Modern Fiction (post 1945)

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 'Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this...

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Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there...

The ghost of a real-life historical figure helps elderly Catherine da Costa convince her granddaughters to travel across Europe with her and helps them find a link between past and...

Left nothing but a ramshackle farm house when her business titan husband dies, Lillian changes her identity to escape the press and wonders at the mysterious note left to her...

Six people meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, but each of them is wounded in different ways. Over the...

From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a long-awaited opportunity for readers to discover an acclaimed early novel one of this cherished storyteller s most powerful and complex...

A cockney evacuee to rural Devon is victimized by a local gang called the Five Boys. But he is not the only stranger to have an impact on the village....

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves...

Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships...

A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of...

Discover the precious present and find yourself! A simple story, engagingly told, The Precious Present does more than capture the heart; it is a valuable gift for anyone seeking a...

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing...

When Tam's brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked up, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let him down but he is transported to...

A collection of ten previously unpublished stories written between 1938 and 1945 by the Nobel Prize winner examines the sad effects of war on ordinary people's lives.

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is...

Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an...

A wildly inventive, intimate and mischievous story collection from legendary film director Almod var A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almod var The Last Dream brings...

The new novel from first winner of International Man Booker, inspired by three minutes in June 1934 when Joseph Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak. A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia,...

'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me? ' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful...

'Gloriously romantic' The Sun 'I couldn't put it down' Jill Mansell 'A charmingly escapist read ... a tonic for trying times' Daily Mail Your big secret is out. What next?...

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CLOUD ATLAS With an introduction by Gabrielle Zevin (author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ) and a new afterword by David...

Cory is the child of two worlds: when his birth-people come, they will break his mother's heart . . . but they may also be this world's only salvation. Molly...

The Imposters is the first novel in stories that Tom Rachman has written since his international bestseller The Imperfectionists . 'An astonishing achievement - brutally funny, humane, dizzying - will...

"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" GQ Magazine "Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA "A time-travelling wonder of a read" PATERSON JOSEPH WHERE IS ADA? In...

The New York Times Bestseller ' White Ivy is magic . . . and not soon to be forgotten' JOSHUA FERRIS, author of Then We Came to the End '...

The fierce and funny international bestseller about a young Turkish-Dutch woman rebelling against her strict religious upbringing and searching for her own path THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Electrifying ... Gul's is...

'I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination' DIANA GABALDON My name is Anita Blake and my family think I'm marrying a demon straight out of hell. If...

Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an...

'Aches with hard-won hope and bruised tenderness' Colin Walsh, author of Kala 'An intoxicating debut from a compelling new voice' Adelle Stripe, author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile...

'Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart.' Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life A Frankenstein for the twenty-first century by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Trinity and Speak A...

'Breathtaking... dark academia at its most compelling' ERIN KELLY 'A very clever dark campus novel... really packs a punch' DAILY MAIL 'An extraordinary story of female power, rage and oppression'...

A beautiful collectible edition containing the seventh and eighth novels of the beloved Bridgerton series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. It's in His Kiss Gareth St. Clair...

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before. *One of Entertainment Weekly's top five reads of the summer* ' A mind-blowing page-turning un-put-downable...

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THE INSTANT SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER A DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE MONTH A PANDORA SYKES/FANE BOOK CLUB PICK ' Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read'...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and evocative classic, After Dark. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback...

A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's iconic classic, and breakout hit, Norwegian Wood. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the...