Modern Fiction (post 1945)

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE AND ALIAS GRACE A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An...

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to...

Lesley Pearse is one of Penguin's premium brand authors with total sales 10 million copies worldwide When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she...

Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud...

The scorching, escapist new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways 'An addictive sun-soaked thriller' MARIE CLAIRE 'The perfect holiday read' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Brimming with tension' CLARE...

A dark and bleakly funny fable from the author of Divorcing Jack. A little boy left for dead when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan...

What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier's family place a curse...

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent, and highly disturbing, erotic photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who...

'A gracefully told and sharply observed debut' KILEY REID 'Such a sincere blast to read' KAVEH AKBAR The Tiny Things Are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to...

This stunning debut has won major acclaim, winning the Guardian First Book Award and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards ; it was shortlisted for the Dublin...

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: N EWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' A perfect book...

From bestselling author John Boyne comes a gripping and profound exploration of responsibility, guilt, blame, trauma, and our capacity for redemption. John Boyne's acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and...

'The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark'. Hester is a young girl of dark beginnings and few words. She is kept at home by her painfully reclusive parents...

Imagine having famous actors for parents. And grandparents. Imagine that while they bask in the limelight, you feel consigned to the role of second spear-carrier in the tired repertory production...

'Funny and clever, this is the next Devil Wears Prada ' Paige Toon Behind every successful man is a busy assistant and Tina's boss is very successful. But Tina is...

SHAKEN AND STIRRED combines wonderful storytelling, Irish warmth, romance, drama and ambition with enormous universal appeal. It is the story of four characters who work in an advertising office in...

At the heart of Cynthia Thayer's debut novel, Strong for Potatoes , was the tender relationship between a girl and her grandfather, constantly evolving as their lives grew and changed....

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten...

A beloved tragicomic masterpiece- 'Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful' Daily Telegraph Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies...

ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried secret that links...

Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley meet new friends while on filming a movie on location in Utah and Nevada, and one friendship leads to romance while the other leads to trouble.

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas, Catherine,...

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed 's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An "exquisite...too lovely to bear" ( The New York Times Book Review ) debut novel...

In this "fun, page-turner of a novel" (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that's perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin , a morbidly anxious young...

In What If God Were the Sun, John Edward, best-selling author of Crossing Over, weaves a warm and poignant story about one family and their way of dealing with life,...

"In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood....

From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid-flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human...

The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an...

A new edition of this Australian classic. An engaging story of profound love. Carefree physical love, born in fleeting pleasures and casual sex, tested by cruel adversity, deepening at every...

Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering...

An unexpected act of violence brings together two families in this propulsive and sweeping story of love, identity and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three...

'I'm going to kill her. You'd better come if you want to save her.' Lorraine - 'Rainy' - lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine...

'There's life Before Baby and life After Baby. Any idiot knows that. I knew that. Except I didn't now what life After Baby would really be like . . .'...