Fiction

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – May 2024

Published on Mon, 2024-05-13 12:38
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At the Golden Sunset retirement home, the residents tend to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, assumed identities and spying. A life that moves from WWII Indonesia to Busan during the Korean war; from cold-war Pyongyang to a Protestant church in China. The adventures are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable. Surely they can’t all belong to the same woman. Can they?  // Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group  // 

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

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Mirinae Lee 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
Paperback

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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Satoshi Yagisawa Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Paperback

The Foghorn Echoes

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Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes

Danny Ramadan
The Foghorn Echoes
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – April 2024

Published on Tue, 2024-04-09 09:14
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In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been. ”It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.” An epic tale of the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip. // Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group //  

In Memoriam

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Alice Winn In Memoriam

Alice Winn
In Memoriam
Paperback

Sula

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Toni Morrison Sula

Toni Morrison
Sula
Paperback

The Wake-Up Call

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Beth O’Leary The Wake-Up Call

Beth O’Leary
The Wake-Up Call
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – March 2024

Published on Wed, 2024-03-06 15:43
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Can a small committed group of citizens change the world, and if so – how? Summer Dawidowitz has spent the past year caring for her grandmother, Josie– a lifelong Communist, a dedicated teacher, and the founder of an organization that tutors schoolchildren. When Josie dies, everything that seemed solid in Summer’s life comes into question.    //  Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group. //

A Decent World

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Ellen Hawley A Decent World

Ellen Hawley
A Decent World
Paperback

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