Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Paul Lynch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful. --M John Harrison, The Guardian The haunting story of two men stranded at sea...

Author: Alex Preston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...

Author: Elin Hilderbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those...

Author: D. H. Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...

Author: Carlos Fuentes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike...

Author: Laura Jean McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION...

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: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 2016. The world is on the brink of crisis. Who could have predicted how events would play out? In...

Author: Emeric Pressburger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I...

Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ally Moberley grows up surrounded by her father's decadent paintings and her mother's disapproval. When bitterness and tragedy divide...

Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Circle runs everything - all your internet activity in one easy, safe and visible place. No wonder it...

Author: Sheila O'Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE -...

Author: Sheila Llewellyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Daniel stared at the white-ish brain matter clinging to the haft and clogging up the eye of the needle....

Author: Roisin Meaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 It's Una Darling's seventeenth birthday, but nobody feels much like celebrating. It's been exactly a year since the tragic death of...

Author: Leigh Himes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road...

Author: Sasha Filipenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment...

Author: James Hannaham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...

Author: Christobel Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 On a scorching summer afternoon in the suburbs of Florence, a small girl goes missing at a crowded swimming pool and...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most...

Author: Alan Paton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African...

Author: Sam Coley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A journey filled with beautifully flawed characters and a landscape that truly got under my skin' - Melina Marchetta, bestselling author...

Author: Dana Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky...

Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 International best-seller Marian Keyes, author of Sushi for Beginners, This Charming Man and the award-winning Anybody Out There, explores...

Author: Kathy Lette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What do you do when you're told you've got terminal cancer at 50? Take up crochet, get religion and...

Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra...

Author: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In a dark Icelandic November, the narrator sees her husband leave without a word of warning. At...

Author: Sacha Naspini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 140 'A delightful story of the muddled, confusing time of love after loss.' - Booklist Nives has recently lost her husband of...

Author: Fanny Blake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Thoroughly enjoyable, with endearing, believable characters and long-held secrets' Katie Fforde 'The plot reels you in until you have no choice...

Author: Emma Heatherington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 When everything is lost, can their love survive? Annie Madden and her husband Peter seemed to have the perfect...

Author, J. G. Ballard Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 352 The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of...

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: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 738 Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational...

Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An innovative twentieth-century classic from a major European author At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives...

Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'Hot-shot...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...

Author: Andrew Miller Format: Hardback 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: Chevy Stevens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 From the acclaimed author of Still Missing comes a psychological thriller about one woman's search into her past and the deadly...

Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Giller Prize Finalist for the Carnegie medal and the Rogers Writers...

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university...

Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A wonderfully atmospheric collection of short stories, rooted deep in the landscape and inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends...

Author: Professor Emma Donoghue Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and...

Author: Robert Parsons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 300 Madigan Perry is written for those whose stories should have been known to someone - so that someone could have helped....

Author: Andrea Canobbio Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A quietly devastating novel about the pain of hidden secrets and the cost of surrendered love Cecilia and Claudio are doctors...

Author: Will Dean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club TWO BODIES...