Modern Fiction (post 1945)

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a doe-eyed girl from the country, changing...

BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure...

  From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a buzzy new novel about womanhood, winging it, and the wonders of female friendship **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Funny, relatable and incredibly entertaining,...

'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us...

'Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS'A psychological thriller you can't put down' HARLAN COBEN'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable' RUTH WARE'A dark...

'A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism' Monica AliDavid hates school, where he has been bullied, and has reached sixth form without any friends. Music is the only...

'Through a dewy sheen of teen nostalgia, Reece deftly explores the weight of political events on individual lives. Her supple, visceral prose evokes North Wales in all its complexity, beautifully...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet...

A brand new thriller from multi-million copy bestselling author Nora RobertsSometimes a gift can feel more like a curse'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'...

From the bestselling author of The History of Bees Longyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner...

'A wonderfully empathetic exploration of human frailties and our capacity to heal ... brutally truthful and beautifully uplifting' Sophie White'Moving, unexpected and compassionate' Louise O'Neill'A heartfelt reminder of the importance...

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Sometimes it's the most unlikely meetings that give us life's greatest gifts.1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or "Nub," has spent his whole life listening to those he loves...

'Funny, poignant, elegantly written, I adored this novel' Amanda Hodgkinson'Wonderful... It's thrillingly written, delicately accomplished and will live in my head for a long time' Lloyd ShepherdCara is a dedicated...

Don't miss the new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Careless'An emotional rollercoaster' GRAZIA'A rare new talent' THE GUARDIAN''So real, and so very moving' JESSICA RYN'A second heartfelt...

Author: Heidi SopinkaFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2019We grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women? Ivory Frame...

Author: Sairish HussainFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024How can you live in the present when you're trying to bury the past? 'A sweeping...

Author: Julia ArmfieldFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 340g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK'Hauntingly good' iNEWS'A must read' GLAMOUR From the bestselling...

Author: Anton HurFormat: Paperback, 142mm x 211mm, 231g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits...

Author: Janet Evanovich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Number One New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild...

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Author: K. J. Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT 'Maitland is...

Author: Jarred McGinnisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 215g, 320 pagesPublished: Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2022After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he...

Author: Daniel WilesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 208 pagesPublished: Swift Press, United Kingdom, 20221870s, the Black Country.Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man.Michael exhausts himself working...

Author: Simon MasonFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 234mm, 560g, 352 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023'Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural' Val...

Author: Jodi Ellen MalpasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 280g, 304 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023Million-copy bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas is back - with her first ever Regency...

Author: Libby PageFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 260g, 368 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Absorbing, thoughtful and moving... a wonderfully engaging feelgood read that you'll want to come back...

Author: Erica James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a...

Author: Eliot Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A bildungsroman set over three acts, Ponyboy is a quest for self-identity set among the art world of Paris and Berlin....

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...

Author: Rebecca Zahabi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Beautifully wrought dark fantasy' NetGalley Reviewer A MAN MARKED BY MAGIC. A WOMAN MARKED BY HER PAST. On the other side...

Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled a lifelong dream to visit Arabia by travelling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiance, Rory. Desperate to escape...

February, 1926. The city of London is tense in the days leading up to The General Strike. Evelyn Gifford, (protagonist of THE CRIMSON ROOMS) has now qualified as a solicitor...

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."-- The New...

A Richard and Judy summer book club pick 'One of the books of the decade' - Richard Madeley The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy...

Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...

Get twice the hockey hotness in this extra spicy Hellions Hockey two-in-one-read the sexy enemies-to-lovers romp Head Coach , then just flip your book over to dive into the grumpy/sunshine...

Everyone knows Gatsby.New money. Murky past. Huge online following. 'A clever, gender-flipped modern-day retelling of the classic' Grazia 'Stylish and beautifully written, with a case of the most decadently unhinged...

The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone,...

Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric,...

Previously unpublished in the UK, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life. A captivating novella about long-term relationships,...

Led by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, a star-studded collection of writers come together to create a dazzlingly original, multi-voiced novel 'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating'...

A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love and community, from the Top Ten bestselling author of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle and...

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times ' Jack...

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Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of...