Modern Fiction (post 1945)

1891. Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her older brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But when Leonie stumbles...

*An Evening Standard Must Read, Grazia Best Book of 2021 and Independent Debut Not to Miss* 'Beautifully written, this is a book of real hope and connection' Stylist Did you...

Sally Parker's family has lost it all... But can they find what matters? 'I enjoyed it HUGELY. A real treat' MARIAN KEYES *** SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT...

Global phenomenon Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirr ors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL. A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK. ' If you love The Kite Runner you'll love The Little Coffee...

From the beloved bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a new novel filled with humour and heart. For fans of The Temptation of Gracie, Flappy now takes centre stage, more charismatic...

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between loyalty and desire. Mari and Elisabeth have been at the centre of each other's...

'Gripping' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' SUNDAY TIMES 'A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it' LAUREN BEUKES The...

The truth is never black and white 'This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders....

From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, now a major Netflix series... Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just one moment to destroy. 'Sarah Vaughan has...

Lose yourself in this small town romance, where witchy magic and second chance love flourish against a cozy Autumn backdrop 🔮🌿 'I was under a spell... I loved it.' Reader...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. If he does not force his attention...

The Pagan Stone had stood for hundreds of years, long before three boys gathered around it to spill their blood in a bond of brotherhood, unwittingly releasing a force bent...

Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast...

Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships...

Is be or is be not, is be one big damn puzzler...On the day the plane brought the white man to the Island, Managua was, as usual, preoccupied with his...

In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to...

Snobbish Tarquin Winot sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. As he travels, he introduces his life through...

There's something as raw and frightening and egotistical in these men and women as Homeric heroes Levinson's world is acetylene hot' Edmund White

Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the...

'The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!' Colleen Hoover, Sunday Times bestselling author An explosive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Never Never...

'Delightful' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Can she find it in her heart to let go before it's too late? As her daughter grows up, Ave Maria can't help but feel time is...

'Trigiani is a wonderful storyteller... Readers will enjoy Big Cherry Holler immensely' USA TODAY How do you move forward if you've already lost your way? It's been eight years since...

Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an...

If no one ever died, what would happen then? Experience a major literary universe in the making from global bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. 'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't...

The new novel from first winner of International Man Booker, inspired by three minutes in June 1934 when Joseph Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak. A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia,...

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,...

'Pure pleasure' THE TIMES 'Compelling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly well written . . . I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES 'One of the most sophisticated works of science fiction I've read recently'...

Some of what they say about witches is true. A witch story unlike any other, from one of the UK's most outstanding LGBT writers. She dug her mother's grave in...

A dark love story set in the Swinging Sixties SUMMER, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. She has...

'Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists' SADEQA JOHNSON 'A spellbinding romp. The Montrose women will have you clutching your pearls on this rollercoaster...

A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which...

A story about what it means to be a friend ... Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books ... and life, love and...

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a new book in the tantalizing Rise of the Warlords series, featuring a brutal Hell king and the irresistible beauty who...

A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023 "A writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling."-Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of 'Bhaji on the Beach'. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village...

'A lean, careening thrill ... one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan 'Riveting reading' The Times 'Irresistible ... A page-turning story of sex, power, and money' Vogue,...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT THAT BECAME A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'SHATTERING' SIGRID NUNEZ 'BEAUTIFUL' USA TODAY 'UNFORGETTABLE' TAYARI JONES In 1850s Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa...

'A lean, careening thrill ... one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan 'Riveting reading' The Times 'Irresistible ... A page-turning story of sex, power, and money' Vogue,...

Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and...

'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s....

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in...

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where...

' If you liked Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind , you'll love international bestseller, Night Train to Lisbon.' Image One day mild-mannered, middle aged teacher Raimund Gregorius...

'Monumental' Telegraph 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Transcendent' New Scientist Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the...