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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

And these are they. My final moments. They say a warrior must always be mindful of death, but I never imagined that it would find me like this . . . Japanese teenager Sora is diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Lonely and isolated, Sora turns to...

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

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...

When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is...

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...

Die vertellerstem is dié van Piet Mavhetha, ’n Venda-pastoor, wat met eenvoud en humor vertel van sy mense agter die Soutpansberg en hul swaarkry.

"You will know this thing when you see it, " the Boatman tells Connie, "and you must be finished by half past six." As she floats above her hometown of Scheepersdorp, Constance West can't tell how long it's been since she died. Nor why the mysterious...

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...

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...

The debut novel from BAFTA Award-winning writer of TV's COLD FEET_ a laugh-out-loud tale of contemporary relationships, this is perfect for anyone who has ever fallen in love. Or out of love. Or back in love again. Dimensions : 28 X 199 X 130 mm Format...

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,...

'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...

From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day, Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine, An Englishman at War is a unique first-person account of the Second World...

Baabara wants more than anything in the world to be a big sister...Baabara Muttons has everything that a young sheep could wish for. But there's one thing she wants more than anything else in the world_ to be a big sister to a real-life actual baby!Well,...

Born on the cusp of democracy, the crew of young friends in Born Freeloaders navigates a life of drinking, wild parties and other recklessness. The siblings at the centre of the novel, Nthabiseng and Xolani, have been raised in an upper middle-class...

You are invited to join in the wedding fun! Four friends from school are all going to be bridesmaids - it's their dream come true! But can Sophie save her parents' beach wedding from being a wash out? Sophie is excited that her parents are finally...

The sun begins to set and twilight falls over the Cape Town suburb of Salt River. The year is 1960, the year of the Sharpeville massacre. Three friends, Ainey, Haroun and Cassius, comrades in arms and merry pranksters, make a discovery that changes their...

The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins. The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no...

When an eavesdropping boy sets out to discover the obscure mysteries of his unravelling family, he uncovers instead what he least wants to know_ the workings of his parents' private lives. And even then he can't stop snooping. Miles Adler-Rich spies and...

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a...

The eagerly-awaited new book by Emma Cline, author of the global phenomenon The GirlsThe stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents...

On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she find one body among thousands?For Tariq, this is more than...