Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Explore the life of the eccentric dungeon master and the outcast extraordinaire of Hawkins - Eddie Munson - in this official Stranger Things novel. Two years before the events of...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a mesmerising story of love, regret and a restless search for answers While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War...

The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. The...

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. The story begins in Moscow...

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF...

25th anniversary edition of the bestselling debut about a party you'll never forget THE SMASH-HIT STORY OF LOVE, FRIENDS AND FLATSHARES TURNS 25 Meet the residents of 31 Alamanac Road...

A heartwarming and humorous blend of fantasy, romance, and mystery featuring a witch with a secret and the royal household he serves When Finlay Ashowan joins the kitchen of the...

The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and Still Me The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of...

The stunning reissue edition of the gripping thriller about the lengths you'd go to protect your child, from the international bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time Lauren's daughter Zara...

From the creator of the hit television show The Killing, a nail-biting debut - a stylish and atmospheric thriller that follows the race to find a serial killer terrorizing Copenhagen...

Children aren't always so innocent in this Stephen King-style thriller, backed by MJ's biggest marketing campaign for a debut this year None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning....

An international bestselling novel- a year in the life of an elderly man writing an expose from an old-people's home in Amsterdam Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is...

The second novel in the new romance Blacklist series from the number one bestselling author Sylvia Day Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she's returned to the unquestioning...

The first book in Sylvia Day's much anticipated Blacklist series after a seven year wait - now out in paperback Widower Kane Black remains ruinously married to his late wife,...

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. The first...

The hilarious third novel by the number one bestselling author of Life After Life - the ultimate 1970s campus novel. From the NUMBER 1 bestselling author of LIFE AFTER LIFE,...

The House of God is a wild and raunchily irreverent novel that teaches you the not-so-gentle arts of healing, and tells you what your doctor never wanted you to know.It...

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD AND BESTSELLING LITERARY PAPERBACK OF 2016- NOW INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE SAMPLE FROM KATE ATKINSON'S NEW NOVEL TRANSCRIPTION. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL...

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady- A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of how an ordinary girl from an unremarkable town grows up to...

The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. September 1919- Twenty-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a...

The brand-new book from the legendary Jilly Cooper, featuring the iconic Rupert Campbell-Black. Be prepared for scandal, sex and sabotage - this time on the football field... Jilly Cooper's legendary...

The joyful, emotional new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unmumsy Mum and Stepping Up. Sometimes, in order to move forward, you need to go back. Joni's...

'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times An exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, set in ancient Sicily Ancient Sicily. Enter...

Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Sally never meant to cave her...

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can...

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy,...

The luminous, life-affirming New York Times bestseller about a 12-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York...

The novel to truly capture the comedy and tragedy of our times Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and...

Newly repackaged edition of the first in the iconic Bernie Gunther Berlin series. Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short...

The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...

A mystery, an unsolved crime and one of the most unforgettable characters since Mark Haddon's Christopher. Meet Maud. . . 'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in...

The deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer Six years ago...

Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and...

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...

'A young woman's life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love' Pandora Sykes...

Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean Jean Rhys's late masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre,...

When an unbridled schoolmistress with advanced ideas is in her prime the classroom can take on a new identity and no one can predict what will happen. Jean Brodie is...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Men as they really are... An ingenious book from the exceptional Granta Best Young British Novelist SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE...

A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? 'Confronts the philosophical questions raised by childbearing and...

Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work. *Number #1 Bestseller** BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it...

Will she ever uncover the secrets about her past? From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a brand new look for this compulsive, heart-wrenching read. A house on fire. A...

The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Dive into the fourth novel in the gripping Will Trent series, from the Sunday Times bestselling crime and thriller author....

'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart...