Contemporary Fiction

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    Author Rachel Joyce Publisher: Random House UK Genre: Modern &Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Year of Release: 2013 Release Date: Januaryย  2013 Rating๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Trigger Warning Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief Synopsis “When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk…

  • The Sparkle Pages

    Author Meg Bignell Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Humour Year of Release: 2019 Release Date 15th April 2019 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Trigger Warning Suicide, Grief SynopsisSusannah Parks – wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner of household – is a viola virtuoso. Except she hasn’t picked up a viola for…

  • The Switch

    Author: Beth Oโ€™ Leary Publisher: Quercus Publishing Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Year of Release: 2020 Release Date:ย  28th April 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Synopsis Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena’s tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it’s time they swapped places… When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month…

  • The Midnight Library

    Author: Matt Haig Publisher: ย A&U Canongate Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Year of release: 2020 Release Date 1st September 2020 Rating: ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Trigger Warning: Depression, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide, Pet death Synopsis Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to…

  • Miss Benson’s Beetle

    Author: Rachel Joyce ย Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Year of release: 2020 Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Release Date: July 21st, 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Trigger warning Animal abuse Synopsis Margery Benson’s life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she…

  • Below Deck

    Author: Sophie Hardcastle Publisher: Allen & Unwin Year of Release: 2020 Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction Release Date 3rd March 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Authors note triggers for sexual assault, emotional, physical, abuseย  Synopsis Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her parents, and living with her grandfather…

  • Here is the Beehive

    Author: Sarah Crossan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Year of release: 2020 Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction General Fiction Release Date: 1st September 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Synopsis Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her…

  • The Godmothers

    Author: Monica McInerney Year of release: 2020 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, fiction Release Date: 29th September 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Synopsis Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Despite…

  • The Things She Owned

    Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Year of release: 2020 Publisher: Affirm Press  Genre Modern & contemporary, Fiction Release Date 28th  April 2020 Rating ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Synopsis Years after the death of her cruel and complicated mother, Erika’s house is still full of the things Michiko left behind: an onigiri basket, a Wedgewood tea set, a knotted ring…

  • To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

    Author: Jenny Hanย  Series #1 Publisher: Scholasticย  Year Of Release: 2014 Genre: Childrenโ€™s Fiction, Family Matters, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Womenโ€™s Fiction, Chick-Lit Relese Date: 7 August 2014 Rating โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธย  Synopsisย  Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she’s ever loved. When she writes,…