Fiction - Modern

This place is labelled the city of gold, Jozi Maboneng. There is indeed a constant rush, the winner takes it all, and a "survival of the fittest" mentality driving the hunger and competitive spirit of those born here, and equally seen in the eyes of the...

It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way_ he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...

'Powerful and perceptive . . . belongs on the shelves – and in the hearts and minds – of leaders everywhere.'Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of To Sell is HumanFrom Kim Scott, author of the revolutionary New York Times bestseller Radical Candor, comes...

From bestselling YA rom-com queen Becky Albertalli (author of Love, Simon) comes a new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love, life and theatre. [PRINCIPAL CAST LIST] Kate Garfield Anderson Walker Best friends, and...

Elijah Rolene is a lost man. Following the death of his wife, he quits his job as a police pilot and turns to prescription painkillers for comfort. Not content to watch him destroy his life, his veterinarian sister convinces him to help out at her animal...

When seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip finds herself lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of the Montana mountains, with only a bible, a sturdy pair of boots, and a couple of candies to keep her alive, it seems her chances of ever getting home...

Jay adores his small daughter, Bonnie, and nothing matters more to him than being a good father. But Bonnie's traumatic birth puts an unbearable strain on his marriage with Shauna and the couple eventually separate. Despite this, London is the place to...

A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells of his own planet with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower are unforgettable.

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence'The TimesA wickedly...

Childhood friends, Liwa Nile and Noel Glass grow up in Port Alfred bound by hope and pure love for each other. But their deep dark desires bring in sinister trails of lust, murder and unclassified sexual escapades to the heart of Melrose Arch.When Liwa...

The world's best magician is going blind, but is there a story in his past that can save him? Victor Losa has spent his life studying magic. His mentor, Mario Galvan, taught him not only the practical aspects of the art, but also its history and the...

Die verteller, Maud, sien van kleinsaf dinge wat nie daar is nie. Bedags word sy bloots gery deur "lukrake visioene en snags deur ingewikkelde drome". Dimensions : 13.7 X 21.3 x 1.3 cm Format : Paperback Age Group : ADULT Page Numbers : 160

In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about...

MRS. EVERYTHING is like "Beaches" but with mothers and daughters and sisters. I may never recover.' (Jill Grunenwald, author of RUNNING WITH A POLICE ESCORT and READING BEHIND BARS) From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of WHO...

Durban lawyer Teddy Dickerson has run out of ideas. Cynical, single and middle-aged, he's the very last of his family to call this country home. When his formidable Aunt Val dies, she leaves him an unusual bequest; her task for Teddy is to post letters...

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely...

In a small town where loyalty is valued above all, defying unspoken rules can be deadly. A coming-of-age novel for fans of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.At fifteen, Boady Sanden dreams of being anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. Then the Elgins move...

Die beste 21 verhale uit die inskrywings vir Human & Rousseau se Nuwe Stories-kortverhaalwedstryd vir skrywers onder dertig. In hierdie bundel kan jy die pols van ’n nuwe generasie Afrikaanse skrywers voel. Die verhale dek die hele spektrum_ die...

A letter from her brother Jake calls Mercia back to Kliprand, the parched dorp she left for a life in Scotland years ago. Had she not been abandoned by her partner of twenty-four years, Mercia might never have returned to Namaqualand and its reminders of...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN EVENING STANDARD and METRO When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and...

Set in 1950's America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up_ a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart.Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a...

Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island.25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating...

Die subtitel, Vertellings van ’n verloopte diplomaat, wek die verwagting dat daar iets met hierdie loopbaan verkeerd gaan loop . . . Juis hierin lê ’n volgehoue spanningslyn. Die skrywer vertel eerlik en met humor van sy jare as junior diplomaat in...

Sunjeev Sahota's Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization. When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield...

A powerful story, sweetly told' - Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of AuschwitzA country torn apart by war. Two siblings divided by fate.Italy, 1938. Mussolini is in power and war is not far away . . .Clara and Pippo are just children_ quiet,...

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection, Chris's follow-up to one of the Bookseller's best poetry books of the last twenty-five...

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the...

Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas, the bestselling novel and major motion picture Nicolas Fiorilla and his gang of children - his paranza -...