Modern Fiction (post 1945)

"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers..." Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide....

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of...

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

People who make their own rules when they know they're right...people who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (even if only for themselves)...people who know there's more...

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent,...

Maisie doesn't understand why her mother can't love her, but she knows that her life is hard, and deeply unhappy. When the only person she trusts, her stepfather George, leaves,...

From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses...

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop...

Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the...

There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies...

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor,...

Will is a bright, happy five-and-a-half-year-old. The grown-ups - his mother Jody, a photographer, her devoted boyfriend Mel, and Will's father, Wayne, perpetually down on his luck and living with...

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one...

With the bookshop where she works about to close, Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival deep in the heart...

Ferret Skerritt - ventriloquist by trade, conman by birth - isn't expecting to find love at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, a colourful world of flimflam men, snake-oil salesmen, occultists,...

When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: 'Dear Jeremy' it began 'or Amanda...' Mrs Baker still sends Christmas presents...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a recent widow falls in love with life again, thanks to the help of her guardian angel-her late husband. Now a feature film...

A fun, sexy novel about following your bliss into wonderful and terrible places, written by ABC Family star Shay Mitchell and her best friend. Sophia Marcus, 21, has mapped out...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the...

Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'Finely honed, superbly constructed' Daily Mail 'Terrific'...

A young architect in San Francisco awakens one day to find a woman in his closet--a woman with the ability to appear and disappear at will, who claims that her...

In January 1914, Jonathan Crane returns home to his tiny village in the north of England with a rare thing a beautiful, glamorous American bride. So different from the bright...

A provocative story of a young boy's erotic awakening in a passionate, clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her...

A novel based on the BBC1 comedy series of the same name, featuring an eccentric elderly couple and their bizarre assortment of relatives and friends.

PASSION... In a tale as timely as "Scruples," as compelling as "Dazzle," asintriguing as "Mistral's Daughter," Judith Krantz launches three innocentbeauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It's...

"C" has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The acclaimed author of "Remainder, "which Zadie Smith hailed as "one of the great English novels of the past ten...

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the smash hit musical and two major motion pictures, in a deluxe hardback edition with green stained edges, a ribbon marker, and...

`A modern day Nancy Mitford.' Sir Elton John `Fans of Downton Abbey will love this.' Davina McCall Christmas morning, 1969. All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her...

The most astonishing American literary debut of the year. Judy Budnitz might just be the most exciting and unusual literary figure to emerge from the US literary thicket this year....

1968, with the swinging sixties sliding into decadence, finds Nicholas Darrow wrestling with overwhelming personal problems: How can he bring himself to marry his fiancee, Rosalind, when he is unable...