam met sy entomoloog-vriend Guy Moss na die Kongo gaan om 'n okapi te soek vir die Antwerpse dieretuin. Dimensions : 137 x 216mmWeight : 200g Age Group : Adult Page Numbers : 160

Kendall Mullins hates high school, almost as much as he hates the situation at home, but that all changes when Craig Baumgarten joins his class. Craig makes life at Percy Fitzpatrick High almost bearable, until the bullies set their sights on the new...

How far would you go to keep your family safe?Angie Watts had the perfect ordinary family. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children. But Angie’s happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd. And when her son’s bad...

One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a...

A powerful story of love, shocking secrets and malignant forces from the No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox..All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnightMolly and Jack are deeply in love...

It was Sussex, 2003. When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician, Dale, who shows...

Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is...

From the author of the international bestseller, Hothouse Flower, Lucinda Riley's The Light Behind the Window is a breathtaking and intense story of love, war and, above all, forgiveness. The present_ Emilie de la Martinieres has always fought against...

After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed_ Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has...

Stories by Irish writers including Maeve BinchyAn outstanding collection of twelve comingofage stories by Irish and IrishAmerican writers. Maeve Binchy's 'When Grania Grows Up' pinpoints the moment a girl who believed in happy families loses her...

Coronation Day, 1953. In the Somerset village of Sawbridge, young shopkeeper Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations to her friend's cottage and makes a shocking discovery_ Cassie is dead and her six-year-old daughter Petal has vanished without a...

THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVESBUT SOMEONE WAS WATCHINGThe Macnamara sisters hadn't been seen for months before anyone noticed. It was Father Timoney who finally broke down the door, who saw what had become of them. Berenice was sitting in her armchair,...

A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Perfect for new readers. Discover the magic!In the Land of Enchantments, everything shines and shimmers and moves. But it's full of witches, enchanters and goblins, and some not...

'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self' New Yorker A National Book Award Finalist In the nine...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020**A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT AND NEW STATESMAN*From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's...