| Author: | Anne Glenconner |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real ... read more
| Author: | Santa Montefiore |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR A stunning story of loss, love and a moment that changed everything . . . 1958 Celestria, the charismatic daughter of an aristocratic family, lives in Pendrift Hall, a pale stone mansion with gardens that tumble down to the Cornish ... read more
| Author: | Bernardine Evaristo |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
| Awards: | Joint winner of the Booker Prize 2019 |
(Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they t... read more
| Author: | Heather Rose |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
| Reading Level: | 2 Crime |
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brot... read more
| Author: | Shannon Pufahl |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
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 waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers... read more
| Author: | Paullina Simons |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
| Series: | The\End of Forever Ser. |
They were ready for anything ... except the end. The must-read conclusion to Paullina Simons' epic End of Forever saga.
Julian has lost everything he ever loved and is almost out of time. His life and death struggle against fate offers him one l... read more
| Author: | Maja Lunde |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous vo... read more
| Author: | Jock Serong |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
| Awards: | Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2017 (Australia). Long-listed for Indie Book Award for Fiction 2017 (Australia). |
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in h... read more
| Author: | Deborah Challinor |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
In 1950s Auckland things are changing - and fast. Women are joining the workforce in numbers, white goods are readily available and the age of rock 'n' roll has arrived.Allie Manaia works the Elizabeth Arden counter at Smith and Caugheys. It's been two years since the Du... read more
| Author: | Karina Sainz Borgo; Karina Sainz Borgo |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman's desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adela... read more
| Author: | Delia Owens |
| Category: |
Fiction Contemporary |
New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book Review For years, rumors of the "Marsh Gir... read more
