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.
Bloodwood Creek by Kerry McGinnis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'There's a killer roaming the roads and you're out here on your own, picking up strangers ...'When Emily's beautiful cousin Aspen goes missing somewhere in the Outback, no one seems to take it seriously, not even the police. After all, Aspen has a history of drug use and a string of broken relationships ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...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 Best Boomerville Hotel by Caroline James
$12.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
PRE-LOVED A delightful cast of characters take up residence in this fabulously funny read perfect for fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Jo Docherty and Hattie Contaldo have a vision: a holiday retreat in the heart of England's Lake District exclusively for guests of a "certain age" wishing to stim ...Show more
Unbecoming by JOANNE FEDLER
$36.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You can do one night, Jo reminds herself as she follows five women into the Australian bush. Where are they going to sleep? And pee? Jo probably should have let her husband Frank know. Just in case. Because you never know what can happen in the wild. *** While on her three-month marriage-and-motherhood ...Show more
The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared. A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixt ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
Voyeur by Francesca Reece
$14.99 AUD
$22.99 (34% off)
Category: Contemporary
<font size="+1">'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' Esquire</font>Summer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young: 'Writer Seeks Assistant'.After an unconventional int ...Show more
Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect... 'A novel luminous with love and hope that will change the way you see the world.' Kathryn Heyman Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of h ...Show more
Thirst for Salt: A novel by Madelaine Lucas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer - a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing. 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' -Leslie Ja ...Show more
Dice by Claire Baylis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle -- she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that's ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it's at great risk ...Show more