Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good -...

Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty ... In a time of rage and confusion,...

For fans of Amy Tan and Kevin Kwan, this sharp and tender debut follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women - cursed to never know love or happiness - as...

The Night Ship is an enthralling tale of human brutality, fate and friendship - and of two children, hundreds of years apart, whose destinies are inextricably bound together. ONE SHIPWRECK....

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt- a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.No longer able to live on...

"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events." Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature,...

Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now in her eighties, she finds it easier...

Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have captured the imaginations of readers around...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with...

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the...

From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage--and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple--young, good-looking, made for each other....

Frank Munro has had change thrust upon him. So he's changing. He's trying. An award winning journalist, now put out to pasture, Frank is looking to renew his purpose, renew...

In this higher consciousness love story, author, Jeff Brown, introduces the concept of 'uncommon bonds' through the profound connection between Sarah and Lowen - two soul-mates who have found their...

Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never...

Nexus , the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion , is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly...

Presents the tragic romance of Emma and a wounded buffalo soldier. When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them...

One man's journey - from fatherless, poverty-stricken child growing up in a Scottish fishing village in the 70s, through teenage angst, falling in love, going to London, living in squats,...

Spanning four decades of Chinese history, Wives of the East Wind is an epic tale of friendships, love, and idealism betrayed. Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Lao...

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the...

Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So, to make ends meet, alongside her job at the diner Mary Beth...

The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan - an ancient terrorist organisation that has been...

Based on the true story of the theft of Katherine Mansfield's letters. the life of the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield poses the central question of this exciting new novel...

***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014** * b>***Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2014*** Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so...

TWO PEOPLE. TWO GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS. ONE DATE WITH DESTINY. ... set them on a collision course in a rapidly converging story, mix-in a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a week-long...

Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail....

FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without...

Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest for his tenth action-packed year as village headmaster. It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his tenth rollercoaster year as headteacher....

Jack Sheffield delights with the ups and downs of village life in another year at Ragley-on-the-Forest school As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more...

A witty debut novel about a housesitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong. A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum...

For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching...

"A lively story as delectable as a five-pound box of chocolates . . . a thoroughly engaging chronicle of friendship and the substantive place it holds in women's lives."-Anne D....

Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could...

The story of Octave, one of the new Masters of the Universe. Octave seems to have everything going for him: a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish...

The story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - narrated from their separate perspectives, and showing the complex relationships that exist between them

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant , here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the...

It's the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change - the thrilling, riotous debut novel from the Observer Best New Novelist. As Ballina prepares for its...

Joint winner (with Michael Ondaajte's Anil's Ghost) of the Giller Prize, Mercy Among the Children is reckoned by many to be the finest Canadian novel of 2000. The novel tells...

Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2006, this is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. Ronit has left London and transformed...

'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy...

An anthology of 20 contemporary fairy tales which provide a subversive, sidelong glance at ourselves and the world. The authors include A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges,...

An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from...

An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta - exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who...

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting...