Modern Fiction (post 1945)

St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play...

When Cassie sees a job advertised for a couple to run a remote Australian farm, she thinks it will be the perfect escape for her and Graham. But trapped under...

The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of...

Nothing tastes sweeter than a second chance. The Tuscan town of Montevedova is famous for its rolling green hills, long lazy lunches and delectable cantucci biscuits. It even has its...

Lia is an expert in Chinese porcelain. After being sent from her New York office to Beijing to assess a very special collection of 20 pieces, it becomes clear things...

Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of 47, gather at a small bar and...

Gloria's husband is buried in England nine years to the day after her father's suicide in America. How can she go on living? But she must, if not for herself,...

` Fireproof ventures where reportage cannot go, granting even those who have perished a voice' Observer February 2002. A helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is...

The most pleasurable read you'll have this year - a lead fiction title for Picador. Every year since they can remember two couples have spent their holidays on the sun-drenched...

Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a...

Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, SHINING SEA quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the...

The first of an irresistible New Adult series about hot teen actors by Tammara Webber, author of the New York Times-bestseller Easy. Perfect for fans of Slammed by Colleen Hoover...

Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia's scifantasy debut novel-the first in a duology-in which Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher , introduces a world where women warrior-magicians rule,...

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved...

'Full of glamour, nostalgia, pop music and strong women chasing their dreams. The perfect poolside read to escape into' Georgina Moore 'Weiner captures the tension of sibling rivalry and the...

'Terrific' STEPHEN KING Evil has a one track mind... Celebrated children's author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then...

The gripping new thriller with a difference for 2024 from internationally bestselling author Lisa Stone What do you do when your home becomes a living nightmare? Your house should be...

C.J. Cooke's latest chilling tale, a Radio 2 Book Club Pick, The Book of Witching , is available to buy now! * * * Something has walked the floors of...

'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...

A big-hearted, funny and sad novel about the messiness of love, family and beliefLONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Hilarious and timely, a...

An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to...

New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the...

CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi,...

The victim of a series of mix-ups which delay his induction into the army, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account...

Football Crazy is a novel about Frogley Town, an impoverished north of England football club who ply their trade, just, in the Coca-Cola League Two. The club takes on a...

Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe...

A gorgeously written, immersive and deeply moving novel about the stories that shape us and the memories that ensnare us. In 1929, young Jack travels with his parents to Henry...

"Echo of the Past" follows the lives of a family of doctors during 1910-1980 and the consequences the events of these times have on their relationships. The story begins when...

Samantha Brooks' boyfriend has made a mistake. One his friends, family, and Sam herself know he'll live to regret. Jamie has announced he's leaving, out of the blue. Jamie is...

'...the book as a whole is a small marvel, overflowing with ideas. Scary, funny, shocking and touching by turns, it combines the readerly pleasures of constant reorientation with the sober...

Aunt Sara takes pride in both her sons, mixed-race William and his half-brother, Jim. While hard-working Jim remains at home to tend to the farm, William heads for the bright...

'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History ' New Yorker Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university. Phoebe...

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to...

"A rollicking space adventure" ( Locus ), military sci-fi meets found family space opera when the crew of Zuma's Ghost find themselves under attack, shocking truths are about to be...

An audacious novel about destiny and desire from the incomparable Rose Tremain 'A hell of a read' Sunday Times 'Triumphant, and beautifully told...one of the best novelists writing today' Sara...

"Alexie's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts."-- The Boston Globe...

When travellers Ben and Emma split up in Thailand, Ben falls for a local masseuse and experiences the darker side of tourism, where farmers' daughters sell their bodies in Bangkok...

A Parisian writer lacking inspiration finds the heroine of his next novel outside his apartment. Telling the story of octogenarian Madeleine and her family, he finds himself drawn deeper and...

Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.

Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest...

Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, his life was torn apart...