General Fiction > Literary fiction
Literary fiction is generally defined as a focus on complex issues and the beauty of writing itself. It doesnt fit into a particular genre of fiction. Here at MLB we also dont fit into one particular category and so we hope you like our selection of what we think and love as Literary fiction. Enjoy.
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of female friendship in the darkest of circumstances. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleepi ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
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$17.95 (44% off)
Category: Literary fiction
From banned to best seller!When first published privately in Italy, in 1928, Lady Chatterly's Lover was too risqué for readers and was considered unprintable. It wasn't until three decades later, in 1960, that the novel could be printed openly in the United Kingdom. Much debate has gone into what consti ...Show more
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary fiction
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Literary fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary fiction
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph'A triumph' Financial Times'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday'Deeply moving' Sunday TimesMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local ...Show more
Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Category: Literary fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath an ...Show more
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary fiction
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary fiction
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Literary fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Feast by Emily O'Grady
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary fiction
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House. Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor ho ...Show more