Fiction - Modern

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...

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...

Eva Pattersons life is forever altered by the devastating discovery of her mother, Flora, dead in the bath leaving only a note_ Forgive Me. Until Floras suicide, Evas world had been secure - but overnight everything changes. For when Flora leaves Eva a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After working closely with the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in shaping and writing his memoir, author Hassen Ebrahim and Jacana Media are proud to publish this important record of a life that was spent in service to South Africa.   Writes Mac Maharaj in...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker Prize In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named Ines...

At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are forced to flee. They settle among a community of Finns in Deep...

When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow. Marlene crosses the Atlantic to...

Years ago Dilly made the devastating decision to give her baby daughter to wealthy local family, the Farthings. She is still living with the consequences of her choice when the daughter she gave away all those years ago turns up on Dilly's doorstep, with...

Eerste Wals is ‘n bundel van verhale en verse. Die verhale is geïnspireer deur die memoirs van die outeur se moeder, sowel as die outeur se lewenservarings en verbeelding. Die name van die karakters in die verhale is gevolglik fiktief. Die verhale handel...

A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. How she was captured in her hometown and...