Modern Fiction (post 1945)

She has a way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives - but it might just destroy her to take it... DESPERATE Left to raise eight siblings after her mother's...

At only eighteen years of age, Poppy and Serena were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the two glamorous teens were dubbed The...

Kate Nichols had been married just two years when her art dealer husband crashed his plane and died. A year on, still overwhelmed by grief, she meets and falls in...

Even though he is still young, Kenny has just weeks to live. Before he dies, he wants to find his childhood best friend Callie Barton and thank her for the...

Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering,...

Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so...

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Th y's Ru is literature at...

1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An award-winning exploration...

When Robbie Fraser receives an anonymous note saying 'Your father is in trouble. He has disappeared and may be in danger. Come to Kinlochvegan as soon as you can' he...

Celebrity, identity and sexuality - the three poles of our fame-obsessed society, each one a magnet for secrets and lies. Despite her youth, Russian-born Yana Ivanova is already a Hollywood...

The Baron de Teroze has already successfully married off his eldest daughter to a colonel of the dragoons; now it is time for him to arrange his younger daughter's nuptials....

This is the story of what happened when Daniel, who writes obituaries, met Laura, an American in London with aberrant instincts and a dangerous attraction to altitude. Bold and uproarious,...

'A startling meditation on grief and family and betrayal and the stories we tell about ourselves ... introspective, psychologically astute, and engaging' - Kirkus starred review 'There were other women,...

The Flatshare meets Me Before You, this book flips modern dating on its head and tells the story of Alice and Alfie who meet on a hospital ward and gradually...

Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Winner 2019 Wellcome Book Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize Taking its cue from...

Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up...

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his...

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his...

A pitch-black psychological thriller for fans of Before I Let You In by Jenny Blackhurst and The Lie by C.L. Taylor. Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table....

Venice, 1586. William Shakespeare is disguised as a steward to the English Ambassador. He and his friends Oldcastle and Hemminges possess a deadly secret: the names of the catholic spies...

The topical new thriller from the author of bestselling Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, featuring an unstoppable female scientist. You'll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual...

This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and often darkly funny narrator is an Irish oncologist, who is searching for a...

South takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South - and still they...

'But I suppose Steven and I knew something about broken things--that sometimes you just couldn't mend them. Never stopped trying though. Because you can't-until you do: stop and leave the...

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink...

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving...

It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his...

Klaus-Pierre is the love-child of a young Frenchwoman and a senior, married German officer. Klaus-Pierre never knew his father, who was killed before he was born, and his mother was...

The Hamilton Triplets - Madison, Park, and Lexington - are accustomed to living in the public eye. Heiresses to a billion-dollar media empire, they have been raised in New York's...

Pick up this book read it, and go raise some hell!' - Michael Moore 'Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative and probing analysis.' -...

The Slapping Man a bawdy, hilarious, poignant tale of a world turned inside out. Welcome to Salvation, a ribald town where nothing is sacred - except perhaps the beer, the...

Please look out for the third in the series, Frank and Stan's Bucket List #3 Isle Le Mans TT - Available now on Amazon! The hilarious sequel to the feel-good...

Set in 1950's America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with...

22-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York's Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a master noodle maker. Her whole world has been limited to Chinatown and...

"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS "Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR "Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY "So evocative" SIMON JENKINS The final volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy...

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched her daughter Saoirse cycle into town, expecting to hear the slam of the door when she returned a few hours later. But the slam never...

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction 'If you're in need of a Succession replacement then this tale of a crumbling English dynasty clinging on to the...

Dreaming of the dead might mean a restless night for anyone, but for Nina Grey, it was a warning. Still healing from her last run-in with Hell, Nina struggles with...

Life is finally on the right track for reporter and recovering addict Andrew: he is slowly coming to terms with the murder of his photographer boyfriend Carlos, pursuing sobriety and...

'Astonishing . . . It's filling in that gaping hole left by both HARRY POTTER and Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS . Yes, really' Stylist 'The laws of Smoke are complex....

'Simmering with repressed rage from the off, this complex tale of revenge, betrayal and loss is an absolute cracker' Sunday Independent One Good Reason is a gripping human drama about...

The second book in Ed McDonald's Redwinter Chronicles, Traitor of Redwinter is full of deadly politics, ancient powers . . . and a young woman navigating a world in which...

I am as brown as brown can be, And my eyes as black as sloe; I am as brisk as brisk can be, And wild as forest doe. (The Child...

THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER 'I completely adored it . . . Brimming with warmth, heart and jolly good fun' Cathy Bramley 'An absolute joy from start to finish' Veronica...

What would YOU do if your child wasn't yours? Utterly compelling, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks's new contemporary novel THE STRANGER IN MY HOME , is sure to move, grip...

'A highly enjoyable game of cat-and-mouse with perfect period texture and some nicely wry humour' The Guardian 'This playful caper is equally successful as a detailed, culture-rich evocation of its...

The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is...