Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Beautifully written and compelling' Daily Mail'Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged . ....

'Her work merits comparison with that of Edna O'Brien or Muriel Spark' New York TimesStretching from war-torn 1940's Liverpool to Oxford at the end of the century, this story explores...

'A taut generational story set on a South London estate' Independent, July Book of the Month'From the powerful opening scene full of tragedy, this poignant debut about mothers and daughters...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gets under the skin of the man who is so often dismissed as a much-married monster and gives us an altogether more nuanced, compelling and human portrayal'...

'Test Kitchen is phenomenal - a mad, magical, ten-course feast of a novel, gorgeously written, totally original, packed with ideas and invention. Incredibly ambitious too - so many characters, so...

'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller AriadneFollowing the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the...

'What a read! What a tear jerker! But very funny, and written with such breezy wit, and characters I ADORED. Daisy is EXCELLENT' MARIAN KEYES'Brilliant characters, a heartfelt story and...

'Powerful, joyful, heartbreaking and so funny all at once' SARA NISHA ADAMS 'Every now and then a book comes along that changes the way you see the world, and this...

'Razor-sharp . . . Biting and compulsive' GRAZIAI clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They...

Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes...

'America's first lady of darkness and mirth' Guardian'How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore's voice to reflect this lunatic world back to us and show us how to...

'One of the great American authors at work today' - New York TimesIt is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different.Jacob...

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking...

Author shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award 2023' for A Mother's WarNorth Yorkshire, September 1940. It's a year since war was first announced and the dangers...

'Your bookclub will be discussing this one for DAYS'-Jodi Picoult, author of SMALL GREAT THINGS     Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author...

The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends....

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the...

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A brand new thriller from multi-million copy bestselling author Nora RobertsSometimes a gift can feel more like a curse'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE     'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX,...

'A beautiful novel . . . reminds us that our streets are thick with history'ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN'Both moving and addictive'JOANNA BRISCOE'Terrific'FRANCES QUINNTHREE WOMEN. ONE BUILDING. 111 YEARS . . .East...

'Hay sets a cracking pace... with plenty of twists and a great deal of fun, this is the perfect holiday read' Guardian'Delightfully mischievous' The Times'Punch-the-air good, the Edwardian heist novel...

Freed from his prison cell, the former slave known as Tatters is finally ready to face his past. Now his true nature is known to all, he can use his...

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Viscerally vivid . . . a sucker-punch of a novel, edged with knife-sharp black humour and shot through with moments of startling beauty ....

This is a novel about marriage and friendship, secrecy and infidelity, guilt and desire. It's about you and me and everything we are - and what happens when love isn't...

On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for...

****PRE-ORDER THE NEW CAROLINE SCOTT NOVEL, THE BEST OF INTENTIONS, COMING SUMMER 2025**** England, 1932, and the country is in the grip of the Great Depression. To lift the spirits...

Three Women meets Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam.'Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why...

'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...

'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us...

'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...

Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry.Isabel accepts an...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX, author of The...

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*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018*'I was gripped... remarkable' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Books of the Year'A novel so of...

'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...

From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy...

"A multilayered exploration of ideas . . . [A] masterly voyage of discovery" New York Times"Fonseca's most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date" JAVIER CERCAS"An exceptional and...

The perfect book club read FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat'This novel...

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children?The...

'An extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies'Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable . . . she captures the sneaky,...

Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin, deep in the California woods on an evening in late August. At the moment that she drifts...

The year is 2040. Mark Chadwick is a brilliant psychiatrist who is on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough. By combining functional imaging of the brain with computer technology,...

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A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry.Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure...

There's a book written for every one of us...Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his...