Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...

The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared...

'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch.' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the...

'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' So...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves...

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those...

What happens when the man who broke your heart reappears just before your wedding? The new romantic comedy from award-winning author Steph Vizard for fans of Beth O'Leary, Mhairi McFarlane...

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a...

"Hilarious, refreshing, tightly plotted, and vividly written. An irresistible read."-Jonas Jonasson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared "A seriously...

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov...

'Fantasy fans won't want to miss this' Publishers Weekly A high-stakes heist novel set in a gritty world of magic and malice. WHO NEEDS FRIENDS WHEN YOU HAVE AXES? Ryia...

' I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.' Florence, the...

The heat is on to catch a killer In the picturesque Australian Blue Mountains, the sleepy town of Rislake is burning. Caught in the path of a major bushfire, the...

'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live,...

This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.

Having found the sort of man who only comes along once in a lifetime, Lucy Hatch is head over heels in love and lust. But just as the future seems...

Winner of the Prix Renaudot, this literary novel about a murder straddles the line between the tragic and the absurd-- from the author of the plays "Art" and "God of...

"Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel...

Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are...

Last-of-line scions of a prominent American family, Harriet and her twin brother, Michael, have so far resisted the whirligig of adulteries and diplomatic cocktail parties that seem to be their...

A fresh, funny and captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from wildly different worlds In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance... As editor-in-chief of New...

Beautiful, wild and wanton but do they really lead Charmed Lives? Kate Leonard is a high-flying young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a...

Beth has forgotten the core truth of her own life. In a cruel move, her dead mother is about to remind her. A wise and ultimately warm-hearted story about self-discovery,...

An uplifting and heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest. 'Josephine Moon just gets better and better. The Cake Maker's Wish is my favourite of her novels...

Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's...

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an...

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...

From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general trade. The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov's story of...

David Hagberg's latest novel, "Burned", is inspired by the true story of Yvonne Bornstein. Kidnapped in Russia in the 1990s by Islamic terrorists, she and her husband were held for...

Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker,...

Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney in his late thirties with a beautiful wife and son. Some would say he has it all, but, by the merest of chances, one...

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Fran aise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is...

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for...

Young Dublin actress Deirdre O'Dare has justlanded her first big role and desperately wants toshine - and to impress David, the director she hasfallen madly in love with.But while Deirdre...

Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction ( New York Times ), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. Growing up in Delhi in...

The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides...