Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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...

Author: Norbert Gstrein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A poignant novel of political-religious awakening by one of Germany's literary stars An anonymous phone call, an unattended bag...

Author: John Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to...

Author: Tim Finch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time and luck and grief' Guardian Edvard Behrends is a diplomat, highly...

Author: Mohammed Hanif Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy ... Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing...

Author: Josephine Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox has been 'hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson'...

Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 It all started with Paris . . . At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his...

Author: Marco Missiroli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES 'Missiroli's erotically charged novel is currently being made into a Netflix...

Author: Lauren Oyler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and...

Author: Cassie Hamer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 From bestselling author Cassie Hamer, comes a hilarious tale of warring neighbours in Australian suburbia, with a mystery at...

Author: Andrew Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the...

Author: Martina Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He s done his time, made the right...

Author: Clare Morrall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Kitty Wellington, the narrator of Clare Morrall's absorbing sure-footed first novel, has been brought up in a large family by her...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs...

Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...

Author: Deirdre Purcell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 It's ten years on from the first winter gathering, when four of Maggie Quinn's closest friends rushed in to spend Christmas...

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

Author: Sara Moliner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across...

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: Giles Foden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...

Author: David Lagercrantz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned...

Author: Rachael English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A cracking page-turner in the best tradition of Maeve Binchy' Patricia Scanlan 'Beautiful, compelling, and sincere in the way of the...

Author: Charlotte Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 You don't know what you're looking for until you find it. Edi Parcell thought she had life all planned out, so...

Author: Sara-Ella Ozbek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Compelling, original, hilarious' Lucy Vine, author of Bad Choices 'Sara-Ella Ozbek's writing shines with insight' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Adults...

Author: Ann Widdecombe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Jason Kirk is a thirty-two year old teacher who believes he is happily married until he returns home one day to...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: Julia Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Quercus is delighted to introduce Julia Kelly, the bright new voice in fiction. She writes with intelligence, honesty and tremendous wit,...

Author: Rachael English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A gripping tale of family secrets and home truths for fans of Maeve Binchy and Maggie O'Farrell. Boston 1968. Rose Moroney...

Author: David Thewlis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David Thewlis is a fabulous writer'...

Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes,...

Author: L. Annette Binder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times They've wrecked the world,...

Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old...

Author: Thomas McMullan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel...