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
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
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
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
After goodbye by Teena Raffa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A decent man doesn’t leave a good wife and marriages don’t fall apart without warning over breakfast between “One egg, or two?” and “Pass the sugar, please”… or so Stella Romney believes until, without any warning, her husband Daniel says he is leaving her and their two children. Meeting a stranger at t ...Show more
Shoulder Season - A Novel by Christina Clancy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year-old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in qui ...Show more
Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
$7.99 AUD
$24.99 (68% off)
Category: Contemporary
'Everyone turns out to be a writer', Addison said. 'Why? Why must everyone write? Why can't they just read?' Rima Lanisell is a young woman at a loose end, following the death of her father. Rima has a history of losing things: keys, sunglasses, family members. Now she has come to the coast of Californi ...Show more
We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A novel that punches you in the heart: the powerful, unbearably moving and ultimately uplifting story of twin brothers, Jon and Eden, as they grow up and begin to understand what it is to be men, and what it takes to knit a fractured family back together. 'We were sons, we were brothers. I didn't know h ...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