Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Africa has had more than its share of dictators, but Henderson Gushungo may be the worst. Millions starve and opponents are flung in jail, while Gushungo and his cronies get...

Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet,...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days...

Set in the world of city finance, the BBC an d politics, In the Red is the blackly humorous tale of the i nvestigation into the deaths of several bank...

Sassy, sensitive chick-lit with a unique fresh narrative. In Rachel Covington's view, the world is divided into two kinds of people- those who have children and those who don't. Neither...

Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. A...

The Maid - Frankie Willis is a twenty-five-year-old blonde computer whizzkid, searching for adventure as a stewardess on board mega-yacht Pushkin; he Hooker -Peaches Gold is a risk-taking, tough-talking, knockout...

They called her l'Appassionata, though her real name was Abigail Rosen. She was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist on the music scene, adored by her fans and lusted after by...

From Manhattan high-society to warn-torn France, Mirror Image is a compelling story about the mysterious bond between twin sisters. From Manhattan high-society to warn-torn France, Mirror Image is a compelling...

Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her...

Four women a mother, her sister and their two grown daughters head to a tiny island off Nantucket for a retreat, hoping to escape their troubles. Instead, they find only...

A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind s eye of her...

A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London s East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as...

In a small American town, a young girl is beaten by her husband, raped by his friends and left for dead. Years later, the Hollywood husbands may be the ones...

Set on the cusp of World War One, and in the 1970s, EASTER ISLAND tells the passionate, heart-breaking and ultimately redemptive story of two remarkable women. Elsa, an Edwardian Englishwoman,...

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes...

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love....

Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps...

It is the late 1940s in rural Ireland, and Kathleen Steele has been prematurely thrust into adulthood by the death of her twin sister, Nuala. Debilitated by grief, their mother...

Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, Strangers is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant (nee Wyndham), warring sisters-in-law;...

A heart-stopping thriller set in the world of advertising Enter a dark and dangerous world . . . Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese young man who goes to...

Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: turtles, fingersmiths, "The Mildenhall, Treasure", and even a man who can see with his...

A riveting page-turner thriller set among Dublin underworld - shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Danny Callaghan is just out of jail and enjoying a quiet drink in a Dublin...

* Icarus 17, the fourth book in the gripping Lachlan Kite thriller series is available to pre-order now!* The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX...

'Glorious!' CLARE POOLEY 'Compelling' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Beautiful, uplifting and deeply moving' FREYA SAMPSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Saving Missy A mother. A daughter. A secret waiting to...

From the author of THE ORIGIN MYSTERY - the trilogy with ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. En route from London to New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in...

From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner...

An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica. Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. But when her relationship with Oxford...

This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brien is the author of Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark...

'Traces Diana's journey from shy schoolgirl to blushing bride with verve, wit and a dash of foreboding' Daily Mail 'Touching and distinctive' Rachel Hore 'Riveting, revealing, an absolute must-read' Imogen...

' Banal Nightmare will end summer with a bang. It's about turning 37 and realising you hate everybody you know. So funny, so smart, utterly vicious - just brilliant' Zadie...

Secrets are revealed and forbidden sparks ignited in this sizzling Sunrise Cove tale of enemies to lovers, redemption, missing treasures, and love - by romance superstar and New York Times...