General Fiction > Contemporary
Contemporary fiction in most reading circles is deemed as anything written or the setting in the book is set after World War 2. A comparison we like to draw on here at MLB is just like wines have different categories, at the end of the day it is what the individual likes. We hope you like our selection of Contemporary.
Under a Venice Moon by Margaret Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with. They don't offer second and third chances to get it right. Use it better. Live it fuller. A week in Venice ignites Margaret Cameron's interest in the private city behind the tourist facade and the obscure tales from its hi ...Show more
Second Chance Lane by Nicola Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Brockenridge Ser.
From USA Today bestselling Australian author Nicola Marsh comes a compelling story of love, redemption and community. When the past crashes into the future, there's more than hearts on the line.Natasha Trigg leads a simple life in small-town Brockenridge. She works at the roadhouse, has good friends, an ...Show more
It Starts with Us: the highly anticipated sequel to IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled i ...Show more
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go.Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
$19.00 AUD
$26.99 (29% off)
Category: Queer
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more
Love Match by Clare Fletcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"In a town like South Star, everyone knows Sarah Childs’ name, face, entire history … and the fact she’s just been dumped by Johnno West. Sarah would happily keep to herself on their property, Dunromin, for the rest of her days. But now her parents are refusing to put her in charge until she spends a ye ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Beautiful, atmospheric . . . you must read this book' 5* reader review 'Breathtaking . . . the perfect autumnal read' 5* reader review In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known f ...Show more
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An International BestsellerMonsieur Perdu is a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life to mend broken hearts and souls.The only person he can't heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She ...Show more
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Contemporary
'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss 'A devastating treat of a novel: funny, furious, dark and delicious' - Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith The longer the marriage ...Show more