Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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: 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,...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir to join the Penguin Modern Classics. Unique among Jack...

Author: Rachel Linden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In a romantic adventure across the globe, The Enlightenment of Bees beautifully explores what it means to find the...

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: Ozgur Mumcu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 We'll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars. As the twentieth century...

Author: Glenn Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A topical novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society that is still...

Author: Keith Lee Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND MEETS THE SHINING' Kirkus 'A FINE ADDITION TO THE CREEPY HOTEL THRILLER GENRE' Independent 'SHOULD...

Author: Marjolijn van Heemstra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that...

Author: Gail Tsukiyama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 PARADE's Best Books to Read this Summer "A rich historical novel that illustrates why connection is more important and...

Author: Gemma Reeves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their sixty-...

Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Vienna 1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed...

Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...

Author: Ladee Hubbard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Thrillist - 30 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2021 Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021 Real...

Author: Polly Crosby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A young girl. A hidden treasure. A dark family secret. 'Evocative and enchanting - a future classic' Veronica Henry...

Author: Sarah Leipciger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A young man is driving home from a party through the Canadian woods when suddenly a girl appears in his headlights....

Author: J. a. Jance Format: Multiple copy pack Number of Pages: "Murder, teenage bullying, sleazy adults, and good police work add up to another fine entry by Jance." -The Oklahoman...

Author: Roberta Kray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Ava Gold's employment options are rapidly shrinking and, not wanting to go back to driving minicabs, she lands herself...

Author: Kay Langdale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I am a mess of tears on the train. Can't remember the last time a book broke my heart...