Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Gail Honeyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times bestseller 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but...

Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings...

Author: Bridget Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brilliant' Joanna...

Author: Anne O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'I was completely captivated' Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O'Brien. England,...

Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Donna Tartt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant,...

Author: Amanda Lohrey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A moving tale of grief, community and the possibility of starting over, by an award-winning Australian author. Erica Marsden's...

Author: Bradford Morrow (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of...

Author: Jeffrey Archer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS...

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a...

Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Set in a historical moment of moral crisis,...

Author: Rosalind Stopps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The brand-new book from a powerful literary voice, author of The Stranger She Knew, shortlisted for the Paul Torday...

Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through...

Author: Nico Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin NOW A...

Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Maurice Swift is an aspiring novelist struggling to come up with the story that will make his name, and...

Author: Charlotte McConaghy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands...

Author: Jasper Fforde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: *SIGNED COPY* The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from...

Author: Elizabeth Strout Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The latest masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, now in...

Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...

Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a beautiful paperback edition What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John...

Author: Heidi Swain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The sparkling new Christmas novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Heidi Swain! When Anna takes on the role...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us...

Author: Julia Kerninon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Winner of the 2018 Feneon Literary Prize A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love,...

Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*** Two...

Author: Hugo Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian...

Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...

Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Barrington Jedidiah...

Author: Louise Doughty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November...

Author: Andi Osho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 No woman gets left behind 'Witty, pacy and joyful. A truly uplifting celebration of friendship' Beth O'Leary Three best...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a...

Author: Kevin Kwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A man takes part in a very unusual bet, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the...

Author: Anthony Good Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Provocative and compelling, it is a spectacular debut' - Daily Mail Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...

Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...

Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...

Author: She Lao Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "Lao She's great novel." -The New York Times A beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese novel from Lao...

Author: D. B. Thorne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Are you on a killer date? When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what...

Author: Rye Curtis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The best novel I've read in a long time' Roddy Doyle The...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: Susie Steiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES...

Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves...

Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail,...