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.
Appreciation by Liam Pieper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queer
A wild romp through Australian celebrity culture that's as bold and scathing as it is hilarious. Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was ever built without a little subterfuge? Oli Darling is a queer artist from the country - it says so right at ...Show more
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets. In her work as a 'death doula', Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks - ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS. But ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$23.99 AUD
$24.99 (4% off)
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An enchanting and captivating novel, about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who rais ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one - Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, No ...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
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...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
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
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...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