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.
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
Dreaming In French by Vanessa McCausland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A remote French island. A crumbling villa. A reclusive film star. And an inheritance Saskia never expected. The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beautiful Words. Saskia Wyle spent one sultry European summer on Île de Re when she was nineteen. The bright salt flats and sun-s ...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
Perfect-ish by Jessica Seaborn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction.On the cusp of turning thirty, Prue feels like everyone else is living their best life. Her friends are boasting about everything from their wellness achievements and exciting travel plans to their romantic relationship ...Show more
The Love Scribe by Amy Meyerson
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Contemporary
What would you do if you had the power to change fate?A young woman has a magical gift to make others fall in love but is resistant to welcoming love into her own life until a reclusive woman with a mysterious library helps her face her fears. From the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays.'P ...Show more
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
$24.99 AUD
Category: Queer | Reading Level: good-very good
RUNNER UP PULITZER PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS A New York Times Top Ten Best Book of 2018 'I loved this book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to p ...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
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
$15.99 AUD
$22.99 (30% off)
Category: Queer
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to ou ...Show more
The Family Inheritance by Tricia Stringer
$9.99 AUD
$32.99 (69% off)
Category: Contemporary
A toxic will plays havoc in the lives of three generations of women when they discover they have been living a lie. A keenly observed story of the danger of secrets, the legacy of betrayal and the power of family from a bestselling Australian author.Sometimes an ending is really a beginning ...Felicity ...Show more
Crushing by Genevieve Novak
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Getting over someone is not that difficult. All you have to do is focus on every negative thing about them for the rest of your life until you forget to stop actively hoping for their slow and painful death, the ...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