Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Could the worst day of Sally Parker's life be the best thing that ever happened to her?THE WARM, LIFE-AFFIRMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MUCH-LOVED MEL GIEDROYC'A real treat. I...

'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett'...

'An absorbing work of fiction' Sunday Times'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice. ..nothing short of brilliant' Mary ChamberlainErzsebet Bathory, whose infamous place...

A small town divided by prejudice. A family torn apart. A secret that won't remain silent.Read the magnificent new novel from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author....

The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese...

THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER'I completely adored it . . . Brimming with warmth, heart and jolly good fun' Cathy Bramley'An absolute joy from start to finish' Veronica Henry'Jill knocks...

October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them...

'Gripping and elegant... brings readers into the interior of the twentieth century's most infamous crime' Nina de Gramont, author of The Christie Affair'The kind of book that shows the difference...

'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'Alive to the beauty and mystery of the natural world as well...

The rebels on the other side of the Shadowpass are massing, and refugees are flooding in to the city. Scared, penniless and not exactly welcome, they are desperate for the...

'HILARIOUS' ISABELLE BROOMEmily has it all: a good job, awesome friends, a great boyfriend, and a wonderful flat exactly 411 miles away from her nightmarish family.But when her boyfriend Robert...

'Funny, surprising and as fresh as a glass of lemonade on a hot day' Jenny Colgan'A heart-warming bookish romcom . . . perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Catherine...

A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero, by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB.June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary...

Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by vivid dreams that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Desperate to understand her visions, she finds herself drawn to the Greek island of...

'Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS'A psychological thriller you can't put down' HARLAN COBEN'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable' RUTH WARE'A dark...

Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there after the sudden, shattering disappearance of her mother. But now...

'An extraordinary achievement . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'A monumental epic . . . I was spellbound' Nathan...

From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind.'Thrillingly relatable' HARPER'S BAZAAR'A...

*An Elle Summer Read 2023*'Cocozza's writing is addictive... her sharp observations steal the show ' Joanna Cannon, Guardian'Searing, perceptive, shattering' Observer'Charming, very touching and very funny. Taut and full of...

'Ingenious' New York Times'Mesmerising' The Times'Loveable' Evening StandardNine-year-old Tooly is spirited away from Bangkok by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe....

'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH'A beautiful, moving, unexpected novel . . . I will...

Tasha and Trae, the hood's favourite couple, are still together and have moved far away from the drama in New York for the sunny skies in Los Angeles...or so they...

A long summer holiday on the beautiful island of Corfu is just what Izzy Jordan needs, but is she prepared for the romance and drama? New edition of one of...

'Destined to become a classic of its kind' - Maggie Nelson'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' - Olivia Laing, ObserverWhen Constance told her ex-husband that she...

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird...

'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman'Thrilling, captivating . . . unforgettable' Kate Williams'A gripping story that's underpinned by a wealth of research . . . this is Alison...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 | LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REIDA queen...

'A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism' Monica AliDavid hates school, where he has been bullied, and has reached sixth form without any friends. Music is the only...

A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...

Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune...

An epic military adventure novel pits Roman army heroes Macro and Cato against Boudica: the terrifying Queen of the Britons. From bestselling Simon Scarrow, author of Death to the Emperor...

Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who...

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Keep straight on that way, turn left on Thursday and at night turn left again, and sooner or later you'll reach the sea ...Parker is an enigmatic trucker who spends...

*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it...

THREE WOMEN. ONE BODY. WILL THEY EVER LEARN?**The jaw-dropping new thriller from Sunday Times and Kindle #1 bestseller Harriet Tyce**'The shocks kept coming right up to the final pages.' Lisa...

From the author of global bestseller THE GIRL IN THE LETTER, a gripping, powerful and heartbreaking new novel of two families and the devastating secret that binds them. The perfect...

'BRING ON THE DRAMA' Cosmopolitan Best New Book of July 2023The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick'I couldn't put it down' Alice Clark-Platts'Slick, agile, and utterly engrossing' Taiye SelasiBasking...

Lose yourself in the Cornish countryside with this gorgeous new novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club champion. If you love Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, you'll adore Roseland....