Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: A.J. Gnuse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author...

Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an...

Author: Iris Johansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn must protect the life of a brilliant scientist so that she can live long enough...

Author: Yvonne Battle-Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist and the Northern Writer's Award Winner comes. . . REMEMBERED 'Compares with Toni Morrison's...

Author: Rupert Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...

Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Jojo Moyes Format: Paperback...

Author: Jessica Ryn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 One small act can make a big difference Violet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...

Author: Meng Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD "Compellingly complex...Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy...

Author: Katherine Seligman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco's...

Author: Tim Finch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time and luck and grief' Guardian Edvard Behrends is a diplomat, highly...

Author: Mohammed Hanif Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy ... Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing...

Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. A seductive...

Author: Danielle McLaughlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES AUDIBLE SHORT STORY AWARD 'A gripping novel and a sharp, entertaining examination of the nature of...

Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...

Author: Leaf Arbuthnot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'It has absolutely stolen my heart' - Elizabeth Gilbert 'Clever, warm and funny' - Adam Kay 'Beautifully rendered, thoughtful and original'...

Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Love, life and friendship ... No one captures it better than No. 1 bestseller Cathy Kelly. Good times or bad, friends...

Author: James Kelman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The truth is he didn't care how long he was going away. Forever would have suited him. It didn't matter it...

Author: E.M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England,...

Author: Christina Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Guaranteed to make you smile, if you love Sophie Kinsella, Beth O'Leary and Nicola May, you'll LOVE Christina Bradley's hilarious and...

Author: Sidney Sheldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dr. Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate...

Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 "Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." --New York...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...

Author: Nikki Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 DISCOVER THE DEBUT THRILLER GETTING INSIDE EVERYONE'S HEAD THIS YEAR 'Tense and moving' - HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange 'A...

Author: Rosalind Stopps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Cutting between past and present, Stopps has written a tense page-turning thriller that is also a powerful study of...

Author: Karina Halle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of the acclaimed The Pact, Love, In English and the Dirty Angels Trilogy. If you devoured the Fifty...

Author: Steve Israel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A wild political satire of America's insane gun laws, written by a former Democratic Congressman who attempted to pass...

Author: Jerome Ferrari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This sweeping generational novel, which spans the 20th century, begins with an old man considering a photograph of his long-dead siblings and...

Author: Lydie Salvayre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has...

Author: Marcello Fois Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has...

Author: Josh Emmons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A major-league prose writer who has fun in every sentence' Jonathan Franzen 'A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of...

Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name 'The perfect novel' Edmund White 'Perfect, with characters...

Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old...

Author: Thomas McMullan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel...

Author: Lauren Lovett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 274 The people in one's neighbourhood long for a pet name. Their rationale is your rationale. It's our rationale. A...

Author: Sue Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 "Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing."--New York Times Book Review From New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful, engrossing...

Author: Alison Jean Lester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I absolutely loved it. A delight . . . so fresh and clever and subversive' Kate Atkinson 'I completely loved...

Author: Susan Beale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the author of the Costa Prize shortlisted The Good Guy 'Susan Beale's writing is alive with subtlety and flair. Her...

Author: Robert Douglas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of...