Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...

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: Christie Barlow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Love Heart Lane - where friends are there for you no matter what A second chance... When her grandfather...

Author: Lauren Weisberger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 *Previously published in hardback as Where the Grass is Green* The escapist new novel from the global bestselling author of The...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel...

Author: Jason Mott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Hilarious and moving' JONATHAN EVISON 'This novel twisted me up and turned me inside out' CHARLES YU 'When you're reading this,...

Author: JJ Bola Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over. Michael Kabongo...

Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Hailed as a tremendous novel, full of wisdom and pain by the Los Angeles Times, Youngblood Hawke is Pulitzer Prize winner Herman...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...

Author: Josephine Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No.1 bestselling writer, Josephine Cox's TOMORROW THE WORLD is a compulsive tale of love and secrets, perfect for fans of Rosie...

Author: Emma Gannon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon. 'Explores such an important topic with a lightness and warmth'...

Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...

Author: Jill Mansell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Love is in the air in St Carys, but you'd never know it - the people of this seaside...

Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...

Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...

Author: Carmel Harrington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A warm and beautifully evocative story of family and secrets, love and heartache, with a devastating twist' Alex Brown, bestselling author...

Author: William Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thriller' GQ One of the most influential...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A dark mystery lurks in the heart of Calcutta in this young adult novel from bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon,...

Author: Louise Bagshawe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the bestselling Louise Bagshawe, now writing as Louise Mensch Savour the scandalous story of how the Career Girls first made...

Author: Bernardine Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky...

Author: David Gibbins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 India. 1879. Lieutenant John Howard witnesses something so unspeakable it changes him for ever. His subsequent disappearance is never solved. Egypt....

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: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A really beautiful book about obsession, longing and science' RAVEN LEILANI 'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER 'Sardonic and strange...

Author: Delphine de Vigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 'One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today' FRANCE MAGAZINE 'The latest literary sensation' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A...

Author: Paul M.M. Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Historical fiction Book of the Month in The Times To the god of old things To the gods of the...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the...

Author: The Estate of Richard Brautigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The Times 'A charming and...

Author: Emma Hannigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Does a rambling Spanish villa hold the key to love? No. 1 Irish bestseller Emma Hannigan returns with her heartwarming new...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles -...

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Jeevani Charika Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'LOVED it... Romantic, witty, insightful and engaging.' Sue Moorcroft, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Home in the Sun When Sam's...

Author: Lucy Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 "From the very first page I was drawn in, hook, line and sinker" --5-Star Reader ReviewThe bestselling noir thriller about the...

Author: Eva Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 No one expected Marnie Fitzpatrick to be expelled from school . . . but the aftermath will haunt her forever. No...

Author: Adrienne Celt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A seductive, sensual and sinister love triangle set in 1930s America and inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage Zoya Andropova, a...

Author: Bateman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 For many years Dan Starkey has been a journalist of some repute mainly ill. Now he is back with his wife Patricia,...

Author: Ilona Bannister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A furious and tender exploration of motherhood. It's a novel about survival - in the immediate sense, but also how you...

Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...

Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...

Author: Sarah J. Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful book about unexpected friendships and daring to dream' Ruth Hogan 'About a Boy meets Educating Rita... warm and...

Author: Layla AlAmmar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A SUNDAY TIMES STYLE RECOMMEND 'Lyrical, moving, revealing' TRACY CHEVALIER 'Brilliant' NIKITA LALWANI 'Such beautiful writing... A little bit Rear Window,...

Author: Eva Glyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An emotional and page-turning family saga perfect for fans of Barbara O'Neal, Amanda Prowse, and Susanne O'Leary! 'Full of...

Author: David Santos-Donaldson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets...

Author: Katherine Seligman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco's...

Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Judy Nunn's latest bestselling novel will take you from the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of...

Author: Muriel Bolger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Few do beach reads with as much sparkle as Muriel Bolger' Image A fresh, summery new novel about family, friendship and...

Author: Jill Eisenstadt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Jill Eisenstadt's savvy, heartfelt novel we enter the world of working-class kids in 1980's-era Rockaway, New York, a beach community...