Modern Fiction (post 1945)

The hugely-anticipated third novel - ambitious, ferocious and gripping - from the prize-winning author of The Panopticon. Featured in Damian Barr's picks for 2021 Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize...

'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where...

Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is...

GHOST MOTH will transport you to two hot summers, 20 years apart. Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine must choose between George Bedford - solid, reliable, devoted George - and Tom McKinley,...

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the...

Terrified, a young man in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself hitting a perfect six; across the courtyard in a workhouse, a father is too ashamed...

The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material...

Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy.

Harry Silver returns to face life in the 'blended family'. A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing , this "marvelous debut" (Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of The Ninth Hour ) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces...

" The Secret History meets The Price of Salt " ( Vogue ) in this "equal parts dangerous and delicious" ( Entertainment Weekly ) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry,...

You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of...

Laughter, sharp like a fox bark. She had not seen him so happy in days. Set in North Yorkshire in the 1950s, The River Within is a piercingly evocative literary...

"Obsessed!" -Chloe Sevigny "I am literally obsessed." -Busy Philipps Hailed as "richly intimate" and "wickedly delightful" ( The New York Times Book Review ), this steamy and incisive debut adult...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays,...

'What a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating - if bumpy - ride through a man's world....

'Eerie, atmospheric' Louise Jensen 'A haunting tale of intrigue' Emily Freud 'Ruth Ware fans will eat this up' Publishers Weekly 'Suspenseful, dark and wonderfully atmospheric' The Sun 'Intricate and impressive'...

Winner of the Naoki Prize Perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Before the Coffee Gets Cold ' It's no wonder the author won the prestigious Naoki Prize for...

Author: Peter CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1985Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Worn boards with rubbed edges. A sprawling work of historical fiction, Illywhacker chronicles the...

Author: M. V. PeacockBinding: HardbackPublished: PATERSONS PRINTING PRESS LTD., 1935Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and yellowed boards. Bumping...

Author: Jonathan Lynn And Antony JayBinding: HardbackPublished: BBC, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Volume I signed by Paul Eddington. Boards in good condition. Clean text. This two-volume...

When Mike Dormer heads out from London to a small seaside town in Australia to kick-start a hotel development, he expects just another deal. But Silver Bay is not just...

Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebire and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from...

Have you ever wanted to just leave everything and disappear? Can the instinct for survival overcome almost anything!? Leo Kemp's life should be idyllic. He has a job that he...

Author: Rory BarnesBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Adelaide , 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAnasuya’s father—a powerful financier and arms dealer—has vanished without explanation, leaving behind a trail of speculation and...

Author: Elizabeth DarrellBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tears to DJ and slight markings to page edges.May...

Author: Peter NiesewandBinding: HardbackPublished: Granada, 1982Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning/wear along spine but no tearsFall-Back: A Novel presents a gripping espionage...

Author: Henry MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen & Co, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Bookseller sticker.Henry Miller's Book of Friends presents a deeply personal and reflective collection...

Author: Eve LangleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some minor wear and tear along edges, previous owner stamp inside,...

Author: Roger PulversBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, London, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Death of Urashima Taro presents a compelling dramatic work that reinterprets the classic Japanese...

Author: Graham GreeneBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGraham Greene's The Honorary Consul transports readers to a politically charged Argentina, where a botched kidnapping...

Author: Miss ReadBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsMiss Read's Gossip From Thrush Green transports readers to the idyllic English village, chronicling the...

Author: Miss ReadBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, London, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust marks on paper edge.Affairs At Thrush Green...